Saturday Tweets: Wild Azaleas, DIY Neutra Chairs and Hot Dog Water

...e — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 26, 2018 In addition to the Root Simple Podcast, I also record and edit the St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Podcast. Mostly sermons but the newest episode is an interview with one of the Deans on the Gospel of Mark. Subscribe here: https://t.co/CVSG1Bpt4k @stjohnsla pic.twitter.com/us176HHbbt — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 30, 2018 Cat in a fancy dress [BnF, Latin 1178, 15thc.] pic.twitter.com/Nz3TiTTTMe — Damie...

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Peter Kalmus Arrested in Climate Change Protest

...ng but there wasn’t a peep about it with the exception of the excellent LA Podcast. @ClimateHuman chokes up speaking when talking about his son and why he’s chaining himself to Chase bank entrance, along w three other scientists: pic.twitter.com/r2vt8YDy3n — Erin Stone (she/her) (@Erstone7) April 6, 2022 Peter was a guest on episodes 39 and 116 of our podcast. You can follow him on Twitter at @ClimateHuman. There’s a fundraiser for his and other a...

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Federico Tobon’s Handcrafted Password Generator

...avorite artist-makers. He was a guest on episode 8 of the Opposable Thumbs podcast, a show which issues a creative challenge for their guests to complete. Federico had to tackle the topic of “crafting security.” His response was to make this beautiful wooden object that, when manipulated, generates strong, multilingual passwords. Federico’s inspiration was an xlcd comic that has some excellent password security advice: On the podcast and his blog,...

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Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

...The Intelligence of All Kinds of Life. I remember first listening to this podcast while walking around our neighborhood one evening at twilight. As she spoke about the intelligence of all living things and the importance of our relationship with plants, how we are meant to love and live in a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the natural world, tears came to my eyes because the things she was saying were the things I have always believed–al...

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Götterdämmerung Under the Palms

...ater, called in the national guard. That’s not even of fraction of what happened. You can hear a day by day breakdown of the craziness on episode 122 “Seven Days in Mayday” of an excellent podcast called, appropriately, LA Podcast. Even if you’re not a local it’s worth listening to because the problems here are everywhere in this country....

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