Bloom Archives
Tag: Brackney
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IU Institute Supporting Efforts to Reclaim Native People’s Languages
Forced into boarding schools bent on assimilating them, America’s indigenous children were once punished for speaking in their native languages. Students uttering words in…
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Citizen Scientist: Help Researchers to Track Nesting Birds
I found the dead indigo bunting splayed on the ground near Graham Plaza. Flying high—but not high enough, I’m afraid—the iridescent bird either failed…
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We Can Learn a Lot from Babies: IU Research Is Leading the Way (PHOTO GALLERY)
Linda Smith’s research subjects may be pint-size, but the data they’re providing is vast.
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Citizen Scientist: Help Save the Birds
Using data gathered in part by citizen scientists, researchers recently determined we’ve lost nearly three billion birds since 1970. Birds across the United States…
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Hoosier Farmers Show New Interest in Hemp
For the first time since the 1930s, Indiana farmers have been harvesting hemp. Owen County’s Trietsch Farms was one of a select group approved…
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The Way We Were: Bloomington Through the Decades (COVER STORY)
It might be a bit difficult—it’s not as if we have a time machine—but with the help of photographs and memories, it is possible…
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Jackson Njau: Paleoanthropologist
One might say Jackson Njau, 52, was born into the paleoanthropology field—or at least very near it.
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Ancient Lives Lets You Become a Papyrologist
Items buried within landfills certainly take their sweet time to break down—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. More than 100 years ago, researchers…
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Four Who Have Volunteered To Help in African Countries
While Virginia Hall’s experience with Operation Crossroads Africa (OCA) had been life-changing, it had also been, until recently, relatively uncommon. “In all these years,…