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Human biology thankfully allows us to adapt to major changes in temperature, but only so quickly. Professor Cara Ocobock is working with reindeer herders in subarctic Finland to find out how the human body evolved to withstand the extreme cold over time. What can we learn from communities that have a long history of living and working in the frigid weather?
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Segment 1: Are you using your phone to read this? Us too. A cell phone today is basically just as important as our wallet and keys; we do not want to…
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Segment 1: From Abilene to KC: The history of Sprint.It's a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of local employees. But did you know that Sprint…
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For migrants attempting to illegally cross the deserts guarding our border with Mexico, survival is far from a given. Today, we revisit a conversation…
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The Kauffman Foundation has released a list identifying 222 people who they consider the real leaders of Kansas City. And, for the most part, these…
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Just hours ahead of the total eclipse of the sun, Central Standard broadcasts live from Parkville, Missouri. We hear from KCUR reporters along the path of…
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With the aid of a new restorative justice program, Judi Bergquist met the man who killed her son. We hear her story, and meet the woman who brought this…
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Not every undocumented migrant crossing our southern border makes it. Remains of those who die in the attempt are found in the open and in unmarked…
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In the early 1900s, in a home near 18th and Vine, a young black mother made her daughter promise never to have children. That little girl became a radical…
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After a new curator took over the The Krapina Neanderthal Museum in Croatia, David Frayer, a professor emeritus at the University of Kansas, was contacted…
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How a KU professor discovered that Neanderthals adorned their bodies with eagle talon jewelry.Guest:David Frayer, Professor, Department of Anthropology at…
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When researchers stumbled upon a buttery substance under a lake, they thought maybe they'd also stumbled upon the answer to an age old mystery: why a…