“[Stephanie] Esposito, of the Southwest Side, visited 367 hot dog stands in just five weeks to win Vienna Beef’s Hot Dog Stand Challenge. The second- and third-place winners — sisters Karen Buralli and Rose Lamont — also ate at all […]
It never fails to impress me how one can learn by sending emails to the right folks. “I didn’t know the answer to this one, so I sent an e-mail to Alcoa’s Closure division (I figured that Alcoa knows about anything […]
“Since 1839, the town of Henley had been the home of the Royal Regatta, the largest rowing race in all of England.” | learn more
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“Thin, dyspeptic, and humorless, he had seemed like an alien to his classmates since arriving at Stanford two and a half years earlier. He didn’t drink, didn’t date, didn’t crack jokes, and he seemed to possess both an insatiable ambition […]
What’s happening in crypto isn’t quite a replacement of traditional finance. Instead, it’s a rebuilding of traditional financial behavior from the ground up. There are new assets (including NFTs), loans against assets, and of course with loans come defaults. There […]
“But when it comes to preparing South Korea’s national dish, there are myriad modi operandi and many subtleties even within those. Each region in the country has its own trademark pickled pizzazz. The further you stray from Seoul, the more […]
“A small device implanted in the brain of a patient with severe, treatment-resistant depression was trained to issue electrical pulses to areas of the brain linked to the condition. The effects of the neurostimulation kicked in almost immediately, according to […]
The new President of the University of Chicago has been a pioneer in nanoscience. One interesting anecdote: he once commercialized tech from his lab and discovered the commercial company quickly outpaced lab research. “And so on and before you knew […]
Tired of getting trash talked by doctors, the popular fitness brand decided to build their own healthcare practice. This feels like the beginning of something big. | learn more