After today's show you might ditch everything you thought you knew about the poet Emily Dickinson. Madeleine Olnek’s new film tries to correct the idea that Dickinson was a sullen, distant recluse.

Wild Nights With Emily

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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.

Never Heard of Scrupulosity? Neither Have Many Who Suffer From It

For the acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, there are no hard lines between life, art and the natural world.

Celebrating the Natural World with Writer Rick Bass

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.

Whales of the High Desert

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.

Breathing Salt Lake’s West Side Air

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?

Wild Nights With Emily

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