A TOURIST has spent eight years travelling across 37 countries with the equivalent of $2, relying on his bicycle for transport. Keiichi Iwasaki, 36, left his Japanese home in 2001 with just 160 Yen ($2) in his pocket after becoming bored with his air...
How to Get Your Morning Off to a Great Start Have you ever had one of those mornings where you woke up filled with energy and fired with enthusiasm, and got straight into your day? Chances are, you raced through a stack of work before lunch, and kept...
We Don't Need a Food Revolution A lack of technique behind the stove is, in the end, as complicit in harming human health and the environment as the confinement pig or the corn-fed steer. We need radical thinking, but we don't need a revolution. We d...
10 Steps To Achieve Excellence in Anything When I was a kid, people would constantly speak in admiration of those who were excellent in whatever they were doing. These could be students who achieved academic excellence, successful business people, to...
Laptops Being Banned In Restaurants Dining alone is one of the most solitary experiences a person can have. Its a lot of me time. And if youve done a solo dining date then youve likely brought along a book or magazine. Something to pass the time. The...
What Are the Easiest Hobbies to Pick Up? If a hobby is a recreational pursuit, something that is done with ones spare or leisure time, then what activity outside of work isnt a hobby? Is sleeping a hobby? What about eating? Can unemployment be consid...
Fall Asleep: 4 Steps We live in a 24-hour society with little regard for rest or its well-known benefits. A solid nights sleep contributes to greater mental acuity and serves us in almost every aspect of life. A lack of sleep leads to poor work perfo...
Dating, Living, and Being Your Best Self In a comment on my post last week about living your life as if you were on a date, a reader named Jean posted this comment: Thanks for this article! But regarding the be yourself advice Ive always wondered, wh...
Two Sisters Out to Change the World On Motorbike In 1916 Augusta and Adeline Van Buren werent your average society girls. The sisters, decedents of former president Van Buren, were the first women to ride motorcycles coast-to-coast across the U.S., w...
The relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult even for lifelong readers and those who are paid to do it. Sometime late last year -- I don't remember when, exactly -- I noticed I was having troubl...
What Will You Learn Today? A Typical Life? I gotta be honest, I really like my life. Of course I have my moments (being human and all), but for the most part, it rocks. Not a day goes by where I am not thankful for, or totally aware of, what I have a...
Yippee! Its Monday. I am dying to get started with this exciting week. Do you utter these words while making your way out of the bed on Monday mornings? Do you jump out of bed every morning in the state of excitement? If your answer to this is Yes th...
The Seven Rules of Vampire Hunting...from a Real Vampire Hunter Every now and then, a reader comment just blows my mind. Do you remember my vampire hunting kits roundup from a few weeks ago? Someone claiming to be an honest to god, real vampire hunte...
Johnny Depp Joining Angelina Jolie In The Tourist Every tourist has some war stories. The thriller remake The Tourist, from Graham King's GK Films, has run into another set of hiccoughs, with major players moving around like luggage on a conveyor. Ma...
Why smells from childhood mean so much Why does the hint of certain smells instantly transport you back to childhood? It may be because the first smell you associate with an object is given privileged status in the brain Yaara Yeshurun and colleagues...
