Etiquitte Classes

I guess parents can buy their way out of doing anything these days:

These etiquette experts say that new approaches are needed because parents no longer have the stomach, time or know-how to play bad cop and teach manners. Dinnertime has become a free-for-all in many households, with packed family schedules, the television on in the background and a modern-day belief of many parents that they should simply let children be children. 

NYT: Eat, Drink, Be Nice

Adam Savage on Problem Solving

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Gmail Skills

Ten Tricks To Make Yourself a Gmail Master

64 inch box jump!

This video of a guy jumping onto a 64" high tower from a standing start is post-worthy but to me, the fact that you can explain it with simple physics is amazing.

Tracking school

Damon Hart-Davis

A Bloodhound has 4 billion olfactory receptor cells which help make it very good at picking up and tracking a scent. We humans have about 5 million, which is why we are no good at picking up and tracking a scent.

ITS Tactical has an overview of tracking skills for those of you who don't have a bloodhound handy.

Editor's note: If there are some things that are impossible to learn to do by reading about them, wilderness tracking has got to be one of them. You need to get outside and do it if you want to learn.