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Review: Charles Fort's Underrated Influence
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 5 days agoUniversity of Chicago Press Charles Fort lived a century ago but is still invoked fairly frequently today: the "inspired clown" (as the screenwriter and...
Recipe: Don't Care Syrup
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis recipe originated from Emil Hiss in the 1897 book "Standard Manual of Soda and Other Beverages" (which warned, "Some have indulged in the detestable...
‘High-status’ millennials are richer than boomers were at the same age. The rest aren’t so lucky
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoMillennials and baby boomers have been positioned as generational contrasts: One benefitted from a...
Editorial: Beware being Joe Biden’s attack dog, Gov. Pritzker. Flatulence can blow back.
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoWhen Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered the keynote speech at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s...
The Wonder of the Universe’s Weirdness
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months ago(Illustration created with Midjourney) Ross Douthat was mostly right in his excellent November 15 New York Times column, which ended with this: “The...
Missouri S&T professor explores the history of breakfast cereal in new book
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFor the first several thousand years of its time of existence, cereal was porridge - grain boiled...
Rick Kogan: Bonnie Koloc is back in Chicago, her music still with healing powers
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoCHICAGO — Bonnie Koloc is coming back, which means that memories will flow for those who have been...
His book captures 100 years of folk and country music history in Chicago
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCHICAGO — Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park, Illinois, and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of theaters in plays ...
Scholar, author Elijah Anderson to talk about Black experience in South Bend
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSOUTH BEND — Elijah Anderson, an urban ethnographer and author of several books about the Black...
6 incredible egg facts, just in time for Easter
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHere we see 11 bird eggs of different colors and sizes against a cream background. Every spring, colorful eggs show up in Easter egg hunts, and...
