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ROCK RAPIDS—Lyon County high school students put down projects and papers and picked up propositions and professions Jan. 28 at the Career Exploration Day in Rock Rapids.

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Which type of COVID mask makes it easiest to understand someone speaking to you? Researchers put some of the most popular designs to the test to find out.

Flickr The hosts of “Poetry for All” have one goal with their podcast: to make us fall in love again with poetry. “Theres just so much poetry out there. Youre bound to come across poetry that moves you, that reaches you, that touches you [and] enables you to think about the world in a slightly different way,” said podcast co-host Abram Van Engen, an English professor at Washington University. “Part of what were doing in this podcast is just reintroducing people to poetry, to show them...

Laurel took part in the first-ever “Making Space for Girls Challenge.” [Hawaii news on the go–LISTEN to KHON 2GO weekday mornings at 7:30 a.m.] Her essay — out of 700 entries — was one of 21 submissions picked to be included in a journey to the International Space Station. “To do the essay, I thought about the stuff we could do in the future and what I think would be nice to have,” says Girl Scout Brownie Laurel S. from Troop 861. “It makes me feel like the essay was special, so...

by Tom Holland, Basic Books, 2019. 624 Pages.  A #1 Christian church history book on Amazon. The only recorded encounter of Jesus with Greeks was shortly before His crucifixion. As John 12:20, 21 tells us, some Greeks asked through Philip to see Jesus. We are not told why or what they asked Him, but verses 23-25 says, “Jesus replied, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single ...

Intereconomics Biden’s Security Policy: Democratic Security or Democratic Exceptionalism? Forum Biden’s Security Policy: Democratic Security or Democratic Exceptionalism? Simona R. Soare, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France. Can the Biden administration chart a new course for American security policy given the unprecedented level of polarisation and social unrest in the United States? Can the US lead internationally and build a new transatlantic partnership while ta...

The Atlantic If the eyes of all people are upon America now, they are not witnessing an edifying spectacle. January 1, 2021 Bequest of Sarah Ann Ludlum / Chad Wys A shining city on a hill. Ronald Reagan loved the phrase. He used it over and over again, perhaps most notably in his 1989 presidential farewell address. Ive spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I dont know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks ...

(#28). This year, guest bloggers played a particularly important role in advancing conversations about evangelicalism. Abram Van Engen warned about those Christians’ uses of American national mythology (#9), then published a follow-up dialogue with one of the people he’d criticized: Os Guinness (#19). Peter Choi, meanwhile, was not convinced that evangelicalism was actually addressing the problems brought to light by the Trump years (#15 — see that post’s comments section for Peter’...