Pruned looks at urban parks in unlikely locations, such as beneath highways:
It suggests a way to rehabilitate these forgotten, dark urban spaces without eradicating heterogeneity and fostering exclusion, which often accompany so many regeneration projects.
I might have mentioned this before, but it hit me again last night when I walked home from work. I’m amazed and I feel very fortunate that I can stand on the sidewalk in front of my house and see the Milky Way on a clear night. I can see all the way home.
I just heard an author talk about his satire on creating a bestseller. One of the keys: Use the word “club” in the title. Ha! I said that very thing to my librarian wife last year. I don’t think she had made that connection, wasn’t quite ready to accept it.
Read like bin Laden. He’s announced his reading list.
Leo Hickman muses on the announcement that hops crops are suffering. Beer might make people pay attention:
Famine. Mass migration. Flash flooding. Sea-level rises. Increased malaria. Heat waves. Rapid species extinctions. The implications of climate change are well documented and much discussed. But, due to a curious cocktail of apathy, denial and ideologically fuelled intransigence, some people still choose to play “see no evil”.
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