Caitlan Flanagan has an odd piece in the Atlantic today asserting that American university professors are no longer interested in presenting both sides of controversial issues—and I use the word assert advisedly here. The piece is odd because she presents literally no evidence for her argument even though she's written a whole book on the ...continue reading "How to think for yourself"
Jerod Broadbooks, 26, the band director at Barnwell Middle School, finished just more than six minutes behind the top finishers at Saturday's Olympic marathon trials.
A woman accused of targeting an elderly St. Charles County man in a fraud scheme that yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars has turned herself in to authorities in Georgia.
As you likely know, at the beginning of January we launched the latest edition of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1928! We invited designers of all stripes to make analog and digital games using the material that entered the public domain this year (including the big one, Mickey Mouse). Now, the jam […]
Continuing our series of Nat Bullard's climate charts, here's one about carbon capture: This surprised me. I didn't realize CCS had increased over the past few years, let alone by a lot. (But the numbers are still pretty low in absolute terms. Operational capacity in 2023 was 50 million tons compared to global CO2 output ...continue reading "Carbon capture is slowly picking up steam"
The US lost 2.6 million jobs in January: So how did that become an increase of 353,000 in the official figures? The answer is seasonal adjustments: we always lose millions of jobs after the holiday season, so the numbers are adjusted based on how many we lost vs. how many we expected to lose. This ...continue reading "Here’s a nonseasonal look at the employment situation"
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, a Republican from Salem, withstood bipartisan scorn of legislation that boosts the Child Tax Credit and provides business tax incentives. STLPR political correspondent Jason Rosenbaum talked with Smith about the legislation and the road ahead it now faces in the U.S. Senate.
Last month, FOX 2’s Positively St. Louis story focused on how the Land Reutilization Authority in the City of St. Louis has reformed their purchase programs, processes and communications.
Oil giant Shell's profits tumbled by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and natural gas prices, and Exxon Mobil's fourth-quarter revenue declined. Here's how gas prices look in Missouri.
Visit The Galleries at Heartland Art Club for our newest Group of 8 Show. New artworks from Jo Jasper Dean, Mary Drastal, Julie Wiegand, Tim Breaux, Connie Schmidt, Margaret Murphy […]
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