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Finally, to my family, Carla, Sarina, and Jane: Thanks for putting up with me these past two years. I promise to get those bees out of the rafters as soon as possible.
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CHAPTER 1: THE COURAGE TO SCREW THINGS UP
24 “brain research suggests that making mistakes is one of the best ways to learn”: Henry L. Roediger and Bridgid Finn, “Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn,” Scientific American, Oct. 29 2009, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-it-wrong.
24 “No one talks of failure as anything but shameful”: Tom Jennings, “Fail Early! Fail Often!” Make 10 (2007).
26 “The astounding success of propaganda during the war”: Cited in Alan Axelrod, Profiles in Folly: History’s Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong (New York: Sterling, 2008).
27 “radio, a toy of the unwashed, became the musical instrument of the affluent”: Museum of Public Relations, http://www.prmuseum.com/bernays/bernays_1939.html.
27 “women bought just 12 percent of the cigarettes in America”: Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928; Brooklyn: Ig Publishing, 2005), pp. 54, 71.
28 “Brill told Bernays that cigarettes were symbolic penises”: Alan Axelrod, Profiles in Folly: History’s Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong (New York: Sterling, 2008), pp. 95, 96.
28 “[strive] to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs”: Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1933).
29 “Eddie Bernays saw the way to sell product was not to sell it to your intellect”: Cited in Mick Brown, “America and China: The Eagle and the Dragon Part Three: Onward and Upward,” Telegraph.co.uk, Sept. 7, 2008.
29 “People must be trained to desire”: Siavash Rokni, “How One Man Convinced America to Stop Needing and Start Wanting,” The Other Press, February 2008, http://www.theotherpress.ca/index.php?iid=9474.
CHAPTER 2: KILLING MY LAWN
31 “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land”: Quoted in Maurice G. Kains, Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (New York: Greenberg, 1935).
31 “Mollison later said it could also mean ‘permanent culture’ ”: Cited in Permaculture in Depth, http://permaculturecanada.ca/joomla/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=34.
CHAPTER 3: GROWING FOOD
51 “a liter of petroleum ‘contains the energy equivalent of about five weeks hard human manual labor’ ”: Rob Hopkins, “Transition to a World without Oil,” July 2009 speech, http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/696.
52 “Hopkins explained that for every four barrels of oil we use”: Hopkins, “Transition to a World Without Oil.”
62 “Erected on stilts, with a single sloped tin roof”: Christopher Kieran, “The Shack at Hinkle Farm,” http://archrecord.construction.com/residential/quarterly/0801shack-1.asp, excerpted from Architectural Record, January 2008.
63 “seventeenth-century French chancellor Henri-François d’Aguesseau”: David Fryxell, How to Write Fast (While Writing Well) (Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1992).
CHAPTER 4: TICKLING MISS SILVIA
73 “Bezzera devised a steam-powered solution to speed things up”: Barry D. Smith, Uma Gupta, and Bhupendra S. Gupta, Caffeine and Activation Theory: Effects on Health and Behavior (Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC, 2006), p. 19.
CHAPTER 5: RAISING BABY DINOSAURS
94 “Twenty-four billion chickens are alive today”: Christopher Perrins, ed. Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds (Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, Ltd., 2003).
94 “the most successful birds on the planet”: Tim Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (New York: Grove Press, 2001).
102 “Seth (he goes by his first name only), wrote an essay for the Canadian magazine The Walrus”: Seth, “The Quiet Art of Cartooning,” The Walrus, September 2008, http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.09—the-quiet-art-of -cartooning-seth-comic-book-cartoons/.
105 “April 1, 1909, issue of a magazine called Gleanings in Bee Culture”: http://books.google.com/books?id=4npaAAAAIA AJ&pg=R A11-PA217, p. 217.
107 “chickens still have a gene for growing saber-shaped, reptilian teeth”: Ammu Kannampilly, “Scientists Find Chickens Retain Ancient Ability to Grow Teeth,” ABCNews.com, Feb. 27, 2006, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1666805.
134 “One Web site suggests keeping a ‘very active young cockerel’ ”: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKBroody.html.
CHAPTER 6: STRUMMING AND STIRRING
135 “What’s important about this making stuff is”: Quoted in John Kalish, “Digital DIY: Web Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Share Ethic,” NPR online, March 9, 2008, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87815753.
