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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
Michael Koppelman has a foot in two worlds. He was engineer and producer for Prince. But he was also an amateur astronomer who, says Britt Aamodt, caught on film the death of a star that took place long before the earth was formed. [Read Transcript...]
America in the 1950s was preparing for the Soviets to drop the bomb any minutes. But less than two decades later, says Britt Aamodt, Minnesota was building the first rural nuclear plant in America. [Read Transcript...]
Millions of Americans served the military during World War II. But at the University of Minnesota, says Britt Aamodt, 36 men signed up to starve. [Read Transcript...]
Hope Jahren always felt at home in her father's science lab in southern Minnesota. Decades on, Britt Aamodt tells us, the geobotanist has distilled the lessons learned from a life in science in a celebrated memoir. [Read Transcript...]
