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This isn't as throw as it could be but it gives you a good idea of what was popular through the 20's to the 60's.

I used this source to help me get ideas for hard candy recipes, particularly older styles of hard candy like lollipops and barley sugar candy, so that I could try making some new types of candy. The author talks not only about the recipe, but about the crucial steps that you have to take to make the candy come out the way that you want it to. I did not see anything like this on most of the other recipes that I looked at. I would highly recommend this to someone who has cooked candy before. I would recommend having practice in the art of cooking candy before attempting any of these recipes.

The mini skirt was one of the only Sixties' icon that was bigger than The Beatles. It represented change and sexual liberation of women. This talks about what the mini skirt stood for and history on it.

This site talks about old fashioned Chinking (insulation) for cabins. It also gives recipes to make different kinds of chinking.

People should have sustainable fashion. This is a good guide for finding natural eco-friendly fabrics so you know what to buy.

Selvedge magazine is based in the UK and it's issues are about interior design, fashion, art, craft, travel and shopping. This June they are offering a week long course on block printing. It's a workshop with two well known textile artists.

This New York Times blog post comments on how oversexualized and inappropriate the american apparel ads are.

This shows you how to create darts in clothing so the clothing fits your body closer.

This site informed me of how shellac nails are made, how shellac nail polish is better than the normal manicure and many pros and cons of this in style fashion.

A 1990 documentary filmed in the Sawtooth Mountains. Jim and Jamie Dutcher follow what comes to be called "The Saw Tooth Pack." The couple follows the pack in a close and detailed fashion, naming the wolves. The roles of different wolves and the class system of a large wolf pack are a big part of this documentary.

This was a extremely helpful source that explained the differences of the three cortical fibers. Though I knew about the roles that white fibers fulfilled, it was clarifying to read this source on the differences among the specific fibers. The commissural fibers connect the two hemispheres of the brain. Association fibers connect different gyri together. Since gyri gyrate in an up and down fashion, the association fibers create a U-shape, so they are sometimes called U-fibers. Projection fibers connect the cortex to the lower brain and brainstem. This article was extremely helpful, as parts of the basal ganglia and limbic systems had been confusing me. In particular the corpus callosum and fornix in these systems had been confusing me as to what they did. This source explained that they just bus the information, and do not have a complicated internal structure, like many of the nuclei in that region. This really helped me understand these two systems, and the roles that each component plays within them.