“Even as corporations decamp for downtown, GlenStar’s Michael Klein is refurbishing suburban office complexes to feel more like Wicker Park than Woodfield Mall. Will his contrarian instinct pay off?” | learn more
“More than 162,000 Chicagoans aged 25-34 voted in the midterm election on Tuesday.” | learn more
This came up recently in a conversation and I had to google to refresh my memory. | learn more
The former chief of disguises for the CIA talks about her craft. Really interesting! | learn more
“Lava-powered steak, chicken drumsticks from a lab, and wood fungus for dinner: All these dishes were once thought of as the foodstuffs of the future.” | learn more
“American (cheese) culture is at a crossroads. The product, made famous by the greatest generation, devoured by boomers on the go and touted as the basis for macaroni and cheese, the well-documented love object of Gen X, has met its […]
This is about magic mushrooms 🍄, and is a big deal! It also comes as I’m learning a lot about psychedelics in the book How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. “This classification suggests the treatment has demonstrated significant potential in […]
Bill Taylor, co-founder of Fast Company, tackles this question in the Harvard Business Review. | learn more
The science behind Sans Forgetica, which incorporates a learning principle called ‘desirable difficulty.’ | learn more
“According to eMarketer’s 2018 Visual Search report, about 1 billion visual searches happen per month. That’s a tiny fraction of overall search, which renders hundreds of billions of queries per month, but it’s growing. On Pinterest, monthly visual searches went […]