Bob CollinsThe games are at their best when they teach a little science in the process.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Who’s the more impressive Olympian: the one who won a gold but is too fragile to be distracted by life, or the one who faces the realities of life head-on and competes anyway?
Sewing for soldiers, a new direction in treating mental illness, tax-free gold for Olympians, the bad grammar debate, and the happiness experiment.
Is there economic diversity where we live? A new study questions why economic segregation is increasing.
Like the lighthouse keepers before them, eventually the last bridge requiring a human to operate it will likely disappear.
The bearers of bad news, the death of intellect, people doing good, politics religion and business, and now this message from winter.
Chicken rights
Ode to the family reunion
From Itasca to New Orleans, the dream of infinite flight, where was God in Aurora, was chivalry ever alive, and the wireless generation.
Paul Tosto
Happily, I haven’t caused a car accident in 34 years of driving. But, yeah, on occasion I’ve ridden the bumper of the car in front of me, hit the gas fast to get past the senior citizen at the light and weaved through traffic like a NASCAR driver with a grudge. Unlike drinking or texting Read more →
Americans have ranted for decades about tape delays and overseas Olympics. We want to see stuff as it happens. But the network that pays a king’s ransom for the broadcast rights makes its money showing the high demand events during American prime time. Network wins. That used to be the end of the discussion. Not Read more →