KUER’s award-winning interview show explores the world through deep thinkers who host Doug Fabrizio asks to think even deeper. Join writers, filmmakers, scientists and others on RadioWest: A show for the wildly curious.
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Mormonism's First Rebel Historian
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This isn’t really an episode about a little-known Mormon writer from the 19th century: it’s an episode about the lifelong search to figure out what you believe.
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A Year-Long Misadventure Through the Grand Canyon
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Kevin Fedarko’s best friend said it would be easy: Hike from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other. He said it would be “a walk in the park.” It wasn’t.
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A People’s History of the Nuclear West
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In 1951, the U.S. government began test detonations of nuclear bombs in the Nevada desert. It wasn’t long before people started getting cancer.
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Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
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Navied Mahdavian had always been a city guy. He had never fished, gardened, hiked, hunted or lived in a snowy place. Then he, his wife and dog moved from San Francisco to an off-the-grid cabin in rural Idaho.
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The Emperors of Rome with Mary Beard
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Mary Beard is an expert on the Roman Empire, and her latest book is about the rulers who presided over it — 30 emperors in nearly three centuries.
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The Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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On July 12, 1776, James Cook set sail aboard the HMS Resolution. It was his third voyage, and his last.
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Has America's gratuity culture reached a tipping point? With tip prompts popping up everywhere from butcher shops to airport kiosks, the social norms around tipping are more fraught than ever.
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The Enslaved Christians who Co-Wrote the Bible
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Scholars say the New Testament was authored by familiar names, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Paul. But they had important help: slave labor.
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The State of the Utah Republican Party
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Utah’s Republican conventions have always been rancorous and incredibly contentious. But according to one longtime observer, this year’s meeting was as nasty as it’s ever been.
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The Past, Present and Future of Pro Hockey in Utah
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It’s official: Utah is getting a professional ice hockey team. But is this a hockey place?
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Never Heard of Scrupulosity? Neither Have Many Who Suffer From It
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Even if you aren’t afflicted by it, you probably know about obsessive compulsive disorder. But even if you have it, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of scrupulosity.
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Celebrating the Natural World with Writer Rick Bass
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For the acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, there are no hard lines between life, art and the natural world.
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In 1888, the daily Salt Lake Herald-Republican reprinted a story from a Canadian paper. The headline? That a family of whales was flourishing in the Great Salt Lake.
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Breathing Salt Lake’s West Side Air
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If you live in the Salt Lake Valley, you know a thing or two about air pollution. There are days when you can see it. But if you live on the west side it’s even worse.
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Mere Beauty: Utah Symposium on Science and Literature
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If you got a poet, a neuroscientist and a theoretical physicist together to talk about beauty, what would they possibly have to say to each other?
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Hotshots are the hardened individuals who fight wildfires. Gabriel Mann’s new film gets viewers as close to the fire line as you can be without becoming a hotshot yourself.
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The oceanographer Helen Czerski wants you to think of the ocean as a vast, planet-spanning engine. And what it drives is no less than life itself.
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