Trapped in paradise: how we got the homeless situation (part 1) by Kirsten Dirksen on April 2, 2023 It’s tough to put a number on how many Americans are homeless. About one and a half million people sleep …
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 …
Couple builds off-grid ecovillage with friends & leftovers 🐎 by Kirsten Dirksen on March 26, 2023 Emma and Edo were once a hotel stage show dance team, until they quit to live out their dream of …
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 …
Turns drafty townhome into tranquil Cork Passive House by Kirsten Dirksen on March 19, 2023 To insulate a drafty, rundown home in Barcelona while making it as healthy as possible and also “perfectly integrated into …
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 …
LA architect needed small home. He got turnkey custom prefab by Kirsten Dirksen on March 12, 2023 Fred Fisher and Jennie Prebor’s teen boys had outgrown the family’s two-bedroom LA home. Instead of adding space to their …
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, …
Universal home-kit builds homes & campers: if IKEA/LEGO had a baby by Kirsten Dirksen on March 5, 2023 Nick Newman helped design a modular construction system so anyone with just a mallet and a drill can build their …
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 …
