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• How to build a campfire that lasts, in GIFs
  Whether you're headed camping or just building a fire in your backyard, follow these steps to build a fire that won't go out before you can spear your marshmallow.July 13, 2017
• MPR 50th anniversary: Live broadcast from Ely, Minn.
  A special MPR 50th anniversary broadcast live from Ely with Minnesota Public Radio News host Tom Weber.July 13, 2017
• Fewer lifeguards fuel Minn. parents' water-safety concerns
  Beaches across the state are increasingly going without lifeguards, which means parents and other adults need to know how to keep children safe around the water.July 12, 2017
• State wants family DNA to identify unknown bodies
  BCA investigators hope to gather DNA from missing persons' family members in an attempt to identify five people exhumed from cemeteries in the Twin Cities.July 11, 2017
• Louie Anderson's youth in St. Paul helped form an Emmy-winning character
  Anderson stars in FX's "Baskets," which was just green-lighted for a third season. He sat down for a wide-ranging, personal interview with MPR News host Tom Weber while back in Minnesota for stand-up shows.July 11, 2017
• Aspen Ideas Festival: Bill Bishop on why we live with people just like ourselves
  An Aspen Ideas Festival program that ponders the implications of an America where the places we live are increasingly crowded with people who live, think and vote just like we do.July 11, 2017
• Parting thoughts: A life on the cutting edge
  Dr. Joseph Garamella revolutionized heart surgery and helped save innumerable lives. He became a surgeon in the 1950s, when the most basic principles of open heart surgery were still being worked out.July 10, 2017
• Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks on 'The Second Mountain'
  Every year New York Times columnist and NPR commentator David Brooks gives an hour-long lecture, and he titled this one, "The Second Mountain: The Next Big Challenge in Your Life."July 10, 2017
• How a futuristic dome city was nearly built in northern Minnesota
  We had just landed on the moon, why not build a city under a dome on the swamps of rural Aitkin County?July 7, 2017
• Veteran finally receives his medals, years after death
  Some 73 years after he died in combat, Staff Sgt. Gerald Jacobsen of Little Canada has received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart due him.July 6, 2017
• Top performers risk being undermined by peers, studies show
  Studies highlighted in Scientific American indicate a propensity for less-well-performing employees to take aim at the efforts of their star coworkers.July 6, 2017
• Classmates of Philando Castile award first scholarship in his honor
  A group of Central High School alumni from Philando Castile's class of 2001 started a $5,000 scholarship to be awarded to a young man of color each year.July 6, 2017
• Aspen Ideas Festival: Why millennials work the way they do
  Two authors sat down with Katie Couric to discuss the reason some millennials are struggling in the current job market and what they're doing to change workplace cultures.July 6, 2017
• A plan for raising brilliant kids, according to science
  A developmental framework for building 21st century skills -- no technology or money required.July 5, 2017
• Quiz: Could you pass the U.S. citizenship test?
  In honor of Independence Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, let's take a hard look at how much we know -- or don't know -- about our government and U.S. history.July 3, 2017

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