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Joren Cull

Joren Cull is an illustrator and animator. A Brief History of Goth, which he directed, received a 2017 Webby Award for best animation.
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Legalized Marijuana Goes Luxe

October 17, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Joren Cull

Inside the growing culture of cannabis connoisseurship

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Illustration by Joren Cull
July/August 2017

The Handyman from Hell

June 20, 2017September 13, 2022 - by Joren Cull

How a nightmare renovation nearly destroyed our relationship

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Illustration by Joren Cull
October 2016

Canada’s Bull Semen Boom

September 22, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Joren Cull

We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds

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Arts & Culture / January/February 2016

The League of Extraordinary Assholes

December 21, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Joren Cull

There’s a jerk in every room. Is it you?

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Miscellany illustration by Connor Willumsen
June 2015 / Politics

Transmission Control

May 20, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Joren Cull

HIV non-disclosure laws do more harm than good

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June 2015 / Society

That Empty Feeling

May 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Joren Cull

Junk food has no taste—which is why we can’t stop eating it

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June 2014

Canned Laughs

June 4, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Joren Cull

A government agency tries to make our movies funnier

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Health / May 2014

Forget About It

May 6, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Joren Cull

Why online brain checkups may be bad for you

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May 2014 / Poetry

Lostlandia

May 1, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Joren Cull

The national anthem’s a strange genre: pomp straining to conjure a circumstance under which a love song to a shaded patch on the map isn’t just sad, a train wreck …

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Arts & Culture / May 2014

Double-Doublethink

April 29, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Joren Cull

On fifty years of Tim Hortons tyranny

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