Cardinal or Cardinal — Which Came First?
The bright red bird and Catholic cardinals share a name—but which name came first?
Lamb’s Quarter: A Free and Wild Spinach Substitute
Spinach is overrated. Try lamb’s quarter instead! It’s wild, free, and works anywhere spinach does.
New Product Review: Textured Feeling PenMat 2
My iPad gets more use than nearly any other piece of technology I own, for everything from art to writing and editing. Because the device gets so much use, I have to be picky about anything that changes its look or feel. In the iPad’s case, the plain glass screen...
How to Collect Reference Photos for Drawing
Before cameras and smart phones, artists had to either sit in front of their subject or commit the smallest details to memory. Cameras changed that, but it was still costly to develop film and photos Digital photography and camera phones were the next step...
Ræfen, Hrafn, and Raven
At some point, all of our modern languages likely had an origin point, or even more likely, multiple origin points. But linguists struggle with finding it. Most agree that there was some sort of proto-language that originated somewhere in Eurasia. Where? Well, there’s...
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