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Natural World
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04.22.09Putting Dollars On Sunshine – The Unquantifiable WorldBy Steve Mills Our mind constantly narrows the stream of input it receives down to definitions, conceptions and categories. It makes it easy for our brain to manage the wide complexity of modern life, and make predictive decisions and inferences about what is currently happening. I am sure that we have evolved this way with good reason, and I bet we were doing it back when we all lived in caves or the wild grassland of prehistory. Our minds treat objects not as they are, but as abstract categories of things. Men are treated with a certain subset of behaviours, women with another. ...
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01.14.09Why Gardening Is AwesomeBy Steve Mills When I bought my house just over four years ago, the area behind the back shed was an absolute mess. There were weeds taller than I am, an old incinerator and rusty pieces of discarded metal poking out of the ground and out from under piles of rubbish. Although I had never gardened much before (you tend to only do the bare minimum when renting), I saw this overlooked and mistreated piece of land as the perfect place to start a veggie garden. It got plenty of sun, I could catch water from the shed roof for a rain ...
