Interactive: The View of Fracking Flares From Space

Flaring isn’t ideal — it’s literally burning up a valuable natural resource, and we need to continue to push the oil and gas industry towards reducing and finally eliminating the practice. That process will take a some time, but here’s a not-so-subtle reminder of why it’s important.

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Great Performance: David Wong Covers Maroon 5

One talented guy plays all the parts on a single instrument.

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What It’s Like Living in the Coldest Town on Earth

North Dakota winters can be rough, and though the groundhog sentenced us to six more weeks of it, we still have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s one case where we’re clearly already on the side of the fence with the greener grass.

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How LEGO Freaks Stack and Store Their LEGOs

If you’ve got kids, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve got LEGOs, and if you’ve got LEGOs, there’s pretty good chance you have a lot of them. Here’s your chance to learn how the truly obsessed manage the pieces that fuel their compulsion to build.

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Get The Minot Voice on Your Phone or Tablet…

Getting the Minot Voice on your phone or tablet is easy and only takes a few seconds. We’ll teach you how to add our icon to your home screen right now!

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Mental Models: Solve Problems by Approaching Them from New Perspectives

The Minot Voice featured a quote from Richard Feynman a few days ago; then this article filtered though so it’s being shared. There’s a bit of math and science context here, but the lessons can and should be applied to any problem or circumstance.

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An Honest Letter from Your IT Department

If your job requires a computer, you can probably relate, and you’ll probably laugh. If your job does not require a computer, feel free to laugh at those of us who have jobs that require a computer.

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Without This Woman’s Help, Lewis and Clark Were Goners

The Smithsonian Channel’s Aerial America features a couple short videos that show off North Dakota and some of her history. If you follow the link out, make sure you scroll down after the Sacajawea video to catch videos on Teddy Roosevelt and John Jacob Astor.

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The Bizarre Mirages That Once Scared the Bejesus Out of Sailors

Ever wonder where the myths and wild stories of the sea came from? Here’s the science the explains the mirage phenomenon in an easy to understand article from Wired.

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Photography Tips from One of the World’s Best Photojournalists

Do you like to take pictures? Want to get better at it? Here’s your chance to learn from one of the best.

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If the Size of a Country was Relative to Its Population

Ever wonder what the world would look like if the land mass of a country was determined by the population? Neither had I, but it does make for an interesting perspective shift.

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The Economics of Almonds & Insanity of Almond Milk

Did you know: It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond? A gallon of almond milk has the same nutritional value of a handful of almonds but costs 6 times as much? For no other reason than I found them interesting, here are two articles on the state of the almond craze.

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Archery… The Old Fashioned Way

The guy’s name is Lars Andersen, and he has taken archery to a new level by looking back on its history.  It’s a perfect feature for a Sunday morning dose of P.B.A..

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NASA’s Huge Image of a Tiny Section of Space (Video too)

Space is big, staggeringly so, uncomprehendingly so, and NASA has just delivered a picture that hammers the point home… just in case you hadn’t thought about it in a while. The image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as

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Watch: What Can Stacking Three Balls on Top of Each Other Teach You About Physics?

How about a three-minute physics lesson on energy transfer delivered in an visual experiment that you easily reproduce at home? Yes? Click and watch.

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I Want it That Way – 70’s Soul Backstreet Boys Cover

If you never go into the Backstreet Boys, it could be that they were just from the wrong era. Maybe this is better....

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