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Three recommendations to add a bit more poetry to your collection
Kerri Miller brings us books we might have overlooked in this topsy-turvy year. This week she has poetry for even the most poetry-skeptic people you know.
Limited COVID-19 vaccine supply raises bioethics, equity questions
The number of people who want a COVID-19 vaccine far outweighs the number of doses currently available. MPR host Kerri Miller asked a vaccine researcher and a bioethicist about the best practices and challenges of distributing vaccines in a global pandemic.
MPR News director of programming Steph Curtis stopped by with an early winter edition of “The Five,” where she recommends things to read, listen to and experience right now.
Rebroadcast: For the love of dogs
We love dogs. But do they love us back? One canine researcher says yes.
Is America living up to its ideals?
Journalist and author Thomas Ricks wrote “First Principles” to answer the question he asked himself: Is this what the nation’s founders intended?
How to grieve after a year of loss
No matter who you are and what your unique experience has been, 2020 has been a year of loss. How do we work through the complicated grief and look toward healing in the new year?
State by state, wildly different responses to the same viral outbreak
The United States confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in late January and is now approaching 300,000 deaths from the disease. In the intervening months, the response to the pandemic — from restrictions to testing access — has largely been left up to the states. What do current caseloads and hospitalizations across the country tell us about mitigation efforts?
What can we glean from the latest COVID-19 data?
On Mondays we discuss the latest science on COVID-19. This week the University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm addressed recent vaccine news and the coronavirus task force.
Catching up on some of the most notable books of 2020
Kerri Miller is spending these last weeks of 2020 finding books that were published this year and that you might’ve overlooked.