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Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.

It's the first evidence of an oil company acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised.

Activists appealed to the United Nations for help staving off “disaster capitalism” in the wake of the deadly blaze.

Board games have long been used to teach players about science, history, and even society itself. Local St. Louis board game companies continue this mission today through games like Wingspan (Stonemaier Games) or Genotype (Genius Games). During the space race, Gameland, Inc. brought the quest for space travel into the homes of everyday St. Louisans. …

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Hi Folks, This is Part Two of a walking tour that I was asked to lead by the Ten Toes Walking Group from Citizens For Modern Transit.  If you missed the first part, here is the link. Maplewood History: From Bartold’s Grove to the Maplewood Mill – Part One For the second part of this […]

Warren Ems of Hillsboro, MO joined the Real Rock Army today

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Return to a time when steamboats ruled the river. The one-hour narrated riverfront cruise aboard the Riverboats at the Gateway Arch explores the history of downtown St. Louis, including the […]

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Hot on the heels of its successful 25th season, the NMRA Ford Nationals has announced another exciting run of events in 2024. In early May, NMRA rejoins NMCA for the […]

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This is an Nvidia NVL72 Blackwell compute node: Give or take a bit, it has the compute power of a human brain and is likely to be priced at about $200,000. Seven years ago I thought it would take until 2040 to have something like this for a few thousand dollars. It's obvious now that ...continue reading "Nvidia will sell you a human brain for $200,000"

Local teens want tougher gun laws, but they learned how differing views compete on the state level.

The Drug Enforcement Agency is backing a proposal to reclassify marijuana as a less serious drug.

The greatest basketball coach in Mizzou history, Norm Stewart, 89, is now the 51st person inducted into the "Hall of Famous Missourians" at the state capitol in Jefferson City.

Missouri voters on Wednesday got a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, after a group behind the effort said it turned in nearly double the required number of signatures.

Millions of potential incoming freshman college students don’t know where they’ll be this fall or how much financial aid they’ll get.

A large group of anti-war protestors went through Saint Louis University's campus and closed N. Grand Boulevard Wednesday evening, vocalizing their desire for a ceasefire and for the school to part ways with Boeing.

Artificial Intelligence is all the rage these days, so I suppose it was inevitable that major world religions would try their holy hands at the game eventually. While an unfortunate amount of the discourse around AI has devolved into doomerism of one flavor or another, the truth is that this technology is still so new […]