San Antonio-Based Researcher Says His Algorithm Predicts Who Will Win The...
From Texas Standard . For the next month, the eyes of the soccer world will be on Russia, the site of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The 32-team tournament, which does not include the United States, will...
View ArticleA Houston Killer Is Too Sick To Be Executed, His Lawyer Says
From Texas Standard . Danny Bible is scheduled to die on June 27. He was sentenced to death in 2003 for murdering Houston resident Inez Deaton in 1979. Bible’s attorney, Jeremy Schepers, recently filed...
View ArticleA Space Policy Expert Says Donald Trump's Proposed 'Space Force' Would Hurt...
From Texas Standard: Most of President Donald Trump's attention this week has been occupied by the southern border. But on Monday, he took some time to address his plans for another frontier: the great...
View ArticleConvincing Texans To Give Up Plastic Straws Is All About Positive Framing
From Texas Standard . There’s nothing new about plastic straws. They’ve been around for decades. But there has been a recent backlash against them. Eric Hamerman , a marketing professor and expert in...
View ArticleWhat Women On Oil Rigs Need Most: Coveralls That Fit
From Texas Standard . Women make up only about 20 percent of the worldwide oil and gas workforce, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Petroleum Council.
View ArticleWhy Are We So Mesmerized By Stories Like The Cave Rescue In Thailand?
From Texas Standard . When Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl in Midland, was stuck in a well for 58 hours in October of 1987, CNN carried most of the rescue effort live. There was an international...
View ArticleWhy The Threshold Of A 'Heat Advisory' Depends On Where You Live
From Texas Standard: You may have heard that term ‘heat advisory’ quite a bit during this latest heat wave. It’s a notice the National Weather Service sends out to tell people that they need to take...
View ArticleWhat's The Safest Way To Protect Texas Cattle From Fever Ticks?
From Texas Standard: Raising cattle anywhere is hard, but it’s especially hard in the Rio Grande Valley. And that’s thanks to fever ticks . They can spread a fatal disease that decimated cattle herds...
View ArticleConvincing Texans To Give Up Plastic Straws Is All About Positive Framing
From Texas Standard . There’s nothing new about plastic straws. They’ve been around for decades. But there has been a recent backlash against them. Eric Hamerman , a marketing professor and expert in...
View ArticleWhat Women On Oil Rigs Need Most: Coveralls That Fit
From Texas Standard . Women make up only about 20 percent of the worldwide oil and gas workforce, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Petroleum Council.
View ArticleWhy Are We So Mesmerized By Stories Like The Cave Rescue In Thailand?
From Texas Standard . When Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl in Midland, was stuck in a well for 58 hours in October of 1987, CNN carried most of the rescue effort live. There was an international...
View ArticleWhy The Threshold Of A 'Heat Advisory' Depends On Where You Live
From Texas Standard: You may have heard that term ‘heat advisory’ quite a bit during this latest heat wave. It’s a notice the National Weather Service sends out to tell people that they need to take...
View ArticleWhat's The Safest Way To Protect Texas Cattle From Fever Ticks?
From Texas Standard: Raising cattle anywhere is hard, but it’s especially hard in the Rio Grande Valley. And that’s thanks to fever ticks . They can spread a fatal disease that decimated cattle herds...
View ArticleCotton Seeds Could Be A Food Of The Future
When we think of cotton we just think of the fiber – the white fluffy stuff you see while driving down the highway. But there's a lot more to the cotton plant than that. In fact for every one pound of...
View ArticleA Quest To Find The Origin Of The Mum
From Texas Standard: First, to make sure we’re all on the same page, homecoming mums are something that vaguely resemble a chrysanthemum corsage. From this fluffy centerpiece comes a stream of...
View ArticleShould Growing Hemp Be Legal? Sid Miller Says 'Yes.'
From Texas Standard : When it comes to crops, Texas has one of the most diverse portfolios around. But here's one commodity you won't find: industrial hemp. The square cousin of marijuana has no...
View ArticleTexas Has Just Five Dry Counties Left. Why Is That?
From Texas Standard : On Election Day in Stanton, just north of Midland, Ron Black was skeptical that a particular measure on the ballot would pass. “Well, I think at first it was - uh, nobody thought...
View ArticleDallas Exhibit Celebrates The Art Of Ida O'Keeffe
From Texas Standard: The name Georgia O'Keeffe probably brings to mind images of giant, brightly-colored flowers, or the artist's famous skulls, sunsets or the Southwest. Many people don't realize that...
View ArticleIf Tornillo Detention Facility Closes, What Happens Next?
From Texas Standard : The border, the wall, the immigration issue – they're all front and center right now in Washington, as they have been almost every day of 2018.
View ArticleWhere Do Tornadoes Get Their Start? Maybe It's Not All About The Funnel Cloud.
From Texas Standard : Where do tornadoes come from? It's not a riddle or a trick question, although the answer may seem obvious: the sky, right? Evidently, that's not the case.
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