I would be happy of oysters could come back on the menu as cheap and healthy food for the masses. "Thousands of oysters are being re-introduced to Dublin Bay as nature’s super water cleaners."
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Thousands of oysters are being re-introduced to Dublin Bay as nature’s super water cleaners
Oyster reefs can act as a massive water treatment plant.
It is safe to assume that all honey you buy is fake or adulterated, unless you buy it straight from the apiary itself. Not saying that you should avoid supermarket honey, but far better is to buy in bulk (several years' supply at once) from an apiary near you. Natural, real, honey lasts for thousands of years.
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The honey trap: why honey fraud is a health hazard
Almost half of honey imports to Europe have been flagged as suspicious. From sugar syrups to fake origins, honey fraud is big business.
The Nakamura Residence in Miasa Village, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, built in 1698 and still in splendid condition. Timber frame (no nails or metal) and clay and bamboo walls on a raised pillar foundation (earthquake proof). An interesting detail is the thick base coat of the thatched roof, which uses Ogara (麻幹) the woody hollow pith of hemp, a byproduct of hemp cloth production. Ogara is naturally mold resistant, deodorizing and moisture regulating with a comparatively high insulation effect, making it a perfect undercoat or base coat for thatched roofs. Due to the scarcity of hemp material grown domestically for cloth use today these Ogara roofs are obviously extremely rare and tremendously expensive. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5dea1fc28d2d72279ace1233dfe2041eef0aa5cb5533314bc944cc32eae1877f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5fbd757e2e57582de006e6cd4fd6bf83f340d9b2cda734868298d45ba25f3c20.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5f673ba5c5551e2fb55d67273c5c9a384b6d2b3675dd1780852669c2f658cdd9.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/ad54602150ab25b9aaa4a905793e5f452f83fd31c3bc907f9699326fc8c4a008.file
Canadian humor. Peter Nicol, Eric and Whalley, Say Uncle: A completely uncalled-for history of the U.S. It has a funny byline: "The authors have not only discussed the War of 1812 but have provided ample incentive for its renewal." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/792d528174ca23a8addc1870e395fedc650eb018573b45972b9364d26e98e490.file
The most important encyclopedia of the 12th century was written by an Alsatian abbess at Hohenburg Abbey, Herrad of Landsberg, 1130-1195, as a teaching tool. The middle ages are full of incredible women but yet modern progs only use the same fakeish poster children like Earhart. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4c0fa9bf4928f70c52cc943f6a959f07f7eef212b54fd4d2906b2204c4a85b78.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e69b61fa1b231119e0c7943dba110b59b02c4fa26b881943ceac33d230b02e3a.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4f6cea424e118f8f17164ea67b28effe116ac5098780f886435d490c26579066.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f503e860b12b9fdb78a7511564936d995871255a21931ecc7a1a31493a4784c6.file
It would be easy for immensely wealthy places like California to build entire neighborhoods or cities impervious to wildfires. But of course they won't. However as an experiment it would be interesting if California could allow a single street to be built using traditional earthquake and fire-proof building methods: thick walls of earth, no gutters to collect flammable debris, windows and doors that can be easily sealed with wet clay and shuttered to not shatter from heat, and tiled roofs that won't catch fires from embers. Like the Japanese Kura storehouses. A system of neighborhood covering sprinklers would also be extremely efficient and not even require a new type of homes. Fire season is coming. As usual. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5534e60abfc9a167d3fc0fa4e58041d6a10183d8ef76af9b87bdcb9bee4f88d2.file
Today's long read. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5b0aef8cd2a85f788c0dfac95a9734c9c2ad97347115911a72d9dac685ca11ce.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f380ef42a12d62155aeb102c63f0fca41741e4d9b1182885af6b137c56e179c3.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/9b0d578330f97aa3b59934cd5c4b56fa4a147f29665e064678bea3f8073f7d4c.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f4d0000c159f355c5576ba307455807aa8dab2d42b57b97415c79184c3006d0f.file
“A characteristic of Roman law, ownership, the right to ‘use and abuse’, did not exist in our medieval customs, which knew only usage; and usage, moreover, that was most of the time burdened with multiple easements.” — Regine Pernoud, Those Terrible Middle Ages, 1975 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a004132b80ef7f6a62ba707b615abd53e1c685833a36f63530123534e63997e6.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5646e873adcfe85e1652d53fc0a0ad4b3e2e8e3c78c0c7f760305652a40d0f6b.file
“Far more than a determined juridical category, serfdom was a state, tied to an essentially rural and land-based mode of life; it obeyed agricultural im­peratives and, above all, that necessary stability that a landbased culture implies.” — Regine Pernoud, Those Terrible Middle Ages, 1975 https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4eb3e97146b4bd8583983e3627a736a8a9dc801c661a42b31299eba16c3aec5e.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/857208ef70def04efcf225c442ff8eceae512829944f6617134dd33832c3b705.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/31c6344eab9f47a8689d573ac523be0896a52f11b111e9f355e1047f24f58fa7.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b56b063b7f61330cd2891d710f5fdf70c2f71d91872e287901f84ab46167f27c.file