Marvin Gaye’s Best Creativity Tips

At a glance, Gayes life as a troubled recluse isnt exactly something to aspire to. His approach to that record defined much of his future and music as a whole. Failure Can Spur Innovation Whats Going Onshouldnt have been released in the first place. We called his love of overdubbing Marvin on top of Marvin on top of Marvin. We also had a name for Marvin at Motown, but I cant remember it....

April 4, 2017 · 2 min · 336 words · Bobby Davis

Negotiating Is Trickier for Women. You Should Do It Anyway.

It was my first meeting with a new potential client, and they tossed out a number. It was a good number, but I recently vowed to negotiate more. So I threw out a higher number, then held my breath through the awkward silence. The Equal Pay issue is complex and the reasons the wage gap exists are complicated. Some statsshow thats trueandothers stats show its false. Suddenly, the myth doesnt seem so busted....

April 4, 2017 · 3 min · 520 words · Christine Ramirez

How to Drive, With Jalopnik's Kristen Lee

Everyone seems to think theyre a great driver but your scuffed bumper might disagree. How can we learn to improve our driving in the age of infinite distractions? Do you even need to own a car these days? Were talking withJalopnikwriterKristen Leeabout cars in the city, safer driving, and virtues of manual transmissions. This Weeks Discussion Driving in the 21st century aint what it used to be. Kristen admits that even though shes a car nut, a lot of us dont really need one....

April 3, 2017 · 2 min · 321 words · Tammie Adams

The Festival of Exploding Sledgehammers

But these protections arent enough against the shockwave of the explosion. Participants are often knocked off their feet and the sledgehammer spins out of control. Sometimes rocks fly up into the men’s faces or an eardrum bursts. The following pictures are from his book titled Bomba.

April 1, 2017 · 1 min · 46 words · Kelly Spencer

The Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mining Museum

The fluorescent exhibits are displayed along the walls of the so-called Rainbow tunnel that was excavated in 1990. The walls of the tunnel are lined with rare minerals that glow bright green and red under ultraviolet light. Sterling Hill is the treasure chest of minerals. More than two dozen of these have been found nowhere else on Earth. The mine is equally famous for its fluorescent minerals. Almost 90 different mineral species have been documented as fluorescent....

April 1, 2017 · 1 min · 139 words · Stacey Cooper

Doomsday Prep For Non-Paranoid People

Whatsyournightmare, since November 8th? Its a fun two hours! Then I read the news. I started ordering canned food. And so, while I dont think Im newly paranoid, Iamnewly…prepared. Or what well need for a fast skedaddle out of town. Below, everything I have in either my emergency supply kit or our go bags, or both. Google tells me that you want hard-sided, refillable containers. You want a gallon per day per person: FEMA says for three days; NYC says a week....

March 31, 2017 · 3 min · 545 words · Willie Howell

11 Things That Can Get You Kicked Off a Plane and How to Handle It

Anything, or anyone, that stands in the way of them doing their job gets removed. Like this stuff, for example. Unsurprisingly, theres a lot of stuff you could do on a plane that can earn you the boot. This could be something as simple as not buckling your seat belt when they ask. Basically, what they say goes. If you remember only one thing from this list, make it this....

March 30, 2017 · 2 min · 366 words · Lance Evans

How to Anonymize Your Browsing with a Tor-Powered Raspberry Pi Hotspot

Enter the Raspberry Pi. In fact, its so absurdly slow that its pretty difficult to use for basic internet browsing. The Raspberry Pi can help here. When you want to use Tor, you just connect to the Raspberry Pis Wi-Fi internet. Well be doing all this from the Raspberry Pis command line: throw in insudo apt-get updateand press Enter. key in insudo apt-get install iptables-persistent git SelectYesand press Enter the two times youre prompted to....

March 30, 2017 · 2 min · 350 words · Amanda Williams

Why Is Everyone Talking About VPNs?

But what the heck are they? Before we start, its worth catching up on politics at play here. Yesterday, the House followed suit, and theres no reason to expect the President to do any different. Regardless of all that, chances are you dont have the luxury of choice for your home ISP. Every city Ive ever lived in has one or two ISP options at the most. Its a middleman between you and the internet....

March 29, 2017 · 2 min · 395 words · Linda Lamb

The Basement Shops of Sofia

Street vendors are a common sight in cities across the world. Known as klek shops, these basement shops are unique to the city of Sofia. This is why they are known as klek shopsklek means knee. Klek shop owners were some of Bulgarias first entrepreneurs after the fall of communism more than twenty years ago. Basements were turned into small shops, catering the passing citizens for drinks, snacks, alcohol and cigarettes....

March 28, 2017 · 1 min · 133 words · Justin Reid

Why 'In-Store Availability' Is Very Seldom Accurate

A couple weeks ago I drove myself mad looking for a Nintendo Switch. I checked store after store12 in totalusing the available in-store listings you find on retailers websites as my guide. So I began to wonder if you could ever really trust a stores website for item availability. The answer, it turns out, is a resounding nope. Im not an idiot. If I really wanted a Switch, I should have preordered like everybody else....

March 28, 2017 · 3 min · 449 words · William Smith

Vilarinho da Furna: A Drowned Roman Village

Vilarinho da Furnas death was sudden, but the writing was on the walls for nearly two decades. But Vilarinho da Furna wasnt just any village. It was a 2,000-year-old village built during the Roman times. The most notable of these are three Roman bridges. At the time the village was flooded, Vilarinho da Furna had 300 residents. They kept hens, cows, pigs, sheep and goats. There were pasture lands atop the hills and arable land was quite sparse....

March 27, 2017 · 1 min · 137 words · Jeffrey Chavez

Bear Is the Perfect Balance Between the Bloat of Evernote and the Simplicity of Plain Text

Provided youre in the Apple ecosystem, anyway. Bear sits between plain text and Evernote, between minimalism and bloat. In Bears case,it utilizes Markdownso you could format text easily while still maintaining plain text portability. Bear has recently become my notes app of choice to accompany my favoritelong-form writing software, Ulysses. Bear also has an interesting pricing scheme thats worth talking about up front. Its free if you dont need to sync between devices or use custom themes....

March 24, 2017 · 2 min · 377 words · Linda Jones