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To Warm The Homeless, A Coat That’s A Sleeping Bag : NPR
If you look at a house under construction these days, you’ll likely see Tyvek, a paper-thin, white insulating wrap. But in Detroit, an enterprising art student is using the plastic-like home insulation in a different way — to help homeless people stay warm.
Think about this little girl’s voice the next time you hear the GOP blocking unemployment benefits. Not everyone is a fat slob sitting at home collecting checks. Most folks are only a paycheck away from this themselves.
“It was really a tough struggle. It kept slipping into the water and crawling back on top of the ice. At one point it vanished underwater, under the ship and we thought it was the end, but it emerged again and crawled on an ice sheet,” Drgas said.
The dining staff at the Chicago Tribune got fed up with reading cliches on menus. How many items could possibly be “grilled to perfection?” How many restaurants could have “world famous” dishes? Phil Vettel, the Tribune’s dining critic, has nine phrases he’d like banned.
A few months ago I watched this TED talk on Crows:
Crows are pretty amazing! Here’s more (from the new npr.org site):
Here’s a surprise: Wild crows can recognize individual people. They can pick a person out of a crowd, follow them, and remember them — apparently for years. But people — even people who love crows — usually can’t tell them apart. So what we have for you are two experiments that tell this story
Read the rest here
And here’s a Youtube video of a crow building and using tools:
Pretty amazing birds, those crows!
UPDATE: I can’t believe I forgot this one.
MORE UPDATE: A little Simpsons fun.
