BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM When I saw local bands handing cassette tapes to audiences, I was initially dumbfounded. The well-known resurgence of vinyl was understandable; their full, original sound was well-known among music fanatics. But the rise of cassettes seemed to…
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Eating Live Fish Might Just Be The Most Sadistic Meal On Earth (Video)
BY: TED BARNABY Ying Yang fish and Ikizukuri are delicacies in China and Japan, respectively. If you’re ever in the neighbourhood and feeling adventurous, these dishes are guaranteed to be the freshest seafood you’ve ever eaten. And I’m not talking…
Graphic Content and The Moral Gap In Western Journalism
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) says news subjects should be treated with “respect and dignity”; however, graphic content has journalists struggling with this task, particularly when covering stories abroad. Journalists, already facing possible scrutiny when…
Countrywide Ferguson Jury Protests Show Collapsing Faith In The Justice System
BY: JOHN DILLON “Hands up don’t shoot” fell from the mouths of thousands of protesters like bricks fell on the faces of the NYPD. Weaving through traffic and drumming on windows they marched through Manhattan’s Union Square. Minutes after a…
People of Toraja, Indonesia Unearth Corpses, Give Them Makeovers and Walk Them Through Town
BY: PILGRIM In the region of Toraja in South Sulawesi—a province in Indonesia—lives the tradition of Ma’nene, or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses. During the ritual, 100-year-old corpses are dug up, cleaned off, re-clothed and sent out to hit the…
The True Hippie Died When Narco-Capitalism Hit Goa
BY: TJ MOREY Present day Goa—dancing away into the haze of a drug-induced delirium, you will find a stereotypical hippie clamouring to keep sense of reality, or to whatever he can perceive of it. Mind you, this doesn’t come for…
This Ocean Energy Turbine Could Take The Whip From The Hands Of The Fossil Fuel Industry
BY: DAN BOIVIN We’ve all heard it before, a new technology comes along and promises to shift the balance of power in the world of energy, disrupting the “business as usual practices” we are all too familiar with. But then,…
The Instagram generation perceives every moment as an anticipated memory
BY: LAURA ROJAS Professor Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, did a TED Talk back in 2010 on the difference between experience and memory. His main thesis, and something I hadn’t even thought about prior to watching his…
India Officially Recognizes “The Third Gender”. These Photos Show The Face of Transgender Struggle.
BY: SAHAR FADAIAN Cultural taboos, federal regulations, and family rejection have given the Transgender Women of South India little choices for survival. During the years that Sahar Fadaian lived in Bangalore, India she noticed that most “Hijra” have been defamed…
Raëlians believe that alien scientists designed humans. I went to one of their meetings.
BY: EMMA MCINTOSH I’m 15 minutes early for the November Raëlian meditation gathering. I have no idea what to expect. Aside from a few visits to church as a kid, I’ve never attended a spiritual meeting, let alone one for…
These Photos Of Exotic Pets And Their Owners Might Make You Reconsider That Golden Retriever
BY: KAILEE MANDEL Matt & Maura-Eurasian Eagle Owl Eurasian Eagle Owls are arguably the largest species of owls, with an average wingspan of 6.5ft. These owls usually build their nests on the edge of cliffs and prey on mammals the…
Forget Everything You’ve Heard: Satanism Sounds More Like Activism Than Blasphemy
BY: MICHAEL LYONS Satanists are making their way into our schools! Satanists are out to get our children! Satanists are trying to convert our nation’s kids to the dangerous, infective belief in critical thought… oh, the humanity! This isn’t an…
Filmmaker Devin Graham proves that failure is success in progress
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Devin Graham stands at the forefront of a shifting media landscape that takes filmmaking out of the hands of big-budget producers and instead makes it available to a vastly broader population. This democratization of filmmaking excites and inspires…
People swim with rotting corpses in Varanasi to cleanse themselves of sin
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM Western Judeo-Christian values have morphed death into an aspect of life we run from. But in Varanasi, India, death is something to anticipate and embrace. Varanasi – one of Hinduism’s seven holiest cities – was built between…
The Drone Economy Is Coming And Canada Is Heading The Flock
BY: KELSEY ROLFE Jason Toth spent five days in early October working from a large skiff off the picturesque northeastern coast of Vancouver Island, using a custom-built drone to capture video footage of British Columbia’s waterfalls, mountains, sea lions, salmon,…
What Does America Look Like Through The Eyes Of A Tourist? These Photos Will Make You Understand
BY: RON GESSEL Streets overwhelmed by advertisements, shopping malls and fast food, celebrity obsession and hypersexualized imagery—is this really the America that tourists bear witness to? Caught in the normalized state of society, we often do not take a moment to…
The Gulabi Gang Of India: These Warrior Women Wear Pink And Fight Oppression
BY: LISA CUMMING A hurricane of pink is rumbling through India, and it has been for almost a decade now. The Gulabi (Pink) Gang, formally established in 2006, by Sampat Pal Devi in the Banda District of Uttar Pradesh is…
Iceland: Home Of Vikings, Green Technology and People Who Are Actually Happy
BY: HANNAH WRIGHT Iceland is a vast landscape of fjords, glaciers, lava fields, and beauty as far as the eye can see. Picture a country where schools still insist on teaching their students the ancient sagas. It’s a place full…
Guaranteed Income Doesn’t Equate To Laziness—The Dauphin Experiment Might Change Your Mind About Socialism
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM In Canada 2014, it’s hard to believe the Great White North’s been anything but an advocate for neoliberal economic policies. Since the 1980s, Conservative politicians like Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper have persuaded Canadians to adopt individualist,…
Beginner’s Guide To Lucid Dreaming- You Spend One Third Of Your Life Asleep
BY: KARMUN KHOO ‘Lucid dreaming’ is used to describe dreams whereby the dreamer is aware that they are in a dream. The term was coined by Dutch psychiatrist, Frederik van Eeden, but the idea of lucid dreams predates the scientific…