Maybe you heard about the oldest crumbs of burnt toast in the world. But have you stopped to wonder how the archaeologists found those crumbs? The bread they came from was a fine, mixed grain loaf that might well have been a special dish at a feast. It is even possible that bread was the first elite food that became affordable thanks to industrial technology — agriculture.
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🎧 Boil in the Bag | Our Daily Bread | Eat This Podcast
When did people start to eat wheat? The date keeps getting pushed back, and is now around 35,000 to 45,000 years ago. That is long before the dawn of intentional agriculture. How do we know? Because a man who died in a cave hadn’t cleaned his teeth, and stuck in the tartar were grains of boiled starch. Which raises another set of problems that seem to have been solved by wilderness survival experts.
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🎧 Our Daily Bread 00 | Our Daily Bread | Eat This Podcast
It’s magic, I know. First a pretty ordinary grass becomes the main source of sustenance for most of the people alive on Earth. Then they learn how to turn the seeds of that grass into the food of the gods. Join me, every day in August, as I dig into Our Daily Bread for the Dog Days of Podcasting with short episodes on the history of wheat and bread.
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🎧 The Abundance of Nature | Our Daily Bread | Eat This Podcast
In the 1960s, using the most primitive of tools, an American plant scientist demonstrated that a small family, working not all that hard for about three weeks, could gather enough wild cereal seeds to last them easily for a year or more. Jack Harlan’s experiments on the slopes of the Karacadağ mountains in Turkey offer a perfect gateway to this exploration of the history of bread and wheat.
Photo of Wild einkorn, wild emmer and Aegilops species in Karacadag mountain range by H. Özkan.
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🎧 2ToPonder Episode One | INTERTEXTrEVOLUTION
Greg McVerry from jgregorymcverry.comMy first attempt at a microcast:
Don’t forget that I’m listening to content in the class as well! Perhaps this will be your first listen webmention? 😉
For badges from static sites, you could simply use raw HTML on a page like Aaron Parecki outlines.1 The “sending” site doesn’t need to be able to send webmentions although the receiving site needs to be able to receive them. You can then use a service like http://mention-tech.appspot.com/ or https://telegraph.p3k.io/send-a-webmention to have your static site send the webmention for you!
References
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Parecki A. Sending your First Webmention from Scratch. Aaron Parecki. https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention. Published June 30, 2018. Accessed August 6, 2018.
🎧 Micro Monday Extra: @verso at Chicago-O’Hare airport, talking about Macstock | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogIn this special extra edition of the Micro Monday Microcast, Kelly Guimont and Jean have enough time before their plane home to Portland to talk about the fantastic experience they had at the 2018 Macstock Expo and Conference, and to start making plans for the 2019 event.
🎧 Episode 17: @eli | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogEli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about how he went from his “angsty LiveJournal” to being a proponent of the IndieWeb, and why he likes the new IndieWeb Ring. Eli is also the maintainer of Micro.wiki: Community resources for the avid Micro.blogger.
Eli’s wiki is truly a hidden gem.
🎧 Episode 16: @vanessa | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogVanessa Hamshere is a musician, a crafter, a photographer, and one of the “fountain pens, paper, and planners gang.” We talk about how online communities evolve and thrive, and how a good mix of technical expertise and interests helps everyone.
It’s nice to have a group of people from across the world with different interests. I love random conversations.
Vanessa gives Colin Walker and I an overly kind little shout out during the episode. I suspect she either knows more than she lets on or she’s got a ton of tenacity, because she has a very lovely site. Lately I noticed that she’s even begun delving into microsub clients and Indiepaper, which I have barely begun to scratch the surface of, so perhaps I’ll have to pick her brain a bit in return.
🎧 Episode 14: @jw | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogJim Withington, joins us on Micro Monday. Jim is currently a web developer in Portland who describes himself as someone who likes getting excited about things and blogging about them. We talk about the XOXO Conference in Portland, about the unexpected delight of photoblogging with Micro.blog, and whether Micro.dog should be a thing.
🎧 Episode 15: @mnmltek | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogThis week, Jean interviews the host of the the mnmltek microcast, Chris Powell.
