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A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading

She Attended With Her Mother – Why I never go to the Doctors alone. Having someone to help handle doctor’s appointments and logistics of chronic illness is amazing.

Glenn Ross gives ‘toxic tours’ of neighborhoods you’ve seen in ‘The Wire’

The River of Myths by Hans Rosling Fucking awesome use of a bubble graph.

What I learned from the blizzard When cars can’t go

545 Main Street Rebuilding to make something look old, then getting flack from the community when you want to redevelop the old looking but relatively new building because it’s historical. Awesome story.

Anna Gillespie Fuses Nature and Art in her Figurative Sculptures Made of Acorns, Beechnut Casings and Bronze

Anna Gillespie Fuses Nature and Art in her Figurative Sculptures Made of Acorns, Beechnut Casings and Bronze sculpture nature

Aspen in the Sun Sun and cold and snow and aspen make my heart hurt.

 

Tuesday Shoesday

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Shoes by TN_29

Shoes by TN_29

A question that may be harder to answer than the ones I’ve described in my PhD proposal: Is it possibly to have too many pairs of red shoes?

While you’re waiting for the bus

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Fungal fruit mummies
Fungi do strange things to the organisms they parisitize

Bill Gates is naive, data is not objective
Your data set is only a very tiny piece of the world.

Harvard professor has it right: U.S. climate push requires intense grassroots support around ‘cap-and-dividend’ bill
Don’t know if it would actually work to slow climate change, but who argues with a check in the mail?

An Architect Gone Mad: Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian

An Architect Gone Mad: Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian digital collage black and white architecture

Not good enough

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I went to a computery workshop recently. I was a little nervous about going, sure I couldn’t possibly know enough to keep up. But I could have taught a lot of the material they presented on the first day and had no problems on the second day  – I even had some ideas for improving parts of the lessons!

I need to remember that struggling to learn something or teaching something to myself doesn’t mean I’m not good at it. And while I may not know everything about a topic, I may know enough.

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Semi-weekly list of interesting stuff