Kate Brown

1 week ago | myeastkootenaynow.com | Kate Brown

Quick thinking by a homeowner has prevented a vehicle fire from spreading and causing more damage in the Hosmer area this evening. Elk Valley and South Country Rural Fire & Rescue Acting Chief Ben Goertzen says crews arrived to find a single vehicle fully engulfed in flames on the south end of Dicken Road in the Artina Mobile Home Park.

1 week ago | mygrandforksnow.com | Kate Brown

A cyclist has died after reports of a collision with a vehicle in the intersection of Highway 3 (Central Avenue) and Boundary Drive just after 3pm this afternoon, April 17. Grand Forks RCMP say the cyclist received life threatening injuries and was quickly assisted by bystanders performing CPR. He was then transported to the local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The driver of the vehicle remained on scene.

1 week ago | thetech.com | Kate Brown

Andrei Trofimov: “Today, we are seeing something surprising. In the 21st century, progress in science and technology is moving away from social progress. The two are moving in opposite directions”Andrei Trofimov is a political prisoner in Russia. He was arrested in May 2022 and sentenced in Oct. 2023 to ten years for posting against the War in Ukraine on the Russian internet. He wrote this letter below to MIT students in May 2024, because in 1987 he had a fellowship to study at MIT.

1 week ago | mygrandforksnow.com | Kate Brown

The Grand Forks Border Bruins have been crowned the Teck Cup champions for the first time in franchise history. Logan McCabe led the Border Bruins with two goals, including the championship clinching goal in the first period on game four of the series against the Revelstoke Grizzlies, while Eric Kahl was excellent in goal stopping 40 of 42 shots. The Border Bruins led 3-2 after the first period.

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Kate Brown

It’s surprising that, even though quantum theory is now officially over 100 years old, so few people truly understand it. That’s not a failing of the public—it’s just that quantum mechanics demands a kind of mental flexibility we don’t often use. To accept that particles can be entangled across vast distances, or that matter can exist in multiple states at once, all that challenges the classical sense of reality that we’ve grown accustomed to: that things are one way, or they’re another.