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By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoScientists have used author Henry David Thoreau's notes to inform studies of climate change in...
Opinion: Discovering new pleasure of reading includes time of reflection
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the past year, I have noticed this: I am reading the New York Times online, and I skim through...
Rhode Island State Police lose 'great ambassador,' dog that investigated child pornography
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThoreau was supposed to be a guiding eye dog, but found his true calling helping the police...
Woodburn: A most beautiful last wish
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months ago“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads,” Henry David Thoreau wrote in his masterstroke book, “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods.” I am not sure...
Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ dies in federal prison
Politico via Yahoo News· 11 months agoTheodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the...
60 nature quotes that capture the beauty of our earth
TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 month agoNature offers some of the world's purest and simplest joys. While the city has its charms, nothing...
Bill Kenny of The Last Green Valley: Clues from nature point to the start of fall
The Bulletin via Yahoo News· 9 months ago“How earnestly and rapidly each creature, each flower is fulfilling its part while its day lasts!...
BookLovers: The SouthCoast is jamming with upcoming author events
The Standard-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWe’re in full-on Summer Reading Season, baby, and the author events are popping up on two ends of...
Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andre Braugher dies aged 61
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAndre Braugher has died. He was 61. The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star’s death on Monday (11 December) came after a brief illness, according to his long-time...
Woodburn: Some very, very short stories
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months ago“Simplify, simplify,” advised Henry David Thoreau, to which Ralph Waldo Emerson wryly, and wisely, replied: “One ‘simplify’ would have sufficed.” On a...
