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A giant hailstone that fell in South Dakota has set the national record for weight and diameter, according to the National Weather Service.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for July 2010
Eric Ringham
Pakistan doesn’t like the U.S.; Arizona’s immigration laws take effect; fix the oil spill for $1 million; man sues over dead unborn child; Wikileaks has blood on their hands
Star Wars on NY subway; zebra mussels in MN lake; Facebook security leak, again; who want’s to be an imam?; and Google is everywhere
David Cazares
A world without mosquitoes? Nature posits that wiping out the Minnesota state bird might not have horrible consequences for our fragile ecosystem as most biologists would maintain. …in many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left by a missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by other organisms. Life would continue Read more →
If Serpico had known about YouTube
Mark Dayton shelled out $28,000 to social media consultant Nicole Harrison this year, according to MPR’s Tom Scheck. What does $28,000 buy a candidate for governor? Is he listening to the expensive advice? Well, let’s see. Dayton hasn’t sent a message on Twitter since March (and it was a banal tweet at that): Dayton appears Read more →
Lino Lakes is now English-only; Iraqi insurgents are stealing blood; Comic-Con attendee gets stabbed for sitting too close; Iowa dam break; stress relief from Lifehacker
Big news in the tech world today: The U.S. Copyright Office declared it legal to “jailbreak” iPhones and other smartphones. Jailbreaking is the act of hacking a device’s operating system so it can run programs not approved by the device maker. It was previously considered a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the Read more →