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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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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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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Exploring Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’
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Ahead of the Salt Lake Film Society’s screening of the 1992 Clint Eastwood classic “Unforgiven,” we sit down to talk about this great Western.
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The Debate Over Women's Empowerment in the LDS Church
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A recent post on the LDS Church’s official Instagram page has racked up thousands of comments, many from women who see a vast gulf between how empowered the church says they are, and how empowered they actually feel.
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Is it Actually a Good Idea to Colonize Mars?
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Life on earth is for the dogs. There’s too much regulation, too few resources and it’s burning up besides. Better to pack up and leave for Mars. Or is it?
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A History of Witchcraft in Thirteen Trials
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The scholar Marion Gibson is an expert on witches. Her latest book tells a centuries-long history through the stories of 13 witch trials.
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Gardening along the (not so dry) Wasatch Front
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Utah is suffering from megadroughts, a dying lake (or two) and a dwindling Colorado River. So, why, then, are we watering so much Kentucky bluegrass along the Wasatch Front?
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Podcast Extra: A Brief History of Polyamory in America
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Polyamory is having a bit of a moment right now. We wanted to learn more about the history of having more than one romantic partner.
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UFOs undoubtedly exist. After all, people have been seeing inexplicable things in the skies for centuries. So, if the truth is out there, what does the government know about it?
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