Chris’s passion is sharing tech knowledge and other help for humans. In addition to the microcast, Chris blogs, podcasts, and writes a newsletter. “If you’re not sharing your thoughts, opinions, or what’s inside of you, you need to know that your voice matters.”
I’ll have to take a look at Chris‘ podcast. I wonder if he’s been to any of the Bellingham Homebrew Website Club meetups or perhaps the IWC in 2017?
I’m also interested to hear more about his technology career in higher education. Perhaps he might be interested in joining some of us in IndieWeb for Education?
🎧 This Week in Google 460 A Confusing Number of People | TWiT.TV
Privacy Spats and Flying CarsTips and Picks
- Microsoft Buys GitHub, users promptly freak out
- Apple Screen Time vs Google Digital Wellbeing
- Google cancels Pentagon drone program after protests
- Larry Page's flying car takes off
- Google's Project Oasis puts the world's weather on your coffee table
- Apple and Facebook's privacy spat
- WhatsApp founders and Facebook's privacy spat
- Facebook still wants your nude pictures
- Stacey's Thing: Awair Glow
- Jeff's Number: Sundar is just Sundar
- Leo's Tool: Google Lens standalone app
🎧 This Week in Google 459 Status Update: Terror | TWiT.TV
Internet Trends, Algorithmic IdiocyTips and Pics:
- Analyzing Mary Meeker's 2018 Internet Trends Report
- FBI wants US citizens to reset their routers
- California gets halfway to Net Neutrality
- Chrome 67 brings PWAs to life
- Are location-targetted ads too creepy?
- Stacey Higginbotham explains why you shouldn't panic about the security flaw in Z-Wave.
- Joan's Pick: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Stacey's Things: Jabra 65t headphones with Alexa, Wyze Cam Pan
🎧 Episode 335: Kind Of A Challenge For Newcomers | Core Intuition
Daniel and Manton catch up after traveling to Chicago and Portland, respectively. Manton reflects on the IndieWeb Summit and the inspiration he took away from that event. They talk about learning to balance “business emergencies” with other obligations, and other indie business skills. Finally, they respond to Apple’s new Maps announcements, and whether Apple’s stance on privacy is an excuse for poor user experiences. Links:
- IndieWeb Summit – The Portland-based unConference that Manton attended recently.
- IndieAuth for Micro.blog – Manton’s blog post about adding support for IndieAuth to the service.
- IndieWeb Wrap-Up – Manton’s blog post looking back on his time at the IndieWeb Summit.
- Micro.blog Slack – Sign-up form for the Micro.blog community Slack team.
- PostStatus.com – A community of WordPress professionals.
- WordCamp Boston – A WordPress-oriented unConference in Boston starting July 21.
- Prompt – Panic’s SSH client for iOS.
- Apple is Rebuilding Maps – Exclusive by Matthew Panzarino for TechCrunch.
- Google Maps’s Moat – Justin O’Beirne’s analysis of Google Maps’s technological advantages.
- Resources up the Yang – Matthew Panzarino joins John Gruber on The Talk Show.
🎧 Episode 336: Bringing Webrings Back | Core Intuition
Manton and Daniel talk about migrating Manton.org to run on Micro.blog. They reflect on the nostalgia and inspiration of old web conventions like webrings and blogrolls. Finally, they talk about macOS Mojave’s forthcoming AppleEvent sandboxing and the effect it has on a wide variety of apps.
🎧 ‘The Daily’: Father and Son, Forced Apart at the Border | New York Times
A 5-year-old boy named José and his father fled the violence in Honduras and headed to the United States. They were separated at the border. What has happened to them in the weeks since?
On today’s episode:
• Miriam Jordan, who covers immigration for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Many children who have been taken from their parents as a result of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy end up in shelters or foster homes.
• Federal criminal prosecutions of migrants have skyrocketed, and the volume of cases has prompted rapid-fire hearings in which multiple defendants — in one instance, 40 people — are brought into the courtroom at once.• Republicans in the House and the Senate voiced their intention to halt the practice of separating families at the border — but clashed over how to proceed.