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How Are Chicago-Area Insects Impacted By Climate Change?

Something as big as climate change can impact even the little parts of life. During this week's climate conversation we’re talking REALLY small: insects, with Professor Alex Harmon-Threatt, pollination ecologist at the University of Illinois. Host: Mel...

‘Bronzeville Lakefront’ Seeks South Side Buy-In For Development

Paula Robinson is a Chicago developer who pushed to make sure residents had their voice heard in a new megadevelopment on the city's South Side. Plans for "Bronzeville Lakefront" on the former site of Michael Reese Hospital were approved by the city ea...

Why Some CPS Parents Feel Unsafe Returning Kids To School

Chicago Public Schools leaders are insisting that almost all students should be back in classes full time this fall, but some parents are pushing back. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Sarah Karp

COVID-19 Delta Variant: How Worried Should Chicagoans Be?

Doctor Emily Landon, infectious disease specialist with UChicago Medicine, details the precautions people should still be taking as COVID-19 cases rise in Illinois. Host: Melba Lara; Producer: Lauren Frost

AG Garland Meets With Chicagoans Closest to Gun Violence

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland visited an anti-violence program on the city’s West Side on Thursday. Eddie Bocanegra runs READI Chicago, and shared more on Garland's visit. Host: Mary Dixon; Reporter: Patrick Smith

Episode 1021 – Google Admits To Listening To Recordings Even When The Device Was Not Activated

Internet of Things devices with microphones in our homes has a risk with them. Who can listen to what and when? Google has recently admitted to government officials that they do listen to recordings that are not activated by the user. This episode goes into the details.

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Read an Excerpt from “Climate the Making of Worlds” by Tobias Menely

In his new book, Climate and the Making of Worlds, Tobias Menely tracks the long literary history of poetic rewritings and critical readings that continually engage with the climate as a condition of human world-making. Poems, he argues, provide a distinct archive of geohistorical change. We asked Menely to tell us more about the genesis of this project. Read on for his commentary, followed by an excerpt from chapter one of the book. The first chapter in my new book, Climate and the Making of Worlds, lays out a geohistorical reading of Paradise Lost. Milton planned and composed his epic retelling of the Christian creation story during a period of intense historical tumult: the disintegration of the Commonwealth and the restoration of the monarchy, a visitation of the bubonic plague, and a fire that destroyed much of London. This period of crisis, as climate historians such as Geoffrey Parker have shown, corresponds with one of the most acute phases of the Little Ice Age, which saw unusually frigid winters, dry summers, powerful storms, and repeated crop failures. Not unlike climate historians today, Milton grappled with the shaping influence of climate, its role in determining the fate of nations and of […]

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Chicago City Hall Vet. Reflects on 30 Years Under 4 Mayors

Rosa Escareño has had a front-row seat to Chicago politics for decades, starting work for City Hall right out of high school and quickly moving on to serve in top leadership roles. She's currently overseeing enforcement of the $15 dollar minimum wage, ...

Chicago City Hall Vet. Reflects on 30 Years Under 4 Mayors

Rosa Escareño has had a front-row seat to Chicago politics for decades, starting work for City Hall right out of high school and quickly moving on to serve in top leadership roles. She's currently overseeing enforcement of the $15 dollar minimum wage, ...

What Being A ‘Victims’ Advocate’ Means for One Chicago Pastor

Pastor Donovan Price is the Founder of Solutions and Resources, a non-profit working to provide healing for survivors of gun violence in Chicago. He was also one of the people out trying to help victims’ families this weekend, when Chicago Police say 5...

Episode 1019 – Disable The Windows Print Spooler Now

Another new vulnerability has been published for Windows, this time imapcting the Print Spooler. This vulnerability is an elevated privilege one and needs to be dealt with now.

How to disable it

In Windows Search bar type - services.msc

Scroll to Print Spooler and double click.

Change Startup Type to Manual or Disabled, then hit Stop.

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Chicago Police Say Morale Is Worse Than Ever

First a pandemic and scrutiny over police brutality. Now, police say long hours are hurting efforts to improve officer mental health. Alexa James, a wellness advisor for the Chicago Police Department, speaks about the challenge of caring for Chicago’s ...