By High Yield Insights

Editor’s Note: Esteemed Beachwood college football correspondent and consumer and market research analyst Mike Luce is embarking on a new business venture, High Yield Insights. Mike is really smart, y’all. And he writes college football like a dream. Now he’s the King of Pot Intel. Hit him up for all your market research needs.
Chicago – Even in states where recreational use has been legalized, nearly half (44 percent) of cannabis consumers self-identify as using cannabis for medical purposes, including for pain relief (69 percent) and sleep assistance (65 percent), and to manage anxiety (54 percent), according to a new report from consumer behavior experts High Yield Insights.
In a first-of-its kind survey of medical cannabis user behaviors and product preferences, High Yield Insights’ report found medical users are twice as likely to check CBD levels when they purchase cannabis, with 47 percent verifying CBD concentrations versus 25 percent of recreational users.
The Medical Cannabis User report also found that medical users express demand for convenient or discrete cannabis product forms, such as edibles, topicals, oils and tinctures. Notably, medical users are twice as likely as recreational consumers to use topicals (22 percent vs 11 percent) and over three times as likely to use tinctures (17 percent vs 5 percent).

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Posted on June 14, 2018

By Julie Grace/WisContext

While Wisconsin is known as “America’s Dairyland,” this nickname would not have accurately depicted the state during its first 50 years. In fact, the early history of Wisconsin agriculture is dominated by other crops – most notably, wheat – that preceded the contemporary dairy industry.
In order to better understand the story of Wisconsin’s agriculture, it’s also important to look at the history of the state itself. Author Jerry Apps, a onetime University of Wisconsin-Extension agricultural agent and UW-Madison professor emeritus, discussed the roots of agriculture in the state in an Oct. 23, 2015 presentation at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Apps’ presentation, recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place, was based on his 2015 book, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History, which explored Wisconsin’s agricultural history as influenced through factors like climate, geography and settlement patterns.

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Posted on June 6, 2018

By J.J. Tindall

Bison at the Atom Smasher
I am the soft target here,
I don’t quite measure up
To the atom smasher.
Mind you: to me, a particle accelerator
Is an atom smasher and
I’m not even sure
Why I’m here at all.
I know I’m not alone in this.

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Posted on June 1, 2018

By Frieda Anderson and Laura Wasilowski

“Frieda Anderson and Laura Wasilowski are art quilters and members of the Chicago School of Fusing. In this video, Frieda shares the basics of fused art quilts in this fun project Prairie Flowers. This is one of three videos. You can find the pattern with directions here.”
Part 1.

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Posted on May 28, 2018

By Black Art In America

“Born in Chicago and educated at the School of the Art Institute, Charles White was part of the city’s flourishing black artistic community of the 1930s.
“He was determined to employ art in the struggle for social change, declaring, ‘Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent.’
“Influenced by Mexican muralists such as Diego Rivera, White completed several important mural commissions in the city, including one for a branch of the Chicago Public Library.”

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Posted on May 16, 2018

By J.J. Tindall

King Love
They squared off
Revolver to revolver,
Maybe six feet apart –
Let’s call it four –
A beat cop
And a Latin King
(A child), in a standoff
On the sidewalk in front
Of my second-story flat
After sirens,
Squealing tires and shrieks
Of “KING LOVE!!!”

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Posted on May 11, 2018

By PJ Liesch/UW-Extension

Since the earliest days of humankind, people have excelled at exploring and expanding their presence to nearly every spot on the map. With all of this wanderlust, humans have been equally adept at taking other species with them on their travels – often with unintended consequences.
In some situations, species have been deliberately moved by humans: livestock to the Western Hemisphere, the introduction of birds from Shakespeare’s plays into Central Park, and even the notorious gypsy moth that was transported from Europe in a failed attempt at launching an American silkmoth industry.
On top of that, there’s also an extraordinarily long list of species that have been accidentally moved, with significant impacts. Stowaway rats on the ships of European explorers and traders are one of the most notorious examples. Upon their introduction to new island environments, the rodents wreaked havoc on native birds and reptiles by devouring vulnerable eggs.
An Asian tiger mosquito (left) and Asian rock pool mosquito (right) feed on a person/Ari Farajollahi, Bugwood.org (CC BY 3.0)
Insects have also been transported around the globe with devastating results. Some of North America’s most important and emerging insect pests originate elsewhere on the planet: the Japanese beetle, emerald ash borer, brown marmorated stink bug, and the spotted lanternfly.
One of the insects best adapted to follow humans wherever they go is the notorious mosquito (family Culicidae).

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Posted on May 9, 2018

By slydogstroh/via YouTube

“Chicago Eskate is a community I’ve had the privilege to help create and flourish. I truly appreciate each and every person that comes to a ride and gives of themselves to be part of a positive community. Cheers, everyone and Float On.”

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Posted on May 8, 2018

By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service

WASHINGTON – Eddy Packing Co., a Yoakum, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 49,558 pounds of smoked sausage products that may be contaminated with foreign matter, specifically hard plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced.
The smoked sausage items were originally processed on April 5, 2018, with packing dates of April 5-6, 2018. The following products are subject to recall:

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Posted on May 7, 2018

By J.J. Tindall

Darling Buds
“This is what I mean.”
Said the wind.
“I am music, I am motion,

I carry
The gods.
I enswirl you
With fresh light, ensnare you
In the dust of the darling buds
Of May
(Which seem to come so suddenly,
Like the new sunrise, now off kilter.
You look away a few days
And everything changes).

“This is what I am,”
Said the mind.
“Trained by art

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Posted on May 4, 2018