While campaign season in America never really goes away, the upcoming Iowa caucuses do mark an end to the off-year latent period. What we’ve got now is a bad ca
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NEW YEAR NEW...RETURNING PODCAST This episode, we jump back in with some bookish news, recommendations, and a chat about what's going on in Lawrence this spring! Turns out? Lots of stuff.
Portal Fantasy: It’s So Hot Right Now
In the house I spent a good chunk of my early childhood there was a built in Lazy Susan. Remember those? None of my adulthood homes have had one, but none could
Sandworm
In recent years there's been a groundswell in studies of the ecology of hidden things -- soil biota, genomics, cell biology, the human biome.
Objects of Effection
I recently stumbled into the home of a woman who, with no family in the area, left her possessions to the will of strangers.
I’m Not an Island! Paul Simon Was Wrong
When I think back on my trajectory of struggles and peaks, beginning at age 16, it resembles a stock market graph, spanned over decades. Up, down, up, down, down, down, up. Taken from a more expansive viewpoint, it's always gaining and growing. Recently speaking with a woman who's also in her thirties, we agreed that…
Glorious Obscurity
When you tell people you’re taking a trip, there are some destinations met with a polite but bemused, “Why?” The short answer is that I wanted to; that I love the snow and the cold (and maple syrup). The longer answer involves explaining how characters in a years-long story my Best Friend and I write…
Sportsball, Yeah!
Evidently being a librarian who is also a sports fanatic is a dubious pairing. There are a handful of my co-workers I discuss our favorite teams with, but for the most part it’s blank stares and gentle ribbing about if my sportsball team won that day. To which I un-ironically respond with a highlight recap they…
Bite the Bullet Journal
With the beginning of a new year, let alone decade, there can be a strong desire to get one’s life organized and begin again. Quite right. For a few years now, I’ve been fascinated by the growing popularity of bullet journaling, or rapid logging, and its potential for incorporating different techniques of data visualization. In…
Sound+Vision Spotlight: Thighmaster
The Sound+Vision studio at LPL sees projects that run the gamut. Full bands, singer songwriters, podcasts, oral histories, voice-overs, and plenty more have utilized the extensive audio and video recording capabilities of the studio. These projects also sit across the spectrum from hobbyists and enthusiasts to professionals. Whatever you want to work on, S+V can…
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