These Shrimp Live And Die In The Woods

Over the years, I’ve met all kinds of strange creatures in the forest. Insects, mammals, mushrooms, and the occasional strange human are just a few examples.

But up until recently, I had never encountered shrimp-like creatures.

Truthfully, it never crossed my mind that the forest could accommodate such organisms. Besides pill bugs, which are often referred to as land shrimp, could anything shrimp-like actually live among the pin oaks and red maples? I didn’t think it was possible.

Until I learned about fairy shrimp.

Fairy shrimp are aquatic crustaceans that live and die in the woods. More specifically, fairy shrimp complete their entire life cycle within vernal pools. Eggs hatch in late winter. Larvae transform into breeding adults within a few weeks. By the end of summer, all fairy shrimp perish.

I recently spent a lot of time in the presence of fairy shrimp and decided to capture their short lives on film. To learn more about these amazing creatures, check out the brand new video!

You can watch the video here.

Thanks for reading and watching, and thank you for your continued support!

-Adam Haritan

Building an Earth Oven, Part II: Insulation, Finish Plaster, and Cob Mosaic — The Druids Garden

In last week’s post , we began exploring the build of an earth oven. An Earth Oven is a simple structure, made of clay, sand, straw, stone, and fire brick, that you can use to cook foods in a traditional way. Last week’s post walked you through the first set of steps for building your…
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The Gods of Atlantis and Lemuria

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When Atlantis and Lemuria sank the survivors scattered around the world. The Mayans say sixty million people died in Lemuria during the cataclysm that sank Atlantis and Lemuria. I can’t find a record of how many died in Atlantis. There were survivors. If there wasn’t survivors we would not be here today. Let’s look at just who the survivors were.

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Building an Earth Oven Part I: Foundation, Dome, and Structure — The Druids Garden

An earth oven is an oven made of cob (a mixture of clay, sand, and straw) with insulating features (firebricks, bottles). It is an extremely efficient and sustainable method of doing any baking you might need to do. One firing of your earth oven can allow you to bake different things for hours (pizzas, bread,…
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Vulcan Salute

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The Vulcan salute was a hand gesture made by the character Spock in Star Trek. It is a hand gesture where you put the pinky and ring finger together while holding the index and middle finger together making a V with the hand. Spock would say “Live long and prosper” while making the symbol. What is this symbol? Where does it come from? You are about to find out.

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Native American History

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The Americas have been inhabited for a very long time. The people of the Americas have been here just as long if not longer than the people of the east. The Native Americans traded with others around the world. There have been many artifacts found in the Americas that are considered Asian, Egyptian and Viking. The Bering Straight is one big lie. The ancients were very good seafarers.

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Our Minds Limit Science

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Our ego mind is what limits us. We are our own worst enemies. We can’t be wrong. We have to have others think like us. The ego will get itself into trouble constantly. Science is not immune to the ego. In fact science is being run by one of the biggest ego trips ever in history. Until we get science and the human race out of the ego, we will not advance.

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Potemkin Nation — Potemkin Nation | Ecosophia

There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just before other societies went through the important inflection points in their life cycle, you can tolerably often figure out when one of those is abojut to happen in…
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Science is Dead

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Science is dead and we have killed it. It has delegitimized common sense. Science has become the new Catholic Inquisition. Anti-science is the new word for heretic. Science was meant to help us make choices not make the choice for us. Whales and many other animals are more valuable to us dead than alive so we hunt them. Trees are more valuable to us dead than alive so we chop them down and make lumber. The science inquisition consisting of media and technology has figured out that dead minds are more valuable than minds that think for themselves. They can make so much more money keeping people isolated on computers, television, video games and phones.

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Secret Societies

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So many people think the world is being run by secret societies. Garbage about the illuminati is all over the internet. Secret societies began in the ancient world. In ancient times a person wanting to join a secret society had to go through certain rituals and ceremonies. All the important phases of life were marked with ceremony, ritual and symbols. The person had to pass trials, obligations and revelations in order to prepare to become part of the order. Once they were accepted they received the wisdom of their people. They had to prove they were worthy of the wisdom by undergoing trials of real or psychological dangers. The number one thing they had to prove was to show they would self sacrifice for their people.

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