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Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - Jason Riley writes the Upward Mobility column for the Wall Street Journal. He’s giving a virtual presentation for NDSU for Black History Month. ~~~ Tom Isern has a Plains Folk essay, Proper Punctuation in Winter. ~~~ Writer and photographer W. Scott Olsen is giving an artist talk tomorrow at the Plains Art Museum on his exhibition, “Notes Toward the Soul of Water: A Photojournalist Adventure.”

Friday, February 25, 2022 - For this month’s Philosophical Currents, Jack Russell Weinstein talks about what’s happening in Ukraine. ~~~ Dave Thompson has our weekly news debrief. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews “Tick, Tick…Boom.”

One of the most dramatic punishments meted out in the North Dakota Legislature was against a life insurance agent convicted of attempting to bribe state lawmakers.

In 1925, the Founder's Day convocation at UND featured a lecture by Dr. J.J. Cornelius titled “The Religions of India.” The lecture was sponsored by Wesley College, which began as a Methodist school in Wahpeton in 1891 under the original name Red River Valley University. Twenty years later, in 1905, at the invitation of UND president Merrifield, it relocated next to UND in Grand Forks and was renamed Wesley College.

Thursday, February 24, 2022 - “O, Beautiful” by author Jung Yun is the One Book One North Dakota discussion from Humanities ND. ~~~ Dave Thompson visits with Lisa Johnson, Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs for the North Dakota University System, about ACT and SAT requirements for college. Many are dropping the requirement. ~~~ Sue Balcom is here to talk pancakes.

It's Andrew Garfield's second Oscar nomination.

Sue Balcom is here to talk pancakes.

Writer and photographer W. Scott Olsen is giving an artist talk Thursday, February 24th at the Plains Art Museum on his exhibition, “Notes Toward the Soul of Water: A Photojournalist Adventure.”

Here we are in the last days of February. A walk in the woods or across the prairie might give us the impression that there is not much activity this time of year. It may not be conspicuous the casual observer, but many of the mammals have been quite active for some time already. And there is not much leisure time in their future.

Angie the History Dog is driving me nuts in mid-winter. Out for a hike or a snowshoe, we cut a deer track, and she thrusts her chubby nose deep into a hoofprint, ruminating indefinitely until spoken to harshly--upon which she proceeds eighteen inches ahead and repeats the same ritual with the next print. In a frozen landscape, she is struggling for olfactory stimulation.