Survival & Self-Defense

Water, fire, shelter, navigation and the lawful defense of yourself and your family. Skills you carry, taught safety-first, for men and women.

The BRO Survival & Preparedness GuideThe printable family manual: a kit and go-bag builder, water and food calculators, the core skills and a family emergency plan.Get ready, calmly

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Frozen Chosin and the War America Agreed to Forget

Five months after a beaten battalion tried to stop tanks with bad rockets, 30,000 men walked out of a Korean valley at 30 below. Most of them made it.

GuideBooksNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Books for Teenage Girls With Heroines Worth Copying

Ten novels and one memoir with girls at the center who are brave, stubborn, and good — plus what's in each one you should know about first.

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GuideScience & SpaceWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

How Weather Forecasts Are Made and When to Stop Trusting Them

Balloons, supercomputers, and chaos theory go into the number on your phone. Knowing where the skill runs out is the useful part.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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The Men Who Built Your Ordinary Tuesday

Edison sold a system, not a bulb. Ford sold a price, not a car. Both changed how Americans live, and both left a record worth reading whole.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Biographies Good Enough to Keep You Up Past Midnight

Eight lives worth reading, ranked by how fast they hook you, plus the honest warning about which ones need a thousand pages to get going.

GuideScience & SpaceDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Why Your Blue Dot Jumps Downtown

Atomic clocks 12,550 miles up, a database of Wi-Fi router names, and a guess about your walking speed. That's your location.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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GuideHistorySam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

How to Find Your Ancestors Without Paying for It

A burned warehouse in St. Louis, the 1950 census, and the county courthouse that still has your great-grandfather's signature on file.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

How to Finish a Book Again

You don't need more discipline. You need a shorter book, a worse chair for your phone, and permission to quit the ones that bore you.

GuideScience & SpaceDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Why Airplanes Fly and Why Turbulence Won't Break One

The wing throws air downward, the air pushes back, and the bumps that terrify you're nowhere near what the structure was built to shrug off.

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Pressure-test my business idea

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StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Easy Company From Currahee to the Eagle's Nest

They ran a Georgia mountain until they hated it, then jumped into Normandy in the dark. What happened to Easy Company, and what the legend leaves out.

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GuideBooksWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

The Westerns Worth Reading When It Gets Dark at Five

Nine frontier novels that actually hold up, what's in them, and which ones you can hand to a twelve-year-old.

Poll

Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideScience & SpaceDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Most of the Seafloor Has Never Been Properly Mapped

Pressure at the bottom of the Challenger Deep runs about eight tons per square inch, and that's the easy part to explain.

StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Ten-Dollar Runaway and Other Presidents Who Had Nothing

A pawned watch, a canal-boat mule driver, and a tailor's apprentice with a bounty on his head. The log cabin story is a campaign prop, except when it isn't.