Minasuk/ May 30, 2017/ Uncategorized

Meet the North Pond hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years | Boing Boing | April 2017 Without any forethought or preparation, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and lived there in complete solitude for the next 27 years, subsisting on what he was able to steal from local cabins. In this week’s

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/ May 30, 2017/ Uncategorized

Meet the North Pond hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for 27 years | Boing Boing | April 2017 Without any forethought or preparation, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and lived there in complete solitude for the next 27 years, subsisting on what he was able to steal from local cabins. In this week’s

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Minasuk/ May 17, 2015/ Uncategorized

Living off-the-grid | Timothy Allen | November 2013 Two months ago I traveled to this secluded corner of west Wales in order to photograph Emma Orbach, a 59 year old lady who’s been living in this isolated woodland for over 13 years.

Minasuk/ May 17, 2015/ Uncategorized

167: Nihilism | xkcd | October 2006 “Why can’t you have normal existential angst like all the other boys?”

Minasuk/ May 17, 2015/ Uncategorized

Early men and women were equal, say scientists | Guardian | May 2015 A study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operated on an egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture.

Minasuk/ April 25, 2015/ Uncategorized

When Did Humans Start Shaping Earth’s Fate? An Epoch Debate | NPR | April 2015 Some scientists suggest calling the era we live in the Anthropocene, to denote the time when humans came to dominate Earth’s fate. But did it start with farming, the atom bomb or another event?

Minasuk/ April 25, 2015/ Uncategorized

Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures | Guardian | April 2015 How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to show people.

Minasuk/ April 25, 2015/ Uncategorized

Washed Up: Alejandro Duran’s Site-Specific Found Plastic and Trash Installations | Colossal | April 2015 Artist Alejandro Duran collects countless bits of trash that washes up from locations around the world. So far he’s discovered plastic debris from dozens of countries on this shore of the Caribbean coast which he utilizes for site site-specific installations for an ongoing project titled

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