Cross locking. When you cross lock your bike, you use two different lock systems at once – such as a U lock and a cable.

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

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

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 ...

An AI tool I’m most excited about right now is MyLens AI, which takes your pasted text, webpages, PDFs, spreadsheets, and even YouTube ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding geological and biological time Correlated History of Earth The long view. Or rather, views. Geological time and biological time run at such different paces that the two perspectives are ...

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 ...