Trumpism is causing the United States to lose scientific talent. Cutting federal funding for science and reviving the Red Scare is driving international students away…
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Yankton native Dr. Frank Leibfarth studies plastic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In an interview spurred by Leibfarth’s winning a prestigious…
KELO-TV Sports features SDSU Engineering’s efforts to develop a bio-glue made from the protein mussels use to stick to rocks. One misstep on the football…
Two years ago, a bunch of teachers produced a reasonable revision of South Dakota’s K-12 social studies standards, only to see their work ripped up…
As coronavirus resurges, the South Dakota Department of Health vows to put Freedom (yes, they capitalize it, as required in the Noem Style Book) above…
Representative Jon Hansen takes the climate-change-denier position that we should just release all the carbon dioxide we want and let plants eat it. Actual scientists…
The Public Utilities Commission is holding hearings in Fort Pierre this week and likely next on the proposed Navigator Heartland Greenway carbon dioxide pipeline. Testifying…
I mentioned yesterday that the South Dakota Department of Transportation’s draft Carbon Reduction Strategy is kind of milquetoasty without any commitment to measuring the results…
The Iowa Legislature met in special session yesterday and passed a bill banning abortion after six weeks of gestation. Governor Kim Reynolds, who convened the…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) showed up at a rally on the steps of the McPherson County Courthouse in Leola on May 15 to speak against…