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The Automatic Faith Project: What happens when you ask AI questions about God?


"The Automatic Faith Project" was undertaken by students in CO4494 Bulldog Online Newsroom in Spring 2025. The goal of the project is to think about how a new technology, AI, interacts with an ancient facet of the human experience, religion.  By Emma Nisbet…

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Essay: Why is it so hard to eat without YouTube?


  By Ella Hahs  Class was finally over. I hightailed it back home, the sound of my stomach grumbling overshadowing the Fleetwood Mac blaring through my car speakers. My feet pounded up the dusty steps of my apartment and my backpack flew from my grip onto…

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Echoes of the Ardennes: Troy Middleton’s crucial role in WWII and legacy at Mississippi State University


The Ardennes today. Photo by Willy Verhust By Sera Zell Walton The Ardennes Forest, located in southeast Belgium, stands resolutely, a force of nature. Life in the forest rises from the soil, fed by the decay of past flora and fauna. Trees shelter plants, animals,…

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Scott "Scooter" Thomas: How a childhood dream of opening a record store was fulfilled in retirement


This story was published in Queue Magazine. Natalie Staggers, the author, is a publisher of Queue.  Scooter talking to a customer while fiddling with his trusty Fant Memorial Library pen. By Natalie Staggers  It’s a typical Wednesday morning, and…

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Comparing a Kroger sale paper from 2015 to one from 2025


A Kroger sale paper that originally appeared in the Clarion-Ledger in 2015. A BON reporter used the paper to compare prices at a Kroger in Starkville in 2025.  By Madi Embry  A BON reporter recently examined a 2015 sale paper from a Jackson, Mississippi,…

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A Famille Affair: Marie Rougetet joins her All-American brother, Rémi, at MSU


Rémi Rougetet is an All-American javelin thrower in his third year at MSU. In January, his sister Marie left Dijon to join him.  By Daniel Grisham He takes short, trotting steps, lifting his knees high as he moves. Those steps quickly turn into long strides.…

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Bill to allow students time for religious activity fails to pass for the third time 


Rep. Gene Newman has introduced a bill that would allow schoolchildren time for religious instruction during the school week. Photo courtesy J.J. Lincolne.  By Madison Jones  On January 5, Pearl representative Gene Newman proposed a bill that could allow…

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What is the 'Great Unknown' project?


Students in CO4494 Bulldog Online Newsroom ask, 'Can AI do what journalists do?'  By Josh Foreman  Instructor for CO4494 - Bulldog Online Newsroom, Spring 2024   The ‘Talk of the Town’ in 2024  Journalism educators are talking a lot about AI.…

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