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Poet Ross Gay on witnessing, gratitude, reading very long poems out loud, and a particular layup from the 1980 NBA finals.
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Staff discovered the photos by accident on a hard drive that had been stored in a desk for decades.
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WTIU and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music have received a Regional Emmy® nomination for their nationally distributed production of The Nutcracker at the Jacobs School of Music.
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What were America’s founders reading and how did those texts shape the world they built?
Nice Work host Kayte Young in conversation with poet and writer Ross Gay. Ross Gay’s books include Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, The Book of Delights, and Inciting Joy.
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About 150 years ago, Indiana nearly bankrupted itself building a statewide canal system. Now, a new archaeological project seeks to learn more about this maligned period of Indiana history.
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US Senator and staunch Lincoln supporter Henry S. Lane may be best remembered for his three-day term as Indiana’s thirteenth governor.
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Courtesy of the poet.Antonia Matthew reads "The Night of January 2, 2026," "bombed building," "Jet Trail," and "Knitting Circle."
In case you missed it!
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Looking back at the innovations that paved the way for the Golden Age of Broadway.
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In the wake of the pandemic, a deeper appreciation and a broadened perspective. Visits from Pops Staples, Marcel Proust, and Burt Lancaster.
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British Library, Add MS 57950; WikimediaLots of music has come down through the centuries with no listed author, requiring varying levels of historical forensics by scholars and performers wishing to sleuth out its origin. This hour on Harmonia, we’re exploring music with notorious and notoriously incorrect composer attributions.
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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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Native to Mexico, dahlias probably grew in Aztec gardens as they were already in cultivation when the Spaniards arrived. -
If the universe started with the Big Bang, what will it look like far into the future? -
Yesterday we looked closer at batesian mimicry, and today's A Moment of Science checks out another example of this phenomenon in snakes. -
"Monkey see, monkey do" might be a common phrase for humans, but there's some truth behind this for other species as well. Learn more about batesian mimicry with today's A Moment of Science. -
Tandem employs eight postpartum doulas, offering services in their Bloomington office on Third Street or in-house, said lead doula Jenni Jurijczuk. Tandem offers postpartum doula services up to one year after birth. -
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President Donald Trump on Thursday announced he’d direct $700 million in national defense and energy funding to refurbish or build coal power infrastructure across the country, including in Indiana. -
Report finds 60,000 fewer Hoosiers signed up for ACA coverage in 2026 -
A top NFL reporter for ESPN quotes a source saying, "Barring anything very strange, it's a done deal." -
Directors, caregivers would need less education, training
