LIFE

 51 Ways to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft

How much data does someone needs to know to fully impersonate you? An individual may be able to gain full access to your bank accounts or even establish new credit or loans under your name. Few basic information they’ll need to know, name, address, date of birth and social security number. Only one or two is not enough but, knowing all these is dangerous. FULL ARTICLE:

ENVIRONMENT

House Built from Shipping Containers

Shipping containers are wonderful things, and so many architects and designers are excited about using them as building blocks. And why not? There are thousands of them lying around, they are really strong, and are pretty cheap. In Denmark, worldFLEXhome is using them to build “sustainable and flexible danish housing”. They have built a pilot home and shipped all the way to the Chinese city of Wuxi. It is designed to ” a vision of buildings that create healthier and more comfortable lives for their occupants without negative impact on the climate”.  FULL ARTICLE:

TECHNOLOGY

Make a Human-powered, Mac-Gyver Style Emergency Phone Charger

Instructable user The King of Random has come up with another cool project that lets you use household objects to produce electricity. He has previously let us share his penny battery project and now we’re excited to share his human-powered emergency phone charger tutorial. This project gets you in touch with your inner MacGyver to create electricity when the power is out. FULL ARTICLE:

FOOD

Turning into a Vegetarian, One Recipe at a Time

Writer Jaymi Heimbuch plants the seeds for her 2013 resolutions:

Last year I got lazy, and bored when it came to food. Uninspired and busy, my partner and I became a little too used to cooking a couple of staples during the week and eating out the rest of the time. A resolution of mine for this year was to try and get creative in the kitchen, or at least a little more enthusiastic than making homemade pizza or sandwiches for dinner. So far, I haven’t acted on the resolution. But recently when we started buying frozen food for the first time since college, I knew that was the sure sign that I’d better get cracking. FULL ARTICLE: