Whistling with your fingers is the body’s built-in alarm system.

Don’t miss the world’s largest annual earth skills gathering this summer

Make a beautiful but deadly arrowhead from the bottom of a glass bottle… it’s easier to learn on than flint!

Simple, lightweight gadget transforms a log into a stove anywhere you need one

Man makes a rope-less raft, inspired by childhood heroes Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Want a fun project to do with the kids? Follow the simple step-by-step instructions below.

Most the pine nuts you buy in the store come from China, are pasteurized and cost a small fortune. Don’t you wish you could pick your own and eat them fresh for free?

$2 an ounce! That’s $32 a pound!

You can! Anywhere there are pine trees there are pine nuts, although there are only about 20 species of pine that produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting. In North America, these are mostly in the Southwest and along the Pacific Ocean.

Here’s that awesome Primitive Technology man again showing us how to make charcoal from scratch (wood). He uses sharp rocks to chop the wood into small pieces, puts them in a pile, covers it with leaves and kindling, covers the mound with mud, and then burns the wood under it until it becomes charcoal:

Primitive “technology” teacher demonstrates three ways to make fire without a lighter or match

From the man who built the famous primitive mud hut, here’s another fantastic video on various methods of making fire from scratch: