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Fluid 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.
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Kansas increases the penalties for soliciting prostitution … the parents of a KU student killed in a Lawrence hit-and-run are suing DoorDash … and a bill in the Kansas legislature would force KU to give med students letter grades. These stories and more can be found in this commercial-free summary of KPR news headlines, which is made possible by KPR listener-members.
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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! -
Brian TurnerMaster 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 DiMarchi and Rod Fleeman at the guitar will perform an hour of music, all composed by Rod.
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An encore episode spotlighting Manor Records in Kansas City. Started in 2015 as a DIY music fest in a basement in Shawnee, KS, now a non-profit record label supporting independent artist development, founder and director Shaun Crowley joins us for the hour, with music from Fritz & Sons, Jass, Alber, Jamogi and more. -
Werewolves and vampires in Kansas? Britney Lewis is the award-winning author of Blood Moon, recently named a New York Times bestseller. -
Film Music Friday explores the music of newspaper-centric movies, including Citizen Kane, All the President's Men, Spotlight and more. -
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L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a two-act comic opera (opera buffa) by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Premiering in Milan in 1832, it remains one of the most frequently performed operas in the world, celebrated for its "bel canto" style and its blend of heartfelt romance and lighthearted comedy.
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"This is very valuable to us, and we will pay," Savannah Guthrie said in a new video message, seeking to communicate with people who say they're holding her mother. -
Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country. -
U.S. figure skating phenom Ilia Malinin did a backflip in his Olympic debut, and another the next day. The controversial move was banned from competition for decades until 2024. -
Rachel Weaver worked for the Forest Service in Alaska where she scaled towering trees to study nature. But in 2006, she woke up and felt like she was being spun in a hurricane. Her memoir is Dizzy. -
The star filled his set with hits and familiar images from home, but also expanded his lens to make an argument about the place of Puerto Rico within a larger American context.
On this edition of Conversations, Matthew Quirk talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest thriller, "The Method." I
