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[elainegrey]

Waking with a sore throat. CURSES.

Delighted to hear of this Internet Archive project, one which excerpts images from digitized books & posts them to Flickr with surrounding text. I've used the scanned books at Google for clip art for a while now: it's nice to have some assistance in finding the images.

The Mission Blue project wants to set aside 20% of the oceans as preserves. E.O. Wilson apparently thinks that's thinking small. He is proposing 50%, Half Earth, be set aside. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-world-really-set-aside-half-planet-wildlife-180952379/?no-ist

I love the idea of working wild landscapes, of corridors of parks from that article.

And i would love to roam through longleaf pine woodlands. I've driven through them and admired them from the car window.

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[zlabya]

Sore throats are no fun. My usual treatment is slippery elm bark, in tea or tablet (Thayer's is excellent!) if you don't have one of your own.

I love looking at those old prints--so ornate! We have a huge book of them at work that I'm saving for "Steampunk" crafts for teens.

[elainegrey]

The throat discomfort cleared pretty quickly, but i'll keep this in mind for the next time.