098 Kelly’s Aortic Dissection Adventure

February 16, 2017

...nt so many kind notes and prayers. Some important links: The Mayo Clinic’s page on aortic dissection. John Ritter died of a aortic dissection. A foundation was set, in his name, that helps educate medical personnel on how to better recognize the symptoms. Kelly did not have a heart attack, but it’s always good to review the subtle symptoms of heart attacks experienced by women. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please c...

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Shelter

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2009

Reviews

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...topics anticipated the non-hierarchical structure of the Internet. On one page you’re looking at Turkish rock houses, and on another geodesic domes built out of scrap materials. The lessons I’ve learned from Khan’s work are the importance of context (site, cultural, weather etc.) and the joy of putting hammer to nail to build something yourself even if you don’t know what the hell you are doing. Sometimes the most ramshackled comedies of architec...

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Saturday Tweets: Architectural Screw-Ups, Road Diets and Pet Dragons

Mr. Homegrown

January 20, 2018

Saturday Linkages

..., 2018 Delightful site curates New York Times Sunday Magazine articles from 100 years ago https://t.co/8pMEDbj7QF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 13, 2018 If you’re an Earth scientist or other academic trying to fly less, please help shift the culture on academic flying. An easy way to start is to tell your story here: https://t.co/dTN60J6Abv — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) January 11, 2018 The average kid can identify 1,000 corporate logos and...

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115 Inventing a New Word: Apisoir

Mr. Homegrown

January 31, 2018

Animals, Bees, Podcasts

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...he reasons he thinks we should support local honey. You heard it first on Root Simple! During the podcast Michael mentions: Rowan Jacobsen’s book American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields “Merroir“ Bee Local Honey Planet Bee You can reach Michael via his Facebook page and his email is [email protected]. Apisoir, apisoir, apisoir! If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-...

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By Hand and Eye

Mr. Homegrown

February 12, 2018

Design

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...lden section, for instance, and the shelf spacing came from an exercise on page 131 of the book. Far from being restrictive, I found the principles in Walker and Tolpin’s book liberating. I now had a starting point for any design project. For modern folks it’s difficult to imagine working without a ruler. Walker and Toplin explain, Instead of asking, “How high is this base dimension in inches?” pre-industrial artisans would have asked, “How tall i...

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