Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World by Glenn Adamson The MIT Press 2003, 300 pages, 9.5 x 11 x 0 ...

The Coloring Book for Goths: The World’s Most Depressing Book by Tom Devonald Atria Books 2016, 96 pages, 5.5 x 7.5 x 0.4 ...

Spending money on experiences, such as travel, concerts, and learning new skills, provides more lasting happiness than ...

Versatile Sun Protection Up Top. If you’re like me and don’t have a full head of hair on top, going into bright sunlight without a hat can be dangerous. A hat doesn’t work w ...

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The hexayurt is an update on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome and is a sturdy, affordable, easy-to-build temporary shelter. The geometry has been adjusted slightly to make it easier to build domes ...

Dark Matter = The weight of information. That’s one of the speculations in an offbeat but creative alternative theory of quatum physics that is not entirely a crackpot idea. Way out there. The radical ...

For the past year and a half, I’ve been exploring the octave ukulele, a unique instrument that has brought me great joy. An octave ukulele is essentially a baritone ukulele fitted with octave strings.

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I took the advice from this LifeProTip and tracked my natural energy and focus patterns for a week to figure out when I’m most productive. For me, it’s after 1 PM. In the mornings, even though I do ...