BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE In the depths of Florida’s Walt Disney World, away from the screaming children and perpetually-grinning mascots, an abandoned section of the theme park shows a darker side of the Happiest Place on Earth. Located in the middle…
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In the next few years, MDMA will be a legal and therapeutic way to get high
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The day after I swallowed MDMA for the first time was almost as magical as the night I had spent on the drug. The world seemed less complicated, and the darkness in my life shrank in comparison…
People are drinking blended Frog Juice to satisfy their lovers in bed
BY: EDITORS In the sacred birthplace of the Incas, sheltered by the deep blue water of Lake Titicaca, swims a frog known by biologists as Telmatobius culeus—and by locals as “The Scrotum Frog.” The frog has gained its name for…
A small African nation is building a massive plant to become the world’s solar super-power
BY: DAVID LAO The saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” was created to describe the inherently curious nature of humans. It has been related to envy and jealousy, but also the need to accomplish more, to…
Berlin transformed a decrepit Nazi airport into a gorgeous green-space larger than Central Park
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS When the last planes flew out of the Berlin-Tempelhof Airport they left behind acres of barren land. The airport was one of Europe’s three largest pre-WW2 airports. It was further developed and extensively used by The Nazi…
Chicago is turning their busiest train into a rolling library for one very good reason
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Chicago also has a notoriously bad education system. It’s also a city plagued by gang violence. It’s a vicious circle that the Windy City desperately needs to break out of. Seventy nine percent of Chicago 8th graders…
This 32-year-old biked across 30 countries to show his OCD who’s boss
BY: LAURA GARRIDO It is not uncommon for many of us to feel trapped in the world we were born into, consumed by the idea of following a cookie-cutter narrative for our lives. Despite the fact that these planned-out lifestyles…
Apparently, psychedelic shroom experiences are the key to quitting smoking
BY: TYLER FYFE Coffee breaks, car rides, drinks with friends—all have become high-wires forcing participation in a game of mental acrobatics. I’m sitting at my desk chewing on the back of a plastic pen. My co-worker has a sickening smirk…
Family explores the wilderness full-time in an eco-trailer that runs on free vegetable oil
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Jerud and Ching roll their mountain bikes into and over the cascading mountains of the pathless Northern Pacific. Most days, they’ll spend their afternoons chasing the rugged and unfamiliar terrain and return to their trailer in the…
Gorgeous vertical farm lets city-dwellers become self-sustaining gardeners
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Living in a small space often means sacrificing the garden. Without access to a backyard, or sometimes any outdoor space at all, such as a balcony, growing your own fruits and veggies isn’t an option. Even those…
Norway’s capital is investing in the future by going car-free
Oslo is banning all private vehicles in its city centre by the year 2019. The city elected the leftist Labour Party this past September, who teamed up with the Green Party and the Socialist Left to make the change. The…
This man-made super-soil is how ancient Amazon civilizations bio-designed 12% of the rainforest
BY: EDITORS From the sky, the thick canopy of green foliage gives one the impression that the Amazon rainforest is a natural paradise with an endless supply of food. But like all things, the surface is often deceiving. As American…
Here are the 11 sexiest customized VW camper vans ever to grace road-life
There is hardly any vehicle on earth with more rugged sex appeal than the classic VW camper-van. Putting aside Volkswagen’s recent emissions scandal, the classic design that so many hippies once flocked to continues to attract a new generation of…
Civil War is leaving the door open for the liberation of women in Syria
BY: AIDAN MACNAB Aylan Kurdi was the two-year-old boy whose corpse, photographed washed up on a Turkish beach, shook the world. Sympathy for his tragic end ignited the globe. Refugees had been asphyxiating in crates, drowning in the Mediterranean, starving…
John Steinbeck’s enlightening letter about the crippling, beautiful reality of falling in love
BY: TYLER FYFE It has been said that love is form of blindness. In the autumn of 1958, John Steinbeck’s oldest son, Thom, wrote home from boarding school. In the letter Thom wrote that he had met a girl named…
This graffiti artist captured his wild train-hopping adventure from Mexico to Alaska
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Smeared in oil, tucked in secret corners of train yards, graffiti artist Swampy is well versed when it comes to sneaking behind the back of US transport. From Oaxaca, Mexico he sailed on the top of rail…
Afghan weavers are putting images of drones on their rugs as a form of silent protest
BY: TYLER FYFE In Afghanistan, weavers have used designs on rugs as a way of preserving the cultural fabric of home. Weavers of the past were drawn to images of flowers and traditional geometric patterns. But with over a decade…
The Earth Cruiser is like a rugged eco-RV that takes you both off-road and off-grid
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS For generations families across North America have loved vacationing from the comfort of an RV. We’ve all seen that movie scene where the typical American family stops at the Grand Canyon, descends from their comfortable motor home…
Need to ease the noose of modern life? Take a virtual tour of this mountainside eco village
BY: CONNOR BRIAN All images © Kevin Faingnaert Follow the rainbow-painted signs and after a three-hour hike shaded by thick forest canopy you will reach a clearing of green sweeping hills bathed in golden sunlight—a place untouched by capitalist ideals,…
Research shows that people are ditching religion and turning their attention to nature instead
BY: SWIKAR OLI Science is showing that the spiritual experience of watching the sun cascade through a ceiling of trees is being preferred to the long-winded sermons of synagogue or Sunday mass. A Baylor University study confirmed that people who…