In the future, artificial intelligence will make us either centaurs or reverse-centaurs. If that made no sense at all, Cory Doctorow is joining us to explain.

Dogs have long stood beside us, not just in life, but in art as well. In a new book, cultural historian Thomas Laqueur explores why dogs, more than any other animal, so often figure in the way we picture ourselves.

College sports are getting more expensive. To meet rising costs, the University of Utah is doing something no other school has tried: a private equity partnership.

There’s a mismatch between what people say about marriage and what they really do about it. Stephanie Coontz’s book explains how we got here and where we could go.

Lewis and Clark’s expedition is the stuff of American legend. Craig Fehrman’s new book highlights the people who helped make the journey possible.

Justin R. Garcia is the director of the Kinsey Institute, the famed sex research institution. He’s joining us to talk about his new book, “The Intimate Animal.”

These days, we take the polarization of faith in America for granted: Christians are mostly conservative, and liberals are hardly religious at all. But it wasn’t always this way.

The Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for Box Elder County, has run up against equally massive public opposition, even as state officials champion its benefits. A panel of local journalists joins us to help make sense of the debate.

The chronically-online young men pushing Republicans further right are called “Groypers.” The journalist Antonia Hitchens explores their extremist agenda.

Coltan Scrivner 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.