Gleanings of the Week Ending August 4, 2012
/The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article:
How to store produce without plastic - a good reference
Museum of Food Anomalies - Some natural…some contrived
Nadya Andreeva: A healthy lifestyle you can stomach - A tummy exercise for everyone
Visiting Great Smoky Mountains National Park With Insider Tips From Friends Of The Smokies - - This is a recent post about Great Smoky Mountains but the site includes posts on all the parks. One for Theodore Roosevelt National Park has just been posted…check it out as you plan a visit to one of them
What’s the Most Important Thing We Can Do To Take Control Of Our Final Days? - A collection of recommendations from healthcare professionals….also A Discussion of How Doctors - and the rest of us - Prepare for the End
Bedtime Math - making math a fun part of kid’s everyday lives
Rym Baouendi: Learning ecodesign from ancient civilizations - TED video
The Ghostly Grandeur Of A Desert Graveyard - El Paso’s Concordia Cemetery
Making Green More Macho - Apply the lessons from the “Don’t Mess with Texas” anti-littering campaign more broadly
Three wonderlands of the American West: Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River…in 1912 - read it - or just look at the pictures online at the Internet Archive (see last week’s gleanings for a graphic on how to use the interface to read online). To view the book in a different format, start with the main entry for the book here.