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I wanted to read Wayfinders because I don't normally read books that are, for lack of a better word, serious. I've read A history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson, which talks about the same themes discussed in Wayfinders. I think it is crucial for us to be exposed to world history, not just history about the US. In Bill Bryson's book, he really touches on the development of different cultures, trade, the movement of resources - it just expands your worldview, makes you a more openminded person and I would also argue it helps with problem solving skills (at least for me it does as weird as that sounds). While I've only begun reading Wayfinders, I like how it emphasizes indigenous cultures as something we can learn from. From what I've read so far, he touches on the communities in the Polynesian Islands and their methods of navigation. Not only is it interesting to read about - both his accounts of their navigations techniques and his accounts of meeting the Poly...

  Your AMDP Drafts are due Tuesday,  February 28.  Please post to your blogs. If you have time to do a complete draft, by all means, go for it. If you're pressed for time, post a minimum of:  Header ,  Summary  paragraph with road map, the four definitions (with source of definition in parentheses after each one), and subheads for  Background ,  Analysis , and  Recommendation . These capitalized, bolded terms come from Slide 5 of the Memo slideshow in WOTJ. Turning Trash into Treasure Misfits Market - Grocery store that sells the 'waste' produced by other larger grocers Misfits Market is an American e-commerce company that offers customers discounted produce boxes containing "ugly" or "imperfect" fruits and vegetables. The company's mission is to reduce food waste by rescuing produce that would otherwise be discarded due to cosmetic imperfections, overstock, or surplus. By selling these items at a lower price point than traditional grocery s...