America Needs Alzheimer’s Funding Now
Photo by Mopic/Shutterstock The morning after my father took a mirror off the wall because he thought the man in the reflection was trying to attack him, my mother and I drove him to a hospital for...
View ArticleThis Week in Racism: Artists in Norway Built a Re-creation of a Human Zoo...
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being...
View ArticleThe State of the 313: Detroit Music After the Bankruptcy
The State of the 313: Detroit Music After the Bankruptcy
View ArticleMigrant and Refugee Workers in Canada Should At Least Have Bathroom Privileges
Image via Facebook. Last week, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal awarded 55 tree planters $700K in relation to the mistreatment and ‘slave-like’ conditions they were forced to endure at the...
View ArticlePreserving the Syrian Swimming Pool Dining Tradition
Preserving the Syrian Swimming Pool Dining Tradition
View ArticleBringing Back the Dead with DIY Forensics - Trailer
Bringing Back the Dead with DIY Forensics - Trailer
View ArticleThis Warden Wants to Make His Job Obsolete
Photos by Roc Morin “In the other jails you’ve been in,” began Warden Rick Van Wickler, “do you remember the inmates yelling, and screaming, and banging?” I nodded, scanning the faces of the men of...
View ArticleAfrican Refugees Are Having a Hard Time Living in a Dutch Prison
A few weeks ago, I went to Amsterdam to visit a community of African refugees who live in a former prison called the Vluchthaven. The group calls themselves "We Are Here" and are considered illegal...
View ArticleThe First Nations Education Act Is Dead
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, staunchly anti Bill C-33. Image via YouTube. The playbook on how to sow discord among native groups in Canada may well have been borrowed...
View ArticleMeet the Artist Behind the BO-Scented Foldout in 'Harper's Bazaar'
If you subscribe to Harper’s Bazaar, and if you enjoy the perfume foldouts, then there is a good chance you’ve smelled the body odor of artist Martynka Wawrzyniak. Along with ads for Salvatore...
View ArticleThe Canadian Government Has Forbidden Meteorologists to Discuss Climate Change
Screenshot via. One of the strongest hurricanes in recent memory slams into the east coast. A journalist on deadline phones up the Canadian Meteorological Service on its 24-hour hotline for a quote....
View ArticleLady Business: Mandatory Californian STI Porn Star Tests, Canadian Military...
This week in Lady Business: adult film actors are being put through the ringer when it comes to proving to the government that they’re STI free, which is causing privacy concerns in the porn world....
View ArticleThe Chaotic Fashion GIFs of Luca Mainini
I first discovered 31-year-old collagist Luca Mainini's art during a late night Tumblr binge. I'll admit, I was pretty stoned at the time. But no amount of weed would have generated the same potent...
View ArticleCongress Is Finally Getting Behind Medical Marijuana
A marijuana dispensary in Denver, Colorado. Photo by Jeffrey Beall via Flickr Late last night, when no one was paying attention, the US House of Representatives did something that Congress has never...
View ArticleMotherboard: How to Hack a Car
In this episode of Phreaked Out, we met some of the top security researchers at the center of the car-hacking world. Their goal isn't to make people crash: They highlight security holes to illustrate...
View ArticleVICE News: VICE News Capsule
The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. This week, Christian youth destroy a mosque in the Central African Republic, international medical workers travel to Sierra...
View ArticleMeet the Coach Who Fled Cuba to Train Cambodia's Next Boxing Legend
Meet the Coach Who Fled Cuba to Train Cambodia's Next Boxing Legend
View ArticleI Ate at Toronto’s Scuzziest Strip Joint and Didn’t Get Food Poisoning
I Ate at Toronto’s Scuzziest Strip Joint and Didn’t Get Food Poisoning
View ArticlePorn Stars Wants You to Stop Jacking Off for Free
Photo courtesy of Wicked Pay for your porn—that’s what some adult industry members are asking consumers to do in a new online campaign. After Samuel L. Jackson called Redtube the biggest pop culture...
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