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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHICAGO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver the keynote address in Chicago this week marking NASA's final Future Forum. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Dale will deliver the address Friday at Adler Planetarium. The event marks the final Future Forum, part of a yearlong series celebrating the space agency's 50th anniversary. The forum...
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Guarino (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Last night was the great debate. And today, Barack Obama campaigned in Greensboro where he was reportedly greeted by a crowd of 20,000.There is no truth to the rumor that they all sang, "O Come, Let Us Adore Him" after...
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Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
I am not a fan of John McCain. He has degenerated in recent times into a pandering tool of the far right, willing to say and do anything — including outright hypocrisy (he’s against lobbyists? Really') — to get votes. I have had my doubts on his support for science, but my fears have been at [...]
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RenewAmerica columns (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
(Warner Todd Huston) - This is the pot calling the kettle for sure. Earlier this week, Obama made an early attempt to attack Governor Sarah Palin on the earmark issue. He claimed that Palin is responsible for taking many earmarked funds for her state as she sat in the Governor's office in Juneau and that her attack on him for earmarks is, therefore, illegitimate...
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MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
-By Warner Todd Huston This is the pot calling the kettle for sure. Earlier this week, Obama made an early attempt to attack Governor Sarah Palin on the earmark issue. He claimed that Palin is responsible for taking many earmarked funds for her state as she sat in the Governor’s office in Juneau and that her [...]
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
From this morning's Washington Times: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama tried to direct more than $3 million in taxpayer funds to a Chicago museum whose chairman is one of the Illinois senator's...
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Chicago news (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
The body of a man was found near in Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Saturday afternoon.
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illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The Next Right gave IR a heads up on a self-serving earmark U.S. Senator Obama delivered to the Adler Planetarium when Adler's board of directors wished upon the Democratic rising star with campaign donations and hit the jackpot. Great catch,...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Part seven of seven: Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu answer questions in a live educational event with students participating from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Ill.
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Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
tags: peeponaut , astropeep , marshmallow peeps , science , space travel , astronomy , Adler Planetarium Astropeep strength training program, part of the selection process for identifying those marshmallow peeps who had "the right fluff". These special peeps would be recruited as peeponauts who would be sent into space on a weather balloon. Image: Adler Planetarium [ larger view ]. Like most scientists,...
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Blogula Rasa (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Chicago’s Adler Planetarium has a “Far Horizons” educational program that sends up experiments to the edges of space via weather balloon. They recently began a rigorous Peep Space Program, recruited various shades of prospective peeponauts from the Marshmallow-American community, and after putting them through a series of training and endurance tests, launched one lucky yellow [...]
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Chicago news (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Two suburban Republican lawmakers have been keeping an eye on the gas crisis. As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, they believe America should spend billions of tax dollars to develop new sources of energy and end our addiction to foreign oil.
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Articles Database (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
If you and your sweetheart will be spending time in the windy city, Chicago sightseeing tours are ideal for a memorable retreat. Even if the two of you live in the area, taking a tour is a fun way to spend the day. Whether you have an afternoon or a month long vacation to spend [...]
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Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
The Sesame Workshop -- the non-profit educational organization behind the children's television show "Sesame Street" -- along with the Beijing Planetarium......
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Articles Database (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
In 1980, a group of restaurateurs approached the Mayor of Chicago with the idea of a food festival on the Fourth of July. It was the birth of Taste of Chicago. Confidence was high that the one-day event could attract 75,000 people. Instead, the event drew nearly 250,000 attendees and forever changed the way Chicago [...]
