Ask most people planning their first trip to South Africa what they're excited about and you'll hear about the safari. Fair enough — it's the headline, and it deserves to be. Then they come home and talk about the Winelands. It happens often enough to be a pattern. The bush delivers exactly what people hoped […]
Every skier knows the feeling. You're warm all the way down the run, genuinely warm, maybe slightly too warm. Then you reach the lift, sit down, and within four minutes the cold has found its way through everything you're wearing. By the top you're stiff, your fingers hurt, and the first few turns are spent […]
I was digging through the console of my car the other afternoon—looking for a spare parking coin or perhaps a pen that actually worked—when my hand brushed against a sleek, anodized aluminum cylinder. For a brief second, I genuinely couldn't tell if it was a tiny LED flashlight, a backup stylus, or a vaporizer. That […]
There is a peculiar sort of administrative calm that has settled over the way Canadians shop for botanicals. A decade or two ago, acquiring dried flower meant navigating an unpredictable, entirely informal network where product information was scarce and consistency was a matter of luck. You took what was handed to you, usually with a […]
I was reading a clinical paper on neuroplasticity the other afternoon—or trying to, anyway, before my attention drifted toward the rain streaking the kitchen window—and it struck me how rapidly the vocabulary of neurology has bled into everyday conversation. Ten years ago, if someone brought up psilocybin at a dinner party, the room would either […]
There is a peculiar moment that happens—usually late on a Sunday evening, when the house is finally quiet and the week’s logistics are being sorted out on a laptop screen—when you realize just how thoroughly the counterculture has been absorbed by administrative efficiency. A generation ago, seeking out botanical alternatives or psychedelics meant stepping outside […]
There is a peculiar moment that happens—usually late on a Sunday evening, when the house is finally quiet and the week’s logistics are being sorted out on a laptop screen—when you realize just how thoroughly the counterculture has been absorbed by administrative efficiency. A generation ago, seeking out botanical alternatives or psychedelics meant stepping outside […]
Shooters think carefully about what goes on the rifle and almost never about what goes in front of it. That's an odd gap, because the lens an inch from your eye sits in the same optical path as the glass costing several hundred dollars on top of the receiver. Everything your scope resolves has to […]
I was sitting at my kitchen table the other evening, waiting for the kettle to boil and half-listening to the rain against the windowpane, when I realized I had spent twenty minutes reading the genetic lineage of a plant on my phone. Not a garden shrub, mind you, though I suppose the horticulture isn't all […]
Almost nobody rents storage because they fancy it. People end up at a storage facility because something happened, and usually something they didn't plan for. The useful thing about this is that the situations are fairly predictable, and each one has particular requirements. Knowing which you're in makes the decision considerably easier. One: Clearing a […]