147 “the repetitive aspect of knitting elicits a ‘relaxation response’ ”: “Knitting,” Academic Medicine, July 2001, http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2001/07000/Knitting.4.aspx#P10.
147 “Andrea Price, a knitting-book author”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpv07ZaGoHg.
151 “the master carvers of the misnamed ‘Black Forest’ school”: http://www.blackforestantiques.com/black_forest_antique_carvings.asp.
CHAPTER 7: FOMENTING FERMENTATION
156 “One book says it originated in Southeast Asia”: Harald W.Tietze, Kombucha: The Miracle Fungus (New South Wales: Phree Books, 1995).
157 “In his 1968 book, Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: The Cancer Ward (New York: Penguin USA, 1968), p. 165.
157 “An article published in 2009 in Chinese Medicine”: Ola Ali Gharib, “Effects of Kombucha on Oxidative Stress Induced Nephrotoxicity in Rats,” Chinese Medicine, Nov. 27, 2009.
157 “one study in Sweden in 2005”: Py Tubelius, Vlaicu Stan, and Anders Zachrisson, “Increasing work-place healthiness with the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri: A randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled study.” Environmental Health 4:25, 2005.
157 “probiotic drinks could fight some kinds of cancers”: “ ‘Good’ Bacteria May Help Stop Some Cancers, Say Scientists,” The Guardian, Oct. 7, 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/oct/07/cancer.medicineandhealth.
158 “a few sobering items about kombucha”: Richard C. Dart, ed., Medical Toxicology (Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004), p. 1750.
158 “In his book, which is part how-to guide”: Sandor Ellix Katz, Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 2003), p. 28.
159 “ancient rituals that humans have been performing for many generations”: Ibid., p. 3.
159 “completely cut off from the process of growing food”: Ibid., p. 27.
CHAPTER 8: KEEPING BEES
163 “In September 2009 a New York Times blog ran an article”: “Saving Bees: What We Know Now,” Room for Debate, New York Times, Sept. 2-3, 2009, http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/saving-bees-what-we-know-now.
164 “Every February, bees are transported to the Central Valley”: Singeli Agnew, “The Almond and the Bee,” San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 14, 2007, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/14/CM2SS2SNO.DTL.
164 “There were 5 million managed bee colonies in 1940”: USDA Agricultural Research Service, “Questions and Answers: Colony Collapse Disorder,” http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572.
165 “Nectar, which is mainly sucrose and water”: Kim Flottum, The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden (Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, 2005; rev. expanded ed., 2010).
168 “Our apicultural forefathers”: Bee Culture, July 2001, http://www.beesource.com/pov/simon/10principles.htm.
169 “bee mites have ‘all but decimated the casual beekeeper’ ”: Glen R. Needham and Diana Sammataro, “Bee Mite Biology,” http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~acarolog/needh
am/beemite.htm.
169 “Thought to have originated in Russia”: “Serious Bee Mite Found on Honey Bees in Hawaii,” Science Daily, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070426113951.htm.
CHAPTER 9: LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
185 “Every one of us knows, if we stop to think about it”: Psychology Today’s Freedom to Learn blog, July 9, 2008.
186 “Afterward, Hahn graduated from high school”: “ ‘Radioactive Boy Scout’ Sentenced to 90 Days for Stealing Smoke Detectors,” FoxNews.com, Oct. 4, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299362,00.html.
187 “You can’t really blame the teachers and administrators”: John Baichtal, GeekDad Review, Wired, June 6, 2008, http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/06/geekdad-review-3.
192 “a device to help blind people sense obstacles in their path”: Caroline Williams, “Interview: The Outsiders,” New Scientist, Jan. 21, 2006: 44-46, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925351.600-interview-the-outsiders.html?full=true.
194 “this surprising discovery from a young, amateur scientist”: Rebecca Lindsey, “Smoke’s Surprising Secret,” NASA Earth Observatory Web site, Jan. 5, 2004, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SmokeSecret/smoke_secret.php.
201 “It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong”: Mel Allen, “The Education of John Holt,” Yankee, December 1981.
202 “allowing children as much freedom to learn in the world”: Pat Farenga, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (New York: Perseus, 2003), pp. 238-239.
