Weekend Linkages: Christmas!

December 25, 2021

...Well, this certainly does sound like an…unusual Christmas party Christmas gift ideas from medieval manuscripts A sensible seeming Twitter thread on where we’re at Covid-wise Takeover: when the Young Lords took over a hospital in the Bronx Caffè Shakerato (Italian-Style Shaken Iced Coffee) Recipe Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting Some very cool trains...

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Weekend Linkages: Spring Brain Dump

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April 7, 2024

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...‘Les Animaux Mythologiques’ by Hinzelin Emile, (1857 – 1937) US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in ‘climate time bomb’ Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Did Pope Gregory IX Order A Medieval Purge of Black Cats That Caused the Black Death? Christianity Was Always for the Poor The night people All the buildings on Sunset Boulevard...

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Weekend Linkages: Two Remarkable YouTube Videos

Mr. Homegrown

April 14, 2024

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...Studies into the Past by Laurant Grasso. Japan’s culture of school cleaning Nick Cave: Loss, Learning, Transcendence...

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Weekend Linkages: Fake Judds, Soil Sounds and More

Mr. Homegrown

April 21, 2024

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...Kim Kardashian sued for saying her tables are authentic Donald Judds How scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics Willy O Winsbury...

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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2021

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...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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