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Blade and Bones: Knives, knights, and shining armor
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Blade and Bones: Knives, knights, and shining armor

Adrenaline is rushing. Two armor-clad men swing at at each other holding their swords high.  Is skill or strength the advantage? Customers line up to take turns battling out their honor on the marked floor. After receiving clear and simple instructions, a diverse crowd — young children, college students, and adults alike — wield colorful...

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...