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Native Americans taught the colonists to use Cimicifuga to treat fevers, lumbago, rheumatism, and snake bites with a medicine made from the roots. Its common names became bugbane and black cohosh.
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It costs approximately $300 per launch, including the balloon, helium, the balloon train (everything that attaches to the balloon), and the radiosonde itself, a device in the weather balloon that collects the data.
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What started as a routine research task turned into a community-wide impact. Learn how the Blue Envelope Program made its way to Monroe County—and why it matters for safer, more compassionate interactions.
Tyler Lake
Actor Michael Shannon recruited a troupe of indie rock all-stars to tour major cities—and Bloomington—performing R.E.M.'s 1986 record, Life’s Rich Pageant. Music critic and friend of the show Stephen Deusner joins Tyler to talk about the band and their show at the Bluebird.
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Inside the City of Kokomo's Record Breaking Attractions: the Steer and the Stump
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/First railroad in Indiana, ca. 1851. From an illustration in a memoir by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker.Oliver Smith got elected to Congress when his opponent pledged support for railroads, which in 1826 Indiana were not only nonexistent but almost mythological.
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Courtesy of the poet.Kourtney Jones reads "Day Zero" and "The Other Side of It."
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Host Dr. Kevin Jones examines how AI is rapidly reshaping our world in what he calls the Age of Accelerated Transformation.
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Wikimedia CommonsOur brains are three times as large as our closest evolutionary relative. But the size of the human brain hasn't just continually grown during our evolution.
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Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Murphy, Nina Simone, and others help us commemorate the changing of the seasons.
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daliu - stock.adobe.com/912781235Submit your answers for tonight's game. Try bonus trivia or get helpful hints. Get a little salty
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A painting communicates and connects without words, without sound. Just one sense and your feelings.
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There’s an antiphon that features in the masses for Easter Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Its words begin: “This is the day the Lord has made,” and ends with a joyous Alleluya. This hour, exultant music for Easter.
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In the 1940s a young jazz singer with a four-octave range and bebop chops burst onto the big-band scene with Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine before going on to establish herself as a solo star.
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Two Planned Parenthood clinics in Indianapolis will close Friday after federal funding cuts, and Indiana’s attorney general has filed an appeal to block state funding to the organization should a federal ban expire. -
The Hopewell South development will now wait until April 22 while council members and city administration work on the proposal. -
The daily pill called Foundayo got a fast track through the Food and Drug Administration. It will compete with the pill form of Wegovy as an alternative to obesity drugs given by injection. -
The program gifts free, high quality and age-appropriate books to children from birth to age five on a monthly basis, regardless of family income. -
Judge Kara Krothe determined in two separate cases that the RDC used the wrong process to pursue eminent domain and that the commission lacks the authority to even do so. -
Indiana conservation officers recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl that had been missing in the east fork of the White River in Columbus since Monday evening. -
New state-required reports show per-student costs ranging from under $7,000 to more than $50,000, but officials warn the data can’t yet be used for “apples-to-apples” comparisons. -
Almost 1,800 noncitizen truck and bus drivers without specific employment-based visas lost their commercial driver’s licenses Wednesday as a new statutory ban — inspired by recent traffic fatalities — took effect. -
Mayor Mary Ferdon said the ordinance was crafted by city council, attorneys, police, and fire fighters. -
Despite months of protest and community meetings, the Metropolitan Development Commission approved the rezoning requests for a data center to be built on a nearly 14-acre plot of land on Sherman Avenue.
