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Kristen Murphy/The Great Salt Lake CollaborativeIn a new documentary premiering at Sundance, local filmmaker Abby Ellis follows two scientists and a government official fighting to stave off environmental disaster and save Great Salt Lake. -
Cristy Meiners/KUERColtan Scrivner is a psychologist who studies why some of us are drawn to look at gruesome things. He calls it morbid curiosity, and he says it’s not a bad thing.
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Mars isn’t just a modern-day obsession, because we earthlings were nuts for the Red Planet more than a century ago. David Baron’s new book tells the story. -
Cannabis activist Dennis Peron started the country’s first public dispensary in 1992—before weed was legal. We’ll talk with filmmaker Kip Andersen about what drove Peron’s activism. -
Cannabis activist Dennis Peron started the country’s first public dispensary in 1992—before weed was legal. We’ll talk with filmmaker Kip Andersen about what drove Peron’s activism.
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The poet and journalist Melissa Bond had terrible insomnia. Her doctor prescribed Ativan, a benzodiazepine. Then her life fell apart. -
The poet and journalist Melissa Bond had terrible insomnia. Her doctor prescribed Ativan, a benzodiazepine. Then her life fell apart.
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If it feels like a slog to get to the gym and hit the weights, the reason may be much deeper than laziness — it could be evolution asking you to stay… -
In recent years, many Americans have cut carbs and sugar, reduced fat and tried every diet. Yet millions of us still have high blood pressure, are… -
If each of us lives to be 80, we’ll have spent about four thousand weeks being alive on this planet — which isn’t really much time at all. So, how should… -
Stories of near-death experiences are not uncommon, but science generally dismisses them as tricks of the brain. But is dying really the end of… -
The title of journalist Eric Garcia’s book, We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation, says it all: People with autism don’t need to be fixed.…
