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What kids' drawings say about their future thinking skills

What kids' drawings say about their future thinking skills

At age 4, many young children are just beginning to explore their artistic style. These early works may be good for more than decorating refrigeratorsand cubicles, researchers say.
by Maanvi Singh

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Video: Foraging for wild mushrooms, finding something more

Video: Foraging for wild mushrooms, finding something more

Mike Kempenich forages for wild mushrooms all around Minnesota, which he then sells to chefs in the Twin Cities. In the process of finding mushrooms and teaching others to find them, he found something of his own.
by Jennifer Simonson

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State Fair adds new transit center for visitors

State Fair adds new transit center for visitors

The Minnesota State Fair is making transit a center piece of this year's 12-day run in Falcon Heights. The fair opens Thursday morning in Falcon Heights.
by Tim Nelson

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Teens and mall culture: The fading love affair?

Teens and mall culture: The fading love affair?

For half a century, the mall was a place to meet and hang out for teens and tweens. In addition to dwindling jobs, the rise in technology is making it hard to even get teens to spend time in malls.
by Madeline Veira

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Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks on character

Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks on character

A New York Times columnist and regular commentator for NPR, David Brooks says we live in a competitive, technological and publicity-seeking culture, and he suggests there are some values that can serve as an antidote or "counter-culture." Those are honesty, humility, self-control and courage. In his annual lecture at the Aspen Ideas Festival, David Brooks takes aim at what he calls "the happiness culture" and says we need to have deeper and more important goals in life. He says we should separate the "resume virtues" from the "eulogy virtues."

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For food startups, incubators help dish up success

Just as gym members share workout equipment, members of many food incubators share commercial kitchen space.

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At life's last threshold, choir brings comfort

The Threshold Choir brings music to those on the threshold of life -- people who are dying. The first group started about a decade and a half ago. Now there are choirs in 120 cities, and even a few countries.

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Broken teeth and fake-umentaries: Another Shark Week gone by

The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which just wrapped its 27th rendition, was once observed with some respect by serious members of the scientific community. Through the decades, however, it has devolved into a B-movie-style blend of fiction, bad acting, a few facts and potential injuries to sharks.

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Injuries cloud Minnesota Lynx playoff hopes

Injuries cloud Minnesota Lynx playoff hopes

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Howard Sinker, a digital sports editor for the Star Tribune, about several topics in local sports including the outlook for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA playoffs, the quarterback situation for the Minnesota Vikings, and a new women's basketball coach hired at Macalester.

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Tons of corn, free for all

Tons of corn, free for all

Cow chip throwing, tractor pulling, fun runs and a street dance were capped off by a free all-you-can-eat corn feed and a parade on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 at the Plainview Corn on the Cob Days festival. The crowd went through seven tons of corn in four hours.
by Alex Kolyer

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