In this week's episode of The Daily Banter's Meaning of Life Podcast, Ben and Vazken discuss the West's depression epidemic. Why are so many people suffering from this crippling disease? Why do other cultures seem to be more resilient to depression, and what are some ways to ...read more

Rather than funding, say, AIDs research or surveying the effects of climate change on poverty, Oxford University decided it would spend its money studying whether teenagers who identify with Goth culture were more or less likely to be depressed than those who didn't. Yes, you ...read more

When you're an addict, you hurt people. Addiction is, by its very nature, a selfish thing. It's because of this that when you're deeply in the throes of it you begin to wonder if your root problem involves some kind of sociopathy, an inability to feel what others feel and a ...read more

I had to pull over and stop at the summit of the Salmo-Creston highway on the long drive back home from Calgary.  I’d already been on the road for over four hours, and no competent police officer on the planet would have pronounced me fit to drive at that point – being awake ...read more