I always knew this year would be one of many changes, but I never thought it would be such a learning experience.
Day: March 20, 2020💾
📽️ Videos
The Surprising 130-Year History of Handwashing
Until the mid-1800s, doctors didn’t bother washing their hands – they would go from dissecting a cadaver to delivering a child. Then a Hungarian medic made an essential, much-resisted breakthrough.
Working out of my truck has me
Working out of my truck has me …
- Really notice how much wildlife there is out there and the many patterns of the clouds.
- Pay much more attention to the weather, notice the impacts of clouds and sun on solar panel and electricity production.
- Be aware of how much energy my little 100 watt panel can actually produce on a nice day.
Augustine Sedgewick’s ‘Coffeeland’ – The Atlantic
Coffee owes its global ascendancy to a fortuitous evolutionary accident: The chemical compound that the plant makes to defend itself against insects happens to alter human consciousness in ways we find desirable, making us more energetic and industrious—and notably better workers. That chemical of course is caffeine, which is now the world’s most popular psychoactive drug, used daily by 80 percent of humanity. (It is the only such drug we routinely give to our children, in the form of soda.) Along with the tea plant, which produces the same compound in its leaves, coffee has helped create exactly the kind of world that coffee needs to thrive: a world driven by consumer capitalism, ringed by global trade, and dominated by a species that can now barely get out of bed without its help.
Wet Trees
