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Having Our Forest And Cutting It Too

Brian Donahue | Yale Books | 10th December 2024 | U

The world needs trees, especially trees that have been allowed to grow undisturbed for decades. We, the inhabitants of the world, need houses to live in and these buildings require wood. These two priorities can co-exist: harvesting trees for lumber is possible without destroying forests. Thinning the trees that "fall behind" from the forest creates "slow wood" that matures over centuries (1,000 words)

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Ettore "Big E" Ewen | Players' Tribune | 2nd December 2024 | U

Memoirs of a professional wrestler. It's a fun, if ruthless, profession. "The thing about being a heel is, it’s a lot easier to get people to boo you than it is to get them to cheer you. You just have a wider breadth of things you can draw from. You can be obnoxious. You can be whiny. You can be a cheater. You can be a dork. You can be a slimeball. You can be a weirdo. You can just try a lot of things" (9,000 words)

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