Lucid Dreaming
Altered state.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Can you control your dreams? According to Dr. Stephen LaBerge, a world-renowned Stanford University psychophysiologist and an authority on lucid dreaming, the answer is yes.
Last Writes
Workplace Epics
Tough jobs.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: As an activity that takes up a large proportion of our time, getting a job that doesn’t send you over the brink of insanity is probably a good thing. But given that most people tend to have several occupations over the course of their lives, you’re almost assured to have to endure at least one or two tough jobs.
The Philosophy of Meme Culture
Life’s a joke.
What can memes tell us about Gen Z, the most socially conscious and digitally connected generation?
Hustle vs. Hustle
The rise of a new work culture.
It is clear that fame is changing—influence for the sake of influence is becoming a business model as a result of social media, where fortunes are made by commodifying personalities and popularity is birthed by algorithms.
Why Adults are Reading (and Rereading) Young Adult Fiction
Teenage dreams.
News flash: all those people ripping through the pages of the Harry Potter novels, the Divergent series, and the Hunger Games trilogy—on their lunch break, on the train home, during that layover at Pearson—not all of them were teenagers.
When Words Fail: The Emoji Era
How the cutesy graphics continue to shape the conversation.
Since their emergence on Japanese cellphones some 19 years ago, emoji have become a standard feature of conversation in the digital age.
The Universal Disdain for Comic Sans
Appreciating the not-so-hidden language of typography.
Understanding the woefully inartistic and ridiculously misused typeface: Comic Sans.
Oh, Canada
Shades of niceness.
What is it to be Canadian? That’s probably impossible to define, and we’ve twisted ourselves in knots trying to figure that out. This Canada Day, we revisit a favourite essay on the subject.
The Economics of Celebrity Endorsements
Money well spent?
These days, the endorsement game faces a challenge: the erosion of the aura that surrounds fame.
