The Way app. I got seduced by Henry Shukman’s Zen and unique approach to meditation. You only have a single pathway to follow ...

I’ve owned and played professionally close to a hundred fine instruments in the 35 years I’ve been playing and I’ve ended up ...

Instead of recipes for ambrosia, chow mein, or Green Bean Bunwiches, this card file box holds charming drawings of zebras, ...

Bad Dads lets the art do the talking. This collection stems from an annual gallery exhibition of artworks paying homage to ...

Network of Time is a website that lets you choose two historical figures and connect them through a series of photographed encounters across time. It’s a fun way to waste time, and fascinating how it ...

Each year I do a lengthy updated blog post on the best bargain countries around the world for those who are coming in with earnings or savings in a strong hard currency. Prices usually don’t change ...

Budget airlines crossing an ocean are rare since few of them last, but Norse Atlantic is still hanging in there, flying between five cities in the USA and seven in Europe, plus a couple of routes to ...

To stay informed on the latest research news, I subscribe to ScienceDaily, which is a comprehensive digest of research news across various fields. I follow ScienceDaily through Feedly, but I recently ...

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

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. Here are some of my favorite (mostly small) tools from this past year. This is ...