Flying car or big drone? eVTOLs are electric, compact, silent by Nicolás Boullosa on November 9, 2022 Flying cars are arriving decades after making it in pop culture, or so we’ve been told, though this time, it …
From spice trade to semiconductors: rise of neo-mercantilism by Nicolás Boullosa on November 2, 2022 Software and semiconductors have become a part of the digital and physical world in such a pervasive way that we …
2-story wine barrel beats family’s charming redwood log house by Kirsten Dirksen on October 31, 2022 When Marianne and Richard Atkinson bought a 1250-square-foot cabin in the Santa Cruz Redwoods, they didn’t expect to stay long …
Why societies need credible experts willing to be unpopular by Nicolás Boullosa on October 27, 2022 Does the global housing market slump represent opportunities for first-time buyers? It might seem counterintuitive, but a pervasive housing market …
Left BBC’s Planet Earth to start dream family homestead (full tour) by Kirsten Dirksen on October 26, 2022 Over a decade ago Matt Swarbrick and his wife Jenny decided to leave behind city life to “grow cabbages and …
Industry or inter-species mutualism? Cork trees & humans by Nicolás Boullosa on October 19, 2022 When we think of domesticated birds, servile, passive poultry come to mind, yet our pre-Neolithic ancestors may have collaborated with …
Homeless shepherd shares hunter-gatherer diet & survival tips by Kirsten Dirksen on October 17, 2022 For more than a decade Aaron Fletcher has lived as a nomadic shepherd, mostly out of a micro-camper pulled by …
Biological vs chronological age: can lifestyle revert aging? by Nicolás Boullosa on October 13, 2022 In her recent book True Age, pathology professor Morgan Levine makes the case to distinguish between two concepts of aging. …
Arctic Homestead: 10 years living off the Alaskan wilderness by Kirsten Dirksen on October 9, 2022 Jenna and David Jonas have spent most of their lives living off the land. At 17, David built a cabin …
Vengeance vs. mercy: Monte Cristo & Jean Valjean in real life by Nicolás Boullosa on October 5, 2022 In our interactions, so much boils down to the charged interpretation we make of revenge and forgiveness. Revenge can feel …
