The remaining $127 million dollars in American Rescue Plan funds are going to be released to South Dakota. Mary Staddick Smith is the Deputy Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Education, she discusses how the state will use the money.
Faith Bottum is a graduate of South Dakota Mines and has been selected as the 2021 Rago Fellow for excellence in journalism. This grants her a 9-month internship with the Wall Street Journal.
Physicist Hugh Lippincott is one of a cadre of scientists coaxing the universe to reveal its most essential secrets. We explore dark matter, particle physics, and Neutrino Day at the Sanford Underground Research Lab.
In the Moment, May 24, 2021 Show 1055.
Michelle Kane, Director, South Dakota CEO/Women s Business Center, offers tips on how to let your customers know that you have reopened your business.
Dr. Shankar Kurra joins us for a COVID update. We ll talk about standing down from the surge preparations and how efforts to encourage vaccinations are now focused on personal conversations.
Connecting to Community is a public media collaboration that celebrates rural stories, searches for shared values, and rethinks the very definition of home. Shane Nordyk, Ph.D. leads the Chiesman Center for Democracy at USD. She joins us to look at data from the Coming Home project.
For the ‘tiger farms’ of Asia, the big cat is worth more dead than alive
A production line takes tigers from zoos to be harvested for their meat, skin and bones. Mar 01, 2021 · 09:30 pm A tiger at the Mukda Tiger Park and Farm in northeast Thailand. | Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation / AFP
Tigers could once be found across much of Asia, from eastern Turkey to Siberia and Indonesia. Today, they are reduced to living in just 6% of their former range. In many of these areas tigers are no longer even valued as free-ranging wild animals, but merely as products for financial profit, worth more dead than alive.
Wisconsin Department of Health warns against eating the cannibal sandwich, a traditional holiday dish in the state
By Marika Gerken, CNN
Updated 8:28 PM ET, Mon December 14, 2020
The Cannibal Sandwich is typically served at holiday parties and other festive gatherings in the Badger State. (CNN)Wisconsin residents are being urged by health officials to pass on eating a traditional holiday dish this year to avoid getting sick.
A cannibal sandwich, considered a holiday favorite in the state, consists of raw ground beef on bread with sliced onions, salt and pepper.
But, eating raw meat is NEVER recommended because of the bacteria it can contain, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) said in a tweet on Saturday.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.