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Olivia Heersink

Olivia Heersink is a senior journalism student in the School of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Idaho. She has worked for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and The Statesman-Journal in Salem, Oregon. She is an editor for The Argonaut and Blot Magazine, UI’s student-run publications.

How a Rubik's cube helped a father understand the puzzle of his son

How a Rubik’s cube helped a father understand the puzzle of his son

 New York Times sportswriter John Branch is best known in the journalism world for  “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek.” His gripping long-form narrative, which reconstructed a fatal avalanche in…