This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading

“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]

10/2 Destination: Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany

Growing Kale from Seeds vs. Transplanting Kale Seedlings

Growing Kale from Seeds vs. Transplanting In previous posts, we touched on the fact that we were interested in growing kale from seeds. We initially set out to grow kale because of it’s health benefits and the fact that it is a durable, resistant plant that grows easily. In the beginning, we had tremendous success in transplanting […]

NYT: Garry Davis, Man of No Nation Who Saw One World of No War, Dies at 91

On May 25, 1948, a former United States Army flier entered the American Embassy in Paris, renounced his American citizenship and, as astonished officials looked on, declared himself a citizen of the world. In the decades that followed, until the end of his long life last week, he remained by choice a stateless man — […]