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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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    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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    Could you tell a coral snake from the similar looking, but non-poisonous scarlet king snake? You can look at the slight variations in pattern and see which one is poisonous. This type of coloring is classified as aposematic. A pattern is aposematic if it serves as a warning sign to the organism's predators that they should stay away or else. Learn more on this Moment of Science.

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