Author: DXO
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Family Time and the Decades-Long Churn of Equality
I love the obituaries. More consistently than any other type of news story, they have the random power to inform me about something intensely personal while marking decades of movement in the broadest swaths of society. Today is one of those days. Throughout her career, she worked to study parenting as it was practiced, not…
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Lincoln Marsh, Early November: Wet Full-Spectrum Color Field
On Saturday I returned to the marsh to find it in full color and full flush. The expected Fall colors were present:
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The Public Library + Me
I was born in the Northview Heights Housing Project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is where Andrew Carnegie made most of his money and he built nine out of the 2,500 libraries that bore his name. At one point, the “Carnegie library system” was responsible for 75-80 percent of every library in the nation. In Pittsburgh,…
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On the Odd Ubiquity and Invisibility of Speed Camera Data
Over there weekend, there have been at least three news stories have referenced super-specific figures on speed cameras as released by the City of Chicago, but none of them link to the actual data. I read these stories, and marveled and the incredibly specific information they’ve pulled from what seems to be a specific document,…
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The Temporary Nature of Leaves
I was in Lincoln Marsh this afternoon as a storm rolled in. Fast eviction of leaves from a tree.