Seek The Substantial

1. The Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso, Italy, probably translates (I don’t know Italian) to the National Park of Grand Paradise and what a name for a park. It looks amazing and I can’t wait to go there when all this is over. Image via Wikimedia Commons. 2. I’ve never heard…

1. Nago Torbole is a small town/city in northern Italy on Lake Garda, on the north side of the lake. As you look south, coming into town from the north, there is a river that flows through town and directly in front of you, just to the west are these…

1. We can accomplish so much with some help. 2. Via California Sunday, last boxing tent in Australia. It’s only $20 to watch amatuers battle it out. 3. Via Atlas Obscura, the Iowa architect documenting every slave house that is still standing. 4. I have never been to Italy, but…

1. Via My Modern Met, absolutely stunning photographs from a woman who spent months in Siberia documenting the lives of nomadic reindeer herders. It is amazing that people live like this (it’s looks like it is maybe 150 years ago) and the photo of the woman who is 96 years…

1. Via OutsideOnline, some terrific photos of cowboys, from Brazil to Uruguay and North America. Really terrific photos. 2. Also via OutsideOnline, how a shipwrecked crew survived 10 days lost at sea: On November 25, 2019, Chris Carney and his two-man crew, Pete Brown and Jun “Sumi” Sumiyama, set off…

1. Via Hyper Allergic, want to vist Athens, Greece thousands of years ago? Me too. 2. Want to buy books from local book shops rather than Amazon? (I don’t know why I’m asking so many questions this morning.) Via Forbes, go visit BookShop.org: Bookshop.org, a website that went live at…

1. A short review of the TOZO T10 Bluetooth 5.0 headphones. I needed some new headphones to wear when I ran in the mornings at home on the treadmill. I had some headphones that were not waterproof and there was a cord and I sort of hated them. I still…

1. Via Mel Magazine, the oral history of the Members Only jacket. 2. Not for the politics, but for the political theory, via Politico, that turnout wins elections, not swing voters. 3. Via The Conversation, 8 things we do that really confuse our dogs, including the idea that we leave…

1. The Internet of Beefs. I don’t know that I’ve ever connected with something more than I’ve connected with this. A beef-only thinker is someone you cannot simply talk to. Anything that is not an expression of pure, unqualified support for whatever they are doing or saying is received as…

In a hurry this morning, but hope you enjoy. 1. Paul Cooper on Twitter with the story of William Leonard Hunt, who said he found a lost city in the Kalahari Desert in 1881, but no one else has been able to find. 2. The NY Times on why some…