A deep dive into a relatively frivolous facet of The Great American Songbook.

The next time you're driving during a rain shower, glance back at the rear window. You'll notice that while raindrops batter the front windshield, they seem to avoid the back window as long as the car is moving. How is that possible?

The yellow and orange colors of the glads we have today came from the genetic legacy of a variety called Gladiolus primulinus.

A number of factors brought people to the doors of the poorhouse, including sickness and age, abusive relationships, and the vagaries of agricultural work.

Interesting, isn’t it, that regional interurban mass transit systems and bicycles peaked in America at about the same time -- that is, the decade just before the popularization of the automobile.

These are good plants for an informal, colorful, easy-care planting that will show up well from a distance.

IU's legendary president Herman B Wells didn't set out to be a university administrator. According to his father, he was “practically raised in a bank”.

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Since 2018, Early Music America has hosted its Emerging Artists Showcase, a series presenting the rising stars of early music and historical performance. This hour, we’ll conclude our celebration of their 2025 laureates with Comtessa’s program entitled Florilegium: Songs of Medieval England from 1150 to 1300.

Florida-based writer Heather Sellers reads her poems “Accidental Practitioners” and “Inventory for Pedagogy at Midlife.”

As films became increasingly risqué in the Roaring 20s, Hollywood attempted to preempt governmental intervention with a self-regulating system, the Hays Code.

Schoolhouse Rock made its debut on Saturday morning TV in 1973. And this week on Afterglow, we’re exploring the many jazz singers—like Blossom Dearie, Grady Tate, and Jack Sheldon —who helped shape the sound of the popular educational series.