Fruitacular!

...preserve and explore the mind boggling biodiversity of fruit trees. And speaking of biodiversity take a look at Noel holding a Rollinia or Biriba, a fruit tree native to the Amazon region that also grows in Florida. Some have described the taste of this fruit as like that of a lemon meringue pie....

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Thinking Local

...both partners must work means that we have less time to gather in the evening. But these are not a reasons to live lives of lonely desperation playing video games and waiting for the next Amazon package to arrive. If we’re to get out of the mess we’re in here in Silver Lake and everywhere else in the world it’s going to be a team effort....

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Binge on Opera for Free

...The streams are available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them, without being a paid subscriber, you click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices. Speaking of binge viewing, this week the Met is streaming all (count ’em!) seventeen hours of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle along with Tristan und Isolda, Parsifal and...

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Saturday Linkages: Holiday Edition

...he Nativity, c. 1425 Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) Google Nest or Amazon Ring? Just reject these corporations’ surveillance and a dystopic future The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes How our cities failed us this decade: We let big tech take over and dragged our feet on climate, but it’s not too late for change Overlooked No More: Julia Morgan, Pioneering Female Architect Just a whole bunch of cats...

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