Of mice and men, cats and grains
When hunter-gatherers started to settle, they created new ecological niches for rodents, which could become a problem as soon as the residents started to grow cereals and wanted to store grains. Cats took over the pest control job to the extent that humans began to appreciate their presence and spread them around the world, along with their cereals and mice. Bioarchaeology and genetic studies are now beginning to reveal the origins of this curious and now ubiquitous ecological constellation. Michael Gross reports.
Bioreceptive Concrete: When Moss Takes Over the Wall
Cities, often built from concrete and hard surfaces, suffer from a lack of nature. The innovation of bioreceptive concrete offers a new approach: a textured material capable of hosting moss (and other small organisms), gradually transforming grey facades into living walls. This concept is appealing not only for its aesthetic qualities but also for its potential to make urban environments more breathable.What is bioreceptive concrete?The term bioreceptivity refers to a material’s ability to be co
MOSS — A Painting Toy Where Every Brush Is a Tiny Program
A 128x128 pixel canvas with programmable brushes. Code a brush, see what it does, share it with your friends.
Trinket Trove
Collector critters trade human trinkets to decorate their cozy burrows.
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Beneath The Fig Tree | @maisonrickie | Substack
Navigating life through a cultural and historical lens. Making sure my figs don't rot in pursuit of a life well lived. Click to read Beneath The Fig Tree | @maisonrickie, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Tend the System. Know the System.
They didn't wander. That's the first thing to understand. The popular image of the hunter-gatherer is someone moving through an indifferent landscape, taking what they find. It's not wrong about the movement. It's wrong about the indifference — theirs and the land's. What the archaeological and ecological record increasingly shows is
Living Museum of Food: Stories, Recipes, and Culinary Heritage from Traditional Communities
[PT-BR FOLLOWS] Introduction Back when city streets were paved with cobblestones, public telephones stood on street corners, and many neighborhoods were still unpaved, life followed a different rhy…
Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations
“What do Pacific salmon, British falcons, pine trees everywhere, Ifugao pigs and spirits, and Norwegian apples have in common? They perform ‘domestication’ in ways certain to change the narratives and politics of domestication for scholars of whatever discipline and for critter people all over the earth. Read this book for up-to-the-minute, deeply researched, very smart, contentious takes on the shapes of conjoined humans and nonhumans living and dying together in diverse histories of civilization, colonialism, capitalism, times-past, and times-yet-to-come. Perhaps what opens up in this book are real possibilities for caring more materially in urgent times.” - Donna J. Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses…
Guess what day it is?! #fungifriday 🍄📷 #photography #moss #pnwphotography #fungifriends #fungusfriends #mycology #mushroomphotography #nature
