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  1. Mar 2020
    1. he stoplights here are long, two minutes or more. Badu would have had time to sit and consider what he was doing.

      Reminds me of the way Baran walks Flowers' route. The act of recreating what the subject did often reveals new information.

    1. To South America, they were headed! Where the insect-eatin’s good all winter. They bred in North America over the summer, so they wouldn’t even have that pressure when they made it south. Chimney swifts, they’re called, because they roost in chimneys. They can’t see at night, so they tuck in each evening at sunset. It’s a sight to behold, a vortex of hundreds of black birds diving into a small hole at dusk. Once inside, they take little pieces of twigs and mix them with their saliva to create a cement-like adhesive that helps them stick to the wall.

      Good background research to get reader informed on unknown topic