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Tate Modern
I visited the Tate Modern on Saturday to see their new building and snapped some photos. Here's the north face with the Millennium Bridge off to the left:A better photo of the west entrance foyer:And...
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Buckinghamshire
Two more photos from last weekend. This is what I walked around in near Tring on Sunday:down well-marked paths:That, I tell you, is England. Which I hope very much will stay in the United Kingdom.
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Which city might take over from London?
New York Times business columnist James Stewart thinks it through:Unless Britain finds a way to undo its decision to leave the European Union, London’s days as the pre-eminent global financial capital,...
View ArticleA little fishy in Chicago
Today marks the 49th anniversary of the most odiferous disaster ever to strike the shores of Chicago:[D]uring the 1930s, these alewives got into Lake Michigan. They weren’t much of a problem because...
View ArticleIt's right there in black and white
Chicago saw the end of an era today:The final Chicago-made Oreo cookies will roll off the line Friday, ending the iconic cookie's decadeslong run of delighting consumers and providing good-paying union...
View ArticleToo many browser windows open at work
Because I need to read all of these and have to do my actual job first:I'm going to Pitchfork tomorrow; here's what Greg Kot says I should see.Jeet Heer thinks that Hillary Clinton's campaign is...
View ArticleSo much to read after work today
From AVWeb: one of the world's two remaining B-29 Superfortresses flew for the first time this weekend after being grounded for more than 60 years.From CityLab: Nice's surveillance network is...
View ArticleWhat I'm reading (later today)
The Daily Beast reports that Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect has revealed the DNC hacker to be an agent of the Russian government.The first Sears-Roebuck store, near my house, will remain largely...
View ArticleMissed by goal by that much
Yesterday, after a run of 77 days (beating my previous record of 70), I missed my Fitbit step goal by less than 800 steps. So embarrassing.From May 9th until July 24th, I walked 10,000 steps every day....
View ArticleSemi-annual sunrise chart
The Chicago sunrise chart for 2016-17 is up, just a few weeks late. (Look, I've been busy.)
View ArticleWhence altruism?
Via Bruce Schneier, the Universities of Bath, Manchester, and Princeton have developed a simple model to explain how altruism may have evolved in humans:The key insight is that the total size of...
View ArticleWorst blogging month in 5½ years
With a new job, summer weather, and lots of things going on, July 2016 turned out to be the worst month for the Daily Parker since November 2010. Back then I was finishing my MBA and traveling for work...
View ArticleDrifting evidence
Attention flat-earthers: you can't simultaneously believe in GPS and that the earth is a disk covered by the dome of Heaven. Maps of Australia are the latest casualty in the war between evidence...
View ArticleFallows agrees: Obama's denunciation of Trump was unprecedented
I thought earlier today that this was unique. James Fallows, who knows more about the presidency than most living journalists, agrees:To the best of my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened...
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Yet another reporter stumbles upon the Dunning-Krueger effect (though without naming it) to explain Trump's stumbles upon the body politic.Meanwhile, some Republicans are finally distancing themselves...
View ArticleOne...two..(cough)..three..four...
Fifty years ago today, the Beatles released Revolver:[I]n their spare time, the Beatles make the greatest rock album ever, Revolver, released on August 5th, 1966 – an album so far ahead of its time,...
View ArticleWhat, more Ren Faire?
What can I say? I have nerdy friends. Also the weather forecast for the Faire calls for sunny skies and 26°C—damn close to perfect.Only question is, should I bring my real camera?
View ArticleAugust 9th has some history
The world's most recent nuclear attack on 9 August 1945 immediately springs to mind, as does Richard Nixon's resignatoin on 9 August 1973. But 9 August 1991 may be almost as important:On this day 25...
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View from the Office
Every day that I'm in my office (about 3-4 times per week), I take a photo out the window. Here's today's:We're on the 35th floor of Willis Tower. But we have access to the 66th floor lobby, so on...
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