Where a dead lift — which we tested earlier in the month — is picking up a barbell off the floor, a back squat is holding the barbell on your shoulders, squatting down, and then standing up. I ...

Marcela Garcés is a professor at Siena College in New York, and as a side hustle she and her husband Yuri Morejón run La Centralita, a culinary studio that aims, among other things, “to teach guests ...

One of the casualties of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, was a plum tree that Catherine and her father planted many years ago. The tree had been a prolific producer of plums for years— I made a tasty ...

We’re in a six week cycle of strength conditioning at Kinetic, and today’s workout was a build to a single “RPE 10” deadlift (“lift as much as you can while maintaining technique”). I lifted 245 ...

Manuel Moreale writes about his frustrations with using Ko-Fi as a "micropayments" system to support his work: It honestly sucks that in 2024 there’s not a good way to support creators with small ...

“If I could wave a magic wand, and change one thing about your life, what would it be?” These are the types of questions uncles ask, I suppose. At least curious uncles like me. The younger nephew’s ...

Until earlier this week, I wasn’t really conscious of how often I use the ability of my iPhone to respond automatically to me saying “Hey Siri.” But then, for some unknown reason, it lost this ability ...

Twelve years ago in this space I wrote about Vance Bridges, in a post about being a member of the Central Farmer's Co-op: I had an up and down relationship with the coop after that: I went to every ...