5 Notes On the Cohutta Wilderness
The Cohutta Wilderness is the largest designated Wilderness area east of the Mississippi river. It is only about a 2 1/2 hour drive from Atlanta, so I have been able to spend quite a bit of time there.
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Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson
I picked up Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson on a lark at the library. It was during the PR hype for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and it looked like a solid book.
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TIL about America’s National Grasslands
America’s national grasslands are basically National Forests…but grasslands. They’re managed by the US Forest Service for multiple use – wildlife, recreation, grazing, scenery, and ecosystem services, but also mining, oil drilling, and gas production. They’re part of the National Forest System, which means they’re managed under a different mandate than most Bureau of Land Management land.
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5 Notes on Visiting an Industrial Electric Motor Factory
Every year, the ABB Baldor-Reliance plant in Athens, Georgia opens its doors to employees and their families.
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Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion
Any Human Ever: one life from over 100 billion Is possibly one of the best teaching tools I’ve ever seen on the internet. The concept is simple. There have been about a hundred billion humans to have ever lived. We each are occupying one of those lives, but what would it have been like to be another life?
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Pool on Conasauga River
This long, run forming a pool is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead. The river has pooled up before a short cascade.
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Bend On Conasauga River
This bend is off-trail within the Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia, about 2 miles from the north Conasauga River Trailhead. The river is slicing across hard, exposed granite.
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5 Economic Reasons for Wilderness
Wilderness has so many benefits. But economic benefits are what policymakers & politicians care about. The USFS put that report in a PDF. I’ve rehosted & reformatted it for easier access for all.
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6 Underrated TV Shows of The Last 10 Years
I like to keep track of the books I read. But I do less with TV. I don’t watch a…
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The best financial advice I can give you is to sell your car
This post from Hanna Horvath is such an incredible piece on the *total* costs of car ownership -> https://yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/the-best-financial-advice-i-can-give
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Flannery O’Connor on Teaching Literature
In most English classes the short story has become a kind of literary specimen to be dissected. Every time a…
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Ordinary Abundance
What a beautiful website & a beautiful reminder of the absolute abundance that many of us live with compared to our very recent ancestors – https://ordinaryabundance.com/
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US Energy Cost Explorer
US Energy Cost Explorer is a classic website that takes open, publicly available data on energy costs and makes it usable, useful & interesting – https://energy-maps.com/
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5 Notes on Georgia State Astronomy’s Observatory Nights
Georgia State University owns an observatory in Hard Labor Creek State Park, about an hour east of Atlanta. It is operated by their Physics and Astronomy Department, and they open it to the public once a month, usually from April until October. You can see the listings on their website and their Facebook page.
This August, I decided to go out and see what it was all about.
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America’s Driving Mandate: Don’t Call It “Freedom”
In the beginning, there was public right of way – the freedom of movement between & amongst property. And then, America decided to mandate a specific vehicle for the public right of way above all else – https://mateosfo.substack.com/p/americas-driving-mandate-dont-call
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The Individuals Who Championed Each National Park
Over the past few years, I’ve been able to visit a few of America’s National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and other public lands in addition to reading several excellent histories. For the Parks that I’ve visited so far, it seemed like there was an outsize influence of either single individuals or small groups in getting the Park established.
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3 Useful Radio Resources for Streaming Live
Even in a world of Spotify, YouTube, Podcasts, etc – I still think radio is deeply underrated as a communications…
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The End of an Era [for Writers] via Hugh Howey
I thought this post was an evergreen take amongst the white hot discourse -> https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/
