Category: Editor’s Pick

Ela Accessories' Founders: Ela & Martin Aldorsson.
Photo: Marayna Dickinson/Alace Photos

DisC x YouInc Presents: 10 Questions with Ela & Martin Aldorsson of Ela Accessories

About Different Is Cool x YouInc: DisC and YouInc have collaborated on a series of profile pieces featuring Canadian entrepreneurs in non-traditional, creative careers [ie. fashion, visual & performing arts, […]

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Elle at work in the Zvelle Studio, Toronto.
Photo Credit: Marayna Dickinson.

DisC x YouInc Presents: 10 Questions with Fashion Entrepreneur Elle AyoubZadeh of Zvelle Shoes

About Different Is Cool x YouInc: DisC and YouInc have collaborated on a series of profile pieces featuring Canadian entrepreneurs in non-traditional, creative careers [ie. fashion, visual & performing arts, […]

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Rosa Parks Day: Daniel Lanois on recording iconic Neville Brothers’ anthem “Sister Rosa”

Rosa Parks Day: Daniel Lanois on recording iconic Neville Brothers’ anthem “Sister Rosa”

February is Black History Month and February 4th is Rosa Parks’ birthday [born 1913]. Rosa Parks – A Brief History From Wikipedia: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, […]

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iDermal: Body piercer implants arm w/studs to magnetically attach iPod as a watch. Really.

iDermal: Body piercer implants arm w/studs to magnetically attach iPod as a watch. Really.

When we first came across this story, we all said “Really??” Yes, really. Body piercer Dave Hurban, from Dynasty Tattoo  in New Jersey, has a love of body art and technology. […]

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Video Of The Day – Higgs Boson/Nobel Prize Edition: Rolling In the Higgs, A Capella Science

Video Of The Day – Higgs Boson/Nobel Prize Edition: Rolling In the Higgs, A Capella Science

Congratulations to über-Nerds, Peter Higgs and François Englert on their Nobel Prize for Physics.  Their Higgs Boson Theory, originated in the 1960′s, was the basis for the creation of the […]

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Being The Change – Social Activist Rockstar Craig Kielburger

Being The Change – Social Activist Rockstar Craig Kielburger

We all know the quote from Mahatma Gandhi “Be the change you want to see in the world”.  It’s a beautiful sentiment and aspiration, and in 1995, one 12 year old […]

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Pharrell Williams & Daniel Lanois in the sonic laboratory

Pharrell Williams & Daniel Lanois in the sonic laboratory

When multi-Grammy winning music producer Pharrell Williams wanted to interview a multi-Grammy winning music producer about the process of sonics, who did he go to? Who else but our own […]

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Why Is Kim Kardashian More Famous Than Doug Engelbart, Inventor of The Mouse?

Why Is Kim Kardashian More Famous Than Doug Engelbart, Inventor of The Mouse?

The young woman is instantly recognizable, the gentleman, probably not.  The pretty young woman is American reality television star, Kim Kardashian.  Even if you’ve never seen an episode of her […]

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I Carry Your Heart With Me: An Ode To Art & e.e. cummings

I Carry Your Heart With Me: An Ode To Art & e.e. cummings

At Different Is Cool we are passionate about art – art is a tangible representation of the human soul – it tells the story of our collective human history, of […]

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Force For Good: Lady Gaga’s anti-bullying movement “Born This Way Foundation”

Force For Good: Lady Gaga’s anti-bullying movement “Born This Way Foundation”

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 […]

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