Saturday Linkages: Cool Furniture and Other Thoughtstylings

...(@rootsimple) May 27, 2015 Keep your eye on the corn ethanol situation ://www.ewg.org/agmag/2015/05/how-corn-ethanol-worse-climate-change-keystone-pipeline — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2015 A pastoral case for bike lanes: http://t.co/mW2zujYNhC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2015 Folding Cedar Lawn Chair http://t.co/TnUzWkMIxO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 28, 2015 Slipstream Table (Experiments in Aluminum and Plywood Lamination) ht...

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Video Sundays: Let’s Take a Musical Break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ui2deAKr8 Kelly and I consider ourselves very fortunate to have been able to see Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in concert back in the 90s. He’s considered by many to be the greatest of Qawwali (a type of Sufi devotional music) singers of all time. Falling down a youtube hole, I discovered this remarkable video. Please note the paradoxical moment of ecstatic silence that happens around the 12:51 mark. Also note the beauti...

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Bird’s Nest

...ypes of nests! Wee little eggs! Baby birds! One bird even made its nest in a sweatshirt hanging on a laundry line. (That’ll teach you to bring in your laundry promptly): http://www.thebirdersreport.com/egg-and-nest-identification And as of now my uneducated guess is that it is the nest of a house finch....

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Strapping Bee Hives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=225&v=i_XZFOQau2c Eric, of Garden Fork TV, posted a video response to my scary toppled hive situation. Langstroth hives are heavy and get tipped over by high winds, bears, teenagers and (where I am) earthquakes. Eric says: Strapping your hives with ratchet straps, the good kind used by truckers, will reduce the chaos when a beehive is knocked over. We first started strapping our beehives as part of our bear proof t...

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