When it comes to safety, appearances are much more important than fact. Thieves choose their victims based upon who looks like and easy mark.   I just landed in Lima, Peru last night and at no point did I feel at risk. Yet, many people warned me on my way...

If you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you’ve heard me talking a lot about the “cloud” lately. It is a term that seems to be on much of the tech world’s lips, and for good reason.  The cloud is a mystical place where anything can happen, full of unicorns...

When I claimed that it was possible to travel on minimum wage, I received a number of interesting replies, many of them requesting proof.  Some of the more private responses were from readers who were a bit miffed that I would make such a bold claim!  They seemed to imply...

Creating a language bubble is a great way to make use of otherwise “wasted” time when learning a new language. One blogger has even used it to learn Japanese before ever arriving in Japan. The idea is to surround yourself as much as possible with the target language so the time...

I dislike school.  This may be surprising given that, despite culminating my upper-education with a Bachelor’s degree a year ago, I have not been outside the classroom for more than a summer at any point in my life.   Schools, especially those in the formal educational system, are extraordinarily imperfect...

One of the experiments I am currently carrying out is on the effects of different “brain boosters” or “study drugs” on learning.  My intention was to create something close to a “one man blind clinical trial” on the different drugs, so I had a friend remove the labels from each...