A travel report from the Farallon Islands off San Francisco—a wildlife refuge that’s closed to the public, protecte by volunteers.
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In 2008, a group of activists climbed into the canopy of a Humboldt County redwood forest and didn’t come down for four years—after the owner of the land announced a deal to transfer more than 1,000 acres to a public trust, including the occupied trees. A short documentary about life in the treetops.
Via California Sun
What it’s like to be an essential worker and prom queen this season. “I was always team ‘I’m not going to cry.’”
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by The Tournament of Books Staff
This week we’ll discuss the second half of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts. What will the change in seasons bring? More loneliness and misery? Plus, it’s time to vote on which of our July novels wi…
Lonely figures in vast landscapes, by her.afternoon.
Lonely figures in vast landscapes, by her.afternoon.
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Whether or not the human body can survive in our heat-riddled future comes down to humidity and “wet-bulb temperatures.”
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A musician-inventor combined a Leslie rotating speaker and a guitar and kept all his fingers.
via Laughing Squid
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In praise of Tubi, the bargain-bin streaming site with something for everyone.
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Grace Loh Prasad and her son folded one origami crane every day during the pandemic, all the way up to 465 cranes.
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