Happier is a skeptic’s journey into meditation, showing how taming the voice in your head can reduce stress without losing your edge. Core Principles 1. You ...

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Mark Epstein is a psychiatrist who also meditates, and in Thoughts Without a Thinker he uses both practices to make the point that the solid, permanent self we work so hard to build and protect is the ...

Cities Popular With Solo Travelers. Going by the solo travelers who book free walking tours, the most popular cities in the world for people going it alone include Toronto, Kuala ...

Versatile Book Light for Bed or Travel. After years of me bugging my wife to get a book light for places where the bedside lamp is too bright, she finally found one she liked enou ...

A popular way to explain how current LLMs work is to say that “all” they do is predict the next most likely word in a sentence. From one perspective, this is correct. Trained on all human language, ...

Sergio Toppi (1932-2012) was an artist and illustrator from Italy, whose books have been published for decades in Europe but only recently translated and available in the U.S. through Archaia, a ...

Dear Derek’s new website: I love Derek Sivers’ ability to make complex ideas feel simple. His new website is a reminder that ...

Since all the antipodes have been discovered and exploited, there is very little natural mystery left in the word. As Jeff VanderMeer points out in the introduction to the delightful new book The ...