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Word of Mouth for November 16th, 2011

Photo by lmanage, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons

Today, a walk down the Silk Road, where savvy web-browsers can buy anything from weapons to weed to weird.  Also, how one teacher works to help immigrant and refugee schoolchildren learn language and adapt to a new home through pictures.  Plus, the Total Artifical Heart, a primer on Permaculture, and a ride through the wilderness of Idaho in search of pioneer apples.

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