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The KoMo FlicFloc

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Food
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...round too long. And cancel the Neflix–here’s KoMo’s Austrian/German design team demonstrating their products. All this video needs is Werner Herzog to narrate the English language version. Note the solar powered manufacturing facility and German breakfast porn. Also note the mouthwatering array of whole grain baked goods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXmFdoJZWQ...

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A Plea to End Daylight Savings Time

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Animals, Chickens, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...ast is an hour late. It’s bad enough that our clocks are an abstraction of solar time. Why do we need to add another layer of abstraction by changing our clocks rather than adjusting our lives to the passage of the seasons? This is the time equivalent of taking honest labor, abstracting it into money and then turning that into a collateralized debt obligation. As the layers of abstraction accrue, we lose touch with the rhythms of the rising and se...

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A Library for a Post-Electricity Future

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Preparedness
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...ecent episode of WNYC’s On the Media took a look at what would happen if a solar flare or electomagnetic pulse zapped our access to the Interwebs. What will we do when we can’t Instagram our taco platters? One of the segments of the show profiles Rocky Rawlins, who runs a fantastic website, survivorlibrary.com. The library is a trove of pre-electricity how-to books, everything from building your own steam engine to beekeeping, navigation, parlor g...

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Saturday Tweets: Naked Gardening Day Edition

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Saturday Linkages
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...on — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Something from Nothing – DIY Solar heater from scrap bottles http://t.co/Ygle3ndjDD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 CNN: Home-canned potatoes to blame for botulism outbreak http://t.co/cyjUmx4dNr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Britain has a poo-powered bus. But does its design campaign stink? http://t.co/DBNhOmYD1T via @slate — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Where can y...

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“Interstellar”: Leaving the farm for the stars

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Thoughtstylings
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...is our place in the universe. And, practically speaking, the rest of this solar system is inhospitable to life and the stars are so remote we’ll never reach them. We really need to tell different stories than this one. Kelly: Yup. And to be clear, neither of us is anti-science — we just want to look a little more closely at the stories we tell ourselves in this culture. For instance, why can’t we see a story which tells about people rebuilding af...

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