The 2,000-line poem by Scottish physician John Armstrong was written during a time of pandemic, war and increasing public disinformation. What can readers learn from it today?

We generally assume that the world is becoming a better place every year. But when it comes to individual freedoms, the opposite is true. Most studies show humanity is now less free than several years ago.

20 years ago we had decentralized Internet and a…

“Tragic optimism” is the search for meaning during the inevitable tragedies of human existence, and is better for us than avoiding darkness and trying to “stay positive.”

Learn how to build an automated mushroom cultivation system as well as cultivate mushrooms, with a Raspberry Pi Zero and my open source software Mycodo. I walk through the process from foraging wild mushrooms, developing a laminar flow hood and environmental…