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Thursday, May 24, 2012
You probably know some amateurs, people driven by a singular passion for whatever, birdwatching, maybe, or home brewing or space..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Is any religion true? The popular British philosopher Alain de Botton opens his latest book by declaring this the most boring an..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe as a detective? It's not just a Hollywood movie. In 1842, the real Poe set out to solve the murder of Mary R..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Doug talks to Brooke Gladstone, host of NPR's "On the Media." She's written a graphic nonfiction book - a journey throug..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Some political observers say the United States is a global superpower on the wane. They see the rise of China and America's ..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
A few years ago, David Finch’s marriage was on the skids. Moments of joy and affection between he and his wife, Kristen, h..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
We're cramming all six members of the Salt Lake City-based band L'anarchiste into the studio on Wednesday as p..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
The oil and natural gas fields of the rural West -- from North Dakota to Wyoming to Colorado and Utah -- have produced thousands..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
When science writer Florence Williams was breastfeeding, she decided to have her milk tested for environmental contaminants. Her..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Friday on RadioWest the historian Will Bagley is with us to talk about his epic quest to chronicle the westward migration of Ame..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Richard Dutcher has been called the “father of Mormon cinema,” though he actually left the LDS church in 2007. Dutch..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Wednesday on RadioWest, we're rebroadcasting our conversation about Maurice Sendak's classic children's book "Where ..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
In 1978, technology historian Rachel Maines was researching needlework when she came across ads for vibrators in 19th century ma..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
When former University of Utah President Chase Peterson began writing his memoir, it was largely to displace panic after a cance..
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. But not everybody really knows what it is, either. The writer Cullen Murphy has written ..
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