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In his latest book, the neuroscientist Oliver Sacks writes about his own history using psychoactive drugs. He’s said that apart from being both…

An intense drought has gripped the American West since before the turn of the millennium. As the area's population booms, its snowpacks are thinning, its…

For all the debate around improving education, researcher Maria Ferguson says there's a critical piece that's often overlooked: how do you motivate…

In the desolate deserts of Namibia, the esteemed nature writer Rick Bass espied glints of hope in a time of ecological disaster. He says that people in…

Friday, we're talking about why you should read "Moby-Dick." Our guide is the historian Nathaniel Philbrick, whose award-winning book "In the Heart of the…

In 1964, America was on the brink of a cultural revolution. The civil rights movement, portable music, the Vietnam War, the rise of black power and the…

Independent radio producer David Isay worried that the stories collected for the Story Corps project would eventually get repetitive and would only be…

Like every other organism on the planet, humans evolved over thousands of years to survive and thrive under rather specific circumstances. But what…

Decades before social media, there was Dungeons & Dragons. Since the 70s the collaborative game has been the center of one of the original nerd…

Wednesday, Doug is joined by author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick for a grassroots look at the American Revolution. His latest book takes to the…