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Nellie Bly: Insane Journalism

Nellie Bly was a writer, a reporter, and sometimes an inventor. But at her core, Nellie Bly was a seeker. She was a seeker of truth, of adventure and, most certainly, of a great story. In the anna...

Your Die Living Christmas List

Last year, on Facebook, I posted a list of five things I bought in 2018 that I thought people ought to get others for Christmas. Literally tens of people feted me for my genius, or at least that’s...

King of Close-Quarters Combat

If you’ve ever trained in hand-to-hand or close-quarters combat, you probably have Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. to thank. A Marine officer in the early twentieth century, Biddle was an expert ...

The Wonders of Foreign Travel

I think that a big part of the world’s troubles stems from the fact that we just don’t understand that people of different cultures have very different lenses through which they look.

Wasatch Wonderland on a Whim

Sometimes opportunities arise that seem too good to be true. And while I am usually pretty cautious, skeptical, and even dismissive of such things, I recently found myself in the predicament of hav...