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 …
English cave dwellers that inspired Tolkien were evicted by Kirsten Dirksen on October 3, 2022 At one point, the sandstone caves of Kinver’s Edge were home to 44 people, and in the 1960s, they were …
Butterfly effect: intense week of (un)serious efforts to curb inflation by Nicolás Boullosa on October 1, 2022 September 2022 refuses to be a dull back-to-school month, what the French call the “rentrée.” But in the last week …
Wasn’t allowed to build on garden. Dug underground villa instead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 28, 2022 Brought up on James Bond, Chris Oakes saw the appeal of an underground lair, but his reasons for building a …
Finding meaning in postmodernity: the forgotten Aldous Huxley by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2022 To each generation, its monsters. With his novella The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka explained more about early-twentieth-century angst than any historian …
