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Saturday Tweets: Georgia O’Keefe, Rampaging Peacocks and Mango Mania

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Saturday Linkages
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...ectorswkly — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 27, 2017 How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists https://t.co/8bEyblPEqq — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 26, 2017 Peacock raises havoc in liquor store https://t.co/qnRCFlQR0H — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 24, 2017 He Bought a $500 House in Detroit. But It Was Never About the House https://t.co/y3V4oVITx1 via @yesmagazine — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 1, 2017...

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I Organized My Drill Bits and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

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Design
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.... Sometimes, if I couldn’t find a bit, I’d buy another one at the hardware store only to find out that I already had that particular size. Last week, as part of the sort of sweeping workshop reorganization that comes with middle age, I vowed to put an end to the madness that was my drill bit drawer. There is not one true path to drill bit storage but rather many paths leading up the organized workshop holy mountain. I am, however, partial to the 2...

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A Cheap and Easy DIY Sewing Cutting Table

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Design, Domesticus
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...cess to make the cutting table. Step one: go to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore or ReUse People of America and find two or more matching kitchen or bathroom cabinets. Step two: get a sheet of melamine at the big orange store. Step three: cut the sheet of melamine to size. To do that I bought a plywood blade for my circular saw (I don’t own a table saw). I clamped a scrap of plywood to the board as a guide and ran piece of masking tape along where...

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#StopFakeBrickRed

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Design, Gardening
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...sonry unit, ironically the construction material of choice for the big box stores that peddle #FakeBrickRed. #FakeBrickRed was probably arrived at by some unholy combination of market research and raw materials accounting back during the lowest point in architectural history, the 1950s and 60s. Unfortunately for us all, #FakeBrickRed has metastasized from the masonry department and spread throughout the Big Box Store. Why were these wood products...

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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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...tion. And for good reason. The vegan cheese you can buy at the health food store takes the flavor profile of already bland and awful American cheese and makes it far worse. A vegan cheese I bought recently tastes like what I imaging it would be like to eat a slice of partially dried wood glue mixed with sand. This weekend I had the good fortune of attending a vegan cheese class taught by forager and author Pascal Bauder (a guest on episode 89 of t...

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