Book Freak 170: How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind explores psychedelics’ potential to change our view of consciousness and mental health. Pollan mixes history, science, and personal experiences to show how LSD...
View ArticleWhat stories do you know about your grandfather? (Part 1)
To participate in Just 1 Question, and receive the issues one week early, sign up here. Go Figure My father never talked about his childhood or his father. He grew up during the depression and only...
View ArticleBest of Europe/On Writing Well/Cellar Door
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Best Europe guides My chief go-to guide for Europe is Rick Steves, who has made yearly trips to Europe over 40 years, and personally updates...
View ArticleMugs
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 The tools might be outdated or obsolete, and the links to them may or may not work.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...
View ArticleAlive With the Dead / Adulthood is a Myth
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 GRATEFUL DEAD FAMILY ALBUM Alive With...
View ArticleWhat’s in my NOW? — Misha Lynn Moon
Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. Misha Lynn Moon (she/her) has been writing and publishing poetry for 35 years. She was the first public school teacher in Oregon to...
View ArticleNo Internet Backups/Thailand for 180 Days/RTO = Talent Loss
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...
View ArticleJulian Bleecker, Engineer and Author
Julian Bleecker, Ph.D., is an accomplished engineer and author with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an MSEng from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz....
View ArticleWhat stories do you know about your grandfather? (Part 2)
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View ArticleFlavor Thesaurus/Uncanny a cappella/People as sunsets
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Flavor pairings This book, The Flavor Thesaurus; Pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook, is original and without peers. It starts...
View ArticleBike Lights
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...
View ArticleFlying Saucers Are Real / Frostgrave
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 CATALOGUE AND HISTORY OF ONE OF THE...
View ArticleWhat’s in my NOW? — Dave Hall
Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. I’m 47-year-old Marketing Director for a wellness retreat center, living in Colorado and trying to spend as much time in nature as...
View Article10 Top Destinations/Electric Norway/Robot Podcasters
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...
View ArticleGar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #186
Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. Model Home Building When I was in high school, in my shop class, we built a...
View ArticleWhat is something you have that you wished everyone had?
To participate in Just 1 Question, and receive the issues one week early, sign up here. When you leave the house, take a sketchbook I wish everyone had a small sketchbook to carry around. Even the...
View ArticleRetro Recomendo: Workshop
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started eight years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations....
View ArticleShoes
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...
View ArticleHelikon / The Unexpected Love Story of Alfred Fiddleduckling
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. HELIKON HATH NO FURY LIKE A MUSE SCORNED...
View ArticleWhat’s in my NOW? — Rishab Vasudevan
Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. I’m an exceptionally safe driver with multiple speeding tickets, two accidents, and a totaled car. I was considered “gifted and...
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