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#Minnesota State Fair scenes.
The second most attended US fair. #Mnstatefair

#SilentSunday #LakeLife
(pontoon boats reputedly invented in #Minnesota)

"Contingency plans, backup procedures, and manual overrides did what they’re supposed to do at a majority of the affected utilities: nothing dramatic happened, because the boring stuff worked."
#Minnesota #Water #utilities

"Blast, at last: #Minnesota ’s first new iron ore mine in 50 years targets new era of steelmaking" #Nashwauk

Blast, at last: Minnesota’s first new iron ore mine in 50 years targets new era of steelmaking
Mesabi Metallics has begun mining ore at its new $2.5 billion project on the Iron Range and is already making plans for a more ambitious development.

One thing I love about Saint Paul: they put poetry on sidewalks. Here's some in my neighborhood. Art infrastructure!
#saintpaul #minnesota #poetry

#Minnesota : Park Rapids, Nemeth Art Center. Outstanding group art exhibition; see it if you can! ✔️
https://www.mplsart.com/written/2026/07/not-forgotten-c…

Not Forgotten: Contemporary Art with Rural Roots

Curator Aaron Spangler brings together five artists with rural roots for an exhibition on place, identity, and storytelling at Park Rapids' Nemeth Art Center.

Heads up Twin Cities: anti-ICE rally tomorrow!
#Minneapolis #MSP #Minnesota #ICEout

#Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) air quality alert
#wildfire #smoke

Air quality alert issued due to wildfire smoke for Wednesday, July 15, through Friday, July 17, for east central, central, west central, southeast, north central, northwest, and northeast Minnesota
Air quality is expected to reach the maroon AQI category across central, east central, north central, and northeast Minnesota, which is hazardous for everyone.

A few Cretaceous age dinosaur bones have been discovered in #Minnesota - jaw portions of Terminonaris, and a tail vertebra of a hadrosaur. The state #fossil is the Giant Beaver; this specimen is from Saint Paul.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (2nd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä

#Minnesota Gov Walz issues executive order on copper-nickel PGE mining. May affect development of the Twin Metals deposit in the 1.1 billion yr old Duluth mafic Complex of the Midcontinent Rift. #geology

Walz executive order moves to block copper mining near the Boundary Waters
Four months after Congress reversed a ban on mining over about 350 square miles in the watershed of the northeastern Minnesota wilderness, Gov. Tim Walz has issued a state executive order to block copper-nickel mining in the area.

Not good news about Summit Brewing in St. Paul #Minnesota

So the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team has adopted John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads as their theme. I was just reminded that Denver (H.J. Deutschendorf Jr.) and his wife lived in #Edina, #Minnesota in the late 1960's to early 1970's!

Talon Metals, which is proposing a nickel mine in the Duluth Complex of northern #Minnesota, is abandoning its plans for a processing plant in #NorthDakota. Instead, it would like to process at the Eagle Mine and Humboldt Mill in

Talon Metals scraps plans for $365M nickel processing plant in western North Dakota
The company, based in Minnesota's Iron Range, had planned to produce nickel concentrate in Beulah and sell it to electric car manufacturer Tesla.

Bad Bad Hats, #Minnesota based indie band, at the #NorthDakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks) Concerts in the Garden NDMOA.com.
On Wed Aug 19 they'll be in Grand Marais, catch them if you're up on the North Shore!

#Minnesota artists and Operation Metro Surge: upcoming exhibition at FindFurnish in #Minneapolis
https://theradicalact.com/

On the possibility of #Minnesota Cu-Ni- PGE mining.
#NorthMet #PolyMet #TwinMetals

One Billion Years Ago, Northern Minnesota Nearly Split Apart. Now, Two Companies Want to Mine the Aftermath.
A continental rift created valuable mineral deposits beneath a remote wilderness beloved by recreationists.

#Minnesota !

Really enjoyed TONY (Anthony Bourdain movie)! The 1975 setting was evocative for us.
(Local connection, the dad (not shown here) was played by Rich Sommer, who attended Concordia College in Moorhead #Minnesota and also Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis.)

"Kate Adamala and Aaron Engelhart and their teams ... have developed the world’s first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle, built entirely from non-living chemical components"
(Not a biologist, posting this because I'm a #Minnesota alum!)

World’s first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering
Associate Professor Kate Adamala and her team have built a synthetic cell capable of performing the fundamental functions of life.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony no.1 in C major Op.21 (4th mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony no.4 in B flat major Op.60 (3rd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Ludwig van Beethoven, Osmo Vänskä & Minnesota Orchestra:
🎵 Symphony No 2 in D major, Op 36 (2nd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #OsmoVänskä #MinnesotaOrchestra

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Benjamin Britten, Minnesota Orchestra & Neville Marriner:
🎵 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34: Theme & Fugue
#BenjaminBritten #MinnesotaOrchestra #NevilleMarriner
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jcW7LdhJIiEuq3YO0ICyr

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3Breakfast
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (1st mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Gustav Mahler, Osmo Vänskä & Minnesota Orchestra:
🎵 Symphony No 1 in D major (2nd mvt)
#GustavMahler #OsmoVänskä #MinnesotaOrchestra
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ludwig van Beethoven, Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä:
🎵 Symphony no.7 in A major Op.92 (3rd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #MinnesotaOrchestra #OsmoVänskä