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Let’s begin with Emerson’s 1870 lecture “The Natural History of the Intellect.” What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By …

Locutores Luis Hernandez, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, y Carlos Bakota hablaron sobre las Noticias, Leyes y Politica.  Nos cuentan sobre las nuevas leyes apartir del primero de Julio, nos cuentan un poco sobre Jim Crow, y terminan con una conversacion sobre las demostracion de “Familias Separadas” en Bloomington.   Hosts, Luis Hernandez, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, and Carlos Bakota talk about News, Law and Politicas.  …

Indiana’s legislature passed a law last session requiring law enforcement to collect DNA from people arrested in connection with a felony. That law went into effect on January first. The DNA, which is collected with a cotton swab from the inside of a person’s mouth, is then entered into a federal database. In this feature report, WFHB News Director Wes …

Bloomington City Council members are working to limit the heights of new downtown development, the Sophia Travis playground at Karst Farm Park is getting a makeover, the Indiana legislature is considering revising Indiana’s alcohol laws, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb addressed the state legislature in his State of the State address on Tuesday night. FEATURE Indiana’s legislature passed a law last session …

On September 14, sociologist Dr. Alondra Nelson spoke about racial politics in DNA testing. Dr. Nelson is a Columbia University professor of sociology and the president of the Social Science Research Council. She was also Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study Fall 2017 Branigin Lecturer, which was jointly sponsored by the Council for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society …