Weekend Linkages: Summer Heat, Oaks and QAnon

Ancient Egyptian vessel shaped like a pomegranate via @aic_ancient. 100 British chairs When Old Oaks Fall Nabhan: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem Uber and Lyft Donated to Community Groups Who Then Pushed the Companies’Agenda California dodges worst of historic Pacific Northwest heatwav...

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Holiday Weekend Linkages: Full Disclosure

Via @AmbJohnBoIton. A Nation Conceived in Liberty Confronts Its Queasiness With the “MILF Mobile” Car problems How the Twitter tide of plastic lost at sea has come to define our age Welcome to dystopia: getting fired from your job as an Amazon worker by an app Cities’ plea to Biden: Help us lower speed limits 135 questions for those who shape and those who (sometimes) occupy New York City’s extreme upper skyline Moldy Slides: Romantic Landscapes...

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Weekend Linkages: All Play and No Work

...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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Weekend Linkages: Beware the Pointy Shoes

...Skeletons reveal the cost of medieval fashion for pointy shoes Nailed it: man, 82, builds bench for wife in 30 minutes after council plea ignored Why We Shouldn’t Paint Brick Streaming with Laughter… the quest for the funniest online service fails No, Small Isn’t Beautiful The NFT market bubble has popped and we’ve got the charts to prove it...

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