The Encyclopaedia Britannica blog has finished its list of haunted libraries. They actually posted the section covering Minnesota yesterday. And we got only one mention: "St. Cloud State University, James W. Miller Learning Resources Center. A 19th-century burial site was found in 1997 when the Miller Center’s foundation was dug. The figure of a soldier … Continue reading Its close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark…
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Bruce White, author of We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People will be at Wild River State Park (see info here) on Saturday, October 20, at 4 p.m. White's book is a collection of over 200You can see some of the photos in the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society (here).
Why We Curse
Stephen Pinker, author of The Stuff of Thought is a consistently thought-provoking guy. His book, subtitled "Language As a Window into Human Nature," discusses the relationship between what we say and what we think. Are we limited by our language, or is it an infinitely flexible tool for infinitely flexible minds? You can get a … Continue reading Why We Curse
Musings from Magers and Quinn 