The Chicago Tribune summarizes the highlights and lowlights of our previous mayor’s time in office. They neglected to mention the massive improvement in bike lanes, but we can forgive them. | learn more
“A Fayetteville woman was given 15 years in prison for posing as a California sheriff’s deputy in order to spring her boyfriend from jail.” | learn more
It’s currently illegal, but maybe not for long. There’s a bill advancing through the legislature that would allow the “outdoorsy and culinarily courageous” to eat certain roadkill. | learn more
“With the availability of this wide array of specific genetic information, breeders should be able to work quickly to increase the flavor of store bought, mass production tomatoes while preserving the traits that make them an economically advantageous crop.” As […]
“The results from the first randomized controlled human trial into [Fecal Matter Transplants] for obesity suggest modulating the microbiome of humans to treat obesity may be more complicated than researchers had hoped.” Although it worked in animal models, it didn’t […]
A story about how being frugal with words works to your advantage. | learn more
“Most people think of tools as designed around their material, not materials around their tools. But in practice, tools and materials are constantly reshaping each other.” | learn more
In a link below you’ll see an article about the ‘tough tomato principle’ about co-evolution. This is that principle in action. First came the internet, then the internet evolved to handle images (and logos), and now logos are evolving to […]