In the early 1800s, half a million wolves roamed North America, but by 1862 settlers began pouring in from Europe and the ...

When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work everyday. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out ...

Two rotating wheels slice paper the way an open scissors does occasionally. Absolutely marvelous for cutting wrapping paper ...

Mann’s Pictorial Dictionary and Cyclopedia Vol. 1 National Library Publications 1960, 240 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches What are the ...

The Worrier’s Guide to Life by Gemma Correll Andrews McMeel Publishing 2015, 112 pages, 6.5 x 8 x 0.4 inches (softcover) ...

KK My wife replaced her PopSocket phone grip to the new Snap Grip 5 ($40). It’s just 3mm thick, with a profile that prevents it snagging on pockets like bulkier grips. It has a powerful magnet that ...

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well known the strictest of them don’t use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm ...

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential ...

I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale ...