Primitive Technology Primitive Technology: making iron from creek sand Gareth Branwyn

knives Creating a knife using iron bacteria Gareth Branwyn

primitive technologies Making arrowheads, knives, and stone tools out of slate Gareth Branwyn

fire How to start a fire with your bare hands David Pescovitz

Ancient Apocalpyse Archaeologist David Wengrow pushes back against Ancient Apocalypse—and urges us to consider the power of everyday people Jennifer Sandlin

happy mutants The OZORA music festival is a psychedelic tribal gathering I keep coming back to Ferdinando Buscema

dystopia The US health-care system looks awfully like post-apocalyptic chaos Clive Thompson

books Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora": space is bigger than you think Cory Doctorow

offworld There's never been a better time to take an adventure 'round the world Katherine Cross

Aryans in Arcadia Robert Balkovich

Silkpunk – playing engineer in an imaginary world Ken Liu

50 years ago, the World's Fair promised a life of leisure. We're still waiting Bob Sullivan

Copyfight Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing Cory Doctorow