I'm heading off to Minnesota for the weekend. Bemidji, Minnesota, to be exact. I'm giving one of the invited talks at the big MAA Section Meeting they're having at Bemidji State University. Should be fun!
Looks like I'm picking the right weekend to get out of town. It's going to be a zoo around here!
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On July 20, Kevin Lily and two friends (Danielle Katz and Brian Coggan) left Bemidji, Minnesota to travel the length of the Mississippi River. They are raising money for local, national and international charities working to alleviate the global water crisis....
So this past weekend, we had the Midwest Science of Origins conference here in Morris, Minnesota.
A colleague and fellow freethinker at Bemidji State University, Dann Siems, has been diagnosed with a terminal glioblastoma. This is not good. This is damned scary stuff.
A half mile wide tornado with a virtually south to north trajectory from near Park Rapids towards Bemidji, in Hubbard County, destroyed several homes and did a lot of property damage. The worst damage was near Highway 34 and County Road 4, in or near Emmaville and Lake George.
Be sure to see the statue of Paul Bunyan.
It was one of the first things my hosts showed me when I arrived in town.