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The Daily Circuit Blog

MPR News Quirks, quips and questions off the air

By Stephanie Curtis

scurtis@mpr.org • @stephcurtis

Stephanie Curtis has produced events, daily news shows, documentaries, conferences and call-ins for MPR News. She also was among the pioneering producers who launched The Current. You can hear her discuss movies every Thursday on The Cube Critics.

Book Lists

Amazon’s top 100 books of 2014

Stephanie Curtis November 11, 2014, 10:16 PM Nov 11, 2014
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At the top of the list is a debut novel called ” Everything I Never Told You.” Read more →

Book Lists

What turned you into a reader?

Stephanie Curtis November 4, 2014, 9:31 AM Nov 4, 2014
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How a TV show can inspire a life-long love of books. Read more →

Education

Op-ed: U.S. schools are doing it wrong

Stephanie Curtis October 24, 2014, 9:38 AM Oct 24, 2014
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“Microbiological threats will increase as our traditional techniques of anti-microbial defense lead to greater and greater resistances, and to thwart these we must discover new approaches to medical treatment, which we can afford, and implement in ways that incite compliance and good health.” Read more →

Book Lists

2 of the best novels of 2014

Stephanie Curtis October 16, 2014, 3:00 PM Oct 16, 2014
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“While Emily St. John Mandel creates a world which is enduring horrible calamity in the form of a virulent flu which wipes out most of humanity, her literary creation is of the community of survivors living on in their new reality.” Read more →

Book Lists

A great read about growing old

Stephanie Curtis September 26, 2014, 10:37 AM Sep 26, 2014
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“I am a world-class complainer but find palpable joy arriving with my evening Dewar’s, from Robinson Cano between pitches, from the first pages once again of “Appointment in Samarra” or the last lines of the Elizabeth Bishop poem called ‘Poem.'” Read more →

Health & Medicine · Science

Do bacteria control your appetite?

Stephanie Curtis September 25, 2014, 2:00 PM Sep 25, 2014
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“It seems that the bacteria in our guts don’t simply wait for whatever leftovers we have to offer. They actively seek out their preferred meals through tricky deception.” Read more →

Arts & Culture · Health & Medicine

Op-ed pick: Could Ebola start to spread through the air?

Stephanie Curtis September 15, 2014, 1:42 PM Sep 15, 2014
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“The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past four months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years. ” Read more →

Book Lists

4 easy reads for the weekend

Stephanie Curtis September 5, 2014, 11:18 AM Sep 5, 2014
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Humorous academic novels, a thriller and a memoir of the Midwest. Read more →

Arts & Culture · News & Trends

The great seat reclining debate of 2014

Stephanie Curtis September 2, 2014, 10:00 AM Sep 2, 2014
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“In effect, to increase the number of cabin seats, the space allotted to each passenger must be reduced. However, this reduced comfort remains tolerable for the passengers in as much as the flight lasts only one or a few hours.” Read more →

Book Lists

5 books to read this weekend

Stephanie Curtis August 22, 2014, 10:23 AM Aug 22, 2014
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Head to the library or bookstore to pick up one of these titles. Read more →

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