Weekend Linkages: My Brain on Math

January 14, 2024

...A Hidden, Handmade House That’s an Immersive Work of Art Renaissance Watercolours: materials and techniques DIY tunnel explainers: the Chabad tunnel and that tunnel influencer Three Delightful Alcohol-Free Cocktails Why Are American Drivers So Deadly? Governor Newsom’s “Climate Commitment” Does Not Include Walking and Biking...

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Weekend Linkages: Reaching for the Theory

Mr. Homegrown

August 27, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Coit Tower mural by Bernard B. Zakheim, 1934. New York’s traffic-halting astronomer How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels Wildlife webcams San Francisco’s Audium Plastic waste scrimshaw Luke the dog...

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Weekend Linkages: Curb Cuts, Trade Cards and the Tinder of Photo Sorting

Mr. Homegrown

November 5, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...Do-It-Yourself Curb-Cut Guide 18th Century Trade Cards From compressed yeast to cream cheese and cornflakes: one man’s search for the world’s greatest sandwich Ideal built-in furniture Great app I’ve been using to sort way too many photos...

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Weekend Linkages: AI Mushroom Books, Sandwiches and Mystery Totem Poles

Mr. Homegrown

September 3, 2023

Saturday Linkages

...‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled Tennessee woman sets record for world’s longest female mullet Mystery totem pole appears on coastal path in south-east England Sandwiches of Histsory...

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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

Mr. Homegrown

July 18, 2021

Saturday Linkages

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...Drawing by finish architect Uno Ullberg, 1903. Bicycle powered car All Work and No Play Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain Historic “Garden City” is Surprisingly Anti-Gardening Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist Weird fractal Romanesco cauliflowers start life as failed flowers...

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