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Gunflint Notebook: The Lonestar

In this edition of the Gunflint Notebook, WTIP volunteer commentator Steve Ramberg remembers his grandfather’s boat, the Lonestar.


New website from Sea Grant shows where to find local fresh fish

Are you looking for local fresh fish, caught and raised by producers in the Great Lakes region? A new website from Minnesota Sea Grant has what you need. Dave spoke with Amy Schrank, Fisheries and Aquaculture Extension Educator and project lead, about the new website, freshfishfinder.org.

WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


2021 IgNobel prizes awarded–research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think

The 2021 IgNobel prizes were awarded last week. They’re given every year for scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think. Because of the pandemic, this year’s ceremony again happened entirely online — rather than in its traditional home on stage at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. Brian spoke with Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, about this year’s awards.

WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


Soul-Unfiltered

Anthony and Georgia discuss Root cause issues in community around homelessness and policing and check in with Dr. Catrice Jackson about building allyship in white colleagues and the hard work of moving from apathy to active anti-racism.


Earth Matters: Watermark Exhibit with a Global Message

The Surface Design Association’s (SDA) thought-provoking, collaborative exhibit “Earth Matters” begs the assessment of human impact on the ecology of our world. The show can be viewed thru the end of October at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. Executive Director of SDA Karena Bennett discusses the history of the SDA and the powerful exhibit in this Area Voices segment.


Walk Among the Tombstones

We’re taking a walk among the tombstones today on Stay Human – words and music for the living. Steve Downing on cemeteries as magical places, and a tour of the jazz section at New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery. Thoughts on how to get the dead where they need to go, so the living can get where they need to be.


Intersection of Media and Trauma

Why is it when a white girl goes missing, every news media outlet is covering it constantly; but when someone from BIPOC communities goes missing, there is little to no coverage? Our guests talk about how this erasure is nothing new and often times prompts trauma in BIPOC communities. Guests: Korina Barry, Marisa Cummings


Intersection of Media and Trauma

Why is it when a white girl goes missing, every news media outlet is covering it constantly; but when someone from BIPOC communities goes missing, there is little to no coverage? Our guests talk about how this erasure is nothing new and often times prompts trauma in BIPOC communities. Guests: Korina Barry, Marisa Cummings


Soul-Study

Anthony checks in with Georgia about the recent developments in the Mohamad Noor Case and talks with Dr. Kim Park Nelson, Ethnic Studies Professor at Winona State University about how important ethnic studies education is to our current moment of reckoning.


A Brief Afghan History Lesson REMIX

This remix of a previous show features two Afghan organizers who give us a brief lesson on the history of Afghanistan and colonization. We talk about the US interference that caused the recent Taliban takeover of Kabul and how it is impacting the vast Afghan diaspora. IG: @HandsOffAfghanistan


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