snippets, 7-12-2023

Why adults should read children's books (BBC)

Hear, hear.

snippets, 4-7-2022

 "On Waterloo Bridge, amongst reams of forget-me-nots, a little girl in a red cape was writing in chalk on the tarmac. She wrote: 'There is no planet B so we're asking for your hep.' She examines what she has written, then carefully adds the missing 'l'. Help. She walks away. Then she stops, turns back, studies it again, kneels down and adds 'Please'."

- Jay Griffiths, Why Rebel, 2021

snippets, 1-20-2022

The kunga was a status symbol long before the thoroughbred (NY Times). Predates the previous earliest known hybrid, the mule, by 1,500 years. 

snippets, 12/17/2021

Detailed footage finally reveals what triggers lightning (Quanta). 

snippets, 5-23-2021

Bringing the circus back to life (The Guardian). Beautiful photo essay.

snippets, 3-27-2021

First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified (Nature)

snippets, 11-14-2020

A record of horseback riding, written in bones and teeth (NY Times). Why I never ride Cora more than a few minutes at a time, and always bitless.

snippets, 7-2-2020

How a black cowboy became a disinformation target (NY Times). Heh, stealing a police horse would be like stealing Maximus from Tangled.

snippets, 5-15-2020

Things to do in the belly of a whale (via Whiskey River).

snippets, 3-31-2020

It's time to make your own face mask (NY Times). We still have a half-dozen surgical masks and a few N95s from when we put together our bug-out bags a few years ago, but this might be helpful when those are all used up.

"Love Letter" (New Yorker). "...history, when it arrives, may not look as you expect, based on the reading of history books. Things in there are always so clear. One knows exactly what one would have done."

snippets, 3-22-2020

I spent a year in space, and I have tips on isolation (NY Times). Excellent, and also kinda mind-bending: who'd have thunk someday we'd have spacemen teachin' us how to stay home better?

snippets, 2-12-2020

George Washington saw a future for America: mules (Smithsonian)

snippets, 10-19-2019

Mule dressage under threat from international body (BBC).

we're all nonplussed

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Be here now: focus on the task (Anna Blake)

snippets, mmxix-iii-xxi

Spring is like a perhaps hand... (ee cummings @ whiskey river)

snippets, 2-13-2019

"Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful..." (Whiskey River)

snippets, 1-30-2019

The evolution of the alphabet (kottke.org).

snippets, 12-30-2018

Artist makes willow creatures that live in the woods (Treehugger).

snippets, 12-23-2018

"Here is the best true story on giving I know..." (Whiskey River)

snippets, 12-6-2018

'Nature was my safe place' (The Guardian).