Ben's Journal

Last week we hiked Mason Neck State Park with friends. It had been years since we'd been to Mason Neck and I forgot what a little ge...

Getting your news from a single source is a great way to lock yourself into an echo chamber. Clearly, the smart news diet is the divers...

Weeks ago, I was running at nearby Theodore Roosevelt Island and came across these cool abstract sketches: And here...

Once I had my Sun Compass Widget calculating the correct azimuth for the Sun, I was left with one more challenge: rendering this informa...

I wanted to squeeze in one more hike before we called it a trip. In the name of efficiency, we opted to string together trails located w...

Today we took a break from accumulating trail miles and played tourist in our home state of Virginia. The first stop: we headed an hour a...