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The Daily Circuit Blog

MPR News Quirks, quips and questions off the air

Archives for May 2013

Science

Exploring the science of taste over a nice French meal

Stephanie Curtis May 30, 2013, 12:05 PM May 30, 2013
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The science of taste (and smells) is the subject of the 11:00 a.m. hour on The Daily Circuit on Thursday, May 30.  Kerri Miller talks with Stuart Firestein, who chairs the biology sciences department at Columbia University.  Firestein is participating in “The Taste of Science,” an event at this year’s World Science Festival in New Read more →

Politics & Government

Could Julie Rosen challenge Dayton? Roundtable members think so

Stephanie Curtis May 24, 2013, 10:09 AM May 24, 2013
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“Think about how hard it would be for Dayton to run against a moderate, Republican woman. Yikes.”

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Science

Science Night Minnesota

Eric Ringham May 23, 2013, 3:10 PM May 23, 2013
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Tens of thousands of people around the world have said they want to go to Mars, even if it means they will never return to Earth. Dozens of them were in the crowd Tuesday night at the Fitzgerald Theater for Science Night Minnesota — Mission to Mars. Read about Science Night.

Field Notes

Field notes: How a school bus became a house

Krystyna Pease May 23, 2013, 12:15 PM May 23, 2013
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When Adam Marcus told his graduate students to do something “full-scale” for their final project, he didn’t think the semester would end with a school bus-house hybrid parked behind Rapson Hall. “I said, ‘We’re going to do full scale,’” said Marcus, a University of Minnesota Architecture School design fellow. “And Hank said, ‘I’m gonna buy Read more →

Politics & Government

Three perspectives on bridging the marriage opinion gap

Stephanie Curtis May 17, 2013, 9:47 AM May 17, 2013
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Now that Gov. Mark Dayton has signed the same-sex marriage bill into law, we asked the participants on this week’s Roundtable for advice on how to bridge gaps between Minnesotans who support same-sex marriage and those who oppose it. Jim Wallis, author of “On God’s Side,” thinks we are on the cusp of a nationwide Read more →

Arts & Culture

Temple Grandin helps explain the autistic brain and inspire those who have one

Kerri MillerKerri Miller May 9, 2013, 12:55 PM May 9, 2013
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Kerri Miller offers a look inside the thoughts of an autism pioneer.

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Arts & Culture

Op-ed pick: Is ‘The Great Gatsby’ all that great?

Stephanie Curtis May 7, 2013, 9:30 AM May 7, 2013
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“Gatsby as a literary creation leaves me cold. Like one of those manicured European parks patrolled on all sides by officious gendarmes, it is pleasant to look at, but you will not find any people inside.”

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Arts & Culture

Five great thinkers about race

Stephanie Curtis May 3, 2013, 9:26 AM May 3, 2013
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James Baldwin is “still ahead of us by 10 years in terms of understanding and thinking about and talking about race.”

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