Saturday Tweets: Pawpaws, Tiny Apartments and the Wet Prince of Bel Air

...co/WTSNlDSicN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Will US DOT’s Self-Driving Car Rules Make Streets Safe for Walking and Biking? https://t.co/hNkI5JfGE1 via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Garden artist Jeffrey Bale visits Oaxaca: https://t.co/7lOu8CFu35 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Who is the wet prince of Bel Air? https://t.co/dTm2r76TOU — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 22, 2016 Tw...

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Is Honey the Same as Sugar?

...rch of Dr. May Berenbaum, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Berenbaum’s specialty, for many years, was the interaction of plants and insects. Her interest in bees began with her frustration with the common idea that honey is nutritionally indistinguishable from sugar. In her presentation, in chart after chart, she showed the huge difference in the biochemistry of different honey varietals. Take, for instance, antio...

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Saturday Tweets: Smoke Bomb Cocktails, Philosophy, and the “Napparatus”

...se-plants https://t.co/u2kAAAk6Iy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 31, 2016 self-driving cars will piss off car occupants. when pedestrians realize they can stop a car with their body and not be killed, it’s all over — Eric Budd (@ericmbudd) May 30, 2016 Whenever I hear talk about a #WarOnCars I’ll think of this spot where cars won. 4 feet for us, 70 feet for cars pic.twitter.com/WnreBDoob7 — Bill Schultheiss (@schlthss) May 30, 2016 Rabbit blowing...

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A Lecture on the Connection Between Cats and Grain

...destination is a world in which we spend all our hours spinning around in self driving cars while watching, on our virtual reality glasses, an endlessly looped 3D version of Nyan Cat. Islam tells a much more succinct and, I think, more accurate version of cat domestication. An Islamic legend holds that Noah’s ark was overrun with mice and rats. God instructed Noah to pet the nostril of a lion, whereupon the lion sneezed out two house cats. Noah’s...

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Weekend Links: We’ve Gone Crazy!

...New short film by photographer Gerco de Ruijter explores “grid correction” roads: https://t.co/T0f42YDiVq pic.twitter.com/RhAneDgSXj — Geoff Manaugh (@bldgblog) April 18, 2016 Self-driving cars might be “a coming congestion disaster”: https://t.co/LrJUpmLOFz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 18, 2016...

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