He built $2K remote dome cabin amid freezing Siberian wilderness (step-by-step) by Kirsten Dirksen on November 19, 2023 Bio-architect and handyman Alosha Lynov has experienced his own Tolstoyan Odyssey: interested in natural building, he taught himself to design …
Insects: the effect of declining populations in ecosystems by Nicolás Boullosa on November 19, 2023 Insects represent by far the biggest diversity of all animals, with over a million known species of an estimated total …
Retro-futuristic ADU sits atop old Austin bungalow, freeing backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on November 12, 2023 An Austin couple wanted to add on to their small two-bedroom bungalow, but they didn’t want to move out and …
Healthy food compromised? Arsenic in brown rice, lead in turmeric by Nicolás Boullosa on November 9, 2023 Bill Bryson’s engaging and hilariously encyclopedic (if such two words can go together) A Short History of Nearly Everything includes …
Veteran coder builds stone-covered Dome Home into Texas hill by Kirsten Dirksen on November 5, 2023 When Al Schwarz moved from upstate NY near Dallas, TX, for work, he wanted a home with low energy bills …
Is the rise of the dietary supplements a public health risk? by Nicolás Boullosa on November 2, 2023 Dietary supplements are mainly unregulated. Public health experts warn against the cure-all rhetoric boosting sales of an industry where supply …
Couple’s attic apartment is kaleidoscope of nooks & skylights 🍕 by Kirsten Dirksen on October 29, 2023 Sam Ciccarelli and Rosie Dooley live in a kaleidoscopic attic home that is a maze of triangles, tunneled bedrooms and …
The many things that all people across the Mediterranean have in common by Nicolás Boullosa on October 26, 2023 Mediterranean localism has been forged as much by quarrels and misunderstandings whose sources sometimes predate written culture. Still, no other …
Strawbale Home couple built after fire is bioclimatic marvel by Kirsten Dirksen on October 22, 2023 Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper have built natural homes with passive solar techniques and powered by renewables since the seventies, …
Things where AI is an ally: deciphering damaged ancient texts by Nicolás Boullosa on October 19, 2023 At this point, we’ve been reading, and sometimes avoiding due to exhaustion, about the risks of the unraveling of AI …
