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On this episode, Wyoming is struggling to get people vaccinated and a research study on vaccine messaging doesn't shed light on a solution. Campbell County will be voting on establishing an independent community college district. And this fall is the 50th anniversary of an important experiment that proved Einstein's theory of relativity. The experiment involved a former Laramie man. Those stories and more.
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Wyoming's cases of COVID-19 have jumped to over 1,300 active cases, mainly due to the highly contagious delta variant. But there's also this matter of low vaccination rates of roughly 35 percent of the population. A group of University of Wyoming (UW) researchers recently studied what messages did the best job of convincing people across the country to get vaccinated. UW Ph.D. student Madison Ashworth was the lead author of the paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's the latest in a series of coronavirus-related research conducted by UW College of Business economists. She joins us now. -
Residents of Campbell County will soon vote on the future of its community college. The vote will ask residents if they want to separate from the Northern Wyoming Community College District and become an independent one. Wyoming Public Radio's Catherine Wheeler explains how the issue came up for a vote and what it will mean if it passes. -
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Hafele-Keating experiment, a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity. It turns out that Joseph Hafele, the physicist that worked on the experiment, is a former Laramie resident. Wyoming Public Radio's Adlynn Jamaludin reports. -
Seven years ago, a pulse of water on the Colorado River at the U.S.-Mexico border temporarily reconnected it to the Pacific Ocean. Scientists used the so-called "pulse flow" to study what plant and animal life returned to the desiccated delta along with water. -
A utility has just put its largest wind farm in its system online here in Wyoming. The TB Flats wind farm, located in Carbon County in southern Wyoming, can create up to 503.2 megawatts of power from 132 wind turbines. Based on its original 2018 permit application, that could power around 152,000 homes. It's the last project to go online stemming from Pacificorp's Energy Vision 2020 plan that created more than 1000 MW of new wind energy. Wyoming Public Radio’s Cooper McKim speaks with the utility spokesman Dave Eskelsen. -
Willy Pepion had a cracked skull, and guards at the federal jail on the Blackfeet Reservation dismissed his pleas for help. He died in his cell. Three hours went by until anyone noticed. -
"The corrections officers are basically holding these lives in their hands with their decisions."
