Is iceberg lettuce just crunchy water?
Making iced coffee with iceberg lettuce, because transitive logic told me so.
National Bicycle Registration Day
I found 27 different bicycle registration programs in the Chicagoland area. Can we have just one?
Finding people on Twitter who listen to Cameo’s “Word Up”
Pleasantly surprised by all the Twitter bot accounts tweeting that they are listening to Cameo’s “Word Up”.
Medieval armor as cubism?
Do a search for “cubism” on the Art Institute of Chicago’s website, and you’ll get some medieval armor.
A giant pumpkin could be featured on the Illinois state quarter
Illinois is the #1 pumpkin producer in America. Let’s fill the state quarter with a giant pumpkin.
William Shatner on how our atmosphere is incredibly thin and delicate
I just happened to catch William Shatner’s conversation with Jeff Bezos just after landing from his outer space trip. William Shatner had some good words to share with Bezos just after walking out of the module. Shatner had some profound thoughts about fast they went through our atmosphere. And the impression of how our air, …
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The mystery of Odilon Redon’s aquatic creatures
The French symbolist painter Odilon Redon got a kick out of putting eyeballs on things. But why?
Signing your emails with a little promo
Telling someone how you discovered their work online (and then sharing your own work too)
SpongeBob’s great grandfather is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection
Today I discovered Spongebob Squarepants’ great-great grandfather—in an art museum.
Are the suburbs compact? Or are they sprawl? Maybe both.
Instead of viewing the suburbs as sprawl, what we we focus on how they are compact?