Bob Collins
The high school kids understandably were sad and sulked a bit after losing outstanding games. And we cut them slack we didn’t extend to women athletes on a bigger stage. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for March 2014
There’s been a brain drain in the non-commercial space program since we decided to leave manned spaceflight to other countries, and an ongoing debate about whether it suits our planetary needs anymore, but there’s no question that there’s still inspiration in the best and brightest who figured out solutions where no man has gone before.
Read more →
Finding the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the Indian ocean is mathematically equivalent to finding a human hair in Manhattan. Read more →
3.14. The one day of the year you wish you’d paid more attention in math class. It’s Pi Day, you’ve probably heard. 3.1415926535897932blahblahblahblahblah. But there’s even bigger news today. Vi Hart, who — for reasons not yet explained — stopped doing her quirky math-related videos and just started posting videos of her microwave timer counting Read more →
It was as if America had finally given up on privacy this week when Sen. Diane Feinstein called out the Obama administration and the CIA for allegedly spying by breaking into the computers of members of Congress, reportedly trying to find out who inside the CIA leaked information about torture to the politicians who are Read more →
An airline flight in Philadelphia came to a sudden stop on its takeoff roll in Philadelphia yesterday afternoon when its nose gear collapsed. The slides were activated and people evacuated. Read more →
The name of the game in the Minnesota State High School League basketball tournament is winning, so is it a problem if a team exploits the rules and wins in a way that doesn’t seem quite right? Read more →
America wasn’t familiar with losing astronauts when Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee burned to death in their Apollo capsule on the launch pad during a 1967 test of their Saturn 1B rocket. We’d never lost an astronaut before Read more →
The latest battleground for gay rights? St. Patrick’s Day parades, specifically the one in Boston, home to one of the countries largest Irish enclaves.
Read more →
There’s a pretty fair chance the Fond du Lac Ojibwe School boys basketball team — known as the Ogichidaag — won’t get much attention from the big city media at this week’s Minnesota State High School League basketball tournament — they’re just a Class A team — but the squad appears to have all the qualities of a Cinderella team. Read more →
The Lakeville Area School District is going to reconsider its opt-out policy on student surveys after some parents this week objected to a recent survey which included personal questions about family members. Read more →
The White House Press Corps is pushing back — again — at administration efforts to avoid mainstream media and taking its case “directly to the people.” CBS News’ Bill Plante tells a CNN media program, “this administration has the tools to reach people on their own. They don’t need us as much. And to the Read more →
Our man in Hendricks, Steve Hemmingsen, writes today to pass along the wintertime work of Don Buller, who is spending his time working on his coffin. Read more →
Superior Court Judge Sohail Mohammed said all patients enjoy strong privacy protections that give them the sole authority to decide who is at their bedside. Read more →
When the thieves started extracting data, the company saw the alarms go off, BusinessWeek reports. And a security team in Minneapolis was alerted.
So what happened? Nothing.
Read more →