Saturday Tweets: Gluten, Complete Streets and Badass Free Libraries

...6, 2015 "Whisky is for drinking–water is for fighting over" –Brock Dolman #urbansoil15 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 26, 2015 "If you design Complete Streets with an 8-year-old girl in mind, you've hit everyone." April Economides #LiveRideShare — Tiffany Robinson (@belleplanner) February 23, 2015 Could a Dishwasher Raise Your Child's Allergy, Asthma Risk? http://t.co/q4N5eZNuHW via @phillyhealthsci — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Februa...

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Saturday Tweets: A Wacky Week

Oh god. It's happened. The cats have taken over while we were all too busy to notice. pic.twitter.com/x9sbLHhFnY — David Wyllie (@journodave) July 13, 2016 San Francisco's bike lanes have become Uber's pickup/dropoff zones (and the cops don't care) https://t.co/ttLA0mcfpW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 15, 2016 This is what happens when a bear gets into your Subaru https://t.co/lFNgzheylY — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 201...

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Saturday Tweets: Our Insect Friends, Miso Soup and What Your Library Should Look Like

Don't destroy your #garden during spring clean up chores. Here's how to keep insect friends safe: https://t.co/83vKhoIhKc — Jessica Walliser (@jessicawalliser) March 12, 2016 A library needs to be alive @joeldavidclark pic.twitter.com/AlNxZFZFUB — NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) March 19, 2016 Cool Tools: CT Issue 03/19/2016 – https://t.co/ejP6tUlOsw — Mark Frauenfelder (@Frauenfelder) March 19, 2016 NYTimes: Miso Soup Delivers Deep Weekni...

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Saturday Tweets: A Week of Strange Links

The Chinese wheelbarrow is back: https://t.co/P7w2aIGuio pic.twitter.com/UVGfTm9cHF — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) March 30, 2016 Wild Food Spotlight: Salal Berries https://t.co/V2Xwqk5mev via @TheKitchn #foraging pic.twitter.com/WPVfBXwXVI — Emily Han (@misschiffonade) March 30, 2016 Bitcoin transactions could consume as much energy as Denmark by the year 2020 https://t.co/Si466o5Qde — Xeni (@xeni) March 31, 2016 This page of the 12th-c. B...

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Saturday Tweets: Knights on Roosters, Edible Spoons and Raccoon Attacks

The Best ride in town – Knight astride rooster @MorganLibrary, MS 282, c. 1460 pic.twitter.com/os2JLrvFfL — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) April 30, 2016 Unreasonably exciting about the prospect of edible spoons replacing horrid plastic ones: https://t.co/Vt3kwWQspf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 14, 2016 Raccoon attacks Seattle https://t.co/wjuPsR9Jfd — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2016 A bunch of people lift a house and move it to a new spot...

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