bad habits

  • How Tiny Mistakes Cause Huge Disasters

    How Tiny Mistakes Cause Huge Disasters

    “If I was setting up curriculum at a university,” says engineer Foone Turing, “I’d make an entire semester-long class on the Challenger disaster, and make it required for any remotely STEM-oriented major.” Because, says Foone, the disaster was a lot less random or simple than people tend to think. In a thread of 102 tweets,…


  • Break Your Boredom Shopping Habits With These Tricks

    Break Your Boredom Shopping Habits With These Tricks

    I have a bad habit. On Saturday nights, after a few glasses of Chablis and a night of doing nothing, I take a trip through my online wishlist looking for something to buy. It’s a costly habit that’s filled my home with with cheap books, expensive Gundam model kits, and a few E-Mount lenses I…


  • Tell Us: What’s Your Biggest Office Pet Peeve?

    Does your colleague’s humming drive you mental? Is your cubicle neighbour’s mess overflowing onto your desk? We want to know all about what makes you Hulk rage at your workplace and, more importantly, what you do in order to stop yourself from going postal in the office.