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• Fall and Winter Vegetable Planting Guide - The key to successful winter gardening is knowing the average date of the first killing frost in your region. You then plant your winter crops early enough to let them reach their full maturity before that killing frost.


• Bagelturf - An Aperture Workflow Example: Selecting 6 Images From 229 - excellent aperture workflow tutorial


• All Scientific Articles, Research, Landscape and Human Health Laboratory, University of Illinois - Human Health Benefits Of Natural Landscapes


• Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - Attention restoration theory suggests that walks in nature and views of green space capture our involuntary attention, giving our directed attention a needed rest.


• Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com - Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.


• Pollan's Proposals - For the time-strapped who didn't get around to reading Pollan's recent NYT's magazine piece on food policy, here is a great overview of that article.


• Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus - NYTimes.com - As our minds fill with noise ? feckless synaptic events signifying nothing ? the brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and gradually to anything,


• Mayor promotes traffic-calming aids - To slow traffic and to protect children who walk to school, Mayor Pasquale Menna wants to increase traffic-calming measures and pedestrian crossings on busy access streets in the borough.


• Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards - USATODAY.com - Officials hope that offering the freedom to forgo parking will lead to denser, more walkable, transit-friendly development.


• Scott Russell Sanders - Just read "A Private History of Awe." Wonderful book that resonated on so many different levels.

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