There’s plenty of time to attend the Magritte exhibition (Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938) at the Art Institute of Chicago; it runs through October 13th. Cost should be no obstacle. On the…
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science held two summer camps this past week for high school students. The first, Camp Code, introduced students to the programming language Python and taught them how to think like…
Ivory Tower, a CNN documentary about higher education directed by Andrew Rossi, is currently playing at the Century Cinema Theatre in Chicago. [Rossi has done films on Al Jazeera (2004) and on the New…
On July 6, 2014, Mayor of Chicago opened another park in a Chicago neighborhood. This is part of a continued effort by Rahm Emmanuel to achieve the goal that” every child within the city of…
Just as I was experiencing the delirium tremens during the first day on which World Cup games weren’t scheduled, I found relief in the writings of Aleksander Hemon. Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer…
2014 is a year of important historical anniversaries. We recently observed the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an event that ignited World War I. We have marked the…
Aviation and Aerospace technology is a funny thing. Frequently, the newest and most innovative technologies seem much like fashion. For instance, a brand or style of jean becomes fashionable for a duration of time and…
I’ve always had an interest in investments. In high school my math teacher sold me $50 worth of United Home Life and a sail boat he owned. I’ve relayed my disastrous experience with the sailboat…
I began reading Kevin Birmingham’s The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses (2014) on Bloomsday (June 16). Bloomsday is a literary event celebrated around the world with parties, pub crawls and readings.…
Capital punishment continues to plague our country with an undeniable cycle of violence and a culture of death. We’ve all heard the question, but I think it bears repeating: How does killing someone for killing…