AMA: Lisa Pratt, NASA Planetary Protection Officer

“We’re in a hurry to get out there, and many of the things humans bring with them are potential contaminants.”

An Open Letter To David Letterman: We Need To Talk About...

Nobody expects “perfection” from Ball State. But what I expect—and what I imagine you may also expect—is a willingness to reject not only bigotry, but also deep-seated, intransigent stupidity.

What To Expect If Indy Lands Amazon’s HQ2

“They want to be in or near an urban location. They want to be in a city with a modern airport, and we have the number one airport in North America. If you read the criteria Amazon put out there, it checks just about every box.”
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Is Indiana On The Verge Of Legalizing Medical Marijuana?

"You're going to be shocked," says one advocate. “I think we have a realistic chance, as long as we do a good job with the summer study. I think we can get it as early as the next General Assembly.”
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The IPS Magnet School Conundrum

"There are few bigger champions of diversity than white, college-educated city-dwellers. Except when it comes to schools. In that regard, we’re far more like suburbanites than we’d care to admit."
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Millions Spent In Graduating Few

Tens of millions in state dollars due to come its way over the next two years, and a founder whose for-profit company charged millions of dollars in management fees and rent to the school.
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How Indiana's Fair Oaks Farms Inspires Kids To Join The Dwindling...

"If you’d have told people 20 years ago that you could make a living in the science of manure management, they would have laughed at you," says the Fair Oaks CEO. "Today, it’s a reality.”
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Butler University Course Offers In-Depth Study of Trump Election

A new front in the resistance to Donald J. Trump’s presidency has sprung up in the backyard of his own vice president. A new...
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Matthew Heimbach Has A Dream—A Very Disturbing Dream

Banned from the United Kingdom and banished from Twitter, White Nationalist wunderkind Matthew Heimbach rode his rhetoric to the middle of nowhere: Paoli, Indiana.

Read Rabbi Sandy Sasso's "We Are Not Going Back" Speech From...

"In 1960, a woman could not get a credit card, a bank loan, or own property in her name. We are not going back."