Saturday Linkages: After the Before Times

May 23, 2020

...A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 The Best Way To Take Apart A Pallet! Head of largest nurses union in US says they ‘don’t have protections they need’ from coronavirus Inside Trump’s coronavirus meltdown Some words of wisdom from Rev. Barber Five really really really bad sci-fi movies...

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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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Saturday Linkages: Congrats Nithya Raman!

Mr. Homegrown

November 7, 2020

Saturday Linkages

...Is Naming Your Garden Pretentious? Mesquite, crucial to Indigenous diets for centuries, works miracles with water and needs no fertilizer. Why don’t we grow more of it? Partial fire season relief, at last: cold storm arrives in California Friday I Don’t Like Flashy Wood – Go Figure Two Gen Xers Walk Into A Retirement Home… Bruno Latour: ‘This is a global catastrophe that has come from within’...

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Saturday Linkages: Wall of Cats

Mr. Homegrown

May 2, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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Albrecht Dürer’s Little Owl (Kleine Eule) from 1508. In the Wake of Systemic Collapse, Only We Can Save Ourselves Should you be buying that online right now? ‘Heads we win, tails you lose’: how America’s rich have turned pandemic into profit California Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic And the award for best pandemic mask goes to . . . The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home The Committee to Save the Rich The A to Z of Afr...

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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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