The common career advice to “follow your passion” often leads to anxiety, job-hopping, and chronic dissatisfaction. Cal ...

In response to Issue #200’s tips on garbage cans and storing supplies as close to the tool as possible, reader Owen Sinclair ...

While living in a VW Van for three years, they got the idea that even this lifestyle was too complex so they get simpler for ...

Michelle Kaatz Cat Rackham is an anxious, scruffy, navel-gazing kitty who sometimes likes adventures. But mostly he likes to ...

The Digital Nomad Golden Age is Now. I got so annoyed by an article from two travelers wanting to lock the door behind them that I wrote a 3,000-word blog post in one sitting as a ...

Mooncop by Tom Gauld Drawn and Quarterly 2016, 96 pages, 6.6 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches (hardcover) ...

Not a map really, but a 5-foot-high chart showing in one glance 4,000 years of human history on a global scale. Thirty years ...

Understanding the root of moral conflicts is essential for maintaining social cohesion. Kurt Gray reveals that our deepest disagreements stem not from hatred or ignorance, but from different ...

Rental car toll hack. Rental car companies love to shake you down with their toll programs—- either pay an absurd daily fee (like $25/day!) for their toll service or risk gettin ...

A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re trying out something new — Retro Recomendo. Once every 6 weeks, we’ll send out a throwback issue of evergreen recommendations focused on one ...

Claude Shannon invented the modern mathematical definition of information, casting it in terms of bits and entropy. Shannon also tinkered with odd contraptions, but his boldest most brilliant ...