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A Mint morality tale
Hannah over at This Garden Is Illegal talks about mint and, along the way, mentions the myth behind it. If she wrote high school textbooks kids would be way more into ancient mythology.
She Was Mint To Be With Him
The myth behind the origins of the name Mentha reads better than an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. [...]
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail – NYTimes.com
Old news, but this part makes me laugh:
The Transportation Department made its own fuel-economy proposals public almost two months ago; they were based on the assumption that gasoline would range from $2.26 per gallon in 2016 to $2.51 per gallon in 2030, and set a maximum average [...]
Digital Rights Misery: When Technology Is Designed to Fail
TidBITS Opinion: Digital Rights Misery: When Technology Is Designed to Fail
A good article on the ways in which we are often asked to pay not for content, but for the delivery method. There’s also some interesting musings on how many of us interact
More excellent short fiction, found on the web
Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind by Rachel Swirsky
The last word ever spoken by a human is said in a language derived from Hindi. The word is trasa. Roughly translated: thirst or desire.
Awesome
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBALqvp08Vk]
Atlas Shrugged 2: Shrug Harder
The Infamous Brad writes a great analysis of Ayn Rand’s work.
More wisdom from the mind of Scalzi
Seriously, are you tired of me waving his flag? Well, tough – his recent words on marriage are on a par with his excellent & infamous Being Poor essay, but so much more joyful.
When you plan your wedding, try to cover all contingencies. When the one thing you forgot could go wrong does go wrong [...]
Fiction Liberation Front–The Goods
Yet again, we find great free reading on the internet. This time, Lewis Shiner, who I was pointed at by the always awesome John Scalzi. So far I’ve only read one of the short stories – Till Human Voices Wake Us – but it was quite good. And yes, I started with that one because [...]
The NYT on veggie cooking.
Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables in the New York Times
As if you needed yet more evidence to suggest that Michael Pollen is right and we should just eat like normal people have for most of recorded history rather than rely upon the incomplete understanding we have of how nutrients work. Here’s [...]