While at Make: for many years, I had the pleasure of working with and getting to know Shawn Thorsson, author of Make: Props ...

In this video, Dug makes his own knapping tools from common Home Depot materials. Cool Tools’ Kevin Kelly has pointed out ...

As to which model to choose, it depends on the bike. For a racing bike you’ll want a pump with a small-diameter cylinder, e.g ...

Mary Lucia Darst founded ClefRights, a music publishing and technology startup. She holds a DPhil (PhD) in Music from the ...

Boyd Linney, also known as the Cow Boy, is a 10-year old bounty hunter. Armed with a custom pop gun in the shape of a hobby ...

“The perfect breath is this: Breathe in for about 5.5 seconds, then exhale for 5.5 seconds. That’s 5.5 breaths a minute for a total of about 5.5 liters of air. You can practice this perfect breathing ...

Separate checks are a server’s worst nightmare if they will even do it, but usually they won’t for a group in countries where that is not common. I used the Splitwise app for the first time this month ...

It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Danny Hillis began building the first massively parallel computer. Just a few years earlier Hillis had been a wunderkind computer science student. His pranks and ...

(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 ...

This free website app lets you design a map to visualize your life in weeks. It’s pretty self-explanatory and easy to use, you just need to create a free account to save it. I’m still working on mine, ...