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Mladen Puljić

Mladen Puljić

The most important tool of all time

In 2005, Forbes chose the knife as the most useful tool of all time, in terms of impact on human civilization. Considering the intertwined…

5 min readSep 21, 2023

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On Killing

Book recommendation: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman

6 min readSep 20, 2023

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Intuition in wilderness survival situations

Intuitive thinking represents the immediate understanding, the immediate appearance of a solution to a problem based on “common sense”…

5 min readSep 14, 2023

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Energy consumption during making a primitive shelter and lighting a fire in a survival situation

I conducted this experiment in 2015 for the “Summer School of Kinesiologists” in Croatia.

9 min readSep 11, 2023

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Cold feet

On winter days, during a stay outdoors, cold feet are often the reason to return to the heated space and stop winter adventures. The…

5 min readSep 6, 2023

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Living a comfortable life on Earth comes at a high cost

We humans, the so-called Homo sapiens, have been on Earth for about 200,000 years, this is currently a widely accepted estimate, although…

3 min readSep 3, 2023

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A true story about the world’s loneliest man

Book review: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

8 min readSep 2, 2023

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A true story about the world’s loneliest man

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A few life lessons learned in knifemaking

About 13 years ago I forged my first knife. I made it from a piece of a car leaf spring, and I still use it, although it is of very poor…

8 min readSep 1, 2023

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My favorite 30+ outdoor, bushcraft, and survival books

In the last 10–12 years, my interest in the topics of survival, bushcraft, and outdoor activities brought me into contact with numerous…

15 min readAug 29, 2023

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Protein poisoning

Certain studies in the field of paleopathology indicate that hunter-gatherer communities went through nutritional stress in the period of…

5 min readAug 27, 2023

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Mladen Puljić

Mladen Puljić

I am a PE teacher, passionate about bushcraft knowledge and skills, primitive knife making, science in general, reading, writing, cycling, and basketball.

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