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Showing posts with label Raymond Huber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raymond Huber. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2011

Book tip

Raymond Huber makes a recommendation that caught my interest. He describes the value he got from reading The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster, a book I've never read, though I've heard or read the title often enough. His post is here  and here is a little of what he says about the book. I'm now in pursuit of a copy :

"More than any other book I read as a child The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  gave me a love of words– it puns them, pushes them, and explodes their meaning."

Sounds like my kind of read.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Raymond Huber - bee commentator

"Nicotine Bees

The home garden supplier, Yates, advertises a handy spray-can of pesticide as ‘low toxic to beneficial insects’ and ‘soft on beneficial insects’. Lies. The pesticide is extremely toxic to the world’s most beneficial insect, the honey bee – a nerve poison 7000 times more lethal than DDT. The pesticide (Confidor) contains nicotine-based poisons which are now banned in France, Italy, Germany, and Slovenia, because of links to massive bee deaths."

Read the article from Raymond Huber here.