BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ The aftermath of the Vietnam War still burdens many of its people. During the war Agent Orange, a deadly chemical, was released into the country to destroy the forests and land. Approximately 4.8 million people died from…
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Artist shows how costly war really is with these graphic illustrations
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The effects of war are costly—for the economy, for the environment and for humanity. Yet we still massacre each other mercilessly, and for what? Power, control, revenge, money, resources, a futile portion of Earth’s land? Gunduz Agayev’s…
Iceland is throwing a massive party inside a glacier before it melts forever
BY: TYLER FYFE The Langjökull glacier in Iceland is the second largest glacier in Europe. It’s also melting at an accelerated rate according to a 2015 peer-reviewed scientific journal by the American Geophysical Union. So in June 2016, ravers, a…
The world’s first anti-aging drug is here and could let you live to be 120
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The ability to live a long, healthy life is at the top of the wish list for most people. And while the average North American lifespan has been rising steadily over the past few decades, we can’t…
This violent sport breeds and raises camels to fight each other for human entertainment
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Visualize yourself as a peaceful, instinctual being. You’re being robed in strange colours and fabrics, which is likely making you feel muddled and dismayed. Something is happening today, you can feel it, but you fail to remember…
Before you say that we shouldn’t accept Syrian refugees, take a minute to look at these photos
BY: TYLER FYFE In 2014, Syrian military photographer going under the moniker Caesar to protect his family, smuggled out two-years worth of photographs of detainees who were tortured to death in the dungeons of Syrian intelligence and security detention centres.…
My classroom of chatty 10-year-old students taught me the meaning of empathy in education
BY: CODY HOFFMAN Teaching is full of extremes. Some days, you come home feeling like a mess. You sit on the bus feeling frustrated, your back sore and your voice even worse. A toddler on the bus begins wailing, and…
Female suicide bombers are increasingly becoming the stealthy weapons of terrorist groups
BY: LISA CUMMING There is no scenario in which you can justify the slaughter of innocent people. Whether it is under the blanket of religion, or within a re-emerging trend – feminism. In light of the recent attacks in Nigeria…
Cultural genocide and addiction ruined this Native community—now skateboarding is saving it
BY: TYLER FYFE Next to a dirt parking lot of beater cars, cradled by a perimeter of sun-bleached trees, members of the Oglala Lakota Sioux glide in circles inside a smooth concrete bowl like a Ghost Dance on skate decks.…
Mormons are throwing their religion to the wind in protest over a new anti-gay policy
BY: SWIKAR OLI Some 1,500 members resigned from the Church of Latter-Day Saints in protest of a new rule that bans children of same-sex parents from joining the Mormon Church until they are 18. The rule states that children of…
This British art student is burning his student loan to make a valuable point about money
BY: REGAN MCNEILL When I first started asking people what they thought of a guy who was going to burn his student loan I mostly expected them to ask why someone would do something like that. Instead they were quick…
Photos of child refugees and where they sleep at night will break your heart into pieces
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Magnus Wennman is an award-winning photojournalist from Stockholm. He recently published a heart-breaking photo series that shows what is happening to the children in the Middle East as they flee from the conflict in Syria. According to…
Cuba might just be the first country in the world to completely eliminate HIV/AIDS
BY: DAVID LAO Ah Cuba, a beach-infested island filled with friendly people and lively faces that is just a stones-skip away from the tip of Florida. As one of the resort-oriented countries resting along the Caribbean belt, the island is…
Good news: Austria’s largest state just reached 100% renewable energy status
BY: ZOE MELNYK Austria’s lower and largest state recently entered the world’s green energy game by becoming 100 per cent reliant on renewable energy sources. With the Danube River coming down from the country’s large mountain chain, flowing violently through…
Drinking almond milk might just make you an asshole
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS Whether you’re in a ritzy Starbucks in the nice end of town or at your local fair trade coffee shop, overhearing someone ask the barista for almond milk to douse in their morning coffee has become the…
Sweden has opened the world’s first rape centre for male victims
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Last month, Sweden’s Sodersjukhuset hospital opened the world’s first rape centre for male sexual violence victims. The hospital already runs a walk-in clinic for women and girls, and now will provide the same around the clock care…
Anonymous has declared war on ISIS and they’re already kicking some cyber ass.
BY: M. TOMOSKI Following the attacks in Paris on November 13th, Internet hacktivist group Anonymous took to YouTube to declare war on the Islamic State warning the self-proclaimed caliphate to, “Expect massive cyber-attacks.” In response to the video ISIS called…
The world isn’t actually getting more negative – it’s just the way we perceive it.
BY: ERIK HUSTON What are the last six headlines that you remember seeing from a traditional news media source? Chances are they were not all that heart warming. And this is no accident; according to Peter Diamandis, in the TED…
Apparently there are incredible 100-mile wide volcanoes on Pluto that spew ice instead of lava
BY: ALEXANDRIA LEE Among discoveries of blue skies and red patches of ice, Pluto proves to amaze once again. The typical volcanoes spew lava, but the dwarf planet defies normalcy by having its formations emit ice. The New Horizons spacecraft,…
A 5-year-long vaccination campaign has nearly cured the “meningitis belt” of Africa
BY: LISA CUMMING In 2013, the “meningitis belt” of Africa that spans from Senegal to Ethiopia had reported just four laboratory cases of Type A. In 1996 the deadly disease killed 25,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa within the space of…