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As I understand it, Corrective Reading is a direct instruction phonics program that promotes word and sound recognition, involves student repetition of words in a “call and response” format and…

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Hunting blinds, 1897-1991. Are these the ingredients of the perfect crime? You could dress up as a cow and shoot your rich Uncle Oswald, then stand there and chew your cud as the police…

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adj. loving supper

Crouching in a Flanders trench in November 1917, 21-year-old Walter Butler addressed a field service card to his fiancee Amy to let her know he was safe.

She never received it. After the war Butler…

One of the films up for the Best Animated Short Oscar is called Logorama. It’s a Pulp Fiction-inspired ditty composed almost entirely of inventively used corporate logos. A screenshot is…

A personal favorite. Spent a snowy afternoon yesterday at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art just for a visit with Wyeth’s painting.

Andrew Wyeth, Young America, 1950, Egg tempera on…

I’ve got an article on the upside of depression in the latest New York Times Magazine. If you’d like to learn more about this controversial theory, I’d suggest reading the original paper, “The…

Excavating a cave near the sacred Galilean catacomb of Beth She’Arim in 1956, a bulldozer unearthed an enormous rectangular slab, 11 × 6.5 × 1.5 feet. Rather than try to move the 9-ton mass, workers…

I live in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. When I tell people where I live, I’m often asked “why Lakeview?” or given a glum, “oh. That’s cool.” My friends in Chicago don’t live in the…

I like to think that one of my more valuable contributions as an Omni employee is providing the lowest common denominator factor in usability testing. That is, when an engineer wants to really…

I loved David Wilcox’s Chicago Reader article Human Care Bears about the cultural framing of people with mental disabilities. I am always profoundly frustrated by the way that critiques of…

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My folding bike was just stolen. It was locked up with a cable lock, just outside the hotel, in broad daylight. It happend in a matter of minutes, while I was un…