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The Daily Circuit Blog

MPR News Quirks, quips and questions off the air

Archives for April 2014

Arts & Culture

Op-ed pick: TV shows do a poor job portraying mental illness

Stephanie Curtis April 25, 2014, 11:12 AM Apr 25, 2014
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“She’s fabulously empathetic and intuitive, somehow able to see what all the other doctors miss (though her cases should be familiar to anyone who reads Oliver Sacks’s essays). That’s because, the show keeps reminding us, mental illness goes along with greatness.” Read more →

Book Lists

19 books everyone should read

Stephanie Curtis April 23, 2014, 11:52 AM Apr 23, 2014
2

Tonight is World Book Night. Read more →

Book Lists

Book picks: Life in a lookout tower, HR innovation, and a crime classic

Stephanie Curtis April 18, 2014, 9:09 AM Apr 18, 2014
1

“Time spent being a lookout isn’t spent at all. Every day in a lookout is a day not subtracted from the sum of one’s life.” Read more →

Economy, Business & Jobs

Op-ed pick: Learning to like “Lean In”

Stephanie Curtis April 17, 2014, 10:09 AM Apr 17, 2014
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“What I needed now, far more than feminist theory, was someone to tell me that I did have the personal strength to respond to the vast, impossibly complex challenges of finding meaningful work in this economy and preparing to navigate the professional world as a young woman.” Read more →

Education

Op-ed pick: Why college is bad for athletes (and everyone else, too)

Stephanie Curtis April 14, 2014, 12:48 PM Apr 14, 2014
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“Once colleges did away with any kind of real general-education requirements, students were left on their own to figure out what they thought was important. ” Read more →

Economy, Business & Jobs

How did you spend it? Best and worst purchases

Maddy Mahon April 9, 2014, 8:51 AM Apr 9, 2014
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Our favorite financial guru Ruth Hayden joins us at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 17, to talk about your most memorable financial decisions. When you look back, what was the best money you’ve ever spent? What was the worst thing you’ve ever done with your cash? For me, the best money I’ve spent lately was a Read more →

Arts & Culture

Your winter haikus for this snowy April morning

Emily Kaiser April 4, 2014, 9:24 AM Apr 4, 2014
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Tom Weber asked for your winter haikus this morning to mark this snowy April morning. Read more →

Science

5-year-old Daily Circuit dinosaur analyst weighs in on Bracketosaurus

Maddy Mahon April 2, 2014, 9:02 AM Apr 2, 2014
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Five-year-old Owen analyzes The Daily Circuit’s Bracketosaurus. Read more →

Economy, Business & Jobs

Op-ed pick: Tax the childless

Maddy Mahon April 1, 2014, 4:27 PM Apr 1, 2014
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A recent op-ed piece in Slate argues that we should raise taxes on childless working professionals in order to give working parents a break. Author Reihan Salam, childless himself, says the financial burden of raising a child is staggering. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found that raising a child born in 2012 will cost Read more →

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