Bob CollinsA Wisconsin teacher has figured out a way to get kids to learn math. He’s teaching a class on math in auto racing. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
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Mary Weikum has created the Lunch Tray Project to help families who make too much money to qualify for free and/or reduced lunches at school. Read more →
Take it from someone who knows. Some people don’t test well.
So we’re reluctant to make fun of the 17-year-old Monticello girl who accidentally put the car in drive instead of reverse during her driving test yesterday, according to the Buffalo, Minn., police department. Read more →
Oh for cute! A little two-bedroom bungalow. A typical starter home that should come pretty cheap.
It won’t. Read more →
Back in the day when ethical leadership and management was a corporate goal, Tom Peters ‘In Search of Excellence’ was the management bible, documenting several companies’ approach that companies who value profits by valuing people could emulate.
One of those companies was IBM. How times have changed! Read more →
If we can’t talk about the weather anymore, what future is there for human communication at all? Read more →
Joanne and Tomas Lopez, of Frogtown, provide the perfect example of why we bristle at the dour expressions and tone of media folks when they talk about snow in Minnesota. Read more →
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Frontier Airlines seemed willing to allow Rubin Swift and his newborn daughter, Ru-Andria, to walk the streets after the airline denied his boarding their flight from Phoenix to Cleveland. The airline doesn’t allow anyone under 7 days old to fly, even though the hospital had given its blessing. Read more →
Sometimes it feels as though rational people are vastly outnumbered. The police department of Sheboygan, Wis., provides today’s evidence. Read more →
The Court’s description of the case reads like a cheap novel you can’t put down. It — and the dealer’s Yelp reviews — will also make you never want to buy a used vehicle again.
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No doubt, you’ve heard by now that the last living male white rhino has died and that’s that. This beautiful and haunting image from National Geographic, however, also shows another vanishing species. Joseph Wachira is the last human who will ever walk the planet to hear the breath of a male white rhino and touch Read more →
At the rate of Minnesota’s progress, the sun will burn out before its citizens get to see what happens in the state’s courts. Read more →
When it comes to the arts, life imitates. Read more →