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6 votes
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How ‘safety first’ ethos is destabilizing US society
6 votes -
What are some lifehacks you would recommend?
Given the ambiguity of the term "lifehack", feel free to contribute anything that you feel fits the label. It can be a specific technique, a novel way of using an item, or even a mindset. It can...
Given the ambiguity of the term "lifehack", feel free to contribute anything that you feel fits the label. It can be a specific technique, a novel way of using an item, or even a mindset. It can be a little-known product or a recommendation--whatever you deem fit, as long as it improves quality of life, productivity, or satisfaction.
26 votes -
Broken sleep: People once woke up halfway through the night to think, write or make love. What have we lost by sleeping straight through?
22 votes -
Making friends with a stranger changed my life
8 votes -
Debunking debunked
7 votes -
Millennials - Interactive infographic by Goldman Sachs
11 votes -
Anxiety looks different in men and often appears as anger, muscle aches or alcohol use
7 votes -
Lady Gaga to fund 162 classrooms in Dayton, El Paso and Gilroy
15 votes -
Kirkenes, the Arctic town at the centre of a Norway-Russia spy war
4 votes -
Arming the cartels: The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring
6 votes -
Dog funerals may sound self-indulgent, but there should be no shame in pet grief
11 votes -
What happened to Christiania's dream of becoming Denmark's hippie paradise?
9 votes -
There is no such thing as acting alone: Behind the 'lone-actor strategy.'
10 votes -
When I went on Newstart I knew it would be hard but I wasn’t prepared for the mental load
16 votes -
Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve
8 votes -
What do we do about the violence of lonely young men?
32 votes -
Ferguson, five years later: The killing of Michael Brown sparked protests against police brutality, but the city faces new, insidious problems
6 votes -
Living off grid? Can you share your living situation?
I've written about my living situation previously but am curious as to whether there are any other tilderinos living off grid. What sort of accommodation do you live in? What do you do for a...
I've written about my living situation previously but am curious as to whether there are any other tilderinos living off grid. What sort of accommodation do you live in? What do you do for a living (if anything)? Are you self sufficient to done extent? How do you use technology to improve your lifestyle?
17 votes -
Many properties in rural Sweden are simply abandoned as more people move to the towns and cities
7 votes -
The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
7 votes -
Is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens?: Somewhere in America, an investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country
16 votes -
‘Vehicle ranching’ in Seattle: Inside the underground market of renting RVs to homeless people
6 votes -
The feminist movement in Saudi Arabia
6 votes -
Why Finland leads the world in flexible work – Nordic nation has embraced agile hours for decades
6 votes -
Over-tourism and photo-seekers have been damaging the world's most beautiful places, and even causing some to close to visitors entirely
11 votes -
What explains US mass shootings? International comparisons suggest an answer
22 votes -
The tyranny of lawns and landlords: Renting culture puts dreams of cultivating wildness out of reach
16 votes -
'If we don’t kill these people they will kill you': Policing Africa's largest slum
6 votes -
The El Paso shooting and the gamification of terror
49 votes -
50% rise in suspected human trafficking victims in Finland – most are related to forced labour and forced marriages
6 votes -
Women at war: Why do we still struggle with the idea of female soldiers?
8 votes -
Eskilstuna in Sweden launches controversial £21 begging permit
11 votes -
Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
9 votes -
It's been a year since Denmark's contentious so-called Burka Ban came into force – since then 22 women have been fined
9 votes -
Where disability rights and animal rights meet: A conversation with Sunaura Taylor
5 votes -
Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
7 votes -
Is it time for asleep divorce?
11 votes -
Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships
5 votes -
The tyranny of the "ideal woman": How we became suckers for the hard labor of self-optimization
9 votes -
A ticket out of town: when cities buy homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town, should they count that as a success?
6 votes -
Eight signs that you're a good parent - even if you think you're not
5 votes -
One day, one city, no relief - twenty-four hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis
7 votes -
Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 6: Public Housing Part 2
11 votes -
How to answer tricky personal questions at a new job
5 votes -
Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews and youth centers
8 votes -
The "Prairie Generation": There’s a new generation of rural entrepreneur returning to the Great Plains
12 votes -
What advice or wisdom would you give to someone 10 years younger than you?
It can be specific or broad, and it can be aimed at a particular type of person based on your experiences (e.g. people in my city, people with fibromyalgia, etc.) or just people at large. Also,...
It can be specific or broad, and it can be aimed at a particular type of person based on your experiences (e.g. people in my city, people with fibromyalgia, etc.) or just people at large.
Also, given that age is a very identifying piece of information, feel free to give a range if you're not comfortable sharing your exact age (e.g. "I'm in my 40s" rather than "I'm 42").
- What advice or wisdom would you give to someone 10 years younger than you?
- What would you have wanted to know 10 years ago that someone older could have shared with you?
- If you'd heard the kind of advice you're giving, would you have listened to it 10 years ago?
29 votes -
Murder in the Moroccan mountains: The fragility of the adventure travel economy and what happens when a small tourist hub is shocked by violence
7 votes -
Slender Man for Boomers: The offshoots of the QAnon conspiracy theory have gone to even darker places.
12 votes