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The Minnesota Daily

Dying bats immortalized through Techno

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 5, 2012

A national park in vermont has a new exhibit featuring digitally-altered recordings of bat calls, NPR reported.  The recordings were taken from members of two species prone to a disease called white-nose...

Olympics update: U.S. defeats Turkey despite Berg’s injury

by Megan Ryan
Published August 5, 2012

The U.S. women's volleyball team won three sets to none against Turkey but played the majority of the final set without former Gophers setter Lindsey Berg. Berg started and made 56 sets, seven digs,...

Chinese government detains 2,000 suspected of trading counterfeit drugs

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 5, 2012

According to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, government authorities have detained nearly 2,000 people Sunday in a nationwide crackdown on counterfeit drugs, The New York Times reported.  Approximately...

Olympics update: U.S. women set points record

by Megan Ryan
Published August 5, 2012

The U.S. women's basketball team tied the U.S. record for most points in a game at the Olympics in its 114-66 thrashing of China on Sunday. The U.S. had set the record at the 1992 Olympics in...

Bloggers add theirs to the Trayvon Martin investigation

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 5, 2012

The Miami Herald reported that a group of diligent bloggers have been using their free time to comb the masses of published evidence for the Trayvon Martin killing. Their efforts are based largely on the...

Facebook competitor pushes for paid social networking model

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 5, 2012

TheVerge.com recently reported that programmer and business owner Dalton Cladwell recently published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.com.  In it he describes what he sees...

Curiosity to attempt Mars landing

by Jeff Hargarten
Published August 5, 2012

NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars culminates with the landing of its Curiosity rover early Monday morning. For seven tenuous minutes, the world will watch as Curiosity attempts to land safely on...

Review: “Celeste and Jesse Forever”

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 5, 2012
It’s no world-beater.

Amelia Earhart still missing

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 4, 2012

An expedition to find the remains of aviator Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has turned up little so far, according to an NPR report. Earhart, most known as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic...

Parking ramp support at MOA collapses after crash, killing one

by Simon Benarroch
Published August 4, 2012

WCCO reports a 52 year old man was crushed by a support beam at the Mall of America parking ramp on Friday. He had been driving a U-Haul truck and, the report said, and "appears to have misjudged...

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