Bob CollinsIt’s not a Pi Day (3.14) without a video from mathematician Vi Hart, who just hates Pi Day. Read more →
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Archives for March 2016
The state Senate this week will take up a bill that would strip communities of the right to ban the bags, after the state Assembly easily approved the bill. Read more →
One has to marvel at the ski industry’s ability to adapt to a warming region.
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For the second time in a month, NPR is distancing itself from some of the pioneer reporters who built the news organization.
NPR clarified that Cokie Roberts, who wrote an anti-Trump newspaper column, is not a full-time employee of the network and hasn’t been for a long time. She’s a commentator. Read more →
Nothing can kill church like its own history and relativity. Read more →
Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor has tried a few times to unload the team he saved from moving to New Orleans once, and the latest attempt appears to be fizzling. Read more →
The Star Tribune’s Steve Brandt reports today that across Minnesota, rec leagues are having a hard time finding enough teams of softball players. Read more →
It was a lovely morning walk at my usual appointed time of 5:45 this morning. The eastern sky was orange. I almost don’t need my headlamp anymore.
On Monday, that all disappears because somewhere along the line we decided the conveniences of the afternoon people were far more important than those of the morning people. Read more →
At least in comparison to the sedate sports scene of Minnesota, there’s no better sports soap opera than what’s happening in Boston this week.
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From a historical point of view, it has to be pointed out that it’s a poor representation of the lynching of African Americans because it wasn’t a lynching. It was an execution. That obviously doesn’t excuse the ugliness of the use of the photo, but a lynching is a murder without trial. Read more →
You might be inclined to conclude that electing — rather than appointing — a judge or justice doesn’t provide proper vetting, but then you have to look to the east and see what’s happening in Wisconsin’s race for the state Supreme Court.
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There are only 180 people who live in Meire Grove, Minn. And if the authorities hadn’t cracked down on the number of dogs people can own, they might be outnumbered. Read more →
Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Christopher Dietzen has notified Gov. Dayton that he’ll leave the court at the end of August, a move that could shift the court to a somewhat more liberal leaning and put women in the majority. Read more →
Some male members of an Ottawa, Ont., restaurant had to find out for themselves whether a CBC story on how bad it is being a female server in a restaurant is as bad as reported.
It’s as bad as reported, they found. Read more →
Thirteen thousand refugees are stranded at the Idomeni refugee camp on the Macedonia-Greece border, the BBC reports today.
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