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Preserving the Scents of Everyday Life – COOL HUNTING

UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage

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‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession | Environment | The Guardian

via ‘Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession | Environment | The Guardian

UK plans to green its fields in post-Brexit shakeup

via UK plans to green its fields in post-Brexit shakeup

Add Speech-to-Text to Any Website With This Extension | beSpacific

via Add Speech-to-Text to Any Website With This Extension | beSpacific

Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part one: the tools – What the Huck?

via Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part one: the tools – What the Huck?

100,000 Artworks Images From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available | beSpacific

via 100,000 Artworks Images From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available | beSpacific

A Female Rage Reading List: 16 Books That Scream to Be Read – The New York Times

via A Female Rage Reading List: 16 Books That Scream to Be Read – The New York Times

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
TomMcGreevy's review: "Truth isn't all there is, but lies come with their own set of problems. That is the essence of this book and Ruth Ware shows well how facts mutate within the prisms of perspective. Life is not simple, and sadness often is all we get to take away from experience. Such is The Lying Game."
Something for Everyone by Lisa Moore
TomMcGreevy's review: "My lord, can she write! Lisa Moore that is. She grips me by the scruff of my neck and heaves me about. Such is the power of her writing. That said, I don't like her stories all that much. There is more to reading than liking something. And she has shown that to me clearly, and earned my respect for her craft, her gift. B […]
Third Man in Havana: Finding the Heart of Cricket in the World's Most Unlikely Places by Tom Rodwell
TomMcGreevy's review: "A well hearted book describing the efforts that Mr Rodwell led to use cricket to overcome barriers between people and to take the sport into countries and places not usually associated with it. I found it most worthwhile for its descriptions of the places visited and the people encountered along the way."
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
TomMcGreevy's review: "An uneven collection, overly hyped. Where it is good, it is very very good (Things My Mother Said; Zimmer Land; In Retail). But not every story is of this quality. What shines through for me is the humanism of the author's perspective, striving to see the positive, seeking change where no change seems possible. I'd […]