Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

July 20, 2019

...mn: For the doctor behind Happy Foot Sad Foot sign, a strange kind of fame comes to an end https://t.co/wq530y25Wf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 20, 2019 Simple and aesthetically very pleasing, the chancel at Wick in Glamorganshire. High altar with medieval mensa flanked by two image brackets of different dates. The left one decorated with fleur-de-lys and presumably for the Virgin Mary. pic.twitter.com/BJ33oRsel4 — Medieval Art (@vitrearum) Ju...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Tweets!

Mr. Homegrown

March 9, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ress weeds. Wonderful groundcovers like Antennaria plantaginifolia planted underneath established perennials can help to reduce weed pressure. https://t.co/PG56m0hpdU — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) March 4, 2019 Alias: a smart-speaker "parasite" that blocks your speaker's sensors until you activate it https://t.co/uvSQXWz9kK — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 4, 2019 Goodbye Sidewalk Trees https://t.co/6MmMq42ay7 — Benjamin Vogt (@BRVogt) Ma...

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Your Open Floor Plan is a Death Trap

Mr. Homegrown

November 27, 2017

Design

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...they made our homes vastly safer. How much safer? According to research by Underwriters Laboratories (“Analysis of Changing Residential Fire Dynamics and its Implications on Firefighter Operational Timeframes“), in a small, traditional house with individual rooms you’ve got almost thirty minutes to get out before a fire flashes over. In an open floor plan house you have under five minutes, which means that firefighters probably won’t even get to y...

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Nassim Taleb on Why It’s Better to Panic Early About the Coronavirus

Mr. Homegrown

March 9, 2020

Preparedness

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...n lesson the impact on vulnerable populations. Personally, I’m unlikely to die from COVID-19 but I could easily pass the virus on to an older person who might. It’s another “Not me. us.” moment. The other important fact is that the death rate for a highly communicable disease is not static. If our hospital systems are overwhelmed we’ll see an exponential increase in the fatality rate. The time is now, if you can, to halt travel, to avoid large gro...

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We Are in This Together

Mr. Homegrown

March 13, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...he late 1980s have become suddenly and horrifying clear. Most people don’t understand the danger of non-linear change in complex systems. The political elite and intelligentsia in this country don’t care about the needs of working people. The mainstream press does not report it manufactures consent. On the first point I spent part of yesterday attempting to convince people close to me to take COVID-19 seriously with mixed results. People who read...

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