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: Taking Back the Wheel

Taking Back the Wheel https://t.co/zjRXht0UUP via @DissentMag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 7, 2018 An increasingly powerful and influential social group is hard-coding its biases into the software running our societies. https://t.co/mbl8kgbTQe — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) September 6, 2018 New Video and Map Reveal L.A. Streetcar Transit History https://t.co/KALI187GtI via @StreetsblogLA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 8, 20...

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Saturday Tweets: Two Weeks of Tweets for the Price of One

...zLhNoP — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) December 7, 2016 LA’s traffic is so bad people have to deliver their babies in cars now https://t.co/xmQtGVd1NC — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) December 6, 2016 Is Community Composting an Emerging Economic Opportunity? https://t.co/6FLmb8RiOr — UCUrbanAg (@UCUrbanAg) December 6, 2016 Grow Vegetables In Winter With A Mini Greenhouse – GardenFork https://t.co/enhfGpgaEz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December...

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Saturday Tweets: Mid-Century Cookies, Harbor Freight Chainsaws and Epistemology!

Coconut Top Hats, 1977 – A Vintage Christmas Cookie Recipe Tests https://t.co/74zdEYiGEm — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2016 Get your Holiday-Decorating Videos Right Here | Garden Rant https://t.co/IyiUpWvUj2 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2016 What’s inside a cheap Harbor Freight chainsaw: https://t.co/NY4pcfp8VR — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 17, 2016 How to Recycle Your Advent Calendar https://t.co/Zec0qf58IH — Root S...

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Saturday Tweets: Low Hanging Fruit

Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks https://t.co/CMU0nQ37Ig via @motherboard — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 15, 2018 Should we consider using plants from warmer, more southern climates to help us deal with climate change (assisted migration)? This one study says perhaps not. Resiliency will require us thinking about the full complexity of adaptive plant systems.https://t.co/bcpmRMcTC9 pic.twitter.com/nkbHs2XmRi — Thoma...

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