The Good Stuff

A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Straight men are programmed to love breasts so that they'll play with them during sex, which triggers the woman's maternal bonding circuitry.

Astronauts see the sun rise from space, Saturn goes dark, and a volcano spews ash in this week’s best space pictures.

Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds — but can you imagine documenting almost three decades' worth of all that change, across most of our planet's land mass?

Imagine you have a brother and he’s an alcoholic. He has his moments, but you keep your distance from him. You don’t mind him for the occasional family gathering or holiday. You stil...

The internet is full of inspiration, but since Google doesn't have a ‘Good Taste’ filter, finding it means jumping back and forth between blogs and gallery sites.

Niice is an inspiration search engine, letting you search across multiple hand-picked sources (Behance, Dribbble, Designspiration, Fubiz & Minimalissimo for now, but we're working to add more).

Rooftop solar panels and other distributed-energy tools will radically shake up the power sector, according to an unusually frank report from a utility trade group.

The world's internet has been slowed down by what experts are describing as the biggest attack of its kind in history.

I was doing a bunch of research on Nikola Tesla for some projects going on and came across this wicked image set that sums up Tesla's story and the challenges that took place with Thomas Edison. Th...

"Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice."

"The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling sp

Communicating on behalf of a brand can be tricky business. A decent idea once passed through the brand’s filter and massaged and molded to hit key messaging targets can come out the other side a shell of its possible self.

A comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among scientists that recent warming is human-caused.

Even those who are in the edtech industry can miss out on some seriously helpful free learning sites that are impacting the teaching and learning practices offering a little something for every kind of learner in 21st century.

"Live to the HILT!"

Last year, we celebrated Father's Day with an omnibus of history's finest letters of fatherly advice, including F. Sc

Flowers, music, strip clubs...Richard Feynman's scientific curiosity knew no bounds. Christopher Riley pays tribute to an eccentric genius

1. There are no safe investments, but we invest anyway. Because heartbreak is transient but regret is eternal.” – Donna Schute Provencher, The Risky Business Of Love

ome time back, I wrote a Going Paperless post called "Creating a Digital Version of Your House" in which I described how I use tools like Skitch and Penultimate to capture floor plans and measurements around the house that might be useful to have...

Talks on the importance of listening, and how to do it much better.

Anyone who says “I don’t have a creative bone in my body” is seriously underestimating their skeleton.  More to the point, they are drastically undervaluing their brain.

Leopold's A Sand County Almanac was published in 1949. Decades after his death, his work is at the cutting edge of his field — and his words inspire a new generation of environmentalists.

Any moment in life can turn into a heated argument, but most shouldn't. Conversely, you may not have the energy or confidence to stand up for yourself when it matters.