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As the NCAA men’s basketball season was wrapping up in early April, the top news story in the sport was not about the University of Connecticut or Purdue. It was about Arkansas. And one big reason is because of a local billionaire's influence.
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Can you name the only word in the English language with a silent “Q?” Or the only letter that’s never silent? Katherine Shurlds, our Militant Grammarian, is back with a hunt for silent letters.
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What’s left to know about the solar eclipse? Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams checks with Amber Straughn. She earned her BA in physics at the University of Arkansas in 2002 and her MS and PhD in physics at Arizona State University. Now, she’s an astrophysicist for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Math is everywhere, and an event later this month at the Fayetteville Public Library is designed to help us all discover more about it. Arkansas Math Discovery Day is April 13. Matt Clay and Edmund Harris, two members of the University of Arkansas faculty, came to the Carver Center for Public Radio to give Ozarks at Large a preview.
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Today, we go chasing waterfalls—or, at least, we tell you where you can find some. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis gives some recommendations for hiking paths that include scenic water features.
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The Northwest Arkansas Skateboarding Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to growing and supporting the skateboarding community. Founder and president Roy Rodezno visited the Bruce and Anne Applegate News Studio One to speak with Ozarks at Large's Jack Travis about the organization and how skateboarding has affected his own personal development.
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Circles NWA, a nonprofit with a declared intention to end poverty in the community, will host a public discussion about housing at the Fayetteville Public Library on April 10. Ana Hurley, the big view director at Circles NWA, visited the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the public discussion.
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A group of art students at the University of Arkansas consider what we value as a society by exploring a remnant prairie in south Fayetteville.
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Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams heads over to downtown Fayetteville bar Pinpoint to speak with owner Bo Counts about an exciting new pop-up event at the venue— one that may outdo their Halloween and Christmas celebrations.
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Next week, the Associated Press’ chief election analyst, Chad Day, will speak on the University of Arkansas campus as the 2024 Roy Reed lecturer as a guest of the University of Arkansas School of Journalism and Strategic Media. This week, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams talked with him about the work the Associated Press does to declare a political winner.
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Sophia Nourani speaks with Lowkey Art’s Sonny Kay about Atlas Obscura’s Ecliptic Festival, a four day event taking place in Hot Springs during the total solar eclipse in early April.
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Minerals like lithium are critical for a transition away from fossil fuels, and it turns out south Arkansas may hold the key to an electric future. But is an electric future environmentally sustainable, and how do bromine extraction wells fit into the picture? Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis is taking us out of Northwest Arkansas and down south to an old oil field with the potential to economically impact the entire nation.