LINK FEST: 11 JANUARY 2022

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.


short article: Winter Larder: The Underground Caches of Moles and Shrews (Northern Woodlands) “Both moles and shrews maintain special underground chambers for storing live prisoners beneath the snow.”

list: 100 Ways to Improve Your Life Without Really Trying (The Guardian). E.g., Don’t be weird about how to stack the dishwasher; Be polite to rude strangers – it’s oddly thrilling; Always book a day off after a holiday; Send postcards from your holidays. Send them even if you’re not on holiday; and Always use freshly ground pepper [is there anyone who doesn’t?]

short video: direct action: woman saves swan (Twitter: @MendelsonImages)

article: The Incredible Fig (Nautilus). “A wasp dies inside a fig after pollination. Anyone who eats figs is consuming wasp biomass.”

1-min video: snow day for panda cub (YouTube: Smithsonian’s National Zoo)

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