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Unless you regularly read this blog, you may never have heard someone use the word manliness in writing or ...

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from a commencement address author David Foster Wallace gave in 2005 to ...

Picture freedom. What image comes to mind? When Sergeant Shifty Powers, one of the original Band of ...

  In today's episode I talk to A.J. Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire Magazine, writer of several ...

Awhile back I was doing a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workout over on a nearby running/biking ...

  From "Life Without Principle" By Henry David Thoreau Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most ...

Editor's Note: The following article appeared in a 1902 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine (which started out ...

Do you sometimes feel like you spend all your time managing crises? That your life is basically spent ...

FOMO. It’s an acronym of recent coinage which stands for the Fear of Missing Out. The inherent ...

  In today's episode I talk to Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist and author of the Defining ...

"Do you hear that? We'll none of us get back to our homes again." Tom McLeod, member of the 1914 Imperial ...

"There Is Always a Time for Heroism" By GR Jordan From The Emerging Revival, 1946 Once Wendell ...

Over the door of a building that sits close to the Stirling Castle in southern Scotland, hangs a curious ...

The Hobbit has been a favorite of children and adults alike since its publication in 1937. It used to take ...

Awhile back I was driving through the place where I grew up – Edmond, Oklahoma – and happened to pass ...

  In today's episode I talk to Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine, co-founder of Boing ...

Editor's note: We've talked before about how and why to become a regular journaler/diary writer. (I like to ...

In the first post in this series we discussed the concept of the “Pyramid of Choice,” and the way in ...

The Call By: Earl H. Emmons Did you ever have a longin' to get out and buck the trail, And to face ...

Click here to see a larger version of the image. Think back to the last time you experienced a high amount ...