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7 min ago | SFGate

An Ohio Brewery Is Recreating A 5,000-Year-Old Beer Using Only Clay Pots

The Great Lakes Brewing Company is trying to recreate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian brew using only clay pots and wood spoons.

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Related Topix: Beer, Drink, Life, Food, Recipes, Baked Goods, Bread

3 hrs ago | EurekAlert!

Fat cells in breast may connect social stress to triple-negative breast cancer

Local chemical signals released by fat cells in the mammary gland appear to provide a crucial link between exposure to unrelenting social stressors early in life, and the subsequent development of breast cancer, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the July 2013 issue of the journal Cancer Prevention Research .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Biology

7 hrs ago | RedOrbit

Got The Munchies? Get More Sleep

Researchers, scientists and other medical professionals from all over have descended upon San Francisco this week for the Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting .

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11 hrs ago | The Daily Beast

Vivian Zink/NBCTV's Throwback DadsWhile more men are staying at home...

While more men are staying at home and excelling at fatherhood, movies and TV still portray such dads as bumbling, emasculated weaklings, writes Soraya Roberts.

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Related Topix: Mr. Mom, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Family, Kids, Celebrities, Michael Keaton, Grown Ups

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Toledo Blade

Springfield grad's work ethic rewarded with Harvard scholarship

Springfield High graduate Dylan Tan, 18, wears a T-shirt given to him after being accepted into Harvard.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Watertown, MA, Standardized Testing, Education

KNEB-AM Scottsbluff

Missing Chicago Student's Family Conducting Own Search

The family of a University of Chicago student who vanished during a powerful storm last week was intending on Monday to review surveillance videos from restaurants, bars and shops near Lake Michigan, hoping for a glimpse of the missing man.

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Related Topix: us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel, Weather

Townhall

Dennis Prager: Why Some Scientists Embrace the 'Multiverse'

Last week, in Nice, France, I was privileged to participate, along with 30 scholars, mostly scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the universe was designed, or at least fine-tuned, to make life, especially intelligent life.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, Opinion

CBS News

University of Chicago student Austin Hudson-Lapore missing for five days

CHICAGO - Five days after 20-year-old University of Chicago student Austin Hudson-Lapore was last seen, his disappearance is still shrouded in mystery, reported CBS Chicago .

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Morris Daily Herald

Orthopedic spine surgeon joins up with Rezin team

Mir Ali, M.D., Ph.D. has joined the Rezin Orthopedics and Sports Medicine team. He will begin seeing patients July 1, 2013.

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Related Topix: Rush University, Joliet, IL

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Chicago joins Borrow Direct, expanding access for MIT and other partner institutions

MIT will soon be able to tap into the book collections of yet another top institution when the University of Chicago joins Borrow Direct , a partnership that allows for the sharing of library materials between member institutions, this fall.

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Related Topix: Libraries

Daily Kos

RIP, Bernie Sahlins, and thank you....

Bernie Sahlins died yesterday, at 90, in Chicago, the city he made a hotspot for comedy talent through the revolutionary work of Second City.

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Related Topix: Brian Doyle-Murray, Chicago, IL, Chicago, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Saturday Night Live

MediLexicon

Olfactory Decline In Seniors Can Perturb Diet, Presage Disease And Predict Death

The ability to distinguish between odors declines steadily with age, but a new study shows that African-Americans have a much greater decrease in their sense of smell than Caucasians.

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Related Topix: African-American, Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, Pinto, MD, Health

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Economic Principals

Previews of Coming Attractions

For a little while last week, the most emailed item on The New York Times website was Robert Hershey's fine obituary for the economic historian Robert Fogel, of the University of Chicago.

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Bloomberg

Nussbaum: 2-Year Law School? Let's Not Rush It

When William Rainey Harper, president of the University of Chicago , proposed to add a law school to the new university in 1902, he entrusted the project to Ernst Freund, a political-science professor, former practicing lawyer and well-known expert on police power and the free-speech rights of dissidents.

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Related Topix: Northwestern University, New York University

Chicago Sun-Times

6 dead, at least 29 wounded in weekend shootings across city

Six men are dead and at least 29 other people have been wounded in gun violence across the city since Friday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Cook County, IL, Oak Lawn, IL

Examiner.com

ALA 2013 Annual Conference in Chicago, Part I

The Chicago-based American Library Association will hold the ALA 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition in McCormick Place on the Chicago lakeshore from Thursday, June 27, 2013 to Tuesday, July 2, 2013.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Bell, CA

Boston.com

The Library Test Kitchen at Harvard University - BostonGlobe.com

As the director of both the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the metaLab Harvard , he typically spends his days grappling with the urgent questions of the wired world, but right now, his most pressing concern is more concrete.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University

Concord Monitor

John Stark Regional graduation speaker: - Stay alert, alive and involved' with others

More than monetary success, those who came to say goodbye to the Class of 2013 at John Stark Regional High School yesterday hoped the graduates would find real happiness in the little things and in service to others.

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Related Topix: Henniker, NH, Weare, NH

Sat Jun 15, 2013

New York Post

In My Library Tucker Max

He's the poet laureate of frat boys, the founder of a new genre dubbed "Fratire."

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Related Topix: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Opinion

TwinCities

Real World Economics: Nobel laureate Fogel left legacy of human insights

University of Chicago economist and 1995 Nobel laureate Robert Fogel had a long and productive life before he died Tuesday, so I don't consider his death to be tragic.

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Related Topix: Nutrition, Medicine