Andi Lassiter

Episode 78: Inside the Working Cranberry Marsh — Water Talk A conversation with Professors Leslie Holland and Amaya Atucha (University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension) about cranberry production, water use, recycling, and enjoyment. Released Novembe...

Super fun episode of Water Talk out today! Whether you like them fresh or canned, cranberries are both well-loved and mysterious. Leslie Holland and Amaya Atucha, UW Madison, tell us about cranberry bogs v marshes and why cranberries float. Bonus: recipes! www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

I'm not sure where it has gone, but it's quite thin.

Beautiful northern lights

Good timing for my small community.

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Brown: As a small Minnesota town mourns its only elementary school, opportunity grows from loss "I knew this feeling well. My rural elementary school closed when I was in second grade, adding an hour to my bus ride. My kids’ small town elementary school was bulldozed shortly after they moved up ...

True nostalgia is the pain of knowing what's gone for good. When a small town loses its school, it's the only word that applies. And yet the lasting value of rural places are not in bricks, but in the people who are still here, doing what must be done.

Ramp C

TIL: I’m one of the authors being ripped off too.

I had no idea. Take a moment to check for your academic papers. Consider making it easy for lawyers to find you as their class action suit proceeds.

Person taking a picture with their phone of the Washington monument on a gorgeous day in DC

Challenge: post your last photo taken in D.C. to show what a hell hole it is

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

Monster romance. For sure.

The sun will rise in #Minneapolis #SaintPaul #Minnesota tomorrow at 5:25, 0 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 21:01, 23 seconds later than the day before.

Opinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century.

As I wrote earlier: slaughtering your golden goose (science & research, by gutting government research agencies and kneecapping non-government research institutions) is a good way to lose the 21st century
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Kids grow up so fast.

You hear about.

Then you live it.

Days are long.

Years are fast.

As a surgeon, could not agree more with these reflections that Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.

“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...

They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
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UBC is re-opening admission to a bunch of programs for US citizens looking for grad opportunities. You can check it out via the link below 🇨🇦

Sorry I haven’t been very active on here the last week my 11 year old has been describing a video game to me.

Also, a big thing people leave out of all of these discussions is that inequality is a driver of unhappiness. Regardless of whether living conditions are improving in general since hundreds of years ago, if inequality increases that impacts happiness and conflict

This is a very long thread, and you should read it all if you need a reminder of all the people in the world still going out of their way to help others.

Fat cat napping

Swiper was always ready to cuddle up for a nap... and was always ready to eat!

Researching and reporting my story about how truly horrible Facebook has become genuinely rattled me, and changed how I looked at the internet permanently. It's important to understand how messed up they are.

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Minnesota State Fair tickets are being sold at lower price for one day Fair officials say tickets being sold online for 2025 won’t get any lower.

Is it too early to crave Mouth Trap cheese curds? Tickets for the 2025 Minnesota State Fair are available for $14 in a one-day sale.

A social experiment in which I am trying to see how long it will take to get one resident of each county in Minnesota to check in on BlueSky. When they do, I color in their county on the map. So far, I have received responses from the following counties: Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Chisago, Cook,Crow Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Hennepin, Hubbard, Isanti, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lake, Lyon, Martin, Meeker, Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Olmstead, Ottertail, Pennington, Pine, Polk, Ramsey, Red Lake, Renville, Rice, Scott, Sherburne, St. Louis, Stearns, Steele, Stevens, Swift, Todd, Wabasha, Wadena, Wantonwan, Waseca, Washington, Winona and Wright Counties.

We're heating up! Just added yet another county, Polk, to reset the 24 hour clock to 8 p.m. tomorrow.

A quick PSA for folks playing along at home. Likes here, unlike that other site, don't amplify the post by showing it to your followers. I appreciate the likes, but am more grateful for reposts.

Le Sueur.

Commodore 64 plays Huey Lewis (1985-86) - YouTube

Fun fact: In the mid-80s, my friend Mitch (@jma48.bsky.social) made 24 (!) Huey Lewis and The News covers, note by note, using a Commodore 64.

35 years later, he unearthed the long-forgotten disks, which still worked. Enjoy.

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People liked when I made these for Tokyo, so let’s do it again for Paris. Here’s what I have my eye on Saturday, Day 1.

First-of-its-kind decision finds pharmacist discriminated in not filling a valid emergency contraception prescription - Gender Justice

UNPRECEDENTED. Like, this is literally the first time a court has ruled that denying someone their birth control prescription amounts to sex discrimination. It’s about time.

6. To put it somewhat bluntly, we just happen to be dismantling an HigherEd infrastructure which has long been the envy of the world for the edification of billionaires at exactly the moment when it is about to start serving a predominantly non-white population of students.

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The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.

This may be the most important piece of journalism in the entire pandemic. Brilliant detective work by scientists; compellingly told.
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I'm here.... is this the place?