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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold
July 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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My 19yo is on an absolute bender of auto-didacticism -- just devouring books. (He insists on paper books, too.) This is the pile he brought home from the book store today.
May 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Trees 'sleep' at night 😴🌲

In 2016 researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary pointed laser scanners at two birch trees, one in Austria & one in Finland. Between two hours after sunset and just before sunrise, the trees branches drooped by as much as 10cm🌳
April 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM