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Climate change is already affecting global food production — unequally

Photo by Bob Nichols Article via sciencedaily.com Published in PLOS ONE, the University of Minnesota-led study, conducted with researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Copenhagen, used weather and reported crop data to evaluate the potential impact of observed climate change. The researchers found that: observed climate...

For Singing Surgeon At Mayo Clinic, Music Is Medicine

Article by Kate Raddatz, via CBS Minnesota ROCHESTER, Minn. (WCCO) — A Minnesota surgeon is going viral. It’s not for his medicine, but his music. Elvis Francois is an orthopedic surgeon doing his residence at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. For Francois, surgery and song go hand in hand. “It’s almost like breathing, I just...