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• BLOG— Get brave and speak

  By Audrey HackettNovember 22, 2016

  

  Trembling in my car as I was ordered to leave the Speedway campus on the night after an upsetting, disorienting and momentous election, I realized: I am afraid, so afraid, to speak up, not just to the man in the fluorescent vest, but really to anyone who may not like what I have to say.

• BLOG-Medicinal Meals

  By Amy MagnusNovember 21, 2016

  

  Self care sends me in search of aromatic home remedies followed by a fine dinner at the Winds Cafe.

• BLOG— On Trump’s triumph

  By Audrey HackettNovember 15, 2016

  

  In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the words of a fine Norwegian poet came to mind: “It’s not all as evil as you think.”

• BLOG-Lessons Learned

  By Amy MagnusNovember 13, 2016

  

  Whose teachings do we take to heart in this country? My grandfather’s or my great grandfather’s?

• Yarn Registry BLOG: A Landfill is an Ecosystem Unto Itself, part III

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 12, 2016

  

  Insects are important to the decomposition of garbage because they eat a lot of trash and tunnel their way through it, which mixes and aerates it. Some insects find their way to the trash, while some are inadvertently brought to it. In interesting case of filth in reverse, cockroaches are often found in landfills, as they hitch a ride in the belongings humans have discarded.

• BLOG-Restrain or Reset

  By Amy MagnusNovember 6, 2016

  

  We have more than one brain. And getting them to work together is not always easy.

• Yarn Registry BLOG: A Landfill is an Ecosystem Unto Itself, part II

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanNovember 4, 2016

  

  The smallest layer of life in a landfill — a “robust set” of microscopic bacteria, fungus, yeast, and protozoa — consumes and digests organic materials in garbage, breaking it down like an enormous compost pile and producing huge amounts of methane gas as a byproduct of their activities.

• BLOG — Ain’t afraid of no ghost

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 31, 2016

  

  My daughter, Lucy, isn’t afraid of ghosts — but I am.

• BLOG-Blue Light

  By Amy MagnusOctober 30, 2016

  

  Why do we call them smart devices when they dumbly disrupt our sleep?

• Yarn Registry BLOG: A Landfill is an Ecosystem Unto Itself, part I

  By Dylan Taylor-LehmanOctober 28, 2016

  

  The concentration of man-made goods, harsh chemicals, and organic waste all rotting together makes for an environment that doesn’t — and can’t — exist anywhere in the natural world. And yet the landfill is teeming with life. Landfills, while ostensibly inhospitable, have become a biological niche, a biome based around humanity’s waste.