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After some five hours of driving up Highway 5, on my way back to Montana, I spot a northern California town that rather than making my hair stand totally on end appears to be only mildly creepy. Taking the exit,…
Smartphones are an extension of over 2 billion users worldwide according to Statista. Now, more than ever, technology is becoming a part of the user to the point where most couldn’t imagine a life without it. In the palm of…
Working From Home 2.0: Travel Telecommuting It’s 2015, the height of the work from home era, and you’re ready to take things to the next level. Sure, working remotely from your bedroom has its perks, but you’re bored of it. What’s the point of slaving…
If you want some tips on how to lost weight and are looking for ways to increase metabolism, you’ve come to the right place. I love to eat and I’ve had a hard time maintaining what some might refer to as a “healthy…
1. Pack Light This is probably the toughest on the list, but it’s important to remember that everything is good in moderation, including your belongings. The last thing you want is to be stuck rummaging through hundreds of different items…
A succulent terrarium is the easiest way to bring living greens indoors. While modern life often inhibits us from maintaining large outdoor garden plots, most people still enjoy container gardening with easy, low maintenance life forms such as cacti or succulents. If you…
If you’re anything like the rest of us, you’re probably looking for a quick and easy fix to improve your memory and boost cognitive flexibility. Brain exercises take a lot of time and effort, meaning that they are probably not…
The man servant business is so brilliantly simple that I’m surprised it took this long to be commercialized. I can see these being a hit for every age group from spoiled teens in need a of a chaperone that will…
Are you having trouble concentrating? It’s 2014, who isn’t? This nifty helmet for improving focus and concentration was invented in 1925 by editor of Science and Invention magazine, member of “The American Physical Society,” and one of the pioneers of science fiction Hugo…
You wake up after a rager, your head is pounding, you dare not think of the damage you did to your liver let alone your poor, tired brain last night. Maybe you’ve taken a few too many downhill tumbles (or…
If there’s one thing in this world that I have sincere difficulty resisting, it’s pretty girls. Girls approaching me is such a rare phenomenon, that I always feel like I should take full advantage of the opportunity. It’s a feeling…
We’ve all heard of the bearded lady and women with beards have been around for much of recorded human history, but have you ever wondered how these lasses got that way? What causes facial hair in women? The answer has to…
Last Friday on the town in Missoula we ran into this fashion faux pas standing against a backdrop of singing Hutterites (i.e. some weird religious sect that occupies this street corner ever Friday night). Unless you’re going for the rural hooker from…
Meet the recycled material-based smart solar panel lined roads that melt snow and cut greenhouse gases by 75 percent. Initially funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration as a research project to design a paving system that will pay for…
Some time ago I watched a Colbert Report which informed me that research shows people who get angry live longer than those who don’t.* Being an angry person myself, I was fueled by Stephen’s appeal to my confirmation bias and decided…
Have you ever wondered why dogs love to roll around in the dirt, why you can’t ever seem to get enough of that sun baked soil smell when you shove your face into Fido’s fur, or why people place their…
Breakups are always challenging, but spring is an ideal time for change because it’s almost impossible to resist feeling happy while surrounded by new life, mountains, friends and sunshine. Thus, having moved through the initial stages of realization, denial, sadness,…
We recreate (yes, as in the verb at the root of the word recreation) quite a bit around these parts of the great American West and one activity I’m particularly fond of is getting my groove on to Jackie Wilson’s Higher…
What do your hips have to do with an exponentially increasing-by-the-day likelihood of falls, dependency, institutionalization and mortality? Well friends, the so-called openness of your hips happens to be one of the most significant predictors of these aforementioned outcomes and…
Happiness is contagious and research shows that smiling triggers the release of endorphins – the body’s happy hormones – which in turn cause pain reduction, elevated mood, decreased levels of the stress hormone cortisol, lower blood pressure, and increased immunity….
If you consult a dictionary, learning via osmosis is not as far fetched as it first sounds. According to Google the definition of osmosis is as follows: Based on definition two, we learn via osmosis all the time and perhaps…
Coca tea, or mate de coca is an herbal infusion made from the raw leaves of the Coca plant (the same plant used in making God’s White Angel Candy for the Nose). I was introduced to this beautiful icon of…
If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough (mine usually inspire fear in both myself and the people around me). The key to dreaming large is first finding what excites you. At this particular point in time, my…
If you want to boost creativity and see with fresh eyes, invert yourself. Yogic inversions like headstand boost critical blood flow to the brain and other vital organs (thanks gravity), thus increasing the levels of oxygen and nutrients available to…
