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By Steve Rhodes
This video was uploaded to YouTube this week and sent me down the rabbit hole of the late LaSalle Extension University (and its Wayne School subsidiary), described by Boing Boing as the “Snail Mail Generation’s University of Phoenix.” Only worse.
Let’s take a look.
Posted on April 30, 2019
By The Field Museum
Imagine a book so massive it takes three people to open the glass display case to access it, yet so delicate the three-foot-tall pages are only turned once a week to ensure preservation.
The Field Museum’s newest exhibition, Audubon’s Birds of America, showcases this giant book, along with Audubon’s travel journal and specimens of some of the birds he brought to life
The Birds of America, published as highly prized hand-colored prints from 1827 to 1838 by painter and ornithologist John James Audubon, forever after influenced the art of wildlife illustration and is the most famous bird book in the world.
Posted on April 25, 2019
Another Beachwood Special Report
For at least a year – well, longer, really – a few downstate yahoos have urged whoever would be in charge of such a thing to cut Chicago loose and let it be its own state, the 51st, so as to stop bringing the rest of Illinois down, what with its jobs and tourism and tax dollars and, um, people of color.
Like all right-thinking people, we’re all for it. After all, downstate Illinois should be free to wallow in its own misery, which, if they could bottle it, might save their economy.
And the suburbs? Enough, parasites! Go forth with your country brethren and leave us alone!
But what would the State of Chicago look like? Well, here’s a start – apparently these are the things every state has.
Posted on April 23, 2019
“It’s your last chance to see Mummies, our limited-time exhibition featuring mummies from ancient Peru and Egypt,” the Field Museum says.
“Using non-invasive CT scanning, our scientists were able to see an Egyptian woman inside her intricate layered wrappings. At the time of her death, likely from tuberculosis, she was in her early 40s and had curly hair. Her gilded mask not only acted as an idealized portrait, but also ensured she kept her eyesight, hearing, taste, and smell in the afterlife.”
Posted on April 20, 2019
By The Chicago Tool Library
The Chicago Tool Library will launch a crowdfunding campaign Wednesday with a goal of raising $25,000 to outfit the organization’s new space in the Chicago Sustainable Manufacturing Center.
Funds will allow the Chicago Tool Library to purchase new tools, engage in outreach efforts, acquire tools and cover start-up expenses.
Posted on April 15, 2019
By J.J. Tindall
The Black Cat
Every morning when I venture
Onto the grid as winter finally wanes,
My mind is a recalcitrant predator: hyper-aware,
Vigilant, cunning, poised. By necessity
A black cat with jade-green eyes.
In the center of each, black pupils
Which reflect any color image the cat
Contemplates, first displaying the primary colors
Before they coalesce into secondaries:
Red and yellow into orange, red and blue
Into violet. You have to be vigilant.
You can only see these colors reflected
Posted on April 7, 2019
