Obituary: Bob Koester Brought Blues to Chicagoans and Beyond (88)

Bob Koester in the stacks at the Jazz Record Mart in 2009 MICHAEL JACKSON Bob Koester leaves a colossal legacy in Chicago jazz and blues  19 May 2021 | Howard Mandel  | Chicago Reader Bob Koester, who died May 12 […]

Wuhan Institute of Virology is only one of dozens of level 4 (BSL4) labs in the world

Photo: A virologist stands between rows of cages for laboratory animals in the new high security laboratory (biosafety level 4) at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany. dpa picture alliance/Alamy Stock Photo 14 June 2021 | Filippa […]

The Plot Sickens: Bid on a Trip to Space with Jeff Bezos (updated)

Photo: Amazon and Blue Origin founder and Paul Shaffer lookalike Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States April 5, 2017. (Reuters/Isaiah […]

Report: Half of clothes sold by online fashion brands ‘made from virgin plastic’

Approximately half of the clothes sold by large online fashion brands such as Boohoo and Asos use ‘virgin plastic,’ or plastic that contains no recycled material. 11 June 2021 | Zoe Wood | The Guardian Approximately half of the clothes […]