Bob CollinsWeak airplane parts, a state-by-state firearms revolt, fibbing about terrorism, taking a slide rule to Iran’s election results, and noise from the Minneapolis St. Paul airport.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Twitter had planned a network outage on Monday evening, but has now postponed it until Tuesday because people were depending on it too much for coverage of the events in Iran. “Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide–we commend them for being flexible Read more →
Thousands gathered at the Vietnam Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol on Saturday for Minnesota Honors Vietnam Era Veterans. The idea was to give Vietnam vets the return they didn’t get in the ’60s and ’70s. But no one was around today (or perhaps, Sunday) when people scrawled graffiti over a page in Read more →
One guy and a crowd
Supreme Court justices don’t give very many speeches. If they do, they often don’t allow them to be recorded. So it was a rare day yesterday when Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy addressed the graduating class at Stanford University. It takes awhile for him to get to get going, but he appears as we so Read more →
The truth about Roswell, exploring gay Iowa, let’s hear it for the boys, whatever happened to Daniel Hauser and more obsessing over the plight of graduating seniors.
Mainstream news organizations are reportedly being told to pack up and get out of Iran. New media, you’re on!
Iran 2009. Protests break out in an authoritarian state after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declared winner by a landslide in his bid for re-election. It was 30 years ago…
The Mental Health America media awards were announced last night. The pieces that won are worth looking at. PBS won for Depression: Out of the Shadows, which was produced for WGBH in Boston and Twin Cities Public Television in Minnesota. Particularly compelling is the Faces of Depression section of the Web site. National Public Radio Read more →
Like many people, we’ve been watching the images coming out of Iran today where voters are selecting a president. The polls had to be ordered to stay open to accommodate the crush of voters. It’s the kind of factoid that can easily lead one to sigh and think, “If only we took elections that seriously.” Read more →
Among the day’s unanswerable questions — why can’t the Twins win on the road or when will the Minnesota Senate race end, for example — we add one more this afternoon: Why do we have fingerprints? Up until now, it’s been theorized that fingerprints exist to create friction when we grab things. Scientists today announced Read more →
I stumbled across this while doing some Google searches this morning. The governor is buying ads on Google to tout his Web site, which asks for political contributions, even though he’s already announced he’s not running again. Apparently they’ve been running for at least a week. Based on our own knowledge of Googleads, playing around Read more →