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Just as I was firing up Word Press to blog about Daniel Pinchbeck's new Web site, Reality Sandwich, I detoured over to the site for more data and spent a whole hour there. And I didn't really have a whole hour to spare. If that's not a ringing endorsement, what is?

Starting with the banner at the top of the page -- a category list that looks like a yummy board game -- I clicked on "Eco," rummaged around for a minute among the Freegans (they squat, they dumpster dive, they hitchhike out of "the matrix"), learned from Bill Briscoe about how the lack of farm labor strains organic farming -- you can't pick ripe tomatoes with a machine (I did not know that), and then read David Rothenberg's beautiful, provocative and funny post about trying to convince a scientist to let him swim with the whales so he can hear their sounds. The scientist is prickly and protective; Rothenberg is insistent ("C'mon Mark! Making music with whales is not the same as running them over with a power boat!"), and, well, it's deep, and opens up a host of issues about interspecies communication, science and art.

Read the comment, too.

I'm hoping the site remains a portal for interdisciplinary ideas, where science meets art meets . . . oh, you know. I'm feeling the lack of that sort of thing these days in my compartmentalized little life.

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