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Daily Circuit Blog

Op-ed pick: The Senate’s guest worker program will provide a flexible workforce

"The size of the guest-worker program is designed to adjust automatically in response to changing U.S. labor needs, growing in good years when the economy needs more foreign workers and shrinking when more Americans are out of work."
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3 things to buy at the farmers market this weekend

3 things to buy at the farmers market this weekend

After we taped the Friday Roundtable, I asked the panelists what we should pick up at the farmer’s market this weekend. Stephanie Meyer recommends morels. Amy Thielen says to buy dandelion greens if you can find them. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl’s a fan of rhubarb: Here’s what you can do with rhubarb. I like to cook…
by Stephanie Curtis

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Exploring the science of taste over a nice French meal

Exploring the science of taste over a nice French meal

The science of taste (and smells) is the subject of the 11:00 a.m. hour on The Daily Circuit on Thursday, May 30.  Kerri Miller talks with Stuart Firestein, who chairs the biology sciences department at Columbia University.  Firestein is participating in “The Taste of Science,” an event at this year’s World Science Festival in New…
by Stephanie Curtis

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Science Night Minnesota

Science Night Minnesota

Tens of thousands of people around the world have said they want to go to Mars, even if it means they will never return to Earth. Dozens of them were in the crowd Tuesday night at the Fitzgerald Theater for Science Night Minnesota — Mission to Mars. Read about Science Night.
by Eric Ringham

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Field notes: How a school bus became a house

Field notes: How a school bus became a house

When Adam Marcus told his graduate students to do something “full-scale” for their final project, he didn’t think the semester would end with a school bus-house hybrid parked behind Rapson Hall. “I said, ‘We’re going to do full scale,’” said Marcus, a University of Minnesota Architecture School design fellow. “And Hank said, ‘I’m gonna buy…
by Kryssy Pease

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Three perspectives on bridging the marriage opinion gap

Three perspectives on bridging the marriage opinion gap

Now that Gov. Mark Dayton has signed the same-sex marriage bill into law, we asked the participants on this week’s Roundtable for advice on how to bridge gaps between Minnesotans who support same-sex marriage and those who oppose it. Jim Wallis, author of “On God’s Side,” thinks we are on the cusp of a nationwide…
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