Bird Song of the Day
26 minutes (!) of a Snow Oil foraging and feeding its young. Impressive dedication.
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to those below, a cursory comparison shows that the shape of the curves is the same.)
Scientists look to Twin Cities sewers to find COVID variants The hunt for new strains locally is piggybacking on long-running COVID wastewater surveillance. February 15, 2021 5:34am Text size Copy shortlink:
Some of the best evidence for detecting early signs of new COVID strains in Minnesota is being flushed right down the toilet.
But scientists at the Metropolitan Council and the University of Minnesota s Genomics Center have started work to detect new strains of COVID in the wastewater flowing into the Twin Cities primary sewage treatment plant in St. Paul.
The project is an outgrowth of ongoing epidemiological work with Minnesota s wastewater. Genetic traces of the virus that causes COVID are detectable in wastewater, which is why researchers are analyzing it for early warnings about COVID hot spots.
Modernist Minneapolis building that replaced skid row destined for demolition Decision reverses preservation panel s vote to protect 1969 site. February 12, 2021 10:38am Text size Copy shortlink:
A modernist downtown Minneapolis building that some argued was worth preserving will soon meet the wrecking ball following a City Council vote Friday.
Developers want to replace the half-century-old building at 21 N. Washington Av. with a 27-story apartment complex. City planners argued that the building should be spared and studied further because of its unique design and its role in the clearing of Minneapolis skid-row district.
The building was erected in 1969 to be the home of Knutson Construction, which at the time was overseeing the redevelopment of the city s Gateway District. The Gateway project resulted in the complete destruction of entire blocks of historic buildings in downtown, replaced by modern structur
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Both Minneapolis and St. Paul draw their drinking water from the Mississippi River.
Curious Minnesota host Eric Roper paid a visit to Minneapolis water treatment campus in Fridley to understand the complex process that makes river water safe to drink.
Click here for the accompanying Curious Minnesota article on this topic. If you cannot see the podcast audio below, click here to listen.
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