Art the Throne: An Immersive Game of Thrones Experience

Artists CYRCLE, Tristan Eaton, Jeff Nishinaka, Marcos Chin, and Pop Chart Lab reimagine iconic characters

If one thing can be said of Game of Thrones fans, it’s that there is a near insatiable desire to enter the universe in as many ways as possible. While we all wait for the Season 6 premiere this Sunday—and coax George RR Martin forward on the latest book—HBO took it upon themselves to offer a new Game of Thrones experience. Teaming up with the …

Canada Announces Plans to Decriminalize Recreational Marijuana

At an appropriately (and comically) timed UN general assembly session discussing drug problems around the world, Canada’s health minister Jane Philpott announced today(4/20) that the country plans to decriminalize recreational marijuana beginning spring 2017. “We will work with law enforcement partners to encourage appropriate and proportionate criminal justice measures. We know it is impossible to arrest our way out of this problem,” she said. Read …

Harriet Tubman is the New Face of the $20 Bill

After announcing last summer that they had plans to replace the face of Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman, the US Treasury has finally settled on which woman to depict: Harriet Tubman. The historical abolitionist, civil rights activist and humanitarian will actually not replace Hamilton, though, as the Treasury has decided instead to add her to the $20 bill, along with Andrew …