Some know Joe McGurkin as the guy who throws popular backyard parties to benefit Moscow Special Olympics. Others know him as the man who gives guitars to local youth. Read more
Saturday, April 10, 2021
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — By Day 3 of being confined to his Australian hotel room for quarantine, David Marriott was getting bored. He’d watched a few seasons of “The Sopranos” and his eyes we…
Dr. Universe,
Working as a public information officer for one of the world’s best and most prominent veterinary colleges comes with plenty of weirdness, too.
There have been a growing number of home-based food businesses selling food through social media, informal networks or door-to-door. Although home-based food businesses are a way to generate a…
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Sunday, April 04, 2021
With the help of much younger, somewhat smaller scientists, a team of University of Idaho seniors studying chemical engineering have designed an experiment that will be delivered to the Intern…
Saturday, April 03, 2021
On Easter morning last year, I filled a vase with branches of yellow forsythia and set it on the dining room table. None of our family would be with us for dinner, because we were all followin…
Dear Dr. Universe,
It was just more than a year ago that Neill Public Library had to close its doors because of COVID-19, and within just a few days one thing was extremely clear — the popularity of our Washingt…
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It’s a nice warm spring day, and you want to get some gardening done. On your knees, you begin scraping out last fall’s leaves when it happens. Yuck! Cat poop!
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Ask Americans if they believe in God and most will say yes. But a growing number have lost faith in organized religion.
Saturday, March 27, 2021
In the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film “Apocalypse Now,” Robert Duvall’s character Col. Kilgore says, “Someday, this war will end.” He then looks away from the camera wistfully hoping just mayb…
Idaho history is for everybody. The statewide National History Day in Idaho program works to convey that message to students in the fourth through 12th grades by hosting a multi-tiered contest…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of American bald eagles has quadrupled since 2009, with more than 300,000 birds soaring over the lower 48 states, government scientists said in a report Wednesday.
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Dr. Universe,
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Judy Taylor of Pullman will celebrate her 100th birthday Thursday.
Sunday, March 21, 2021
There’s something missing from a new wave of bars opening around the world: Alcohol.
Saturday, March 20, 2021
This will no doubt seem quaint to those who’ve never known anything but Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and whatever else has come down the pike since Facebook — which my kids inform me is just for…
A little girl with red-gold hair knocked on our front door last weekend and delivered a valentine. She knew Valentine’s Day had passed, but a rainy Sunday in March seemed like a fine time to m…
Dr. Universe,
Pet owners share some level of concern for their pets getting into something and being poisoned.
Libraries extend far beyond the four walls of a building. The audiobooks that you listen to in your car, the online databases that help with your schoolwork, the grab-and- go activity bags you…
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GRITMAN MEDICAL CENTER
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Recently, there has been a lot of press about a particular brand of flea and tick collar causing illness and death in pets.
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I have been an audiobook reader for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would spend hours perusing the literal “books on tape” at my local library, that were, at the time, only available …
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GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
Saturday, March 06, 2021
A young woman walks on stage, her straight, black hair neatly tied back. She takes a bow before sitting at the Steinway grand piano. After a moment, she leaps into a Franz Joseph Haydn sonata.
As a liaison librarian to humanities departments at Washington State University, I work closely with students and faculty to develop and carry out research projects. Sometimes this entails goi…
According to the U.K.’s leading retail trade publication, demand for pet birds across the pond has soared as COVID-19 lockdowns and isolation have increased.
