Bob CollinsProfessor Alessandro Strum, a guest professor, is no longer welcome at the European particle physics research center CERN. Not after he offered his own scientific theory at a symposium on gender equity – that women are not as able at physics as men. Read more →
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Dmitri Moua, 16, just wanted to dance but it took him making a federal case out of it to get him to try out for a girls competitive high school dance team in Roseville. There are no boys teams and the Minnesota State High School League dictates the rules and said “no” to Moua and Zachary Greenwald, a dancer in Hopkins. Read more →
Cindy Gallea, of Wykoff, Minn., is currently in last place in the Iditarod sleg dog race in Alaska, pulling into the Rohn checkpoint on Tuesday, and if you’re prone to chuckle about her standing, answer this: ‘What are you accomplishing today?’
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There is, perhaps, a debate to be had on the matter of artistic expression and racist symbols in history, but it’s inarguable that if a school district puts on a play featuring students in KKK robes, it should see the backlash coming from miles away. A Sioux Falls school didn’t. Read more →
Facebook kills careers. So does being a little too invested in a political issue. Ask the manager of a North Dakota horse track who, on his personal page, weighed into a bill in the North Dakota Legislature that would provide some assistance to the North Dakota Horse Park in paying special assessments to the City of Fargo. Read more →
Teri Kinne signs up for the shifts because she’s been looking for her brother, whom she hadn’t seen in 10 years until she spotted him at an overflow shelter at the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center not long ago, the Pioneer Press says. Read more →
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Forbes is out with its annual list of the richest people in the world and, perhaps not surprisingly, the people who were the richest last year are the richest this year. That’s pretty much how it works when you’re rich. Once you’re a billionaire, it’s pretty hard not to be a billionaire. Read more →
The Society for American Baseball Research has nominated a former Saint Paul Saint for a new award honoring women in baseball.
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Jana Shortal, of KARE 11, is already a legend in these parts but she got a big boost on a national level today when the YouTube channel, Great Big Story, called attention to her style.
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When the New Hampshire General Court held a public hearing at the statehouse on gun legislation opponents wore pearls. Read more →
On Twitter yesterday, I asked for people’s names for what the people in my house call “snow boogers”, the clumps of ice and snow that we love to kick off when the temperature is just right. And, thanks to Steve Swan, I was made aware of this poetic segment that Moore did on the subject. It’s brilliant. Read more →
Add ‘I just wanted to hang on to read the Mueller investigation’ to ‘I wish I’d spent more time at the office’ among phrases that shouldn’t be our last words. Read more →
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