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Human populations are set to decline in countries from Asia to Europe – and an unusual form of rewilding is taking place Source: As birth rates fall, animals prowl in our abandoned ‘ghost villages’ | Depopulation | The Guardian
New York Magazine: The Best Standing Desk Is Actually a Workbench Meant for the Garage. http://nymag.com/strategist/article/husky-adjustable-work-table.html?utm_source=undefined&utm_medium=undefined&utm_campaign=feed-part
Problems with government efforts to vaccinate Americans are spawning experiments to test if the private sector can do it better, including a plan to inoculate 10,000 people a day in a football stadium. Source: Fed-Up Executives Plot a Faster Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout – WSJ
“Vermont jacket, Vermont gloves, Vermont common sense!” Source: Here’s the story behind Bernie Sanders’s very Vermont inauguration outfit | Boston.com
With travel still uncertain due to COVID-19, and overseas vacations out of the question, “staycations” within BC have regained importance. The whole idea is to getaway without going far, and SeaSuites on Vancouver Island’s southern shoreline has nailed it. Mark Philbrook designed the 26-foot aluminum houseboat that is now docked at Port Sidney Marina. Its…
The New York Times: What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/t-magazine/paintings-snow-winter-art.html
https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2021/01/11/vermont-city-feels-like-international-travel-fodors
WIRED: Climate Change Is Turning Cities Into Ovens. https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-is-turning-cities-into-ovens
Rumors swirling around 2016 Wikileaks dump was glue that held “Pizzagate” together. Source: Study: Folklore structure reveals how conspiracy theories emerge, fall apart | Ars Technica
The New York Times: Opinion | America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/manufacturing-united-states-masks.html
How to transform a nondescript suburban house into an urban cabin? Take a look at this DIY remodel by the self-taught designers behind George & Willy. Source: George and Willy’s Urban Cabin House Remodel—in the New Zealand Suburbs
More space for baking banana bread, please. Source: Ikea’s 2020 Life at Home report: COVID-19 changed what people want in
What happens to your Facebook and Google accounts—and other digital stuff—when you die? Nothing if you don’t make a plan. Source: What to Do Before You Die: A Tech Checklist – WSJ
White-collar workers are taking advantage of a newfound flexibility to leave expensive coastal cities, even as companies move to “localize” their pay. Source: Work From Home: Tech Companies Cut Pay of Workers Moving Out of Big Cities – Bloomberg
Interview by Parisa Eshrati Source: Living between Observation and Imagination: An Interview with Cosmo Sheldrake
Back in the summer of 2020, we commissioned 5 sound artists to respond sonically to our Tracks, Traces and Trails project themes: migration, climate, the nocturnal and the subterranean.&n… Source: Cosmo Sheldrake – Subterranea – Land Lines Project
Discover how Sheldrake’s debut album, built from nature’s noises and inspired by New Orleans Mardi Gras, came together Source: Cosmo Sheldrake on the sound of the sun: ‘It’s quite a chaotic sound’ | Gigwise
Because success isn’t always about efficiency and output. Source: Tim Ferriss Is No Longer Living the Tim Ferriss Lifestyle. Neither Should You | Inc.com
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/james-suzman-work/617266/
From smart energy solutions to redesigning the grid for an electric vehicle revolution, social innovation is helping businesses build a better tomorrow Source: How the Isles of Scilly went green thanks to a cleantech upgrade | WIRED UK
Bloomberg measured vaccine access, lockdowns disruption and mortality rates Source: Coronavirus Pandemic: Ranking The Best, Worst Places to Be
Writers, creators and businesses of all kinds are looking to set up their own space online again. To do that, companies are trying to figure out how to deal with two very different internets. Source: Building your own website is cool again, and it’s changing the whole internet – Protocol
Democratic Party, unfortunately, has taken on this role of the coastal urban elites who are more concerned about policing various cultural issues than improving their way of life that has been declining for years!’ Source: Andrew Yang leads Democrats tearing into the party for turning into a ‘urban coastal elite’ | Daily Mail Online
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