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Ten Years of Logging My Life
A self-tracker shares a decade of hand-logged daily activities, over 85,000 entries, with charts of sleep, work and leis…
The ADHD Body Double
The Attention Deficit Disorder Association explains body doubling, working alongside another person to stay on task, and…
The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us Astray
How a 1947 study of captive wolves at Basel Zoo gave rise to the 'alpha' myth, and what wild wolf packs actually look li…
The Anatomy of Smith's Scampi Fries
A loving, funny deep-dive from Pellicle into Smith's Scampi Fries, the strange fishy pub snack hanging behind British ba…
The Antidepressants Side Effects Chart
A clear chart comparing the side effects of different antidepressants, from WhatMedicine, a mental health site that educ…
The Anxiety of the Perfect Loaf
An essay on the illusion of culinary precision, arguing that recipes give false certainty and that good cooking comes fr…
The Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet
A plain-text copy of the 1980s Argonne National Laboratory diet plan that claims to reset your body clock for travel thr…
The Arrow of Time
ZoneZero's photo essay by the Goldberg family, who meet every June 17 to photograph themselves, building a portrait seri…
The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
A Longwood Gardens bonsai artist explains the classic styles, from formal upright to windswept and cascade, and how a tr…
The bee that everyone wants to save
A naturalist argues that the honeybees in neighbours' hives are not the ones in danger, and introduces the wild native b…
The best $4 ever spent
A warm personal essay about what actually delights small children, built around a cheap toy that beat every expensive gi…
The bottleneck might be the air in the room
An accessible look at how stuffy rooms and rising CO2 levels quietly blunt group decision making, with the research behi…
The Case for Not Sanitizing Fairy Tales
An essay arguing that unsanitized fairy tales are the best way for children to learn that the world holds evil, violence…
The Chinese Wheelbarrow
A Low-tech Magazine article on how the Chinese wheelbarrow carried huge loads efficiently, and why it deserves a place i…
The Darker Side of Being a Doctor
A surgeon's candid personal essay on burnout, grief and the emotional toll of medicine that training rarely prepares doc…
The Forgotten War on Beepers
A look back at the moral panic over pagers in the 1980s and 90s, when parents, schools and lawmakers tried to ban beeper…
The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2)
A Pali Canon discourse in which a king asks the Buddha what visible benefits come from a monk's life, in a clear English…
The Gradual Extinction of Softness
A memoir essay by Chantha Nguon about learning to cook rice as a child in Cambodia, and how food, family and loss intert…
The Guest House
Rumi's short poem The Guest House, in Coleman Barks's translation, which treats every emotion as a visitor to be welcome…
The Homelessness Experiment
A first-person account of living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle, covering the practicalities, loneliness, wildlife and…
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The hotel bathroom puzzle
Alec Nevala-Lee revisits a famous design puzzle from Henry Petroski about hotel bathrooms and uses it to explore why eve…
The Importance of Being Idle
An essay revisiting Paul Lafargue's classic case for laziness and what it still says about modern work, leisure and the…
The Joy of Folding Bikes
A personal and enthusiastic tour of life with a folding bike, covering commuting, trains, storage tricks and why the lit…
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