How to build a grass hut https://t.co/iF7VQwb9vr
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 4, 2016
Electrocuting People Was Basically America’s Favorite Pastime in the 1920s https://t.co/Nkrwu0ATMu
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 4, 2016
Urine Tanned Salmon Leather https://t.co/dmYEUxQ7eF
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016
Unpleasant Design https://t.co/YjJK3N3oGF
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016
Meet Balmuda, the $230 Toaster From Japan https://t.co/AcaGjMa4ye via @luxury
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016
Driverless Cars Could Wreck Livable Cities https://t.co/IkmoQ8TeQH via @StreetsblogSF
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 8, 2016
Let’s check in with Pablo Escobar’s herd of feral hippos https://t.co/YlnprMTJVa
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 6, 2016
New School Farm #Ventura inspired by WWI + future farmers https://t.co/6XMi05GGXc #30Under30 #globalfood #schoolfood pic.twitter.com/sLLl9oaZkv
— UC Food Observer (@ucfoodobserver) July 2, 2016
The ‘Holy Grail’ for earthquake scientists has been accidentally destroyed https://t.co/gFL3HdlGOF
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 8, 2016
1. I so like to believe that my grandparents’ era was a more dignified, sensible age, but now I find out that electrocuting people was trendy when Grandma and Grandpa were teens. Burst that bubble for me, didn’t you.
2. Knowing that modern design isn’t just über-ugly for its own sake, but that it is ugly with a purpose doesn’t make it any less ugly.