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Daniel Gilbert – Happiness Researcher – New York Times
Good advice: spend disposable income on experience rather than things.
(tags: happiness psychology)

Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she [...]

Introducing day-old chicks – Omlet Club Wiki
How to get a broody hen to adopt day-old chicks.
(tags: chickens farm)

Through Weegee’s Lens – New York Times
Jill Freedman, photographer who captured beautiful images of New York in the ’70’s. And they evoke much nostalgia for the New York in 1987 that I knew.
(tags: artists photography photographer newyork)

Snow Leopard Range Map
(tags: snowleopard mongolia)

Out of the Yard and Onto the Fork – New York Times
(tags: garden [...]

I didn’t see Michael Pollan’s article from last Sunday’s New York Times, Why Bother?, until tonight when I read about it on Stephen Bodio’s blog.
Pollan asks the same kind of question I was trying to ask in my ramble, The Scarcity Mentality. If climate change is inevitable anyway….if changing our own happens feels like [...]

We’ve visited Death Valley several times…it’s one of our favorite places. In fact, we were married there in April 2001. So it’s not unusual for us to get the bug to return in April. Of course, it’s not all that unusual at all, given that everyone is doing it these days. [...]

Reducing Junk Mail
How to get off of mailing lists. It sounds like we might even be able to get off the list for those ad flyers that come every week!
(tags: junkmail green)

I’ve been watching a lot of good documentaries recently…The End of Suburbia, The Corporation, Blue Vinyl. They aren’t exactly uplifting. Each makes the point that our culture has been pushing forward without considering the real consequences of the decisions we’ve made…or decisions we’ve allowed others to make for us.
If there’s a goal [...]

There’s something about this that looks a little Blade Runner-esque…I love it!

Yes, I know, but safety isn’t the point here.

Travel with Kazakh Falconers of western Mongolia
Eagle hunter tour, charter company recommended in Bodio’s “Eagle Dreams”
(tags: eaglehunters mongolia travel wishlist)

Hunting with Ferrets
I’ve never heard of this before, but my dad mentioned that his uncle talked about hunting rabbits with ferrets.
(tags: ferrets hunting animals)

Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen
Artists in China who copy famous works [...]

I’ve been doing more posting elsewhere this week:

Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia – a book review, and some dreaming of my own.
Anger, Unleashed – a rant after Laika was attacked by an unleashed dog on a local trail.
Short-tailed Weasel – a short movie about my encounter with a weasel at Point Reyes. [...]