Looking to identify more plants and mushrooms this year? Here are a few strategies that may improve your skills. Here …
Can Climate Models Predict Climate Change?
Computing power over the last 30 years has advanced at an incredible rate. And yet, one long-term climate prediction after another – …
Basic shooting positions
This video demonstrates the basic shooting positions: standing, kneeling, sitting and prone. It also demonstrates the hasty sling technique to …
5 mistakes newbies make when conceal carrying
Nervous about using a public restroom? Scared you’ll leave your weapon somewhere accidentally? Don’t know what clothes to wear? Chill …
Why Saying ‘Let Me Know if There’s Anything I Can Do to Help’ is Not Actually Helpful
“Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help you.” In our society, it’s practically required to say …
Buying your first firearm? Read this before you shop.
If you’re shopping for your first firearm these days, you have lots of company. One of the more telling signs …
Start a fire with a paperclip and car battery
‘It’s simple to start a fire by connecting a standard paperclip to a car jump starting battery pack and …
Making a flint and steel from a Nicholson file
David West loves his Nicholson cross-hatched file. As he says, you can pick one of these up for about a …
Are Flying Cars Coming to the Skies?
Since the very first science fiction hit the shelves, the world has fantasized about flying objects. For nearly a century, …
The Post Office: Doing All the Wrong Things in All the Wrong Ways
Government is awful at doing…just about everything. In no small part because of the rigid, unyielding dictates of human nature. …
Packing light tip from Lawton
Lawton is one of my favorite people in the world. He’s a potter, chef, bow master and maker, carpenter, crack …
Comedian robbed at gunpoint changes mind on CC
Comedian Tim Young was robbed at gunpoint in Washington, DC, on January 17 and he emerged from the incident determined …
Log Cabin guy shows us how to use a saw.
It’s the middle of a Canadian winter. The bears are hibernating and the deer have moved to their winter deer …
Looking hot! Would you let them do this to you?
After gel, cream and wax, the latest craze in hair styling is here, and it’s a candle! In India, this …
Primitive Culture: How to Cook an Egg in a Potato (Purple Yam, actually!)
A great guide from Cambodia on cooking in a fire pit. Here he bakes eggs in a hard potato-like yam. …
Scientists are breeding super-nutritious crops to help solve global hunger
A week or so ago I covered the amazing bio-agricultural chemist, Norman Borlaug, and how he saved India from staving …
California Has the Highest Poverty Rate in America. Why?
Can you guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the U.S.? Many people would say Mississippi. That’s how …
Fish antibiotics for when the SHTF
A few days ago I made the suggestion that fish/aquarium antibiotics would work in a desperate situation. This doctor talks …
How to grow homemade penicillin
WARNING: ONLY TO BE TRIED IN A NO-HOPE SITUATION We all know that penicillin was discovered by accident. It grows …
Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless (& a Mike Rowe Video)
Students are running out of reasons to pursue higher education. Here are four trends documented in recent articles: Graduates have …
VIDEOS: Tips for Smart Concealed Carry
Want to make your CCW life easier? These guys have some useful tips. He’s big on a gun belt because …
Build Your Own Off-Grid Cabin in the Forest using Recycled Pallet Wood
See how this dad and son construct a cabin from repurposed, salvaged materials – mostly old pallets, old nails, …
One huge reason the Population Bomb didn’t kill us
Remember when we were all going to die? And when if you didn’t eat your dinner your mom said “There’s …
Give a fish? Teach how to fish? Or more?
The problem in poor countries is not that there’s a lack of talent or know-how. The problem is a lack …
Humpback whale saves human from tiger shark. We think.
Go to YouTube and check this out. Did the humpback save the diver from a tiger shark? Whatever happened, this …
5 Reasons House-Building Should Be a Part of High School Curriculum
By now, we’ve grown accustomed to calls for more career and technical education in high school. The reason for these …
Avocado-growing region becomes self-regulating city state!
This is a fascinating look at what happens when you make everything local. This is the SHTF mentality that could get …
You don’t see this every day! Massive jaguar takes on big a$$ reptile
You guys know I love Mike Rowe, right? He speaks so much sense on the skills-gap in this country. Well, …
Will calling 112 tell if that’s REALLY a cop car behind you?
There’s a post making the rounds on Facebook with an urgent message telling people that if you are pulled over …