This week in my Yahoo! News travel column, I interview Moon Handbooks author Wayne Bernhardson about South America’s Patagonia region — a sprawling frontier of unrivaled wilderness; an emptier, antipodean version of the American West, full of gorgeous dry plateaus, dense, temperate rainforests, and active glaciers.

Bernhardson has a few tips for Patagonia first-timers:

I would say that first timers should sample the three principal environments — the wildlife-rich Atlantic coastline, the windy and … Read more »

By Tim Ferriss

Remember Pig Latin? Perhaps you toyed with it in grade school or uttered the occasional “amscray,” but it won’t get you very far in pickup lines or job interviews. Outside of the Anglosphere, on the other hand, syllable inversion is much more than a childhood memory or annoying habit. In the U.S., syllable inversion is less common than Klingon. South of the border or east in the Orient, it’s everywhere.

Here are … Read more »