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It’s the One That Says “Bad Astronomer”
Happy (one-day-belated) birthday to our favorite Bad Astronomer! Once, back in the day, Phil Plait was cool enough to be…
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The Chicago Humanities Festival Gets Graphic
Pics or it didn’t happen! As a whole, humans have been obsessed with imagery for far longer than Bongo Cat…
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![Fire at Museu Nacional in Brazil By Felipe Milanez (Sent by the photographer -- OTRS-sent) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://madartlab.com/files/2018/09/Fire_at_Museu_Nacional_04.jpg)
Brazil Wants Your Vacation Photos
One week ago yesterday, a devastating fire raged through the National Museum of Brazil that destroyed as much as 90…
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Stay Awesome
Here’s an assertion: you’re already awesome. I don’t mean awesome like a hot dog, I mean breathtaking supernova of expanding…
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Drawing Out of Your Head
One thing I’ve heard a lot from people over the years that they can’t draw out of their head. Like,…
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Public Art Sellout
Is the state of Illinois about to try selling off its public art? (Perhaps they didn’t notice how well that…
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Bruncheons & Dragons
“Why doesn’t anyone run D&D games at 10am on a Saturday?” That was the question from some friends of mine,…
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The Most Annual of General Meetings
Recently I wrapped a two year term on the board of Kwartzlab, a local makerspace. As their Secretary, I kept…
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