BY: DANIEL KORN PHOTOS BY: Aaron Joel Santos The prisoners of Thailand’s Klong Prem jail are murderers, gangsters, and drug traffickers. They’re also, occasionally, Muay Thai fighters. In prisons all around Thailand, the more physically-able convicts are given the opportunity…
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Tattoo and street art giants gather at Denmark’s biggest underground art convention
BY: LEAH HANSEN Photos by: Galleri Grisk and Aarhus Art Convention His hands are speckled with colour from the spray of the can he’s been using for the past two days. What isn’t on his hands has made it onto…
Vintage mugshots of the gangster kings that ruled 1920s America
BY: LAURA ROJAS If you’ve ever watched HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, a heated drama based around the prohibition era gangsters of the 1920s, you understand why this mafia counter-culture is so endlessly fascinating and was such an integral part of American…
Skateboarder uses a loophole in Afghan law to give girls back their freedom
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Afghanistan is considered the most dangerous country in the world for women. This is due to a number of threats including: health issues, violence and economic discrimination. It’s a country where over 50 percent of the population…
I was below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit and buildings started collapsing around me
BY: MATTHEW MCLOUGHLIN “I was just below Everest Base Camp when the avalanche hit. I just barely escaped two collapsing buildings.” At just 19-years old, Dylan Sartor stood in the shadow of the Himalayas, uninjured among the flattened houses and…
Your one stop guide to ditching your day job, selling your sh*t and taking life on the road
BY: ZOE MELNYK The Internet changed everything. With this in mind, an increasing number of people have innovated ways of taking their lives on the road on the permanent pursuit of adventure. Though it seems unfeasible to ditch your day…
This activist is fighting the decline of the honey bee with explosive city street art
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Louis Masai hates the label “street artist.” In fact he rejects any label or stereotype that corners him into a specific category. He doesn’t see himself as an activist either. Mainly, he just wants to include everyone…
Amazonian hunter-gatherers isolated from Western medicine have the most diverse microbiome ever recorded
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The Yanomami people, who hail from the Amazon, live a semi-nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the jungle. They have been living like this for thousands of years. According to iflscience, the tribe was first contacted in the 1960s,…
Revolutionary three-storey plane will be the first to fly with zero carbon emissions
BY: ZOE MELNYK A new plane could be taking off in the next fifteen years that will hold up to 800 people, use ultra light and noiseless material, and—believe it or not—release no trace of carbon emissions into the atmosphere.…
Tearing down freeways revitalizes wildlife, parks and public spaces without affecting traffic
BY: DANIEL KORN In 1956, construction began on the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defence Highways, named after the 34th President of the United States who championed its construction. Its original portion was finally completed 35 years…
Parents are being investigated by Child Services for letting their kids play outside
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I’m sure that many of you can remember walking home from elementary school by yourself. I’m sure you have fond memories of playing at the park with your friends, and meeting up with the neighbourhood kids down…
As environmental issues get worse, farmer suicide rates are getting alarmingly high
BY: JESSICA BEUKER It’s been three decades since the height of the farm crisis, when farmer suicide rates were at an all time high. Today the suicide rates among farmers are still high—the second highest of any job right now.…
Norway’s prison island treats inmates like they’re at a resort
BY: MATTHEW CHIN When I think of prison, I think of orange jumpers, hands and ankles shackled together with the chains scraping against the concrete floor and the terrible sound of rattling jail cells as batons graze against the metal…
Michigan State PhD candidate just statistically-optimized the most epic US road-trip possible
BY: DANIEL KORN Randy Olsen is a Michigan State University doctoral candidate who previously created an algorithm which plots the fastest search path through any page of a Where’s Waldo? book. On recommendation from Discovery, he turned this same skill-set…
Freight Farms are the portable, weather-proof future of food supply
BY: ZOE MELNYK Typically, when you think of a farm you see acres and acres of open fields filled with some kind of wheat or corn and when you see a farmer, it’s generally someone driving a tractor with plaid…
Middle aged men are dressing like superheroes and protecting America with consumer-grade weapons
BY: DANIEL KORN Master Legend. Mr. Extreme. The Vigilante Spider. These are superhero names that you probably don’t recognize. The reason why you don’t recognize them is because they aren’t adorning the posters for the next hit Marvel film. They…
Wolfie is a 6-year-old gender-independent boy fighting for the right to wear a dress (Video)
Written and imaged by: Annie Sakkab Gender role is subconsciously defined by our society and cultural background. Wolfgang Skinner, nicknamed Wolfie, is a gender independent six-year-old boy. He is fortunate to have three parents and three siblings who are supportive in…
Architects design an eco-house that’s the environmental equivalent of planting over 6,000 trees
BY: DEXTER BROWN Australian prefabricated building company ArchiBlox has built what they call “the world’s first carbon-positive prefabricated house,” according to Dezeen Magazine. The Carbon Positive House, as it’s known, was designed to make more energy than it uses, and it drew international attention…
Modern nomads formed a tribe to live a traditional Native American lifestyle (Photos)
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Adrain Chesser Surviving in the harsh terrain of the Pacific Northwest, there is a bold tribe of people who live wild and free, practicing the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that ancient Native Americans lived centuries ago. Sleeping outdoors or building…
Vancouver just solidified plans to run on 100% renewable energy
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In a time of climate crisis, any step is a foot forward. Understanding that cities and urban areas are responsible for 70-75 per cent of global C02 emissions, Vancouver has decided to join the face of change.…