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Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia
...enForkTV) March 4, 2018 BBC News – ‘Super Monster Wolf’ a success in Japan farming trials https://t.co/QjOF7Wkwj7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 8, 2018 Why Manhattan Beach is forcing this beekeeper — and her hives — out of town https://t.co/dS8Amp7E6p — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 7, 2018 Of Mice and Men [Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights] pic.twitter.com/nFHhZhoqu3 — Damien Kempf (@DamienKempf) March 5, 2018 The Beast of the Ap...
Saturday Linkages: Comfrey, a Parking Rock Star and Voracious Worms
...hippies http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/marijuana-weed-pot-farming-environmental-impacts … Voracious Worm Evolves to Eat Biotech Corn Engineered to Kill It – Wired Science http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/rootworm-resistance-bt-corn/ … Adapting to Climate by Being a Nomad within your own House http://feedly.com/e/M3JFioqL Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley http://la.streetsblog.org/2014/...
Roundup
...ller around the compound. Embarrassed because one of Project Censored’s top 25 censored stories of 2006 includes this piece on the evils of this product: Third World Resurgence, No. 176, April 2005 Title: “New Evidence of Dangers of Roundup Weedkiller” Author: Chee Yoke Heong New studies from both sides of the Atlantic reveal that Roundup, the most widely used weedkiller in the world, poses serious human health threats. More than 75 percent of gen...
A Plea to End Daylight Savings Time
...keeps chickens knows that this time change nonsense has nothing to do with farming. The hens look to the sun as their cue to start their working day. The same goes for the cats who are, as I write this, staging a loud protest in the kitchen to let us know that breakfast is an hour late. It’s bad enough that our clocks are an abstraction of solar time. Why do we need to add another layer of abstraction by changing our clocks rather than adjusting o...