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Blue-Spotted Salamanders, Painted Turtles & Feral Children!
The largest gathering of Chicago’s nature lovers was held Saturday. Here are some highlights via Twitter:
One of my fav slides from #WildThings19, Essential Skills for Feral Children, at the “I Love the Trash Forest” talk abt keeping wild spaces for kids to play – https://t.co/Y7tkc7mNzD pic.twitter.com/3sU6LnxDVu
— cassi saari (@BOUCUR) February 25, 2019
Posted on February 26, 2019
By The Wild Things Conference
With the myriad challenges facing the natural world, it’s more important than ever to come together to share notes on tangible solutions to pressing issues large and small. The Wild Things Conference is the largest gathering of Chicagoland’s nature lovers – both professional and amateur – who gather to celebrate and defend our priceless natural spaces.
From bobcats returning to Illinois to social science methods for community conservation, the 2019 Wild Things Conference will be the biggest one yet, with more than a hundred different presentations and exhibitions.
Happening on Saturday, February 23rd at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, this celebration of people and nature will continue the biennial tradition of ecological knowledge-sharing that started in the mid-1970s.
Posted on February 19, 2019
By J.J. Tindall
Courtyard Still Life: Cardinal and Cricket
The chirp of a courtyard cricket
Came in through the bathroom window.
It was high noon in summer.
I was startled. I heard eternity.
Cricket song, I thought,
Was a strictly midnight phenomenon.
One expects siren shriek, train whoosh, tire screech,
Car alarms, garbage trucks, arguments, gunfire.
Apartment courtyard acoustics prevail:
Posted on February 18, 2019
By Samuel Becher/The Conversation
Most of us will have entered into consumer contracts with large companies and ticked a box to confirm we understand the terms and conditions without bothering to read the fine print.
We accept standard form contracts when using social media, booking flights, opening a bank account, subscribing to a gym or renting a car. In all these cases, companies offer pre-drafted standardized agreements that are non-negotiable.
At the same time, consumers are legally assumed to have read the terms and conditions of their contracts. Because of this “duty to read,” consumers are held responsible for the written terms of their agreements, regardless of whether they read them.
But while consumers have the legal burden to read their contracts, companies do not have a general duty to offer readable ones. As our research shows, most of them are incomprehensible.
Posted on February 5, 2019
By J.J. Tindall
Treadwell at the DuSable Museum
In the early ’90s
We got stoned
Out of our living gourds –
Me, G.F. Fox and Seamus
(Representing West Town,
Ravenswood & De Paul) –
And made a drive south to
The DuSable Museum
Of African American History.
Posted on February 4, 2019
