hristopher Knight was only 20 years old when he walked away from society, not to be seen again for more than a quarter of a century. He had been working for less than a year installing home and vehicle alarm systems near Boston, Massachusetts, when abruptly, without giving notice to his boss, he quit his job. Just read: Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years ...
There’s adequate camping gear, and then there’s the Poler Napsack. And yet, many people try to sleep in these things outdoors. Why? Just read: 17 Camping Gear Fails You Never Want to Make Again
How Accurate Is That 10-Day Forecast? “Most TV meteorologists make ten-day forecasts without telling viewers that after the first two or three days, it’s probably a crapshoot,” says Jack Williams, USA Today’s founding weather editor. Just read: How to Read the Weather
For some reason, years ago, someone decided that business and environmentalism should be mortal enemies. Well, maybe that’s not quite how it happened. But some days, it feels like it. Just read: The Economics of Environmentalism
The Story of Firefox OS I remember at a team dinner once Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s Chairwoman and “Chief Lizard Wrangler”, talked about the importance of storytelling. She talked about how telling stories in the open source software community helps us to reflect on shared experiences and learn from them. Just read: The Story of Firefox OS
In his 2008 TED Talk, Philip Zimbardo introduced his subject by showing his audience M.C. Escher’s Circle Limit IV, a set of black and white tessellated angels and demons. The art, Zimbardo explained, reminds us that “good and evil are the yin and yang of the human condition.” Source: The Man Who Played with Absolute Power