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2008 Year in Science

2008 Year in Science

The success and failure of the first particle collider dominated headlines this year, but scientists also discovered earthlike-exoplanets and programmable cells. Midmorning looks back on breakthroughs and breakdowns of 2008 and what science can hope for in the Obama administration.

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Future Tense with Jon Gordon

Future Tense with Jon Gordon

Good podcasts for your idle time

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Art Caplan on living longer

Art Caplan on living longer

In a speech at the Chautauqua Institution this summer, Art Caplan, one of the country's leading bioethicists tried to answer the question: "Is it immoral to want to live longer, be smarter and look better?"

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Five tech predictions for 2009.

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The war on insects

The war on insects

An Aspen Ideas Festival speech by James McWilliams, author of "American Pests: Our Futile Attempt to Conquer the Insect Empire from Colonial Times to the Death of DDT."

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The pet doctor is in

The pet doctor is in

Veterinarian Kate An Hunter answers listener questions about all things animal.

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The end of an era at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange

The end of an era at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange

After more than a century of shouts and gestures, the trading floor at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange goes silent Friday afternoon. Friday is the last day of open outcry futures trading on the floor of the exchange.
by Perry Finelli

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Worst tech predictions for 2008

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More Aurora Borealis predicted

More Aurora Borealis predicted

Northern lights may be returning to most of Minnesota's skies in the coming years. That's because the sun is expected to be creating more weather in space, throwing off clouds of magnetized particles that have the power to turn dark skies into ribbons of color...and disrupt the GPS systems we've come to rely upon.

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Wi-Fi at 35,000 feet.

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