When Breath Becomes Air is Paul Kalanithi’s memoir written as he faced a terminal cancer diagnosis at age 36, just as he was ...

Martha Burzynski is a writer, photographer and full time nanny. She lives in Brooklyn. By continuing to use this site you ...

A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

XO, OX: A Love Story, is exactly that. Told entirely through letters between the adoring Ox and the glamorous Gazelle, Adam ...

An ever-widening braid of beaten-down trails is a common place problem in meadows and alpine tundra. Close off unwanted ...

As your reward for making it to the end of the book you’ll find a free toy in the endpapers: a miniature Japanese drink ...

Out of nothing, nature makes something. First there is hard rock planet; then there is life, lots of it. First barren hills; then brooks with fish and cattails and red-winged blackbirds. First an ...

(Stuff I’m interested in now, or was interested in before.) I was a long-time member of Global Business Network, a small think tank and consultancy based in Emeryville, California. Occasionally I’ll ...

IMG_0001 is a website that streams raw and unedited videos uploaded to YouTube between 2009 and 2012. All these videos were uploaded with default filenames of IMG_XXXX, and there is no identifying ...

The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders. And the internet is intangible, like spirits ...