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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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The 1976 Hoosiers were honored during halftime at the NCAA men’s national championship game Monday night at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis.
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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.
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Singer-songwriter Amy Oelsner channels loss into creative endeavors, like Girls Rock Bloomington, which she founded in 2019. A band from the program discusses their first EP, which they released in 2024 at 12 and 13 years old.
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For more than 48 years Mike Carmichael has been adding coats to what is now the World's Largest Ball of Paint. 29,807 coats later and the Ball is a monstrosity that weighs more than 11,000 pounds.
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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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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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Milan - stock.adobe.com/658710761Could 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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Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Murphy, Nina Simone, and others help us commemorate the changing of the seasons.
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Submit your responses for tonight's game. Get helpful hints and try bonus trivia challenges.
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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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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has been one of the most iconic science fiction stories for over 200 years. What science of her time inspired this tale? -
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Critics say it's a controversial move that could jeopardize rural hospitals and clinics for low-income Hoosiers. -
UConn's standout guard Braylon Mullins is from Greenfield, Ind. -
Jim Graham, Tim Peck, Keil Roark and Brad Meyer agree on many Democratic Party staples but differ on how to win the general election against a party which has controlled the Southern Indiana house seat for 15 years. -
The pinnacle event in college basketball will draw thousands of fans from across the country for a weekend showcasing top talent. -
Two Democrats and two Republicans are angling to be the next representative for Indiana House District 72, after incumbent Rep. Ed Clere decided not to run for reelection. -
Supporters of Brenda Wilson are trying to have Alexandra Wilson removed from the primary ballot, arguing that she’s ineligible because of a 2010 criminal conviction. -
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. -
Senate Enrolled Act 254 is rebranding Ivy Tech as the state's "workforce engine." A college representative says students won't see change.
