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Environmentalist Mark Lynas believes that nature no longer runs the Earth. We do. Managing an entire planet isn’t easy, but in his book, Lynas aims to…

New Yorker film critic David Denby asks a blunt question with the title of his latest book: Do the Movies Have a Future? Denby points out that some 600…

It seems that every time you open a newspaper or watch the nightly news, you you hear about a new tragedy, another symptom of an increasingly violent…

Salt, sugar and fat are the most prevalent ingredients in the processed foods that now dominate American appetites. According to investigative reporter…

Poet Katharine Coles has pushed the boundaries of her known world since she was a child. Three years ago, she left the comfort of the Wasatch Front to…

The journalist Paul Tough says that for decades, we’ve educated our kids under the assumption that their success depends on how much information they can…

Tuesday, we're talking about the night sky and what it means when the stars are obscured by light pollution. It's not just poetry and the wonder of the…

Wednesday we’re taking the pulse of music in the year 2013 with Bob Boilen, the host of NPR’s All Songs Considered. Boilen has noticed a couple emerging…

Four years ago, the comedienne and storyteller Elna Baker published her memoir, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. It’s about being a…

Tuesday, we're exploring the arguments for and against the existence of God with journalist Nathan Schneider. In a twist on Socrates, Schneider says that…