56 years ago today, Nick Drake released “Five Leaves Left” Five Leaves Left has regularly appeared on lists of the best albums of all time. The album was ranked number 283 on Rolling Stone magazine's original 2003 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Jo Scott, contemporary UK artist #womensart #FridayFeeling #summer

U-M researchers developed a tool called Liketropy that detects AI-generated text with a low false accusation rate. Tara Radvand, a doctoral student at Michigan Ross, said the goal was to minimize false accusations while confidently flagging AI content. myumi.ch/dgXxw

Haiku July, Day 18

There was a sailboat race on Lake Michigan this weekend when the water and the sky were the same exact color. This created the optical illusion that the boats were sailing in the sky!

"Curiosity is rare, precious, and worth cultivating. A life stripped of it shrinks into routine—a life fed by it becomes, paradoxically, both longer and larger." psychologytoday.com/us/blog/curios…

1 week until Oasis is here in my hometown at Soldier Field!

Me not saying cookies solve all problems, but have you tried cookies?

A Beginner’s Guide to John Coltrane

Good later afternoon Here we have a wonderful chart of the various variety of apples. And it’s readable !

Welcome to the Windy City Liam Gallagher Noel Gallagher Paul Arthurs.! We’re thrilled to have you 🍕🌭🎸

“The response to the whole of Oasis’s catalog, as well as the remarkable amount of twentysomethings in the crowd, made the case that the band has grown a whole new fanbase across the Atlantic…. The Gallaghers can still break America. Or, maybe in Chicago, they already did.”

This evening is one of those nights where a full moon will rise up behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse. SaveTheLighthose.org

This clip of R. L. Burnside performing “See My Jumper Hanging On The Line” is one of my favorite corners of the internet.

Oasis’ reunion took me back to my uni days and seeing them perform in 1994.

A decade of clean energy progress to celebrate! Two especially noteworthy data points, per new report: 4x as much solar forecast since the Paris climate pact now powers the planet; and 1 of 5 new cars sold are EVs (up from 1 in 100 in 2015). bit.ly/47eBmog

James Brown giving a dance lesson is the video you didn’t know you needed.

Animals in Chicago zoo delight in fresh snowfall