Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina FUEL Publishing 2014, 240 pages, 5.0 x 0.9 x 8.1 inches, Hardcover ...

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There are two extreme ways to structure "moreness." At one extreme, you can construct a system as a long string of sequential operations, such as we do in a meandering factory assembly line. The ...

In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Each wand is red on one side, green on the other. Far in back of the huge auditorium, a camera scans the ...

China is the question mark in the equation of the world. Its answers affect the destiny of everyone else on the planet. Which way will it head? Contemporary China is an island. Although it is not ...

A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded ...

Out of nothing, nature makes something. First there is hard rock planet; then there is life, lots of it. First barren hills; then brooks with fish and cattails and red-winged blackbirds. First an ...

Black Swans are completely unexpected events (unknown unknowns) that change the world forever. We cannot forecast them, but we can prepare for them through the practice of scenario building. By ...

That herby smell mixed into his fur is one of my favorite smells. I travelled to Eastern Europe just after the Berlin wall fell. I was thrown back to my childhood in 70’s Paris. The Trabants, Yugos, ...

I spent the past year designing and producing a very large photobook called Vanishing Asia. It contains almost 1,000 pages and almost 9,000 photographs that I took in my extensive travels in Asia. For ...