BY: AL DONATO She’s sung on David Letterman, starred in Toyota and Domino’s commercials, was featured in Playboy, has legions of fans attending her concerts– and she’s not real. Hatsune Miku, known as the world’s most famous virtual diva, hails…
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From Devout Catholic To Wiccan Witch— Why I Traded In A Cross For A Pentagram
BY: VANESSA NIGRO The moon hangs high over Toronto’s Serena Gundy Park, a thriving forest tucked away in Leaside, one of Toronto’s wealthiest neighborhoods. As people begin to file in, the tall trees that separate the woods from the street…
If These Photos Don’t Make You Dream of Burning Man, Your Spirit Is Wrapped In Safety Foam.
BY: VICTOR HABCHY Imagine standing in the 107-degree heat of Black Rock City as moisture begins to drip off your body like a melting candle. You see the silhouette of a woman twirling a rainbow parasol under a veil of…
What Is Considered By Many To Be The Oldest Living Animal Is Eight Stories Tall And Lives Off The BC Coast.
BY: SINEAD MULHERN It sounds mythical but it’s true. What many biologists consider to be one of the oldest living animals lives deep beneath the waters of the Hecate Strait off the northern coast of Vancouver Island. The glass coral…
Collective Arts Craft Beer Will Get You Drunk On Art
BY: TED BARNABY Creativity and alcohol are a lot like peanut butter and jam. Matt is the owner and founder of Collective Arts Brewing, a craft brewery on a bold mission to bring creativity back into the conversation. Instead of…
Internet Trolls And Free Speech Advocates Beware: Internet Laws Are Changing
BY: DANIEL KORN It perhaps goes without saying that the Internet has always been a weird, lawless place. This is what gives it its monumental power, but with freedom comes great responsibility. For every alienated fan boy able to finally…
These Photos Show A Veteran Stained By A War Most Have Forgotten
BY: DAVID LUNDARK Longing For Love, is the story of a war veteran orphaned by history. The Korean War is also known as the “Forgotten War”. Korea had been controlled by the Japanese Empire, up until 1945 when they surrendered…
Uruguay’s José Mujica is The Robin Hood Of Presidents; He Might Also Be The Most Radical
BY: DEXTER BROWN Uruguayan President José Mujica may have made headlines for allowing his country to be the world’s first to legalize marijuana outright. However, there’s much more than just marijuana to the feisty 79-year-old, affectionately known as Pepe. Mujica leads quite…
Slut Shaming, Gay Bashing And Sex Scandal; The Proliferation of Irish Sexual Repression
BY: AOIFE RYAN “We may be twenty-five year old, independent working women, but if I had an unplanned pregnancy now, I’d react the same as if I was sixteen. I hate to admit it but my immediate reaction would be…
This Crystal Cap Turns Your Head Into A Mood Ring
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Proof that fashion can go beyond the functional and become pretty magical: a London, U.K. design firm has created a cap made out of gemstones that tracks brain movement. The Unseen, which calls itself “an exploration house”…
This man slacklined between two mountain tops without a harness (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN You don’t know the meaning of fear until you’ve seen a man free-walk on a one-inch tight rope strung between two mountaintops, thousands of metres above the ground in the open air. Sebastien Montaz-Rosset captures this freedom-defining…
Before You Speak, Shut Your Mouth; Philosophy Isn’t A Useless Subject.
BY: LILITH The arts tend to catch a lot of flak, especially from parents trying to steer their kids into certain post-secondary degrees or from science students clinging to the notion of empirical evidence like a newborn child to their…
School Image Over Student Safety: America’s Ivy League Are Among The Worst For Rape Survivors
BY: LISA CUMMING From the perches of the ivory towers of academic elitism, administrations are more concerned with protecting their image than protecting their students. Columbia, Harvard, and Stanford are considered by many to be the top universities in America.…
4chan Turned Me Gay
BY: AL DONATO Two guys in horse masks fucking on webcam. Someone gushing about places to buy binders online. Several people sharing their experiences in gay bars. Everyone, anonymous and faceless. This used to be my typical Friday night. As…
These Five Savants Show The Mind Is Limitless With Talents That Are Superhuman
BY: PILGRIM Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which extraordinarily capabilities accompany a massive memory creating an endowment of talent that is seemingly superhuman. The syndrome is often accompanied by disabilities in cognitive functions, motor skills and social dexterity.…
The Future of Virtual Reality Is In Your Cellphone
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Want to go to Paris, travel back in time or ride a rollercoaster? Now you can, and it only costs $25. The future of virtual reality is here, and it’s called the Virtual Reality Cardboard Toolkit. San…
BASE Jumper Explains The Importance Of Accepting Death To Appreciating Life
BY: ROB HOFFMAN No matter how hard we try to live vicariously through their first-person footage, a GoPro simply cannot capture the feeling of participating in a sport where your primary competition is death. To some it seems crazy to…
Can Empathy be Taught Through Toys? This Toy Company Thinks So.
BY: LUC RINALDI How do you teach empathy? Is it, like other skills, disseminated in schools? Does it breed in ethics classes or religious environments? Or is the product of caring, considerate child rearing? Ilana Ben-Ari, for one, is putting…
Don’t Get It Backwards: Harvard Professor Proves The Quickest Road To Success Is Happiness.
BY: PILGRIM The belief that success is the predecessor of happiness is the carrot-on-a-stick which dangles at the forefronts of many of our lives. The old thought reverberating in our minds, “If I could only achieve ______, I would be…
Facebook Offers Employees Up to $20,000 to Freeze Their Eggs And Postpone Pregnancy
BY: PILGRIM Facebook and Apple have decided to foot the bill for any female staff that would like to freeze their eggs. This procedure allows one to have children in their later years, without gambling with the increasing risks of…