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Mathematician Eugenia Cheng uses bagels in her presentation to a class on topology at the School of the Art Institute. Cheng is SAIC's second scientist-in-residence.

Art and science intersect at the School of the Art Institute

August 18, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

Eugenia Cheng had just cut a bagel into a Mobius strip and was explaining why a liquid could not assume the same shape, when a student posed a question: "That...

‘Pretty Woman’ at 25, seen by woman once involved in prostitution

May 10, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

The 25th anniversary of "Pretty Woman" marked 25 years in which I had never seen it. When the movie first came out, the premise sounded so repugnant that I couldn't...

Joy MacPhail participates in Adler University's simulation of the experience of being a woman trying to reenter society after prison on Thursday, March 19, 2015. The experience nearly brought her to tears, she said.

Adler simulation teaches hard lessons about life after prison for women

August 18, 2019 at 7:00 p.m.

We opened paper folders and beheld our to-do lists. Visit our parole officers. Get housing. Get food. Get clothing. Apply for a job. We had 10 minutes. Go. So began...

Barbara Hailey, a resident at Mercy Housing Lakefront, said March 12, 2015, that the supportive housing program helped her get her "peace of mind back."

Residents of Chicago housing program to make pleas in face of cuts

May 10, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Barbara Hailey plans to be there Monday at the Illinois Senate hearing on proposed cuts to the budget of the Department of Health and Human Services. So do Annie Johnson,...

Farm policy and lessons about agriculture legislation are often done from a distance, but a Harvard grad student is bringing his classmates to Illinois to see farming up close.

Harvard student to go beyond agriculture policy with Farm Trek to Illinois

August 18, 2019 at 6:55 p.m.

T.J. Menn, who grew up working on his uncle's farm outside Carthage, Ill., thought his fellow students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government were getting a misguided view of U.S....

Zookeeper, Sarah Jurgens holds a pygmy marmoset named Reillo on her head on June 02, 2011 in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Mammal March Madness is beloved animal version of NCAA championship

May 23, 2019 at 3:47 a.m.

The brackets have been filled out; the fans are psyched; the competitors are pawing at the ground. Or, in the case of the pygmy marmoset, climbing down from the trees....

Karisa Bruin and T.J. Jagodowski perform improv based on end-of-life advance care planning at the iO Theater in Chicago in 2015.

A night of improv comedy based on a unlikely subject — death

August 18, 2019 at 6:50 p.m.

Before the performance, Sara Shafran wasn't sure what to expect. "I described it to a friend, and she was like, 'What? Someone comes out and talks about death and then...

Helen Macdonald's memoir, "H Is for Hawk," explores how she overcame grieving the death of her father by taming her goshawk, Mabel.

Review: ‘H Is for Hawk’ by Helen Macdonald

May 9, 2019 at 5:13 p.m.

Helen Macdonald's "H Is for Hawk" is one of a kind, unless there are other grief memoirs/falconry tales/literary analyses out there. But really, it is one of a kind for...

Forgetting exactly which birthday this one is, and glad of it

May 10, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Happy birthday to me. Today I am — Hmm. Give me a minute. Well, I know the decade. And I know which end of it I'm in. In fact, I...

Bryan Donkin, of Naperville, gets lost in the plume of snow arcing out of his snowblower.

14 commandments for the rest of winter

May 10, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

Getting through winter can be a spiritual challenge, as well as other kinds. Fortunately, we have a set of moral and ethical rules we can turn to for guidance. Some...

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