When the world’s largest landfill closed, a city of garbage pickers collapsed

BY: SINEAD MULHERN Sifting through the rot you never know what you might find. When garbage is your specialty, the smell becomes normal, you eat among it sharing space with the vultures and watch for sharp discards jutting out from…

This 21-year-old pro baseball player is a millionaire who lives out of a VW camper van

BY: ZOE MELNYK After receiving a $2 million signing bonus with the Toronto Blue Jays, Daniel Norris decided to hit the road with his new dream car—a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van—which incidentally, is also his new dream home. 21-year-old…

Disturbing quotes revealed from the real American Sniper, Chris Kyle

BY: KHADIJA KHAN American Sniper is proving to be brilliant propaganda that reveres American military aggression while conveying Hollywood’s most racist depiction of Arabs that is effectively legitimizing America’s constant bombing crusades across the Middle East. Where Clint Eastwood misses…

How Walmart, Target and GNC got away with selling fake supplements

BY: TED BARNABY If you live in the U.S., you’ve probably felt the pressure of a system where money is more than just a means to an end—it’s also the currency of many moral, political and even legal issues. So…

This man fearlessly climbs 2,900 ft. cliff without ropes. (Video)

Alex Honnold is a 29 year old free-climber from Sacramento, California, who has ascended some of the world’s tallest and most difficult rock walls completely rope- and harness-free. He seems to harbour a natural talent—climbing walls with a calm precision…