Setting up residence in a one-room Siberian hut is a victory in the battle against being buried alive by objects. Life in the woods melts t...

the life of affluence and pleasure requires exact discipline and high imagination. alan watts, does it matter?

To sit in the sun and read Columella on how to plant a thorn hedge is a pleasure I had to teach myself. No, I was teaching myself somethin...

Everything, Jos was saying to Pascal, Sebastian, and Franklin, can be done well. The art of eating an orange, watch. We want all the juice...

Languor Billy Collins I have come back to the couch— hands behind my head, legs crossed at the ankles— To resume my lifelong study ...

I believe that the best pots are made by potters who have learned to understand rather than to control their materials and techniques. ja...

In short, men will find out that the men of our days were wrong in first multiplying their needs, and then trying, each man of them, to eva...

There is one timeless way of building ... But though this method is precise, it cannot be used mechanically. Indeed it turns out, in the en...

self-imposed limits on technology make it more likely that human ingenuity will develop an elegant response to its environment. the idea is ...

worthwhile, and the opening pages about pattern should be required reading for organizational behaviorists. ... no pattern is an isolat...

interviewer: What would you like to tell people? andrei tarkovsky : I don’t know … I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to...

saturday, before dinner at 900 degrees in manchester, NH—a pizza parlor with no similarities to this new york museum of pizza diversity oth...

richard feynman, he say: "i think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." righ...

it continues to be my privilege to be acquainted with the entire staff of kat ran press . this week, i paid a too-short visit to its taste...

this is important. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are do...

if on a winter's night a traveler, this morning he would be a little bump in the white and smooth expanse. the mayor of new york city ...

the 37signals blog sometimes throws up real gems. this is a long promotional video for the polaroid SX-70 SLR folding camera , beautifully ...

at once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormousl...

a 17-hour, 9.1 mile loop, with detours due to poor navigation. in order: everyman on west broadway, chambers street, some nyc city agencies,...

edge.org interviews daniel lieberman . of particular note: ... there's a reversal of class today. Now, it's only the very wealthy...