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This Space Is Occupied
From the comfort of my rural exercise ball, I have been avidly watching livestream and youtube coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As a GenXer, I’m amazed that [...]
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Tagged with: Athena Grayson, Geekdom, History, making things, moms made of WIN, Science, science, values, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
Posted in History
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(Hopefully Not) The End of an Era
Last week, our Space Shuttle Atlantis completed its final mission, having taken to the skies and left our Mother Earth’s gravitational embrace 33 times. The landing of Atlantis ended an era of manned space flight that’s punctuated our history and [...]
Heat: It’s Nothing New
So I was sauteing chicken on the driveway yesterday when one of my kids comes around the corner from the deck where he’s smacking wasp nests out of the grill and he says to me, “Mom, I think it’s the [...]
Tagged with: 1930's, Athena Grayson, Dust Bowl, environment, environmentalism, heat wave, History, Science, science
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Posted in History
Airships Again
I have this thing for Airships. I know, it was a technological dead-end, and the feasibility of modern commercial air travel via airship is the equivalent of the slow boat to China, but I’ve never stopped thinking that something with [...]
Tagged with: airships, Athena Grayson, inventing, Making Things, making things, Retrotech, Science, science
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I Am Amazon, Hear Me Garden: Ancient Amazonian Superdirt And My Tomatoes
It’s Freaky Friday here at the blog, and that means History! Though I usually look for Diesel era history to post on Fridays, I’m taking things back a little further today because all week I’ve been out with my hands [...]
Tagged with: alt energy, Athena Grayson, biochar, DIY, environment, gardening, Geekdom, green solutions, History, Making Things, Science, science, terra preta, wood gasifier, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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A World Without Gas
A hundred million years ago, something died. Actually, a lot of somethings died. After they died, rocks fell on them, and more rocks fell on those rocks. Eventually, all those rocks created enough pressure and, along with the heat of [...]
Tagged with: alt energy, Athena Grayson, biochar, DIY, environmentalism, History, Making Things, Retrotech, retrotech, Science, science, terra preta, wood gasifier
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The New Green and The Old “Make-Do”
In spite of the increase in visibility over recent years, the “Green” movement has been chugging along for decades. Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s environmental classic, “Silent Spring,” in which Carson raised consciousness about the [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, environmentalism, green solutions, Making Things, making things, Retrotech, retrotech, Science, science
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