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What a Giant Domino Installation Can Teach Us About Public Space Cowles Commons will soon have a temporary problem in the best possible sense: a field of oversized illuminated dominoes that people are invited to knock over. Ingrid Ingrid’s free interactive in...
YouTube Is Changing What Counts as a View YouTube says that starting August 24, views will count from the first frame of playback across Shorts, regular videos, podcasts, and livestreams. That sounds like a small accounting change, but it will make headline v...
The Balcony Garden Has Entered Its Spreadsheet Season The basil is finished, the parsley is still pretending October is a reasonable growing season, and I have started moving a few pots closer to the brick wall at night. This is the less photogenic part of ga...
Gray’s Lake water for city plants is a useful warning sign Des Moines using Gray’s Lake to irrigate city plantings is not just a quirky summer workaround. It shows how quickly water restrictions become an operations problem: trees and public landscaping still...
Des Moines Library Programming Is Getting More Interesting A monthly K-pop meet-up at the Des Moines Public Library is a small but useful reminder that libraries are not only quiet places to borrow books. They are also low-cost social infrastructure, especial...