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Music professor Colin Roust discusses the complete works of Francis Johnson, an internationally famous African American composer who reshaped the origins of American music.
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CoreCivic asks a Kansas appeals court to end an injunction against reopening its Leavenworth prison … prosecutors amend the charges against two people charged in connection with a fatal Lawrence shooting … and a Kansas high school is forced to cancel its baseball season.
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Oluwaseun Taiwo AjadiFluid mechanics are often helpful how traffic behaves on busy roads. When you zoom out from individual drivers and look at the collective motion of cars, patterns emerge that resemble the flow of a fluid in a pipe. -
There's jungle jazz by Henry Mancini on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, along with some provocative percussion by Clyde Borly and Terry Snyder, exotic sounds by the Whatitdo Archive Group and the Voodoo 5, plus 007 goes Latin!
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Biofuel leaders say the shipping industry could be a golden goose for ethanol and soy-based biodiesel. One of the big barriers is the Trump administration, which torpedoed a global agreement to reduce pollution. -
Environmental advocates say the outlined revision ignores science and threatens water quality, while farm groups argue it offers landowners needed clarity about which parts of their land count as federally protected. -
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a network of “climate hubs” to understand how climate change affects agriculture and forestry and help farmers adapt to more extreme and unpredictable weather. Now, the future of these hubs is uncertain. -
Council Grove, Kansas, is a small town with a rich history and a unique distinction: With a population of about 2,200, it is the smallest town in the United States with a daily newspaper: the Council Grove Republican. -
Master guitarist Rod Fleeman is also a prolific composer, as he demonstrates in this week's Live at Green Lady Lounge. The Rod Fleeman Trio, featuring bassist Gerald Spaits, drummer Ray DeMarchi and Rod Fleeman at the guitar will perform an hour of music, all composed by Rod.
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The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly closed the airspace around El Paso, only to reopen it hours later. The bizarre episode pointed to a lack of coordination between the FAA and the Pentagon. -
Van Der Beek played Dawson Leery on the hit show Dawson's Creek. He announced his colon cancer diagnosis in 2024. -
A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. -
August Ponthier's Everywhere Isn't Texas is as much a fully realized introduction as a complete revival. Its an existential debut that asks: How, exactly, does the artist fit in here? -
U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in January as the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3% from 4.4% in December. Annual revisions show that job growth last year was far weaker than initially reported.
On this edition of Conversations, Matthew Quirk talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest thriller, "The Method." I
