Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
essay/list: Wind: Mistrals, monsoons, sirocco, sharav (Rosecrans Baldwin/Meditations in an Emergency) Some meditations on wind.
short video clips: Road Runner Physics (Dan Burns/The Physics Well) “These clips from Warner Brothers Road Runner cartoons are intended for use by physics teachers. Info and suggestions for use are included next to each clip.” Also: Science on the Simpsons: Modern Physics Clips and Science on the Simpsons: Chemistry Clips, and others.
essay: Can You Please Stop Telling Me To Live My Best Life Please: Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic (Tom Cox/The Villager) “From time to time people I have never met who are not being employed as my editor will get in touch with me on Substack and stridently instruct me to write shorter paragraphs. My feeling about that is they probably have their reasons, but also that they’re mistaking me for someone who is writing for people who want short paragraphs.”
essay: Treetop Gem: The Brilliant Blackburnian Warbler (Laurie D. Morrissey/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) We hear (but don’t see) these often in the woods.
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