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Chicago Rat Hole Removed By City — But It’s Being Preserved While Its Fate Is Determined

ROSCOE VILLAGE — The Chicago Rat Hole — a rodent-shaped hole in a Roscoe Village sidewalk that took the city and social media by storm earlier this year — was removed by city crews Wednesday morning.

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again.

A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change

During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures. Around the year 1300, the Huhugam great chief Siwani ruled over a mighty city near what is now Phoenix, Arizona.

UrbanistAI

UrbanistAI enables human-AI cooperation to reimagine the future of our cities. The big rethink in cities starts with harnessing the power of collective intelligence.

Heinz Is Putting Up Ketchup-Dispensers To Tempt Chicagoans With Forbidden Condiment

CHICAGO — There are some Chicago restaurants that will show you the door if you ask for ketchup. But that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

The fish doorbell

See a fish? Ring the bell! Welcome to the Fish Doorbell. Will you help fish pass the city boat lock?

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

It’s the beginning of a new year and you might have seen, floating around on social media, lists like 52 Books To Read in 2024 or 42 Books That Will Change Your Life posted by Library Mindset, an account with 4.6 million Instagram followers.

The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century

Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city’s freight trains, one man stood out.

The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ Is The City’s Hottest New Tourist Attraction

ROSCOE VILLAGE — Chicago is the rattiest city in the nation — and has a rat-shaped hole in the sidewalk to show for it.

To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

many times a year, as if on a hidden schedule, some tech person, often venture-capital-adjacent, types out a thought on social media like “The only thing liberal arts majors are good for is scrubbing floors while I punch them” and hits Send.

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Chicago Rat Hole Removed By City — But It’s Being Preserved While Its Fate Is Determined

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change

UrbanistAI

Heinz Is Putting Up Ketchup-Dispensers To Tempt Chicagoans With Forbidden Condiment

The fish doorbell

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century

The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ Is The City’s Hottest New Tourist Attraction

To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare

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