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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

Don’t go to architecture school; devour this book instead and use it to design buildings and places that really work. This 1,000-page encyclopedia contains two hundred design patterns found in the ...

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

Roger Beck makes and collects housetrucks. “Many people have the dream of being a gypsy–a dream of travel & freedom. For every housetruck or housebus, there is an artist who has built it to meet their ...