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Abuzz with bees: Hillsdale’s honey scene
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Abuzz with bees: Hillsdale’s honey scene

The art of raising bees is a chance to reminisce, to find peace, or to use your hands, and, in the best cases, to make some money.  Like humans, bees have communities, rituals, roles and routines — ones that endear them to those who own them.  “I don’t think you could ever really stop learning...

Shark tooth sheds light on ancient species
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Shark tooth sheds light on ancient species

Just across from Donna the triceratops in Hillsdale’s Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History lies a tiny tooth about three millimeters in length. It is a tooth that represents the glory days of Michigan’s history, when it was a shallow tropical sea poised mere miles from the equator and filled with an assortment of...

Being a senior in the era of the coronavirus
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Being a senior in the era of the coronavirus

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom and of foolishness, the epoch of belief and incredulity, of darkness and of light, of hope and of despair.” Dickens’ words certainly applied to that confusing semester. As spring break of 2020 began, several friends and I...