Rick Timmer

Aspire to "renaissance" person - love literature, films, technology, history, science, art, and music.

Rick Timmer
flipped into DIY, Home, & Garden
21 Best Drought-Tolerant Shrubs for a Low-Water, Resilient Garden
bhg.com - Megan Hughes
These drought-tolerant shrubs will help you create a lush garden without running up your water bill. Planting drought-tolerant shrubs is a good way to …
Rick Timmer
flipped into History
Barbary Pirates: The Raiders Who Terrorized the Mediterranean For Centuries
worldatlas.com - Connor Brighton
Piracy, especially in the Western context is usually associated with the kind of pirate typical within the Caribbean and the New World roughly …
Rick Timmer
flipped into History
Towering Colossus of Constantine reconstructed in Rome
Raw Story - Agence France-Presse
Two giant feet, a knee, a bicep and an enormous head -- archaeologists have reassembled these few marble fragments to reconstruct the Colossus of …
Rick Timmer
flipped into History
The Story Of History's Very First Movie — And How Thomas Edison May Have Sabotaged The Man Behind It
allthatsinteresting.com - Erin Kelly
Although some historians credit The Horse in Motion or Arrival of a Train as the first movie ever made, Louis Le Prince's 1888 film Roundhay Garden …
Rick Timmer
flipped into History
The mystery of Johannes Vermeer’s missing artworks
faroutmagazine.co.uk - Poppy Burton
The magnum opus of Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, is shrouded in mystery, an increasingly familiar pattern for works by the Dutch Golden …
Rick Timmer
flipped into Technology
The mushroom revolution that's bringing change
BBC Culture - Beverley D'Silva
Fungi, cacti, pineapple and other ingenious solutions are helping to transform fashion. Here are seven of the most innovative, eco-friendly materials aiming to make a difference. The fashion industry is famously bad news for the environment. Most of fashion's impact on the planet happens while …