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While shoppers rush to consume more things they do not need during the annual holiday sale ritual, the Milwaukee Riverkeeper is offer an opportunity for members of the community to help conduct research into the quality of the city’s water resources. For Black Friday, area residents are encouraging volunteers to #OptOutside as part of REI’s efforts to celebrate the outdoors and its benefits. Volunteers will collect water samples from one of the organization’s Emerging Contaminants Monitoring Sites, at 14 locations throughout the Milwaukee River Basin, anytime on Friday, November 24. An online map displays the sites on the Milwaukee...

© Graphic The People Behind The Way We Live Do you know how the inventions you use everyday really came to be? Inventions are thing we use everyday and we tend to over look how they came to be. For instance indoor plumbing, in 1775 Alexander Cumming invents an S-shaped trap that uses standing water. This infographic covers many everyday inventions and how they came to be what they are...

Earlier this month, the blog Think About published a satirical letter as an example of an unhealthy relationship. It was written from the perspective of a narcissist, to the soul who had fallen in love with someone who can never return that love. After reading the original text it seemed aptly fitting to look beyond those words, intended as an example for couples counseling. Residents of Milwaukee, as a community and collective of America, have a trend to support abusive and narcissistic behavior. The city’s segregation problem is an indirect result of that culture. Love and fear can be...