This (Past Three) Week's Favourite Things! Monday March 6th - Sunday March 26th, 2017

1.  Apple Snails, a keystone species or "ecosystem engineer" as featured in this 3 minute youtube clip from BBC Earth "Why the Giant Otter Needs the Snail - Secrets of our Living Planet".    I love that the apple snail just quietly does its thing and its action of turning muck into food, and it results in a giant ecosystem, proving how all species are connected.  According to this article, when taken from its home environment, the apple snail can also be an ecosystem destroyer, having put local rice production and environments at risk when transplanted into new habitats.  

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3.  CBC Article: Their stories on opting out: Indigenous Artists on Canada 150

4. This CBC opinion article:  Canada's 150 Year Celebration doesn't fly here, subtitled why many First Nations people won't be celebrating Canada's sesquicentennial birthday

5. This youtube video of a talk from a 2017 Ancestors & the land conference:  Geography of Hope, Lyla June Johnston on Forgiveness

6.  This You Are Creators Youtube video:   The 30 Day Challenge That Will Change Your Life. 

7.  This version of Waterfalls, especially the lyrics, as sung by this year's judges for the Voice

8.  The song "Spitting Venom" by Modest Mouse, and the entire album it came from.

9.  The song "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty and this article from The Atlantic about it: "Baker Street: The Mystery of Rock's Greatest Sax Riff"  

10.  4 Wounds we all walk around with - article

11.    The South Park episode where Stan tries to stop whaling

12. CTV news article with video: Woman resigned to being plump learns she has 63 kg Ovarian Cyst.  Take heed ladies, apparently at least 10% of woman have Poly Cystic Ovarian  Syndrome, or PCOS, this article seems to describe a worst case scenario though it isn't mentioned.  There is lots online, articles and videos, on PCOS and how to control the symptoms with diet and lifestyle

13. Youtube video: How to Open Your 7 Chakras as Explained in a Children's Show

14. Youtube video from the Bright Insight channel:  6 Shocking Facts PROVE The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction - Our Age of Deception Exposed

15. movie: Legends of the Fall

16. movie: Legally Blonde

17. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Season 4 Episode 6.   Here is one youtube clip from the episode which ended with a bit about dancing traffic zebras in Bolivia, which can be seen here on youtube at least for now.   

Here is a youtube video of some Bolivian Traffic Zebras dancing to psy's 'gangnam style', "Cebra Style"