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Our new front yard, part 2: theory

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Back to the Garden, front yard series, Garden Design, Gardening
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...picturesque trees– an aesthetic that has shaped what we think parks and suburban yards should look like–no matter where we live. Some people think this bias may even go back to our earliest ancestral memories–to the savannas, where we liked long, clear views so we could spot both dangers and opportunities easily–and handy trees to scramble into if we needed to get away from a predator. Whatever the reason, we like open spaces which are easily read...

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Black Friday Book Suggestions

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...ook as a guide. (Here’s our original review and here’s a link to the whole series of posts inspired by this book.) In the meanwhile, this book became a bit of a media phenomenon in the U.S.. I’d go so far as to say that this has been a KonMarie kind of year, and decluttering has become a buzzword and a lifestyle. Hype aside, we liked this book more than others of the genre, and it helped us. However, decluttering is not a single event, but a way o...

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Fermentology: Mini Seminars About Cultured Food

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Fermentation, Food
...thanks to Carol Bornstein of the Natural History Museum for this tip on a series of short fermentation talks coming soon. The 20 minute talks will cover sourdough, cheese, beer, history, biology and even something called “zombie medicine.” Join us for a series of short talks (20 minutes on average, some shorter, some a little longer) for anyone hungry to engage in food, culture, history and science–but in the context of what you have at home. Thi...

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The Other TickTalk

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Animals, Events, Insects
...ike scientists who pun? The University of Massachusetts Amherst has a free series of webinars on the biology of ticks. You can watch live or look at the archived videos. Each month we will hear from Dr. Stephen Rich and the Laboratory of Medical Zoology (LMZ)! TickTalk in 2020 will also feature exciting guest speakers on tick topics that you told us were important to YOU. The series will include seasonality and life stages of ticks (key to plannin...

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A Crisis of the Real: A Levitating Saints and a French Theory Remix

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Reviews, Thoughtstylings
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...ckwards rather than starting with the Greeks. Western philosophy is a long series of dialogs and disagreements. Individual philosophers are contained, like Russian nested dolls, one inside another all the way back to Plato and Aristotle. The two authors I’ve tackled over the last few months reflect my schizophrenic reading practice: the late literary professor and philosopher Fredric Jameson and history and religious studies professor Carlos Eire....

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