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Living History
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 the year 2000 and make...
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Cow Boy / The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
COW BOY – DON’T MESS WITH THIS 10-YEAR-OLD BOUNTY HUNTER ARMED WITH A HOBBY HORSE POP GUN Cow Boy: A Boy and His Horseby Nate CosbyArchaia2015, 112 pages, 6 x 9 x 0.3 inches (softcover) Buy on Amazon...
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What’s in my NOW? — Noah Donmoyer
a 16 year old who loves music, basketball, tinkering with electronics, and fixing electronics. youtube channel where i put videos and music i make: https://www.youtube.com/@nowuhhh — Noah Donmoyer...
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Southwest Racing to the Bottom In this year of corporations disappointing us over and over, the latest is once-beloved Southwest Airlines, now destined to become just another fee-obsessed, unpopular...
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Dreams illustrated Other people’s dreams are usually not interesting, but Claudia Dawson—our “CD” in this newsletter—records and visualizes her dreams daily in a way I find enjoyable to read. She...
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Bike Tires
Dependable bike pump Topeak Joe Blow Floor Pump After breaking four or five “rugged” bike pumps in four or five years, I made the hefty investment into a Topeak Floor Pump four years ago, which cost...
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B.P.R.D / Manabeshima Island Japan
IF YOU’RE IN FOR LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR AND NAZI PUNCHING, PICK UP B.P.R.D: 1946-1948 B.P.R.D: 1946-1948by Mike MignolaDark Horse Books2015, 472 pages, 6.9 x 10.4 x 1.4 inches (hardcover) Buy on Amazon I...
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What’s in my NOW? — Mary Lucia Darst
Mary Lucia Darst founded ClefRights, a music publishing and technology startup. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Music from the University of Oxford and is a member of St Hilda’s College. She is an avid...
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Georgia is a Great Value Greetings from the Republic of Georgia, where I’ve been leading a group tour that involved cultural sightseeing, days of skiing, and lots of food and wine debauchery. This was...
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Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #196
The Clam Switches of Warsaw I found this 14-minute documentary utterly captivating. In Warsaw, Poland, they use clams to monitor water quality—an ingenious and surprisingly elegant system. Eight clams...
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Book Freak 176: Breathe Better to Live Better
Get Breath Journalist James Nestor spent years investigating how breathing practices impact our physical and mental health. Through extensive research, self-experimentation, and interviews with...
View ArticleThe Alpinist/OpenTimes map/Ultimate Book List
Nail-biting documentary If you found the documentary Free Solo – about climbing sheer mountain cliffs without ropes – nerve-wracking, then you’ll find The Alpinist documentary even more so. The crazy...
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Sleep
Best tips for naps Take a Nap! Change Your Life Napping is a evolutionarily habit that still works wonders today. I can get by with several hours less sleep per night by adding a 20-minute nap in the...
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Make: Props / Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
MASTER PROP FANATIC SHAWN THORSSON SHARES HIS SHOP SECRETS Make: Props and Costume ArmorShawn ThorssonMaker Media2016, 296 pages, 8 x 9.7 x o.5 inches (softcover) Buy on Amazon While at Make: for many...
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What’s in my NOW? — Dave Crumbine
I try to live in the now. Control is mostly an illusion—what we really have is influence. Who am I? Still unfolding. Not my past, not my future. Just someone who values presence, connection, and...
View ArticleHappiest Countries/Free Checked Bag/Cheap Electronic Basics
Who is Feeling Happiest These Days? The latest worldwide survey on happiness is out and if you thought the mood wasn’t so hot in the USA or UK, you were right. The countries with high taxes, strong...
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Book Freak 176: Understanding Potentially Sentient Non-Human Beings
Get The Edge of Sentience Imagine a patient in a vegetative state who can actually feel everything happening to them but can’t communicate it. Picture an octopus being boiled alive, experiencing every...
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Alternative funding designs Kickstarter uses a clever financing model where every backer’s money is returned if the full funding goal is not met. But this innovation is only one of many dozens of...
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Vapors
Pax Vaporizer Pax Vaporizer This is a portable vaporizer that works, is simple to operate, easy to clean, and looks beautiful. Vaporizers heat leaf material such as tobacco or pot so that they release...
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If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! / Everything Is Teeth
IF YOU EVER WANT TO BRING AN ALLIGATOR TO SCHOOL, DON’T! If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t!by Elise ParsleyLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers2015, 40 pages, 9.5 x 12.2 x 0.5...
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