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Meanwhile, in the bayou...

Thank you to @bittermelonfarmer for commissioning this piece!

For all my bug lovers out there 🐛❤️

OK, so I've been knitting since 2010, and I just learned 2 things.

[1] Magic loop was invented around 2002

[2] Circular needles were invented in the 1910s

That means that, if you were knitting as recently as just over 100 years ago, you either were knitting with straight needles or with double points

??????????????

I fucking hate straight needles, and I fucking despise double points [personally, I know not everyone does]

I like to imagine knitting as this craft that goes back hundreds of years and connects me to history and all that. And in some ways it is

But then I find out that I've been ALIVE longer than the magic loop method? If my grandmother had been able to teach me to knit [she died around the time I was born but was apparently a very experienced knitter], she wouldn't have even known what magic loop was???????

I also wonder if I would have even liked knitting at all If I was stuck with straight needles and double points

Idk my mind is blown over this and I guess I just need to remember that my knitting is a modern craft that is only in some ways related to historical knitting

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

Is the fur on some bugs (like bees or caterpillars or moths) an example of convergent evolution with mammals or is the fur on those bugs not fur but something else?

I suppose any fibrous body coating like bird feathers, mammalian fur, or arthropod setae used for protection/insulation/sensation etc could be considered convergence on a functional level, but insect “hair” is an entirely different material!

arthropod setae are made of chitin (a polysaccharide), while your hair is made of keratin (a protein). setae can have many different forms, such as stiff bristles, sensory hairs, or the scales on butterflies, moths, and other arthropods. here is a good resource if you’d like to read about the various types of setae and their functions:

ResearchGate

(PDF) Scales and Setae

PDF | This chapter discusses the role of setae and scales in insects. In all groups of arthropods and especially insects, the role of the se

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DIY Packing boxers

If you’re like me, there’s no way you’re buying a fancy packer strap. So here’s a super simple tutorial on how I sewed some of my boxers to fit my packer!

Pls excuse my shitty illustrations I drew them with a sharpie and I’m sleepy rn.

Step 1. Get a pair of boxers with an open fly. The open fly is important because it gives you two layers of fabric to sew a pocket.

Step 2. Sew a little pocket for your packer to sit in. Make sure you position/plan it correctly before sewing so your packer sits in a natural place in your pants.

Step 3. (Inside view yolo) Cut a little hole on the top through the first layer of cloth on the inside only. This is so you can slip your packer inside the little pocket you have just sewn.

That’s it! Im no professional seamstress but I’m a punk, and DIY till I die. Packing is for everyone!!

fun studying tip: if you’re a procrastinator, play tom jones’s “what’s new pussycat” on repeat while writing your papers and do not turn it off until you are finished, it will motivate you to finish that essay as quickly as possible

Enjoyed your Book Riot post “11 Amazing Books About the Wonder of Trees.” You mentioned “there is a lot of fantastic nature writing by authors of color.” Could you recommend some titles or authors? I’ve read a few, but want to read more. Thanks!

Yes of course! Top is of course Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, which blew me away.

But there's a long list of other books I came across in my research that looked amazing and interesting, but didn't fit the more narrow subject of my list. I added these books to my own to-read list!

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid RG Waldron

The Unlikely Thru-Hiker By Derick Lugo

The Adventure Gap by James Edward Mills

As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva

Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin

Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage by Dianne D. Glave

Sustainable South Bronx: A Model for Environmental Justice by Majora Carter

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World - note: the editor is not BIPOC, but the book is: "essays from authors representing diverse backgrounds, including Japanese American, Mestizo, African American, Hawaiian, Arab American, Chicano and Native American"