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Poetry Mar 23
Dead Japanese poets make great collaboratorsMatthew Rohrer's new collection, "Surrounded by Friends," collects poems written in collaboration with famous writers, daily life and inanimate objects.
Health Mar 05
McDonald’s McNugget will soon be antibiotic-freeThe McNugget is going antibiotic-free.
Arts Feb 12
Creating live cinema with puppets and shadowWith puppets, projectors and live performances, Manual Cinema creates surreal movies as the audience watches the process unfold.
Science Jan 30
Rehabbed endangered turtles returned into the GulfThe conditions on Tuesday were perfect to release 21 rehabilitated sea turtles off the Louisiana coast into the Gulf of Mexico .
Arts Jan 28
Which actresses made the cut for the all-female ‘Ghostbusters’?Four women are headlining the third 'Ghostbusters' film with 'Bridesmaids' director Paul Feig at the helm.
Nation Jan 23
So long, SkyMall, and thanks for all the massage pillowsIn its glory days, SkyMall was “the sole in-flight option for potential purchasers of products to review while traveling,”…
Poetry Jan 19
Poet Jane Hoogestraat writes intimate dispatches from America’s hinterlandsIn "Border States," her first published collection of poetry, published in November, Jane Hoogestraat's native state of South Dakota and her current home of Missouri, are as front and center as their geography.
Poetry Dec 29
Weekly Poem: Thomas Dooley dramatizes family pain passed through generationsThomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness via the narrative of a family.
Health Dec 16
Can government policies correct race and ethnicity disparities in child health?When Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and Pamela K. Joshi set out to study the racial and ethnic equity of federal policies impacting child health, they didn’t expect it to be terribly difficult. After all, they figured, there are federal mandates that require…
Science Nov 26
8 things you didn’t know about manateesManatees are the slow, lumbering, gentle giants of the aquatic ecosystem. Every November, they make their way to Florida’s warmer waters for the winter marking Manatee Awareness Month. Celebrate by learning eight facts about the gentle sea cows.