Medill's annual publishing project presents Beaucoup Chicago, the very first local magazine made exclusively for the iPad.
This is my capstone project. I was lucky enough to be able to combine my magazine skills with something as high-tech and cutting edge as this project, for which I was a part of the editorial team. This means I did everything from copy-editing the text for many of the stories in the final draft of the magazine and pitching in with an extra hand for many of the special projects.
Life - now in exciting 3D!
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| "AIDS Virus - Third Edition" by Ellen Sandor |
Republished by: The Chicago Journal
Chicago artist Ellen Sandor has been bending the dimensions of visual art since the 1980s, creating scientific visualizations of everything from fractal math to viruses.
Driven originally by what she describes as “a healthy appetite for kitsch,” Sandor was fascinated by turn-of-the-century novelties such as lenticular postcards and stereoscopic films. She set out to develop ways to include similar alternative effects in her work.
Learning to regulate emotions may offer comfort to those with developmental challenges
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| Rubbing "Weeping Yogi" statues such as this one is thought to bring comfort to the distressed. (Jessica Krinke/MEDILL) |
Republished in: Get Healthy Magazine (Northwest Indiana Times)
"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” -Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
I often recall a duck cruising along a placid lake when trying to describe living with ADHD. It appears calm, daydreaming on the surface while kicking frantically underneath.
New options give The Pill a rebirth at 50
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| Evaluating life with hormonal birth control 50 years later. (Jessica Krinke/MEDILL) |
WATCH: Dr. Debby explains more about The Pill
The Pill celebrates its 50th birthday this year yet understanding regarding the ins and outs of hormonal birth control still remain in adolescence.
While just as effective as it’s always been, it’s not your mother’s pill anymore.
If you can't beat 'em, stop 'em where they stand
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| Human breast cancer cells treated left to right with dasatinib. The same samples are dyed to highlight different proteins. Photo courtesy of Dr. Corey. |
Researchers at Northwestern University are pioneering ways to shoot out the tires from breast cancer’s getaway car in a high-speed chase of drug assassins and carcinogenic criminals.
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| Dr. Seth Corey, M.D. |
That’s because breast cancer itself doesn’t kill until it metastasizes, or travels, to other sensitive organs, invades and then grows. But a new clue to stopping this destructive spree surprisingly came from children.
Dr. Seth Corey is a pediatric oncologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital and professor of cellular and molecular biology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He and his researchers saw similarities between the travels of breast cancer and another notorious roamer – leukemia. They found that dasatinib, a drug already used to eliminate leukemia in the bone marrow, may also prevent mobility in breast cancer, keeping it from jumping the mammary ship to invade vital organs and kill.
But even though dasatinib is FDA-approved for the treatment of leukemia, the likelihood of your doctor prescribing it for breast cancer just yet is slim. The Northwestern research team hopes to take advantage of dasatinib’s clinical breast cancer trials to determine what responds best. By mapping the biological signatures of varying cancer types this way, fingerprints of these malignant flight-risks to assist in diagnosis and further targeted treatment may not be far off.
Grains of change: Northwestern researchers craft the future of plastics
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| J. Mirian Diop, a graduate student with Northwestern University’s Torkelson’s Research Group, adjusts the construction of a screw for the lab’s “extruder,” a gadget that combines polymers molecularly. Diop left an industrial chemical engineering career to pursue environmentally beneficial research. (Jessica Krinke/MEDILL) |
Northwestern University’s Torkelson Research Group has big plans for those tiny grains. Diop and her colleagues think that someday the work done here will change the way the world produces and recycles much of its everyday plastic products.
After each tweak of the mixture, Diop sets up again for another three-hour test beneath the lab’s florescent lights and concrete walls lined with machinery parts and trays of various granulated plastics.
Right now, the conventional way industry creates plastics is to melt down the specific polymers (science for plastic) needed and blend them with dyes until the mixture is the desired color and consistency.
Rock local - open mic night at Rogers Park's Red Line Tap
Final project for Wynne Delacoma's arts reporting class. The assignment was to make a video or slideshow about a live performance. I chose slideshow because it forces you to listen to the performances more and, to me, it's easier to make someone "there" with just pictures and sounds sometimes.
By the way, in case you're wondering why Brad Norman's voice sounds familiar, he now plays "Chad Ridgeway," the broker character in the Scottrade commercials. He told me during our short interview that he had just done an audition in California that he was waiting to her back about. I guess it went well. Good for him.
By the way, in case you're wondering why Brad Norman's voice sounds familiar, he now plays "Chad Ridgeway," the broker character in the Scottrade commercials. He told me during our short interview that he had just done an audition in California that he was waiting to her back about. I guess it went well. Good for him.
Alley Cat: Mark Thomas's lucky 7
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Thomas owns The Alley, the collection of punk/kitch/whatever stores on the corner of Belmont Ave. and Clark St. in Chicago that have attracted generations of suburban teens on their first pilgrimages to the big city.
After minding hell’s gift shop for three decades, Chicago’s godfather of alternative culture has enough keepsakes to fill four offices and stories to fill each one of his many shops. High above the driving music and scent of leather in the main Alley store, he reminisces about the toys in his attic.
Harder, better, faster, stronger: I:Scintilla grows with age, but is the world ready?
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| I:Scintilla press photo/ISCINTILLA.COM |
Industrial corn school transplants I:Scintilla have a cult following and goth cred to spare. Too bad everyone around them doesn’t seem to be up to their level.
The 1300 block of West Lake Street is an odd place for an underground music venue. Not as out-of-place as Chinatown is for Reggie’s, but almost.
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