Sunday Reading
...of staff-driven unionism "A new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement." How to make up and spread a "weird Japan" story Local knowledge, bad press, and the future of Fukushima agriculture...
Sick
...obesity, though its medical status isn’t nearly as stable as diabetes. Instead, he finds it to be a product of capitalist agriculture’s need to find a place to store its...
The Austerity Kitchen on the Radio
...community-supported agriculture, and home economics -- its history and amenability to progressive politics. You can hear the interview by clicking here or by visiting the page for the episode that...
Native Regard
Some colonial women held captive by Native American tribes found the experience liberating Illustrations from American Scenery; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations from Transatlantic Nature (1840) One...
Smash Images from Antiquity
...continues, in voiceover: “The Assyrians, Akkadians, and others took for themselves gods of rain, of agriculture, and of war, and worshipped them along with Allah, and tried to appease them...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 4, 2019)
...money Community-based agriculture makes a big impact in impoverished reaches of Appalachian Ohio Go ahead and wash out those resealable plastic food storage bags ... Just be sure to do...
Time
...nostalgic for the previous sentence. But let’s start at the beginning: Positioning the discovery of time at the invention of agriculture and writing, Douglas Rushkoff measures how our taste for...
Wikipedia Politics
...against the molten sky—a token of disaster, a sign of impending crisis brought by drought and industrial agriculture. Or so it seemed; as I drew closer, the birds lost focus,...
The Daddest Place on Earth
...of communications technology, and other mildly educational ride-exhibits titled things like Universe of Energy and The Land (about nature, agriculture, and food production). EPCOT also features the “World Showcase,” which...
Party TV
...old timers — gets a channel of its own. CCTV-Agriculture and Military can be counted on for the latest soporific bulletins on China’s heroic arms buildup and irrigation techniques. There...
Graphic Interface
...$300 on soil and equipment, and ended up with maybe two salads. I’m better off contributing to the efforts of my community-supported agriculture group. SG: Who inspires your writing right...
Sunday Reading
...pacifism and democracy Remembering anti-war activists in the World War I centennial year California's water shortage and the future of agriculture What's happening to Canada's erstwhile social democratic party? Fort...
The Gloom of the System
...agricultural products, imperiling the ability of Colombian agriculture to compete in the domestic market. Simultaneously, it will open Colombia's export-driven industries (such as, again, mining) to unrestrained investment and control...
TNI Vol. 14 Editorial Note: It's Time
...for the previous sentence. But let’s start at the beginning: Positioning the discovery of time at the invention of agriculture and writing, Douglas Rushkoff measures how our taste for time...
Love Craft
...the more devoted the husband. An 1852 edition of The Journal of Agriculture features a story in which the narrator describes an old scrimshawed pipe, "the gift, long ago, of...
Sunday Reading
...twisted cliches On Cairo's Agriculture Museum, a "weird and wild hall of wonders" Arabic Manuscripts Digital Library of Jerusalem Jack Cheng on the Slow Web Movement On the system of...