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For the great many of us confounded by issues of cybersecurity, Dean Shanahan and founder of the Library Freedom Project Alison Macrina work through everything from Facebook to the NSA and web brow...
Experimental economics uses human subjects to answer research and policy questions. This talk provides a brief discussion of the methodological guidelines adopted in economics experiments. It will ...
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the second episode in our beverage series, and it's all about wine. We start...
Ellsworth Christmas (Master), Jon Kay (Director), Traditional Arts Indiana
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For nearly 45 years, Ellsworth Christmas has volunteered at the Indiana State Fair’s Pioneer Village to teach fairgoers about Indiana’s traditional crafts and agricultural practices. He grew up on ...
“We would get referrals from the workshops usually, and we would meet with the individuals to determine their eligibility.” Roberta Stafford worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for almo...
“It was the hardest thing I’ve done in my life.” In the 1970s, Bonnie Smith was having difficulties providing care at home for her adolescent son Brooks. After seeking assistance, it was determined...
What does a Tesla have to do with red mud and white seaweed in Indonesia? What stands in the way of solid state batteries? How can you tell what's really powering your electric vehicle? In this epi...
Subramanian, Meera; Bourgon, Lyndsie; Shanahan, James
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We took a trip to Fort Collins, Colorado, for the annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference, and we want to tell you about it. Between the Rocky Mountains and the short-grass prairie, ...
As climate changes, so do pieces of culture. Pieces like car ownership, outdoor sports, and the drinks we share. This is the final episode in our beverage series, and it's all about coffee. We foll...
"They was mean to me. And I'm glad I'm not in an institution no more.” Beth was sent to an Indiana institution when she was young. She didn’t have the opportunity to go to school but states she le...
“No children were really served in a community setting, in a public school especially children with moderate to severe disabilities,” explains Pat Barber. Pat received her special education degree ...
“Oh, my favorite thing was we got the opportunity to take two clients to Tennessee.” Lori Nei talks about a career highlight as a service manager in the disability field in Indiana. As part of her ...
“That was a huge experience for me,” Ronelle Johnson recalls of her term as President of Indiana Chapter of Black Deaf Advocates (ICBDA). “I decided to be involved in the Deaf community because the...
“No children were really served in a community setting, in a public school, especially children with moderate to severe disabilities,” explains Pat Barber. Pat received her special education degree...
John Dickerson, retired Executive Director of The Arc of Indiana, explains that after World War II, parents across the country began to think differently about the future of their children with dis...
Late September in the U.S. saw a host of abnormal weather events: record heat in the Southeast, a Category 5 hurricane in an odd location, and five feet of snow in Montana. This episode, the team z...
Like many of us, Bathsheba Demuth grew up seeing the human world and the natural world as separate. Then, she spent a couple years between high school and college in Old Crow, Yukon. There, she dev...
Presents an actual Nevada parole board hearing during which a disabled sex offender hopes to be released from prison after being eligible many years earlier and repeatedly refused.
His traumatic ...
Indiana University announced the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) in October 2013 with the goal of digitally preserving and providing access to all significant audio, video, and fi...
One of the signature projects for Indiana University’s Bicentennial, the Bicentennial Oral History Project has produced a rich and extensive collection of oral history recordings with faculty, staf...
Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...
Betty Earlene Jordan describes the amount of work involved with using a spring as a primary water source. "It was a lot of work," she says. "Because we would fill the car up with those jugs and tha...
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
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Johnny Burt describes how passways (footpaths) allowed people to walk from their neighborhoods near Lake Sandy Jo to the spring. He recalls stopping at the spring with other children to quench his ...
A boy with a brass instrument stands watching a hurdy-gurdy (barrel organ) man as he turns the handle of his instrument. Although they occupy the same frame, they are separated by a flickering, nea...
In response to federally-funded “Always Already Computational: Collections as Data” movement (https://collectionsasdata.github.io), the Indiana University Libraries are both exploring ways to provi...
This is a documentary short about a rice basketmaker in Nandan County in Guangxi, China. Born in 1957, Li Guicai makes baskets in Huaili Village, a Baiku Yao community. As a teen, he split bamboo f...
Ida Lloyd was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana, and moved to the Small Farms at age ten. In this excerpt, she contends that East Chicago was more inclusive than Gary. She says about Small ...
Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes shares a short history of his familial origins and what it was like for them to move from the South to the North. He compares the environmen...
Kristin Huysken, Associate Professor of Geoscience at Indiana University Northwest, discusses her use of the Chase Street Spring today. She leads field trips to the well to help her students "under...
Betty Earlene Jordan discusses how the use of plastic increased the amount of littering at the Chase Street spring. "I think that if people were out there and they had a container that maybe wasn't...
Exnar McIntosh-Burt discusses her upbringing in Small Farms, highlighting specific schools that she attended. She describes her childhood as "many years of wonderful growing up." McIntosh-Burt came...
Ida L. Lloyd discusses her memories of growing up in Small Farms, after moving there at age ten from East Chicago. She explains why she preferred East Chicago to Small Farms. She says, "We hated it...
Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes describes his childhood in Small Farms. He says that he and his siblings thought they were "living large" in a big house filled with extende...
Griffith resident Arianne Campbell explains how the dilapidation within her hometown of Gary makes it difficult for her to fully appreciate its history. "So much of [Gary] is completely unrecogniza...
Gary Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chuck Hughes discusses life growing up in Small Farms. He shares stories of how he and other children were teased at school for where they came from. He ...
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commissioner David Castellanos discusses current use of the Chase Street spring. He aspires to make the area surrounding the artesian well more accessible to ...
