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The Known Unknown

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Thoughtstylings
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...ting the virus. While the protests have been going on politicians of both parties have been concocting opening plans or have long since decided to just sacrifice our elders. These plans have nothing to do with any scientific understanding of the virus. They feel like an attempt to feign certainty during what is a very uncertain situation. The fact is that we’re only five months into a virus whose transmission pathways are not known. It may be that...

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The Hugelkultur Question

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Gardening, Permaculture
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...ors, Linda Chalker-Scott is someone who I seek out when writing a magazine article. A civil discussion ensued on that Facebook page, proving that Facebook is good for something other than angry political screeds and cat videos. A summary of some of the points made: There is no peer reviewed research on hugelkultur. The concept seems to date back only to 2007 or so, most likely to Sepp Holzer. Chalker-Scott suggested that you could get the same ben...

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Are Miniature Books the New Smartphone?

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Thoughtstylings
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...hort fiction and non-fiction by authors as varied as Samuel Pepys, Edith Wharton and Dante. But the first book I started my cellphone alternative experiment with is Ammianus Marcellinus’ History Books 14-19 in an edition that’s part of the Loeb Classical Library. Loeb books are handsome, small and sturdy hardbacks with English on one page and Latin or Greek on the opposite page. Marcellinus is an entertaining Roman historian whose extant books chr...

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Creating a Perpetual Garden Journal

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Gardening
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...perpetual garden journal. To make one, you get a blank journal with enough pages to devote one or two pages for each week of the year. When you want to record something you go to that week and do your drawing. You can, of course, add written notes. As the years roll by you keep adding to the same pages thus creating a week by week visual diary of what’s going on in the plant and fungi world in your garden or in the world around you. I know that dr...

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Book Review: The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil

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...you can take now. I’m sharing these because I think they show how down-to-earth and practical his thinking is, and how it will appeal to Root Simple readers. Greer explores these ideas in more depth, but I think you’ll get the picture: Learn One Thing: Learn a practical skill, so that you have something trade in a barter economy. Give Up One Thing: Choose one material possession that you believe you depend on, and that you also know is quite depen...

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