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Safer in the Air/Dead Bodies in Museums/Worldschooling Take 2

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...

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Adam Hill, Software Business Analyst

Adam Hill (He/Him) is a dad who loves science, cooking, math, engineering, skepticism, espresso, and politics! He has been a teacher, an engineer, and now a software business analyst. Curiosity now...

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Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #175

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. 9 Great Grinder Hacks Via Maker Update comes this gem of a video showing nine...

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Retro Recomendo: Analog Wearables

Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started seven years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations. The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re...

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Composting Toilets

Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage...

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This Can Be Beautiful / The Little Moose Who Couldn’t Go to Sleep

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. A VISUAL AND CREATIVE FEAST FOR ANYONE...

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What’s in my NOW? — Sarper Erel

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. Sarper Erel is a digital product designer. Currently lives in southernmost Sweden, longs for summer days and works on how ubiquitous...

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Winter Gear Closeouts/Getting Paid to Relocate/Cheap Flight Deals

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...

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PowerOutage.us/One Tab/Poetry Notebook

Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Power outage tracker PowerOutage.us is a near real-time map of power outages in the United States. States are color-coded based on the number...

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Rechargeable Batteries

Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage...

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Real Friends / Washi Tape Crafts

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. A GRAPHIC MEMOIR ABOUT HOW HARD IT IS TO...

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What’s in my NOW? — Chris Thompson

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. A nerdy guy who loves learning and talking about biology and other sciency stuff. I enjoy gadgets and learning new ways to be more...

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Maya Train Rides/Airlines With Bad Legroom/Space Elevator

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...

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Books in bullet points/Things that don’t work/Phone camera

Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Books in bullet points  BookPecker.com summarizes popular books into 5 key points. Five bullet points may not be enough information to learn...

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Cleaning

Once a week we’ll send out a page from Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities. The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work. We present these vintage...

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Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores / Bedtime for Batman

Books That Belong On Paper first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair. Sign up here to get the issues a week early in your inbox. FOOTNOTES FROM THE WORLD’S GREATEST...

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What’s in my NOW? — Jessi Stinson

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. I’ve been a public library reference assistant for over 25 years. I’m a early adopter adopter of new technology, and specialize in...

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2024 Trending Destinations/Eclipse Glasses/Remote Life Chats

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...

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Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #176

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. Tips and Must-Haves for Small Shops In this “Ask Adam” video, Adam Savage gets...

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The Infatuation/The Curricula/Cold War lessons

Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Better restaurant guide After too many disappointing dining experiences, I’ve given up on using Yelp as a reliable restaurant guide. My new...

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