Minnesota Public Radio has announced that it will be rolling out a new investigative unit, determined to “produce investigations of national substance”. The difficulty of doing so because advertisers and other moneyed interests can pull strings, MPR readily admitted to MinnPost: In an interview that took several months to come together (MPR being a bit
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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in organic produce. But for those of us with limited food budgets, patronizing organic grocery stores, co-ops, and restaurants can be a bit of a strain on the wallet. As Time recently pointed out, there’s a way to eat healthy organic produce on a budget. It’s
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One would think that if anyone has a right to pick a child up from school, it’s a parent, correct? But that’s not the case at a Texas school known as Bear Branch Elementary. As a local news station reports, “Pick your child up from school and you could be charged with trespassing.” The news
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Yesterday, we published a piece on legislators who want to make it “illegal for parents to leave any child younger than seven alone in a car, or any child under age 10 home alone.” One of the legislators behind this law noted the harms of leaving children alone, saying that they could get into any
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In 1999 David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, and a graduate student, Justin Kruger, published a paper. Its hypothesis became known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it went something like this (to quote Dunning): “…incompetent people do not recognize—scratch that, cannot recognize—just how incompetent they are.” According to Dunning and Kruger, incompetent people will: 1.Often
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1) George Washington loved beer and had his own recipe. His favorite style was a porter, but he (or his servants or slaves) also brewed his own “small beer,” a simpler brew with less alcohol. Here is the recipe he used: “Take a large Siffer [Sifter] full of Bran Hops to your Taste. Boil these 3 hours then
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