INDEX
A
Abstract thinking, Flynn Effect
Acorn flour
Advertising
and cigarette smoking
modern, father of
needs versus desires
psychological approach to
Agriculture
companion-planting
permaculture
See also Vegetable garden
Alfie
Allen, Paul
Alpha makers
defined
projects of
Altair 8800,
Alt.coffee
Alternative energy
Big Solar
California Proposition
solar share vehicles
Amateur science
chemistry DIY
decline of
historical view
Internet and advancement of
and Mims/The Citizen Scientist
American Tobacco Corporation, women smokers and advertising
Ammonium sulfate
Anker, Andrew
Anker, Renee
Anker, Zach
Antibiotics, and egg-laying chickens
Automobiles
fuel sender, installing
Model T, repairing
solar share vehicles
B
Backwards Beekeepers
Baldwin, Jay
Bates, Russell
Beaty, John
Beck, Chris
Beekeeping
ants, keeping out of hive
backwards beekeeping
Backwards Beekeeping manifesto
feeding bees
hive, materials for
mites problem
obtaining bees
smoking hive
starter hive (nuc)
Bees
colony collapse disorder (CCD)
honey, production of
Bees (cont.)
humane bee-removal service
infestation of home
mobile pollination services
Benson, A. C.
Benson, Dr. Herbert
Benton, Chris
Bermuda grass, killing, difficulty of
Bernays, Edward, public relations/ advertising
Bezzera, Luigi
Big Solar, downside to
Black widows, chickens and control of
Boing Boing
Brill, A. A.
Buckweat
Burr grinder
C
California holly (toyon), compost from
California Proposition
Castor beans, for gopher control
Century of the Self, The (Curtis)
Chaga
Chemistry, amateur. See Amateur science
Chickens
compost from droppings/litter
Darwin’s interest in
EROEI (energy return on energy invested)
global population of
as insect eaters
mysteriousness of
relationship to dinosaurs
waste, uses of
Chickens, raising
automatic door on coop
in compatible environment
coop, building from scratch
coop, from renovated shack
deep litter system
egg quality
eggs, eating
eggs and antibiotics
feeding
growth of chicks
and lush garden
mail-order chicks
moving chicks to coop
moving chicks to new area
naming by banding
out-of-coop behavior
predators
wounded chicken, caring for
Cigar Box Nation
Cigarette smoking, and Bernays’ advertising
Citizen Scientist, The
Coconuts, harvesting/processing
Coffee
for export market versus food crops
See also Espresso
Colony collapse disorder (CCD), bees
Companion-planting
Compost
effects on plants
making
making from chicken litter
worm-containing
Computers
Altair 8800,
and Flynn Effect
See also Internet
Consciousness, state of
and focusing
and knitting
relaxation response
and whittling
Consumption, emotions and advertising
Cook Islands
Frisbie and Neal, relocation to
See also Rarotonga
Coyne, Kelly
Coyote
chicken killers
fencing to keep out
Craft
Crema, of espresso
Curtis, Adam
D
Darley, Julian
Darwin, Charles
Dash, Anil
Deep litter system
Deutschmann, Milton
Deutschmann, Theodore
Dinosaurs, relationship to chickens
Discover, on Mims
DIY (do-it-yourself )
activities, scope of
alpha makers
avoiding, rationalizations for
as deprogrammed from advertising
goals of
Internet, influence of
Maker Faire
mistakes, making
past interest in
positive impact of
projects, types of. See DIY (do-it-yourself ) activities
rediscovery of
time, finding for
traits of
types of projects of
wabi sabi
DIY (do-it-yourself ) activities
amateur science
beekeeping
chickens, raising
and education
espresso maker, installing PID,
fermented foods, making
lawn, killing
Rarotonga relocation
stringed instruments, making
vegetable garden
wooden spoons, making
DIY (do-it-yourself ) Internet sites
alt.coffee newsgroup
Boing Boing
cigarboxnation.com
Homegrown Evolution blog
hooptyrides.com (Mister Jalopy)
lastyearsmodel.com
MyPetChicken.com
onestringwillie.com
Strumstick.com
trailing-edge technology users Tweets
Do-it-yourself. See entries under DIY
Dougherty, Dale, starts Make magazine
Dronestick, making
Dyson, Freeman
E
Earth Boxes
E. coli, and vegetable garden
Ecosystems, small scale. See Permaculture
Edible Estates
Education
Gray (Dr. Peter) on
homeschooling
home tutoring
hunter-gatherer learning
Sudbury Valley School method
traditional, criticism of
unschooling
Eggs, fresh. See Chickens, raising
Electronics DIY. See Amateur science
Electronics Learning Lab
Emerson, Ralph Waldo