For the last 20 years or so, there has been one regular item on my Christmas list. That item is …
4 tips that will help you to identify plants and fungus
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 – …
Football Will Perish from the Earth
By 2050, the National Football League (NFL) will be like the Barnum and Bailey Circus of today. Bankrupt, closed, irrelevant, …
The Pentagon Hunts for UFOs. Can You Guess How Much It Costs?
Last December, The New York Times broke the story about a secret Pentagon program that searches for UFOs. The Advanced …
Long Live Individualism
I’ve always found it interesting that we celebrate the birthdays of so many scoundrels and charlatans whose actions have brought …
Basic shooting positions
This video demonstrates the basic shooting positions: standing, kneeling, sitting and prone. It also demonstrates the hasty sling technique to …
5 Takeaways From that Memo on the FBI
The much-awaited memo composed by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee was released Friday. TheMemo (Click to read it) The memo, declassified …
Why the Earth’s magnetic poles could be about to swap places – and how it would affect us
By Phil Livermore, University of Leeds and Jon Mound, University of Leeds, United Kingdom The Earth’s magnetic field surrounds our …
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 …
Fix Yourself
Want to make the world a better place? Start by bettering yourself. Best-selling author and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson explains …
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. …
Oops, python kills owner in love squeeze
Dan Brando, a 31-year-old snake owner died of asphyxiation last year at his home in Church Crookham, Hampshire, reports the Daily …
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. …
Off-grid cabin from scratch. And an ancient Japanese wood treatment.
Here’s another self-reliance proponent building a cabin off-grid. He’s very talented and brings his roofing experience to bear on his …
Can a $88 fix make your car driverless?
Famous or being the first hacker to jailbreak the iPhone at 17, tech-genius George Hotz is taking on Waymo, Tesla, …
The Streisand Effect and Cody Wilson’s 3-D Printed Gun
Conservation gadflies, Gabrielle Adelman and her husband Ken, took to their Robinson R-44 helicopter, she pilot, he photographer, and snapped …
Latest propaganda (dumba$$) video from ISIS – Destroying Washington
ISIS has released a new propaganda video depicting a full-scale invasion of Washington DC (and, oddly, London.) It’s been cobbled …
Bill Clinton’s shocking dereliction of duty recalled
On January 17th, Buzz Patterson wrote this Facebook post. It is a truly shocking recollection that more people should hear …
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 …