Saturday Linkages: Congrats Nithya Raman!

...Is Naming Your Garden Pretentious? Mesquite, crucial to Indigenous diets for centuries, works miracles with water and needs no fertilizer. Why don’t we grow more of it? Partial fire season relief, at last: cold storm arrives in California Friday I Don’t Like Flashy Wood – Go Figure Two Gen Xers Walk Into A Retirement Home… Bruno Latour: ‘This is a global catastrophe that has come from within’...

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Saturday Linkages: One Brutal Week

...How to Make an Old-school Neon Street Sign Concrete jungle: the brutalist buildings of northern England – in pictures McModernism, USA Coronavirus: Sweden keeps its laid-back COVID-19 strategy Ford Pinto Race Car Eats Wall At Daytona The potato head of Palencia: defaced Spanish statue latest victim of botched restoration...

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Saturday Linkages: The Phantom Framer

...Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth 20% of epidemiologists are crazy Interview with a Zine Maker: Linda Leigh of Skid Row Zine I know this is old news but . . . Minnesota man claims he was mistaken for Sasquatch by Bigfoot 911 team The Phantom Framer In a dream last night a neighbor told me that this song has to do with farmers markets: https://youtu.be/6hZcWCm8URg...

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Saturday Linkages: $1 Homes, Compost Heated Showers and Potty Talk

3573 Lincoln St.in Gary, Indiana. Yours for $1. Home Sweet Home Gary Indiana unveils Dollar Home Program: http://bit.ly/19HD517 Gardening Pipe planters http://www.recyclart.org/2013/06/pipe-planters/ … Mariposa Nabi Community Garden features this alter via @GlenDake http://pinterest.com/pin/306667055846811135/ … DIY IKEA Hackers: New life for Old Poang! http://www.ikeahackers.net/2013/06 13 Ways To Turn Your Outdated ’90s Tech Into Truly Usable T...

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Saturday Tweets: The Chapel Perilous

Two self portraits by Edvard Munch–one during and one after suffering from the Spanish Flu. Make a simple sifter coffee roaster “Black Swan” author Nassim Taleb on warnings over systemic risks from global pandemics Museums reveal their creepiest objects in Twitter battle It Came From the ’70s: The Story of Your Grandma’s Weird Couch The Bread Influencers Flock of sheep visit empty McDonald’s restaurant during lockdown Super-rich jet off to disast...

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