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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Meet strongylodon macrobotrys

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     Under ordinary conditions, w e would not have rushed back to the Orchid show 11 days after attending the opening of the 1960s-themed ...
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Friday, February 20, 2026

Trump administration slashes away at science, but scientists are pushing back

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  National Center on Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado    My father had one good idea.      OK, that is unfair. He had many good ide...
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Thursday, February 19, 2026

Artisanal bread

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        Well ... it's been an interesting couple days, since Monday night when, tired from a long day and with a full house of kids and ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Rev. Jesse Jackson charmed the great and the infamous, trying to make a difference

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, 1982 (Chicago Sun-Times file photo)      The Century Shopping Centre at 2828 N. Clark Street was built inside the old Di...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and Chicago icon, dead at 84

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  Rev. Jesse Jackson (photo for the Sun-Times by Ashlee Rezin)     “I may be poor ...” began the call-and-response Rev. Jesse Jackson led in...
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Monday, February 16, 2026

'Boss Lincoln' reminds us that Honest Abe didn't float into the presidency but clawed his way there

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Daniel Chester French’s statue of Abraham Lincoln in his memorial in Washington, D.C. I love how his right foot is slightly raised, as if he...
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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Chicago resistance to ICE echoes opposition to Fugitive Slave Act 175 years ago

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“A Ride for Liberty — The Fugitive Slaves” by Eastman Johnson. “The absence of white figures in this liberation subject makes it virtually u...
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