Education
Graduating college is a big deal. Typically accompanied by a celebration, a red-inked bank statement, and shiny new career. Right?…
Photo courtesy of BigStock/EzumeImages I recommend Hans Zinsser’s 1935 Rats, Lice and History, a surprisingly witty, acerbic biography of Typhus.…
Tracing back: Modern consequences of antiquated enactments The latest Census Bureau data shows that of Minnesota’s 5.6 million residents, about…
Photo by BigStock/volodymyrscherbak In 1374, along the Rhine valley, hundreds of townsfolk danced compulsively–non-stop, for days–to exhaustion, even death. The…
The Honorable Wilhelmina M. Wright received her federal judicial commission on February 18, 2016. Image courtesy of Wilhelmina M. Wright…
Lavender is delighted to announce the first recipient of the Lavender Scholarship. Taylor Ngiri Seaberg is a gender non-binary, third…
Photo courtesy of BigStock/YakobchukOlena Sadly, most of our stories are lost. Vanished in the ash heap of history during a…
Photo by Bigstock/zigres As the Black Plague ravaged Europe in 1346, no one understood why they’d been afflicted. The 14th…
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Viktoriya Fivko Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist and physician, learned during her malaria research in 1942, that some drugs…
Photo courtesy of BigStock/Maridav The recent news photo of a woman with a “My Body, My Choice” sign is not…
