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Lincoln Park in Chicago

Two massive forked lightning bolts drop behind the Chicago skyline during a nighttime thunderstorm

Single frame. Two perfectly placed bolts. Thanks, Mother Nature!

#ILwx #Chicago

A large lightning bolt strikes behind the Chicago Skyline on Friday night.

A large lightning bolt strikes behind the Chicago Skyline on Friday night.

Big bolts delivering some Friday Night Lights. ⚡️⚡️

#ILWx #Chicago

And the map of the streetcars in Chicago was insane. You could pretty much get anywhere without a car.

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Fog-tastic! Thursday early evening in Chicago.

Gonna add biotech to this list as well. AI protein engineering/design is magical.

Science is good. We should fund it.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Gregory Sievers, American (1951- ), The Theater, oil, 36 x 24 in, private collection

Hell yeah! That’s my governor!

Good Evening, “IL-9 Congressional Primary” was a 12 month sociological study conducted by Northwestern University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Pint-Henge. Today is St. Patrick's Day and it will be the coldest in Chicago in almost 60 years. Sláinte

Green River. Saturday in Chicago.

Curious what the rest of the list is

That section is so depressing. I see so much potential every time I walk down Lincoln.

The baby whose life was saved by the first personalized CRISPR therapy KJ Muldoon is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Biotech is just inherently slow compared to other fields. Here’s the best CRISPR story from last year.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

It’s partially downstream from education polarization

Looks like a UFO invasion… but very pretty. Heavy air traffic at #ORD tonight. #timelapse #lakemichigan #chicago ✈️

It’s actually insane to read the business section of his wikipedia page.

CD19 CAR T-Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia | NEJM In patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), the risk of relapse is high owing to persistent autoreactive B-cell activity. Multirefractory AIHA is a more advanced stage of disease that is d...

Another major triumph for a refractory autoimmune disease—hemolytic anemia—through engineered T cells
@nejm.org
nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article) How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

The latest numbers are in: Congestion pricing cut 27M car trips in 2025.
Commutes got faster
Streets got safer
And business went up
See more exclusive analysis - and feedback from 600+readers - in our latest collab with @upshot.nytimes.com
Free link:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The names of our most important streets still carry their historical roots at heart. Avenues, parkways, and boulevards bear a proud civic legacy—spaces once meant for recreation, gathering, and promenade. To uncover these layered histories is to glimpse another way of inhabiting the city.

These medical breakthroughs and advances gave patients new hope in 2025 Advances delivered what may feel like medical miracles, including the first bladder transplant, a lifesaving personalized gene therapy and more.

American science took a beating this year, with cuts to funding and jobs. And yet, scientists persisted and made progress. These advances in 2025 spotlight how crucial it is to support biomedical research — and how much of an impact it can have on people’s lives.
www.sciencenews.org/article/medi...

When you're brainstorming about bioproduct ideas one thing you look for is signs of an unmet market need

photo of the inside of a cta train with a blur of lights outside

yellow line
skokie, illinois

The first patients have been helped by cancer-fighting cells made directly in their bodies Novel approach could be faster, and cheaper, than making the cells in the lab—but safety concerns linger

www.science.org/content/arti...