I’ve been traveling with a new travel speaker, a tiny one called the LectroFan Micro2 that has a couple of unique functions. The speaker portion can rotate up to direct the sound, if you have two you ...

China is vast, nearly a continent to itself with highly diverse ethnic cultures. It has become an easy place to travel, with 28,000 miles (45,000 km) of high speed trains, and cheap domestic flights.

What Are Your Inspired Objects? I love the concept of the “inspired object,” first introduced to me by maker-philosopher, bike guru, and “shade tree mechanic,” Mister Jalopy. An inspired object is ...

Leafing through The Julia Rothman Collection, which includes the author/illustrator’s Farm Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and, her newest book in this illustrated exploration of the natural world, Food ...

Like the Grand Canyon, or the Pyramids, I believe Burning Man is something you should experience at least once in your life, no matter who you are. This year is a good time to go, because it is no ...

There were plenty of surprises at the Academy Awards, but A Real Pain from Jesse Eisenberg had already pulled in BAFTA and Critic’s Choice trophies before Kieran Calkin got the Oscar for Best ...

Memorable immersive history series. 1900 House Frontier House Colonial House. The premise of this first reality-TV program is brilliant. Take an ordinary middle class family of th ...

Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public ...

The other day I was slicing a big loaf of dark Italian bread from a bakery; it is a pleasure to carve thick hunks of hearty bread to ready for the toaster. While I was happily slicing the loaf, the ...