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.
short video: How smart are crows? (Katharina Brecht/TED-Ed) Corvids — crows, ravens, magpies, rooks, jay, nutcrackers, jackdaws — are smart, clever, cooperative, have great memories, use tools, and plan ahead.
list: A curated selection of the best independent radio stations, playable from a single webpage (Adam D. Scott/ldial) Try the “random” button.
article: The Hidden History of Cyanobacteria (Maggie Weng/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) Cyanobacteria “created” photosynthesis about 2.7 billion years ago, so yay! But when conditions arise that produce toxic blooms of cyanobacteria — such as fertilizer runoff, conventional septic systems, rising water temperatures and more extreme rainfall patterns due to climate change — aquatic organisms and humans suffer, boo! [Read more about The Great Oxidation Event at the American Society for Microbiology.]
field guide to August (Vermont Center for EcoStudies) This month it’s focused on birds: shore birds visiting landlocked Vermont, favourite wild places to see birds (the Green Mountain and White Mountain National Forests in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine), and berries that feed birds this time of year.
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