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ILLINOISANS: HELP TRACK FERAL BEES

“We don’t know what is going on with pollinators because America has never deemed it important enough to try to keep track of its pollination resources,” Berenbaum said.
“Given that 90 crops in the U.S. agricultural sector depend on a single species of pollinator, and other crops depend on other pollinators, it would seem that for […]

MANDALA

Mapping the Internet (Technology Review, via Passport)

DOUBLEPLUSSAFE

George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house
Previously ‘varked:

Big Brother Loves You
You Are Being Watched
Armchair Minutemen Rejoice
Big Brother Is Watching You

WOULD YOU LIVE IN AN ICE SKYSCRAPER?

Just wondering.

Would You Live in a Stainless-Steel Igloo? (Popular Science, 1945, @ Modern Mechanix)

INTERACTIVE MAP: DICKENS’ LONDON

What the Web is for, as far as I’m concerned:

Dickens’ London Map

ROOTS AND RUINS

Spong Roots and Ruins, Ta Prohm
Angkor, Cambodia
Photo by Kenneth Parker
Check out his website for more amazing photos. For more about the location pictured, visit APSARA and Cambodia Web. For temple maps, see Cambodian Online and Asian Historical Architecture.

CHARLIE BIRGER

… was the last person to be executed by public hanging in Illinois. And he’s in the news (no pun intended) again:

BENTON, Ill. - Folks in this hardscrabble town still cling to the legend of Charlie Birger, the bootlegging gangster who moments before meeting his maker on the gallows flippantly remarked how lovely the world […]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Thanks to Climate Change, by 2050 America’s Breadbasket Will Be in Canada (SciAm Observations, via Pharyngula)

MYSTERY MAP

Whatever could it be? Click it (or here) to go to Arse Poetica to find out.

ETEXT: 1890 POVERTY STUDY

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (Jacob A. Riis, 1890)