The Duck and Sue at the Field Museum of Natural History features a rubber duck next to Sue — the largest, most extensive and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found — at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. At the beginning of 2013, I made a resolution to post a weekly photograph of a […] More
The Duck and the Field Museum of Natural History features a rubber duck outside the Field Museum, a museum of natural history in Chicago, Illinois that contains over 24 million specimens and objects and a library of over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology, and material […] More
The Duck and Shedd Aquarium features a rubber duck outside Shedd Aquarium, an indoor aquarium in Chicago, Illinois that opened in 1930 and that contains 1,500 species including fish, marine mammals, birds, snakes, amphibians, and insects. At the beginning of 2013, I made a resolution to post a weekly photograph of a rubber duck. Because […] More
Thank you to Bootler for sponsoring the following post. All opinions are my own. I love shopping online and having my purchases delivered to my door. With two young children, going shopping can be quite the hassle. The same is true of going out to eat. Sometimes I just want to order my meals in. […] More
Measles cases continue to grow among babies too young to receive the combination measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Five infants at a suburban Chicago daycare center have been diagnosed with the disease. Cook County and Illinois public health officials are investigating the cluster of measles cases at KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine, a suburb of Chicago. Lab […] More
