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How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love the Vegan Cheese

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Fermentation, Food
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...on fermentation that will include his vegan cheese recipes. Look for that book next year. In the meantime you can enjoy his two previous books, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine: Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir and The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients. On that second book–Pascal brought some of his home concocted beer to the class and it was delicious. His brewing method is sim...

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063 New Slow City with William Powers

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Podcasts
...ld Policy Institute and is on the adjunct faculty of New York University. In addition to his books he writes for the Washington Post and the Atlantic. During the podcast we discuss: micro-apartment living living in Liberia and Bolivia Josef Pieper book Leisure the Basis of Culture 350 Vicki Robin’s book Your Money or Your Life David Abram’s book The Spell of the Sensuous John De Graaf If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast ple...

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Obsidian: A Free Note Taking App

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Design
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...he importance of contextual relationships in understanding information. My book list made with a plugin that searches a book catalog and creates my own personal Goodreads. A lot of people use Obsidian for daily note taking but I prefer a pen and paper diary for this. If you prefer a computer I think it would be great for this purpose and you can even integrate your notes with a calendar. Obsidian is highly customizable if you’re willing to sift th...

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The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

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Goats, Thoughtstylings
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...es in the ineffable, that which can only be accessed, if dimly, through poetry, through art, through the irrational. If you’d like to read Heidegger’s essay I’d suggest heading to your library where it can be found in a book Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, edited by David M. Kaplan. That book also contains an essay by Hubert Dreyfus “Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology” that gives some more context. You can also find Heide...

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Acedia, iPhone Addiction and the Noonday Devil

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Thoughtstylings
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...tackling the solutions to acedia. Applying acedia to phone addiction is a book length project, not a blog post, but allow me to consider some of the solutions these thinkers came up with. First is simply mapping the qualities of acedia to better understand what to do about it. The Desert Fathers, sitting in their cells, found that restlessness could mean just looking out the window to see what’s going on. Paradoxically, as the Desert Father Evagr...

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