First office rehab comes to booming DePaul area
By Charles Hayes Published on March 2, 1986 in the Chicago Tribune The North Side's DePaul neighborhood is gearing up for another boom. Already the city's hottest residential area for rehab...
The Role Fiber plays in our diet
According to the Mayo Clinic, “dietary fiber is the parts of the plant that the body can’t digest or absorb.” That’s not exactly the most helpful definition I’ve come across but they go on further: “i...
Whole Grains to White
In Michael Pollan’s exploratory work “In Defense of Food” one of his major tenets is to “Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” Basically saying that the baffling...
The Accidental History of the Propeller
One of the aspects of history that always fascinates me are those little accidental discoveries that seem at the time to be minor setbacks but reveal themselves over the course of years to become para...
Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley: Father of the FDA
I think we Americans, for the most part take a lot for granted in our everyday lives. When I wake up, I assume the hot water will come out the shower head, the car will start and aside from the usual ...
Iowa STRIPS Program Reduces Runoff
Since I mentioned the issue of the massive hypoxia, or “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, I’ve started to dig around into some various solutions to this problem. Most of the older articles I came...
Miscanthus Reduces our Nitrogen Leaching
In a previous post, I made reference to the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico where the nutrient runoff from the upper Mississippi river system has introduced millions of tons of leached fertilizers ...
