by Jenny Peek | Feb 17, 2017 | Magazine Article
While 2016 was the warmest year on record, NASA records show that the ten warmest years since scientists began recording the Earth’s surface temperature have all occurred since 2000. For those who understand that human activity is warming our planet, there is a...
by Lange Allen | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
Between L’Anse and Baraga on Indian Cemetery Road, Joseph Deer-Running operates the orange, Mac snowplow #7 in near whiteout conditions. With his hands wound tight on the oversized steering wheel, swatches of crystal flakes encapsulate his cab, trapping him inside a...
by Myles Dannhausen Jr. | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
Iowa residents are known to drive for hours to buy it. In Illinois, a friend isn’t a friend if they return from a weekend Up North without a six-pack of it. And bars from Minnesota to New York have been busted for illegally selling it to die-hard beer fans. Back in...
by Jane Elder | Feb 7, 2017 | Magazine Article
It seems fitting that the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 is post-truth: an adjective defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”...
by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Karla Huston | Feb 2, 2017 | Magazine Article
On a late November afternoon at the Hoffman Memory Care Resource Center in Kaukauna, Karla Huston witnessed the power of poetry at work. She was leading her first program at a Memory Café—a gathering space for people experiencing memory loss—and trying to figure out...
