Saturday Tweets: Ancient Bread, Wild Horses and High Metabolism Money

...ing bread from dormant, 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from Egyptian bread-making ceramics https://t.co/BWGlliA50q — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 8, 2019 Wild Horses of Nevada by Maynard Dixon , 1927. pic.twitter.com/LsmjluOrwn — Mordecai (@MenschOhneMusil) August 6, 2019 High Metabolism Money https://t.co/Z7Z27lpnJF via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 10, 2019 Become immersed in the sights and the sounds of the forest as y...

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Saturday Tweets: Watermelons, Drill Bit Storage and Unicorns

...ticating #watermelon from feral bitter wild cousins; Greeks & Italians for making sweet! https://t.co/VUIDJWRMQx pic.twitter.com/uxGB57Z9P5 — C. S. Prakash (@AgBioWorld) July 7, 2017 So you have a construction or repair job coming up. Which should you use, screws or nails? The short answer is… https://t.co/VyOFohr5CS — Hobby Farms (@hobbyfarms) July 7, 2017 How tech giants like Elon Musk can actually fix LA’s transportation problems https://t.co/W...

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Saturday Linkages: On Sunday!

...The revived art of the Orkney Island chair Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze I tried the Light Phone for a week – could I survive on just texts and calls? Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable King Arthur: fable, fact and fiction...

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Saturday Linkages: Juneteenth

...Oakland mural by Elaine Chu and Marina Perez-Wong. A Juneteenth of Joy and Resistance Joe Lamp’l Rants about Mosquito Spraying Services, and 9 More Things Here’s All the Free Online Stuff You Get With Your L.A. Library Card How to Bribe a Los Angeles Lawmaker Making Jam from Frozen Fruit Ancient receipts I’m Not Wearing a Mask Arizona Public Media: Behind the Mask A Brief History of Listening In on Police Radios...

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Saturday Linkages: Move On Up

...sts reveal their fears for the future In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis Hey Mayor Garcetti, where’s my bus lane? Right Here Right Now Making messy look good The Mindfulness Racket: The evangelists of unplugging might just have another agenda Arthur Boon’s ‘Make Do’ Chairs...

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