Saturday Tweets: She Sheds, Wild Chickens and Fatbergs

...r http://t.co/8xTbo8XGT1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 23, 2015 10-tonne fatberg removed from west London sewer http://t.co/cVMJsEgZgH — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 23, 2015 Prisoners + shelter dogs + autistic kids= an amazing program, worthy of your support. Give today if you can: http://t.co/yuhohomsgG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 21, 2015...

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Age of Apocalypse

...rtgage payments, opening the way to a simpler life of farming, maintaining shelter, and maybe defending one’s family . . . This is why the return to simplicity offered by the most extreme scenarios is providing so alluring to so many of us. The apocalypse meme also recalls Freud’s observation the the fear of death paradoxically results in a condition of pathological inaction that mimics death. It’s an impulse, in my opinion, that is best resisted....

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Saturday Tweets: A Weekend of Miscellany

...le (@rootsimple) March 12, 2016 https://t.co/SKIBofeNZS: Micro Modern Tiny Shelter For The Homeless? https://t.co/3hvDxsUXsW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 12, 2016 Public universities must do more: the public needs our help and expertise https://t.co/sE10rSCFQ5 via @2020science — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 12, 2016 Nicely designed building in Berkeley yesterday. https://t.co/sraV0O1TqE — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 11, 2016 More Drivi...

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Hexayurt

...4 x 8 building materials, sent a link to this unique yurt-shaped emergency shelter which can be built out of 4 x 8 sheets of nearly anything (the globe shaped thing on the right is an inflatable satellite dish). Designed by software engineer Vinay Gupta, who is working on this project full time, the “Hexayurt” costs somewhere between $200 and $500 to build, and requires only six cuts for each unit. The Hexayurt stacks flat for easy deployment in e...

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Saturday Linkages: Don’t seek the truth – just drop your opinions

...tal-siding-in-texas.html#.UIBNRCkp2Ys.twitter … Life is swell in a fallout shelter!: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/17/life-is-swell-in-a-fall.html … Small, Flat-bottomed Sailboat http://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/10/small-flat-bottomed-sailboat.html#.UH78qIIo7TY.twitter … Car Tent for stealth city camping: Geekologie http://www.geekologie.com/2007/06/car-tent.php … Thoughtstylings Heirloom Apples, Heritage Orchards & Cideries Bring Back F...

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