Saturday Linkages: Conference Call Blues Edition

March 28, 2020

...Free ebook on how to lead a group online Old Laptop, Tablet or Phone? Here’s How They Can Help You Right Now The UK’s coronavirus policy may sound scientific. It isn’t Bobi Wine sings about cornavirus I think I’ve overdosed on Wagner Get some blueberry jam from a Root Simple reader!...

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Saturday Linkages: #quarantinecats

Mr. Homegrown

March 21, 2020

Saturday Linkages

...An overflowing pot of bean recipes Some guidelines for dealing with coronavirus in your home and community The Cloistered Garden Nassim Taleb on BBC4 on why this is not a “black swan” Some magazines I read: The Idler, The Baffler, Jacobin, Mortise and Tenon, Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding ‘Honest Labour’ – the Column that Named the Book The Mystic And The Warrior Slavoj Zizek, Jordan Peterson and the Toilet Paper Candidate...

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Saturday Linkages: Bad Ideas and a Few Good Ones

Mr. Homegrown

February 1, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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Via @70s_party. EPA re-approves key Roundup chemical Hollyhock House Archive What happened to that $100 laptop idea? Goodbye Mars One, The Fake Mission To Mars That Fooled The World The 10,000-Year Clock Is a Waste of Time The World’s Most Annoying Man Car ads are bad for our cities No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100 Billion ‘Mindless growth’: Robust scientific case for degrowth is stronger every day A dry (and warm, in most places) Jan...

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Saturday Tweets: The Chapel Perilous

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2020

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Two self portraits by Edvard Munch–one during and one after suffering from the Spanish Flu. Make a simple sifter coffee roaster “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb on warnings over systemic risks from global pandemics Museums reveal their creepiest objects in Twitter battle It Came From the ’70s: The Story of Your Grandma’s Weird Couch The Bread Influencers Flock of sheep visit empty McDonald’s restaurant during lockdown Super-rich jet off to disast...

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Saturday Linkages: Corona Borealis

Mr. Homegrown

May 9, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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‘Focus on right now’: how to mentally prepare for more Covid-19 uncertainty I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be. Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice Musso & Frank Martini lesson Fruit Trenches: Cultivating Subtropical Plants in Freezing Temperatures Meet the Coronavirus Profiteers Mike Davis: Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks Bianca about a very, very wide dress...

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