Bob CollinsFor the University of Minnesota researchers, there’s big money in mice.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
The possibilities of science usually outweigh the results from science so anytime there’s a hint of a breakthrough, you have to keep from getting too excited. Still, the news that an experimental drug has appeared to slow the cognitive decline from Alzheimer’s provides something in short supply in the field: hope.
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A publisher with local newspapers in Dodge County was covering a news story the other day when his camera was confiscated by a sheriff’s deputy. The data card was taken and hasn’t been returned, the Rochester Post Bulletin says.
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Maclean’s, the magazine in Canada, series — Before You Go — collects letters from people to friends and family members, ‘because we shouldn’t have to wait until it’s too late to tell our loved ones how we really feel,’ the magazine says.
A few friends of Daphnee Levesque, a British Columbia college student, have tried to take their own lives, so in the most recent installment, she writes them letters. Read more →
Dmitri Moua, 16, has gotta dance and if it takes a suit against the Minnesota State High School League, so be it, a conservative/libertarian organization says. Read more →
Maybe Sunday’s efforts will be a wake-up call to law enforcement and politicians. If so, it should give us pause to ask why it’s slept on the problem to now. Read more →
A key to making fanny packs cool again, New York Magazine says, is calling them ‘waist bags.’ Read more →
Does this scream, ‘Rochester, Minn.,’ to you? It’s the winner in the public voting to replace the city’s official flag. Read more →
Elin Ersson’s Facebook video, which is racing around the internet, is an invitation to ask ourselves, ‘what are we willing to stand for?’ Read more →
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At Target Field, there are no more openings this year to be the veteran that raises the American flag — the moment which sparks loudest cheers at a Twins game these days. The games are all booked up for the rest of the year.
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Researchers from Stanford looked at data back to the ’60s, and factored in confounding things like air conditioning, income level, and gun ownership, and it has found that a monthly rise in temperature of 1 degree Celsius leads to about a 1 to 2 percent increase in the suicide rate. Read more →
A discussion about a splash pad set the two to brawling. Read more →
We have two bucket lists: One we have a chance of completing; one that is unlikely. On the latter is the RAGBRAI, the great annual bike “race” across Iowa, which is now underway. Read more →