A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire ...

The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re trying out something new — Retro Recomendo. Once every 6 weeks, we’ll send out a throwback issue of evergreen recommendations focused on one ...

You can spend a lot of money on an acoustic guitar these days and end up with an instrument that doesn’t improve with age, either tonally or aesthetically. With CNC machines and other robotic aids, ...

Vietnam has its first underground train system now after it opened on December 22 in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). For now it’s only one line, but more branches are under construction and will follow.

The Krampus is one of those enigmatic pieces of history that is often clouded by talk of nonsense and magic, but this book manages to cut through all that and provide a well-researched and historical ...

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Instead of recipes for ambrosia, chow mein, or Green Bean Bunwiches, this card file box holds charming drawings of zebras, sloths, cockroaches, and flamingos (some are more charming than others), all ...

Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. The $15 Mini Toolbox from Harbor Freight How did I not know about the mini ...

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