I climbed the world’s highest tropical glacier and witnessed Global Warming first hand

BY: ZAK BENNETT The lifeblood of Peru is evaporating before its people’s eyes. More than 77 million people get their drinking water and irrigation from the rivers fed by glacier runoff from the snow capped mountains of the Cordillera Blanca.…

Smart E-bike maps out the fastest and safest routes to keep shit drivers out of your face

BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN We’ve all heard of smart phones, well now there’s a smart E-Bike, courtesy of Brooklyness, that let’s you ride on cruise control during your dreadful morning commutes. Whether there’s construction, a closed off street, or traffic, the…

This video will challenge you to stop working your mundane job and start living your life

“This is the real secret of life. To be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” – Alan Watts British philosopher Alan Watts posed the…

A new Satanic Statue on state land just sparked the largest public Satanic gathering in history

BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN Hundreds of people gathered near the Detroit River around midnight on Saturday to watch the unveiling of the highly controversial Satanic Baphomet sculpture. Chants of “hail Satan” rang through the night as an approximate crowd of 700…

You can now rent van-hotels in New York City’s hottest areas for $22 a night

BY: JESSICA BEUKER New York City, a place with endless possibilities and a bustling environment, is on the travel bucket lists of many. Tall skyscrapers, bright lights and an eccentric collective of people, make this exciting place a top destination.…

Meet two intrepid women who attempted the near impossible…and succeeded

By: Jack M. Rosalind “Roz” Savage is a 47-year-old environmentalist, conservationist, author and public speaker. And she is also an adventurer extraordinaire. She has run marathons, contributed to research on Inca ruins and spent three months travelling alone in Peru…

Street artists are turning America’s most dangerous city into the world’s greatest open-air gallery

BY: M. TOMOSKI As the crowds emerge from Comerica Park and move onto Woodward Ave. clad in orange and blue they pour out of the city and back to the suburbs leaving behind the rusted arteries of what was once…

This website lets you find your travel soul mate and take the trip of your lifetime

BY: ZOE MELNYK Traveling alone may induce feelings of freedom and independence. However, when you’re scaling the harsh terrain of Mount Everest or white water rafting through the forceful Colorado River, a travel companion is practically necessary. Now, if you’re…

For 511 blissful days this couple hitchhiked from Bulgaria to India without smartphones

BY: JESSICA BEUKER All too often the raw, untamed aspects of travel get overlooked by smartphones, GPS and tablets. Screen addiction has created an invisible barrier between the natural world and us. Just try and remember the last time you…

Inspired by Lego, a company is using disaster debris as building blocks for new homes

BY: JESSICA BEUKER It was five years ago that a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, affecting more than three million people. Over 250,000 houses and 30,000 buildings collapsed, leaving people without jobs and families without homes. The nights that followed the…

Harlow’s infamously cruel experiments are the reason chimps should be recognized as legal persons

BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN The Manhattan Supreme Court made history when two chimpanzees were recognized as possible legal non-human persons in order to hold a “personhood” rights hearing. Justice Barbara Jaffe ordered that a cause and writ of Habeas Corpus must…

NASA just confirmed “Earth’s Twin” exists. This is what it means. (Video)

BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA NASA’s Keplar space telescope confirmed the existence of the 1030th known planet. Even more staggering, it’s the closest thing NASA has found to being Earth’s closest relative. Keplar-452b revolves in a “habitable zone” around a sun-like…

This city in France is getting rid of all outdoor ads in favor of trees

BY: JESSICA BEUKER Riding the over-crowded subway on the way home from work, clicking from page to page as you browse the internet, going for a stroll through your neighbourhood – these are typical things that people do every single…

The face of Sudan’s gold miners before bombs rained from the sky (Photos)

BY: ADAM JACOBI I worked in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains as a humanitarian. It was in 2011 just months before the secession of South Sudan. The scorching heat was thick with tension. What would happen to the Nuba people, who were…

This vending machine feeds starving stray animals in exchange for empty plastic bottles

BY: JESSICA BEUKER Istanbul, one of the world’s largest cities, is home to over 14 million people. It is also home to over 150,000 stray cats and dogs – a number that keeps increasing due to animal smuggling and lack…

Meet the woman fighting sexist Afghan circumstance with guerilla style politics

BY: JESSICA BEUKER On November 16, 2014 Shukria Barakzai was headed to parliament when her car was rammed and explosives were detonated, creating a blast that could be heard all across Kabul. The explosion killed three people, including a young…

This village has a homemade-rocket war once a year to keep the peace (Video)

BY: MELISSA GONZALEZ “For about a month people see some tension. There is a state of unrest. Everyone knows that something is going on.” In the small village of Vrontados the month of March is no more than a grand…

14 women pose naked to challenge the elusive definition of “American Beauty”

BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN Raised on a cookie-cutter image of beauty, whether it was your favourite movie star, super hero, or the band-poster you had taped onto your wall, the role models that are meant to inspire us often have the…

You might want this tree that grows 40 different kinds of fruit in your backyard (Video)

BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Sam Van Aken’s “Tree of 40 Fruit” is one of the world’s only living art pieces. By “chip grafting,” Van Aken, a professor at Syracuse University, is able to Frankenstein trees of 40 different stone fruits…

These beautiful family portraits prove that racial borders are just imaginary lines

BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Perhaps you have heard the myth of the “tragic mulatto,” a term that casts bi-racial people as chronically depressed, caught in the crack between black and white society. The myth was promoted heavily in 19th century…