- The insects we used to call stink bugs are actually boxelder bugs.
2. A dromomaniac is someone with an “uncontrollable urge to walk or wander.” (Wikipedia)
3. The difference between Montessori and Charlotte Mason educations: “Maria Montessori treats the child as a physical being who is educated first and foremost through his responses to a carefully controlled physical environment. Charlotte Mason assumes the child is a ‘spiritual organism’ who is educated by the ideas — spiritual/intellectual things — to which he is exposed.” (There are some interesting similarities too — read more here.)
4. Monophysitism is the doctrine that Jesus has only one hybrid nature rather being “both God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever.” (WSC Q21)
5. If you live in New York state you can get a free NYPL card and use it to borrow three electronic resources at a time; this is great because the New York Public Library has 111k audiobooks versus 24k through the Ontario Library Service Consortium and 6K through the North Country Library System.
6. This is what a woolly bear caterpillar looks like when it grows up.
I learned a lot of fascinating information about the flavor industry – and the relationship between the flavor of food and its nutritional value, in this book. https://www.markschatzker.com/doritoeffect-home-page