Saturday Tweets: Too Many Links

April 20, 2019

...chow (@GardenForkTV) April 15, 2019 The best blog on the internet is now a book: https://t.co/4SROqUmtsg — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 15, 2019 Here’s Japan’s most famous minimalist https://t.co/wifBJIIVIG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 14, 2019 “growing evidence of the terrible impact traffic air pollution has on young kids.” @MayorOfLA, we urgently need bus lanes, bike lanes, and congestion pricing. #EnvironmentalJustice https://t.co/1hbe...

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Saturday Tweets: Culture as Subculture

Mr. Homegrown

May 25, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...played a critical role in the birth of #Chaos theory. Astonishing story about underlooked #WomenInSTEM. Thanks to @QuantaMagazine for bringing this to light. Hope it’s headed for a movie https://t.co/BHbDeCH8Uy — Margaret Wertheim (@margaretwerth) May 20, 2019 According to the book Kebra Nagast the Ark of the Covenant given to Moses by God, was bought to #Ethiopia by Menelik I 10th c. BC. #Tabot is the Tablet onto which the Ten Commandments were...

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Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow

Mr. Homegrown

June 24, 2019

Design

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...reminds me of Natasha Dow Schüll description of casino architecture in her book Addition by Design. Schüll says, Gilles Deleuze proposed in the 1990s that discipline, formerly the dominant mode of power in Western Societies, had been modified and to some degree overtaken by a logic of “control” that worked not by confinement or restriction of movement, but by the regulation of continuous, mobile flows–of capital, information, bodies and affects. U...

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Raw Pork Sandwich Anyone?

Mr. Homegrown

July 5, 2019

Food

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Image: Nize from Wikipedia. Our web and book designer Roman Jaster dropped by the Root Simple compound for an annual look under the hood at our website’s internal workings. After spending most of the meeting calming me down over my existential crisis relating to the troubles of running a blog long past when blogs were still a thing, Roman mentioned an unusual sandwich called Hackepeter that he ate on his last trip back to where he grew up in East...

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039 Climate Change and Be-cycling With Peter Kalmus

Mr. Homegrown

February 25, 2015

Podcasts

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...er through his be-cycling website. You can also download an excerpt of his book-in-progress (pdf) and see slides from one of his talks (pdf). If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. Additional music by Rho. A downloadable version of this podcast is her...

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