Saturday Linkages: Super Spreader

July 11, 2020

Thanks to @jimmy.chertkow for this spicy meme. New York’s hungry rats torment alfresco diners after lockdown famine Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test Dry Canning Raw Vegetables is an Unsafe Practice ‘Landscape of fear’: what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists Warming trend in California, but most intense heat remains across the interior Southwest. And what about the autumn to come? On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tw...

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Saturday Linkages: In a Jam

Mr. Homegrown

July 25, 2020

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...My shop uniform. To unite the country, we need honesty and courage Why the Internet Is Blowing Up About LA’s Most Infamous Jam Maker There’s No I in Jam: Sqirl Wrestles With the Sticky Question of Who Really Owns a Recipe The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service Bear whisperer out of a job Jet engine becomes unique camper An alternative to Ipé Museum of Material Failures...

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Saturday Linkages: And So On . . .

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2019

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Chicken of the woods mushroom–more on this in a future post. Florence Caulfield and ‘The Illustrated Needlework Book’ This might be the most 2019 thing I’ve seen Sasquatch or Wendigo? Mysterious howls in Canadian wilderness spark confusion (Mini editorial: I think the native spirits are angry with us) Slavoj Žižek on recycling ecology and consumerism Bikelash’s Latest Tactics: Pedophile Smears and Conspiracy Theories Credit Card Skimmers Evolved:...

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Saturday Linkages: Can’t Stop the Memes

Mr. Homegrown

February 13, 2021

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...Turn Off Your Mind, Relax—and Float Right-Wing? Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine “Cocaine of the sea” — the illegal fish trade of the Mexican cartel and Chinese mafia Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife, study finds NeoPixel Ancient Oil Lamp Kelly Norris on New Naturalism and Informed Plant Choices Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia Tree I love lava...

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Saturday Linkages: Soon There’ll Be Thunder

Mr. Homegrown

November 7, 2021

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Our late dog Spike on the Bonneville Salt Flats October 2001. The hidden climate costs of America’s free parking spaces Biden’s $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Hastens Beacons For Bicyclists And Pedestrians Enabling Detection By Connected Cars [editor’s note: I’m not happy about this idea] The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name ‘Wondrous and amazing’: female California condors can reproduce without males Edith Wharton’s Hauntology Want to bu...

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