In 1974, several of the world’s most influential minds wrote essays for a special edition of the Saturday Review. Each had been asked to provide predictions as to how the world would look 50 years hence, in 2024.
Read more about their visions of the future. What do you think life will be like in 2074?
Utah’s snowpack is one for the records, breaking the one set in 1983
This winter is one that Jordan Clayton predicts people will be talking about for decades.
Clayton, who is the Utah snow supervisor for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, said the snowpack received since the start of the water year last October shattered the record set in 1983 and topples another one in 1952 — making it the most the state has received in its record-keeping history.
Read more about Utah's record-breaking winter and whether to expect flooding this spring.
More in Utah:
Former House speaker Brad Wilson wants to ‘make Washington more like Utah’ (Deseret News)
Salt Lake City ramps up controlled releases from Parleys Creek ahead of snowmelt (KSL)
Starting this fall, your child needs be potty trained before enrolling in kindergarten (Deseret News)
Husband of Florida lawmaker dies after falling at Bryce Canyon (KSL)
“If colleges are intended to form a whole person and prepare them for a full, humane life, care for children should be part of that education,” Leah Libresco Sargeant writes. “A quad that is wholly empty of children is as poorly prepared for learning as an academic library empty of books.”
This past winter, Libresco Sargeant went to Yale to make the case that students should reconfigure their lives to have more children and start having them earlier.
Read more about how students responded and what she recommends colleges do to avoid “the social costs of designing schools that age-segregate students.”
Health
Man who received first pig kidney transplant home recovering now (Deseret News)
NASA has confirmed that the solar eclipse won’t poison your food (Deseret News)
Faith
President Nelson says age, longevity of service of senior Latter-day Saint leaders is ‘cause for ‘celebration’ (Deseret News)
‘We stand together’: Bradford Muslim and Jewish leaders join forces for Ramadan event (The Guardian)
Sports
Why Iowa-UConn is a must-watch game (Deseret News)
The A’s have made their decision and it isn’t Utah (Deseret News)
Maryland will compete against Utah Friday. Can the Terrapins hang with the Red Rocks? (Deseret News)
‘Best I have ever had’: BYU boasts an outstanding group of receivers, and more depth is on the way (Deseret News)
The West
In one of L.A.’s largest cash heists, burglars steal as much as $30 million in elaborate operation (Los Angeles Times)
Colorado snowpack, nearing peak after huge storms, is now a bright spot: “We’re in a good position” (The Denver Post)
The Nation
Report: More people renting but not because they can’t afford a home (Deseret News)
Why Indiana’s abortion ban (still) can’t be enforced against some people of faith (Deseret News)
The World
Six months later: Inside the attack on an Israeli kibbutz (Deseret News)
As hundreds remain stranded following Taiwan earthquake, Utahns in the country share experience (Deseret News)
Travel
5 tips you should know before applying for the Angels Landing Pilot Permit (Deseret News)
Italian island overrun by goats is offering them free to anyone who can catch them (CNN)
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