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Just over a year ago, a group of physicists at CERN, Switzerland, made a momentous announcement: they'd found the Higgs boson, popularly known as "the God Particle." Astrophysicist Sean Carroll takes us behind the scenes at the search for the Higgs boson, a discovery that took $9 billion, decades of effort, and the work of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Join us at 8:00 as Dr. Carroll gives the 11th Annual Bartlett Lecture at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri. Audio of this lecture was provided by The VideoWorks, Inc., of Roeland Park, with permission of the Linda Hall Library.

Questions about your teenager? Need some tips for getting your kid ready for the new school year? Looking for advice as your teen heads off to college? Psychologist Dr. Wes Crenshaw answers YOUR questions on this week's KPR Presents. He writes the popular "Double Take" column, published weekly in the Lawrence Journal-World, and is the author of Dear Dr. Wes: Real Advice for Teens and Dear Dr. Wes: Real Advice for Parents of Teens. He'll be joined in the KPR studios by his newest student columnist, Lawrence High School senior Kendra Schwartz.

These are the first buildings on what is now the Emporia State and Kansas State University campuses. The ' Stone Building' (left) housed what was then known as the Normal School and was dedicated on Jan. 2, 1867, in Emporia. This Bluemont College (which would later become KSU) building photo was taken in 1867.Kansas State University and Emporia State University are celebrating their sesquicentennials this year. This week on KPR Presents, Kaye McIntyre travels to Manhattan and Emporia to find out what the Wildcats and Hornets are doing to mark their 150th anniversaries.

December 5, 2020

On this edition of Conversations, Jeff Lindsay talks with host Dan Skinner about the second novel in his new series of thrillers, featuring Riley Wolfe,…

Next time on KPR Presents, a look at our nation's 37th president, Richard M. Nixon. We'll hear from John Andrews and Lee Huebner, two Nixon speechwriters who witnessed the historic end of the Nixon presidency from inside the White House. This program is the second in the two-part 2012 Presidential Lecture Series at the University of Kansas Dole Institute of Politics.

This week on KPR Presents, it's our annual "Kansas Notables" show. Every year the State Library of Kansas picks their favorite new books by Kansans or about Kansas. We heard from the authors of seven of the 15 Kansas Notable books on last week's KPR Presents. We'll hear from the rest on this week's show, AND we'll be giving away copies of many of the Kansas Notables books!

This week on KPR Presents: an interfaith dialogue with the authors of The Faith Club. Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner came together to write an interfaith children's book after the September 11th terrorist attacks, but came away with something completely different: a book that chronicles their own explorations of each other's religions and prejudices. This program was originally broadcast on Kansas Public Radio on October 5, 2008.

This week on KPR Presents, it's the second part of Kansas State University's Landon Lecture, featuring six former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture. The panel included native Kansan Dan Glickman, who served as the Secretary of USDA from 1995-2001, following 18 years representing the 4th Congressional District in the U.S. Congress. Other panelists included Mike Johans, Ann Veneman, Ed Schafer, Mike Espy, and John Block; this event was moderated by Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh, who teaches agricultural economics at Kansas State University. If you missed last week's program with the Secretaries of Agriculture, it's now available to listen to on-demand. This week's program features the Q and A portion of their panel, and was recorded at KSU's McCain Auditorium on Oct. 21, 2013.

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