After heavy California rains, gold-seekers head to riverbeds by Nicolás Boullosa on May 4, 2023 In his formative years, Mark Twain decided to pan for gold in California, just like every other American growing up …
Qanats: ancient water management system guaranteed survival by Nicolás Boullosa on April 27, 2023 I’ve been talking a lot with colleagues and relatives in Spain. Most of these conversations include a salute or a …
Miyawaki method: benefits of planting a tiny dense forest near you by Nicolás Boullosa on April 19, 2023 When we visited permaculture professor, botanist, and youtuber Andrew Millison at his suburban house in Corvallis, Oregon, we weren’t expecting …
You say tomato, we say topsoil: interdependence of soil biodiversity and health by Nicolás Boullosa on April 13, 2023 For most of our species’ timeline, humans foraged and hunted/fished for food. The advent of agriculture ultimately led to population …
A winter energy chaos that never was: renewables & efficiency avoid crisis by Nicolás Boullosa on April 10, 2023 When rumors of a Russian invasion of Ukraine were turning into war logistics along the border in real-time, a friend …
Trust & share: how humans domesticated themselves, then animals by Nicolás Boullosa on March 30, 2023 To prepare for our visit to London’s Cabinet War Rooms, the bunkered basement beneath the Treasury building from where Winston …
Alan Watts is alive online: contradictions of a pop philosopher by Nicolás Boullosa on March 22, 2023 Elliot Mintz is a veteran consultant in his late seventies with a modern, clean look, trimmed straw blond hair, and …
Weight-loss & drug detox in the era of Ozempic & ibogaine by Nicolás Boullosa on March 16, 2023 A new generation of medicines promises to cure the pervasive and highly destructive “diseases of civilization,” partly behavioral, implying that …
Experimenting keeps the magic going: beware of dogmatic “tradition” by Nicolás Boullosa on March 9, 2023 Thanks to the site and Kirsten’s YT channel, we’re lucky to be exposed to lots of architecture and (sometimes brilliant, …
Beyond electrolysis: do reservoirs of pure hydrogen exist? by Nicolás Boullosa on March 1, 2023 Despite its easy logistics and flexibility (it can be used in fuel cells and adapted to combustion engines), hydrogen is …