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Patterns from Nature

So is this life as we know it now in Minnesota – life in the “polar vortex”? We are cold. We are exhausted by the sheer amount of effort required to put on so many layers and articles of clothing….


Friday Fungi: 100,001 and counting…

The New Year was especially exciting at the University Archives, as during the second week of 2014 the Exploring Minnesota’s Natural History project surpassed 100,000 individual scans. To date, over 110,000 archival materials – photographs, negatives, pages from field notebooks,…


Tuesday Tweet bonus!

Inspired by the novelty of a new digital camera – and surely by the bird images that frequent the Exploring blog – a friend shared photographs taken on a recent excursion down the Mississippi River near Lake City, Minnesota. (Thanks…