Meet the couple that quit their jobs to become travel bloggers and haven’t stood still since (Photos)

BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Jenna Spesard, 28, and Guillaume Dutilh, 30, didn’t want to fall in the mortgage debt hole  that many find themselves stuck in with a greased up ladder. She was an executive assistant for a movie studio;…

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…

By wearing this small sticker, humans can now harness the power of telekinesis

BY: ZOE MELNYK There are currently designs in circulation for a small adhesive sticker device that will monitor users’ brain functions and use the brain’s activity to access and utilize the devices around oneself. That’s right, we’re talking about telekinesis…

Audi just invented a renewable fuel source from water and CO2

BY DANIEL KORN  I don’t have to explain to you why gasoline is a crappy way to power cars, right? We can all just agree that a new fuel method is important to the future of our planet? Okay, great.…

Mining asteroids for resources has become a very real possibility

BY: ZOE MELNYK Images by: Bryan Versteeg and SpaceHabs.com With limited resources on Earth, private business and countries around the world are starting to consider the possibility of mining asteroids. It seems far-fetched to imagine that we’ll resort to space travel…

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…

5 places on the Internet where you can educate yourself for free

BY: DANIEL KORN Everybody is self-taught. Whether you’re a guitarist who’s never taken a lesson or an engineering undergrad at the University of Wherever; regardless of its level of formality, all education hinges on the student’s ability to internalize concepts…

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…

The California Bill banning date rape drugs ignores the largest cause of date rape

BY: JESSICA BEUKER A California Bill is aiming to reverse the war on drugs by making specific drug possession a felony. The bill will ban the possession of a trio of drugs, known as date rape drugs, in an effort…

Psychics, healers and mediums entirely populate this mystical Florida town (Photos)

Since Christiaan López-Miró was a small boy, he’s been drawn to the magical and mysterious regions of society. All Roads Lead to Cassadaga, has portraiture, landscape, and still life combined to tell the unique story of a close-knit community devoted…

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…

Meet the 200 villagers who live inside an active volcano

BY MATTHEW CHIN In an instant an active volcano can spew molten lava over a neighbouring village incinerating everything in its path and all of its inhabitants—a sure and sudden death. Evidently, the villagers on Aogashima Island—who reside inside of…

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…

This is what it’s like to live without sexual attraction

BY: JESSICA BEUKER We live in a hyper-sexualized society. Where TV shows and movies are consistently showing more and more skin, specifically designed apps can connect you with someone to have sex with in an “instant” and breasts are used…

Woman designs a device that converts your dog’s poo into home-electricity

BY: MATTHEW CHIN Could man’s best friend also be our homes’ main energy supply? Océane Izard, a Geneva School student studying her masters in Spaces and Communication is working on making that possible. Izard designed a product whimsically entitled Poo-Poo…

How Reddit’s citizen journalism could have led to an innocent 22-year-old’s suicide

BY: MICHAEL LYONS Bulletin board site Reddit describes itself as the “front page of the internet,” a sobering concept for anyone who has ever actually been on the Internet. These days, Reddit is the newsmaker. In one 24-hour news cycle,…