Here’s something that should inspire and amaze you. This Hong Kong architect has done things with a tiny apartment that most of us couldn’t even imagine. It just shows what […]

Helen Keller   The trouble with people who overcome enormous obstacles in their lives and change the world in doing so is that we tend to think of them as […]

For a person who, by his own admission, still could not read at the age of eight, had a “nightmarish” time at school, and left it at the age of […]

[Image: Famous People with Dyslexia]   Different Is Cool is very excited that our original Patron of Cool, Margaret Atwood, has turned us on to a most worthwhile cause, RASP Books, […]

Derreck Kayongo started the Global Soap Project to make soap available to the poor and “vulnerable” populations of Africa. So far his group has shipped 100,000 bars of recycled hotel […]

You may be familiar with the work of Sir Ken Robinson – he’s considered the world’s leading thinker on creativity & creative thinking.  He has worked around the world in […]

Rockstar astrophysicist Dr. Jaymie Matthews breaks it down, Stargate Style.

Too Cool :).  To see this dude on his flying machine — we sure have come a long way from the old days of flapping wire frames and balloons !!!

  Daniel Lanois and Margaret Atwood at Gateway to Bohemia 2011 event [Photos: Jeremy Buehler] On Thursday, October 6, 2011 at the Wu loft residence in downtown Toronto, Different Is Cool held its […]

  Bill “Billy” Jamieson & his beloved dog Rameses at home [Photo: William Jamieson Tribal Art]   Bill Jamieson was a Toronto legend – a tribal art dealer obsessed with […]