BoingBoingin' with The Chiditarod:Chicago's Urban Shopping Cart Race

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Deadspin discuss how this year's election is beginning to resemble the American League playoffs. jmj

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Led Zeppelin biographer Stephen Davis visits with NPR's Farai Chideya and discusses the band's Blues roots, and how they transformed the genre to inspire a countless number of hard rock and heavy metal bands by doing so. Listen. jmj

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Chicago, in a massive public housing overhaul, is in the process of tearing down the Cabrini-Green projects. The question is, where are the people going to go? Many of the people are leaving Chicago, and Good Magazine's Siobhan O'Connor thinks that may have been the plan all along. jmj

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Just in case you've forgotten how to, Box of Crayons presents the Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun. jmj

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An amazing GOOD Magazine graphic about the number of enlisted US soldiers during all the major wars. glc

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Scientific America looks into just how entangled the body and the brain really are. glc

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In an nutshell: why I love the no impact man project. If only there was a way to actually accomplish economic libertaion. If there is, consider No Impact Man among the vanguards leading the charge to the new American Dream. glc

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Is there a looming roller coaster war in Florida? glc

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Both Kottke and predictably irrational linked to articles this week concerning the placebo effect. Bad Science analyzed the effect in gnereal while the NY Times took a look at pain killers and how the placebo effect can drive prices. Both outstanding reads. glc

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Over at strange maps, they clue us in on what happens when a natural border, such as a river, shifts over time. glc