Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

A hummingbird feeder you can wear https://t.co/02alriKIZX — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 31, 2018 High daily exposure to the chemicals that are generated by forms of combustion—such as cooking, smoking, and vehicle exhausts—may cause molecular changes that accelerate biological aging. pic.twitter.com/SLqvn0G9Fh — HarvardPublicHealth (@HarvardChanSPH) August 26, 2018 Eating flowers seems almost heretical. If plants could talk, wouldn't the...

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Saturday Tweets: Crowbox, Urban Walking and the War on Cars

This is the most wonderful story of a gardener told by her daughter who discovered in her own garden what her mother knew all along. https://t.co/4cEfXR7GVB — Erin (@ImpatientGarden) August 25, 2018 Build a Crowbox kit and become friends with your neighborhood crows https://t.co/RhH5ZuGS5Z — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 23, 2018 A 2016 survey found that 72% of Americans rated coconut oil as “healthy,” though only 37% of nutrition experts agre...

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Saturday Tweets: Vive la Revolution!

Our world is burning down in front of our eyes, and too few are acting. It's all hands on deck time. We need to inspire our friends, neighbors, siblings, colleagues to act. We need to talk about what's happening. We need to become role models. We need to be the change. — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) August 6, 2018 HSR is neither “The Future” of California nor a Boondoggle. It’s an essential heavy lift to keep up with the present. Not perf...

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Saturday Tweets: Dogs, Land Use, Kale and Rocket Cats

Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression: https://t.co/No2cjEZ9dO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 4, 2018 Cities in CA inland areas must make street tree changes to adapt to future climate. @ucanr research finds that trees now in #Fresno, #Ukiah, #Stockton and others expected to do poorly in 2099. https://t.co/Bpi42R6uNo pic.twitter.com/RR5lpIVCOl — Jeannette Warnert (@jwarnert) August 3, 2018 #Breaking – About 100 goats are on the loose...

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Saturday Tweets: A Big Excuse to Post Cats with Mustaches

$1 million San Francisco loft has diagonal support beam that cuts through the middle of the kitchen https://t.co/KmVhOQUMU5 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 27, 2018 What would Henry David think? Thoreau vs. My kid’s bedroom. https://t.co/MBnUiUZhu2 — Shannon Hayes (@SapBushShannon) July 27, 2018 One of the most amazing things I’ve read in a while https://t.co/2QH0HXYAN3 — Pat Saperstein (@EatingLA) July 27, 2018 A build-your-own casket kit https...

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