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Great Zimbabwe was one of the most prominent ancient civilizations of the African continent. Built between the 11th and 15th centuries by ancestors of today’s Shona people, it was the thriving capital of a massive trading empire — but for hundreds of years was dismissed by European explorers. Now, new archaeological discoveries are revealing the true scope of the ancient city's global importance.
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ESPN College GameDay will be making its third appearance in Bloomington Saturday morning before Indiana University’s homecoming football game against Minnesota.
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Learn how AI is being leveraged to better understand us by analyzing human movement and physiology.
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Ian Jacobs/FlickrRising temperatures impact some unexpected areas of our lives. Learn more about how climate change effects mosquitoes with today's A Moment of Science.
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Kelly McBride, senior vice president at The Poynter Institute of Media Ethics and chair of the Newmark Ethics Center at Poynter.
When Congress voted to kill the Corporation for Public Media, some saw it as a death blow for public media in America. And it may yet be, especially for local news, which is 90 percent of public media. In spite of the massive outpouring of support, the system faces significant challenges if it is going to survive. And yet, there is an amazing opportunity to rethink and remake public media in the image of what consumers and communities need now, in the era of streamers and influencers. But can we do it?
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Deirdre Fagan reads "To the person in charge of discontinuation," "The Month of the Dead," "Going Hungry," and "Love Begets Love."
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Indiana's ill-fated second statehouse was acclaimed as "the nearest approach to the classical spirit of the antique yet instanced in the Western hemisphere".
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Danny WilliamWe’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.
In case you missed it
An overview of American Songbook tunes about show business.
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Browse our playlist for this week's show
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The Metropolitan Museum of ArtWe’re sounding the trumpet this week on Harmonia, with magnificent baroque trumpets in virtuosic solo music and majestic choral and orchestral works from Monteverdi to Telemann. Our featured release is Altissima: Works for High Baroque Trumpet with soloist Josh Cohen.
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In the 1970s Don Ellis, Lalo Schifrin, David Shire, Herbie Hancock and other composers expanded the palette of crime jazz through their scores for films such as The French Connection, Dirty Harry and The Taking of Pelham One 123, while summoning noir of the past in Chinatown, Taxi Driver, and Farewell My Lovely.
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The state estimates at least 139,000 people will qualify. -
Gov. Mike Braun has the final say as Jeffrey Weisheit’s Nov. 5 execution approaches. -
Republican Gov. Mike Braun won’t direct the Indiana Election Commission to meet ahead of Election Day to review pending campaign misconduct allegations. -
An IU football trend has taken over social media. -
The parade was on Woodlawn Ave. for 10 years. The last year the parade was held downtown was 2015. -
For some voters, races come down to one question: Do candidates support or oppose them? -
Thomas Stoughton pleaded guilty Monday, leaving Phillip Holden to stand trial alone Tuesday in a federal fraud case over Indiana virtual School. -
Paul Broderick was appointed interim Health Officer Monday. Broderick has served as the Morgan County health officer since 2011. -
A judge struck down the part of an Indiana law that required Union School Corp. to shut down in July 2027, after lawmakers added it to a 2025 property tax bill. -
Republicans are tapping their sizable fundraising advantage to pour money into hotly contested races during the final weeks before the election.
