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Ive tried Evernote and Scrivener, paper planners and Moleskines, and seemingly every app under the sun to capture my ideas. But I keep coming back to one simple, underrated tool to catch those half-baked ideas and thoughts that dont seem to fit in anywhere el…

Pop Art style comic book panel gossip man whispering secret or news in ear of surprised person with speech bubble, rumour, word of mouth, fake news concept vector illustration Getty Its been a while since the last #StartupLife column. In the previous instal…

One knitted item that never goes out of fashion is the furrowed brow with which Very Serious People ponder Americans retirement plans. Inchoate fear, dressed up with bogus statistics, has helped make it a cliche that Social Security is the third rail of Ameri…

TL;DR: The portable Microsoft Surface Laptop is on sale for £599.95 on Amazon, saving you 25% on list price. With all the exciting Apple news dominating conversation, it can be easy to forget that other brands exist, but they do.  Microsoft exists in a very…

Early on in the conversation, Mertesacker tells a story from his youth, when he was joined by his father as they tried to agree a professional deal. My dad sat next to me negotiating a contract and said, no no, this is too much. He refused to take that money.…

To Csilla Ari D’Agostino, the Aquarius Reef Base—submerged in green-blue water, encrusted with algae and barnacles—looked more like a shipwreck than a place to live. D’Agostino is a comparative neuroscientist at the University of South Florida, and an avid di…

Though the rest of season 4 can only be, and is, a protracted comedown from the premiere's insane heights, the episodes still offer thrills. Three are about thinking like a Jesuit. ("Everyone in this episode is Catholic, except me," Gladwell says. "I'm a wann…

Today Daniel Defoe is best remembered for his books, especially Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year. These were all later-life works. In his earlier days, he was focused on his financial books…which were a disaster. Inflation and …

Image copyrightGetty Images He's a Jewish multi-billionaire philanthropist who has given away $32bn. Why does the hard right from America to Australia and from Hungary to Honduras believe George Soros is at the heart of a global conspiracy, asks the BBC's Mi…

The 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo S debuted yesterday as the German performance car brands first attempt at a production electric car. While the fact that it makes up to 750 horsepower and goes from 0 to 60 mph in a claimed 2.6 seconds is impressive, theres a bun…