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(KNSI) – Wednesday marked the peaceful transition of powers from former President Donald Trump to now President Joe Biden, but two weeks ago, it was not so peaceful as an angry mob stood where the Presidential Inauguration took place this afternoon.
Parents may be wondering how to explain to their kids all of the anger and violence we’re exposed to every day.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Sheri Tesch with the Central Minnesota Mental Health Centersays violence is part of the everyday world for kids, but when they see it happening in real-time and coming into their homes via the TV news, “it’s frightening. I think the other piece that that is problematic is the amount of time and the amount of exposure kids get to graphic information, whether they’re looking at short TikTok videos or YouTube clips, or they’re watching the news in their home, and they’re doing that without the presence or co-regulation or guidance of their parents.”
Enzyme shows promise in fighting Twin Ports freshwater corrosion problems
Researchers have found evidence of accelerated corrosion not just in the harbor but upstream in the St. Louis River and in other inland waters of the Northland. Written By: Peter Passi | ×
Low water on Lake Superior reveals extensive corrosion of CN s ore docks in Duluth. (Clint Austin / 2017 file / News Tribune)
When Marie Zhuikov pulled her dock out of Wilson Lake for the winter, she found the steel members of the structure encrusted with the same kind of tubercles that have caused so much corrosion damage throughout the Duluth harbor basin. As a senior science communicator for the Wisconsin Sea Grant, Zhuikov knows a thing or two about the subject and showed photos of the dock located near Cotton to colleagues who confirmed her suspicions.
Local View: Students weren’t reading anyway then the virus came
From the column: Call it the out-smartphone if it has the power to distract us when it’s not even in the same room.
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From 2010 to 2018, leisure reading dropped from 20 minutes to 16 minutes per day. You know, like reading the Opinion section of a newspaper. Take out the elderly, and it drops to six minutes per day less than an hour a week.
Nobody wants more 2020 drama, but one of the worst things about last year went basically unnoticed. It was detailed in a book, not even a new book. It was the second edition of Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize when it was released a decade ago. The book diagnosed a new normal, whereby the internet splays attention, fractures thinking, and reconstitutes reading.
Duluth actors, writers create timely online monologues for 24 Hour Plays
The Duluth theater company paired with The 24 Hour Plays to create about a dozen 5-minute monologues that were posted to social media on Tuesday night. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Duluth-area actors take part in Renegade Theater Company s The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues Duluth, which were posted online Tuesday. (Screenshots from The 24 Hour Viral Monologues Duluth)
DULUTH What s a writer to do with a longtime Duluth stage favorite in an Elvis jumpsuit who suddenly, after all these years of starring roles and improv timing, wants to rap for an audience?
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REGIONAL - Two dentists recently relocated to northeastern Minnesota to practice dentistry and help alleviate a dental care shortage. Both were recipients of the Martha Mordini Rukavina Loan Forgiveness Program, which was supported with a grant from the Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation.
Gretchen Kreklow is practicing dentistry in Ely with Scott Anderson. She earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from The College of St. Scholastica in 2015 and graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry in 2020. Dr. Kreklow grew up in Brainerd and resides in Ely with her husband.
Chisholm native Dr. Jennifer Enich earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2016 and graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry in 2020. She is practicing general dentistry at Chisholm Dental Service.