In honour of Lady Gaga’s birthday [March 28], instead of waxing on about her meteoric rise to the top of the world of pop music and performance art, we think [...]

 I wondered why somebody didn’t do something.  Then I realized, I am somebody.  ~Author Unknown Yes, People Are Awesome. Watch as this Czech street magician makes this homeless man’s day [...]

  At Different Is Cool, we have been blessed with the most gracious, generous “Patrons of Cool” [Margaret Atwood, Daniel Lanois, Nikki Sixx].  These living legends embody our core values [...]

Today is World Humanitarian Day, and the United Nations’ WHD goal was to reach one billion people with one message: DO SOMETHING GOOD, SOMEWHERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE From The United [...]

Happy Birthday [May 30, 1964] to Tom Morello, Grammy-winning, [and totally awesome] guitarist of polemic hard rock band Rage Against The Machine and tireless social activist. Tom Morello, ranked #26 [...]

Urban centres around the globe suffer from similar ills – population densities which result in tremendous amounts of consumer waste and, consequently, environmental pollution. Architects, urban planners and designers have [...]

Chinese multi media artist and social activist Ai Weiwei created one of the most important and beautiful pieces of cultural art to date. His moving exhibition “Sunflower Seeds” [photo above-Tate [...]

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 [...]