This is no Looney Tune
In Warner Bros.’ cartoons, there aren’t really any unhappy endings (unless you consider the Coyote’s Sisyphean pursuit of the Roadrunner particularly tragic. I say nibble on a desert tortoise or […]
Category Archives: Science in Chicago
How an entrepreneur could help green Chicago
Vince Cushing Jr. has a pretty impressive pedigree when it comes to building things. His grandfather, John Cushing, was a civil engineer, and the namesake of Notre Dame’s Cushing Hall, […]
Bright-eyed and bushbaby-tailed
A new arrival at the Lincoln Park Zoo is finally making an appearance. The baby Moholi bushbaby was born in January and has been hiding out in its den ever […]
A vortex of a different stripe
…or rather, a different configuration. University of Chicago researchers Dustin Kleckner and William Irvine created a vortex that’s the first of its kind to be seen in a lab: A […]
Fermilab, Argonne, and the “S” word
You’ve probably heard it half a hundred times in the last few weeks: Sequestration. Basically, it potentially means big fat budget cuts if Congress can’t compromise on how to spend […]
Greening the Shedd
It’s easy enough for we normal folk to buy LED lights, re-seal our windows or use the cold cycle in the wash to save some energy. But how do you […]
How nerds say I love you
When I was a kid, I expressed my nerdy tendencies by painstakingly making my own valentines to hand out to friends (aside from a nature nerd I was also a […]
Chicago the biggest killer of migratory birds
We’ve got to face facts: We live within a killing machine. According to a piece posted on Grist this week, our skyline kills more birds every year than any other […]
More on the mysterious puppeteer spider
Remember this crazy decoy-building spider? Of course you do, you couldn’t forget something so awesome. Turns out that Destin, the guy behind the Smarter Every Day video series, was on […]
Blind sea lion pup gets a new home at the Shedd
Twenty-month-old Cruz can’t see, so he’ll need to rely on the staff at the Shedd Aquarium to be his eyes. The pup was just introduced at the aquarium this week […]
