a beautiful conversation about eating flesh between mom and her kid
kids get it, that we have to take care of the animals and not kill them, and somewhere along the line we lose track of this. unless we’re hunter-gatherers and there’s nothing else to eat, and there’s only a few thousand us in that category left, or we live in the arctic circle where there …Read More
brazilian bioluminiscent fungus not seen since l840 rediscovered
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8qCXAL/www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/glow-in-the-dark-mushroom-rediscovered-after-170-years/
#9: The World’s Largest Swamp : Brazil’s Pantanal do Mato Grosso
(A shorter and in some ways better version of this, deftly edited, as usual, by Sheila Glaser, appears in the March, 2003 issue of Travel & Leisure.)
The Pantanal do Mato Grosso, in west-central Brazil, south of the Amazon, is the largest swamp on earth. In the summer rainy season, from October to March, it …Read More