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Short: 13 Month Calendar

by David Hadwin
1 min read

Don't you hate how difficult our calendar is to remember? 31 days in January, some weird number of days in February...and then if you try to track the cycles of the moon which is also tied to most women's periods, it gets complicated. What if, instead, we had 13 months of 28 days (totally 364 days) and then had one day (or two on leap years) that were holidays and not part of any month. What would you call this new month?

Short: Avoid Jet Lag

by David Hadwin
1 min read

From all my time traveling, I've learned one major hack. If you fast the day of travel and eat once you land (at an appropriate meal time) you will not experience jet lag. That, unfortunately, means no airplane orange juice, nuts, biscuits, alcohol, or even sugar in your coffee. It seems like the hardest thing, but apart from preventing jet lag, it'll also keep you from having to use those questionable bathrooms.

Short: Hawaiian Fish Ponds

by David Hadwin
1 min read

Hawaiians had the incredible idea of making ponds next to their other bodies of water. This ponds were made with interlocking volcanic rocks that, in their earlier states, left a small crack in between those rocks. Small fish could swim in from the ocean, or rivers and their fatter selves wouldn't be able to leave.

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