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Behold the Ant Lion

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Animals, Insects, Nature Awareness
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...Tracking Team (if you live near Ventura, CA and want to learn how to track animals for fun, look them up). We were under a tagged-up bridge, in a dry river bed. Someone pointed out a hole or divot in the sand and quizzed us: what made the hole? I had no idea. It was a divot that could have been made by a big man’s thumb. I might think it was made by dripping water, if there was ever any water anywhere in this dry land. The answer was “ant lion” —...

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On the Possibilities and Problems of Groups

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Thoughtstylings
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...st goal is “connectivity.” People can connect to feed the homeless, rescue animals or plant trees. Unfortunately, people can also connect to promote racism and hate, something the internet has made worse. I wish I had an easy set of points on how to form positive, long lasting and effective groups or just how to be a better member of a group. I don’t. But, as in most worthwhile tasks, perhaps the answer is to take things one step at a time. We, in...

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It’s Official: The End is Near

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Preparedness
...cord levels. Because feed represents farms’ biggest single cost in raising animals, farmers are serving them a lot of people food, since it can be cheaper. Connecting the stories and ads in the WSJ is our favorite game to play in the morning over our coffee. We’re not alone in playing this game. Richard Jackson, Director of the CDC National Center for Environmental Health connected the dots with stories in the WSJ during a brilliant lecture we hea...

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Saturday Tweets: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Saturday Linkages
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...Your Own Window Box https://t.co/tHKk0Q0meS — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 17, 2018 At least 70 people have been employed, since we began work with border communities. https://t.co/FXUHO89VWF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 17, 2018 Here are some of the animals found in Ireland, according to Gerald of Wales (d. 1223): the crane and barnacle geese; stag, fox, badger and beaver; leaping salmon of Munster; kingfisher and stork #StPatricksDay htt...

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