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Why buy when you can borrow? App connects people and stuff

Why buy when you can borrow? App connects people and stuff

A new company allows people to share things like power drills and bicycle pumps by connecting people who need them to people who have them.
by Eleanor Beardsley

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A cure for the common hangover, found on the stove

A cure for the common hangover, found on the stove

Don't head to the medicine cabinet. Head directly to the stove and a simmering pot of posole, a traditional hominy stew from Mexico, says chef Anthony Lamas.

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Garrison Keillor keynote address on local and family history

Garrison Keillor keynote address on local and family history

Radio broadcaster, humorist, playwright and author Garrison Keillor gives the keynote address at the national meeting of the American Association for State and Local History, held in St. Paul September 18, 2014.

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Pedal Hub: Fat bike fever

Pedal Hub: Fat bike fever

The cycling world has gone crazy for fat bikes. Pedal Hub explores what's great -- and maybe not so great -- about these bikes with the bloated tires.

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Appetites: The year in food

Appetites: The year in food

Every year, The Heavy Table composes its annual retrospective as a collection of what editor James Norton calls "flashbulb flavor memories."
by Steven John

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Photos: Explore the 'World's Largest' across Minnesota

Photos: Explore the 'World's Largest' across Minnesota

Minnesota set a world record for largest paper ball recently, but Minnesota has long been host to many "world's largest" objects -- both official and self-proclaimed.

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Put on that coat! How to stay warm in subzero weather

Put on that coat! How to stay warm in subzero weather

Heading outdoors this week? Here are some tips to stay comfortable. And yes: It's pretty much what your mom told you.
by Nancy Yang

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Before the Internet, librarians would 'answer everything' -- and still do

Before the Internet, librarians would 'answer everything' -- and still do

The New York Public Library recently found a box of questions posed to the library from the 1940s to the '80s -- an era when humans consulted other humans for answers to their everyday questions.

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