If at first your experiment gets blown up in a rocket, try, try again

By | November 24, 2014 |
Photo of student holding up small plastic tube.

Sitting at a lab table over the lunch hour at St. Peter’s School in Kansas City, Missouri, a group of eighth graders are loading freeze dried E.coli bacteria into plastic tubes. It’s all part of a special package destined for the International Space Station. And it’s not the first time students Holden O’Keefe, Eamon Shaw…

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Separate but not equal: KU professor explores university’s complicated past

By | November 14, 2014 |
Photo of man holding book in front of bookcase.

Professor Emeritus Bill Tuttle is himself part of a complicated legacy of race relations at the University of Kansas and the surrounding community. In 1968, Tuttle taught the University’s first ever African American studies course, and has devoted much of his career to examining equality in the progressive burg of Lawrence, Kansas. “I think there…

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Found Footage Fest returns with VHS gold, including a KC find

By | November 13, 2014 |
Picture of two men with microphones standing in front of a screen.

Growing up in a really small town in Wisconsin, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher found their fun at nearby thrift stores. “I remember we used to buy answering machines, eject the tapes and listen to people’s incoming and outgoing messages,” Prueher said. Everything changed for Pickett and Prueher when VHS tapes started showing up at…

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Johnson County GOP declares a “Great night for Kansas”

By | November 5, 2014 |
Image of Yoder giving victory speech.

Several hundred people attended the Johnson County Republican Party’s free watch party at the Overland Park Marriott Tuesday night to watch election results. Through out the evening legislators from House District races, Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer and U.S. Congressman Kevin Yoder gave victory speeches, while watching the results come in for the rest of…

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