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Tuesday, August 21, 2012 | 11:00 AM
This handout file photo shows President Richard Nixon, left, meeting with Elvis Presley on Dec. 21, 1970, in Washington. (AP/White House)

Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev. Mark Twain and Helen Keller. Unexpected encounters of the famous and infamous.

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Friday, August 17, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A 4-year old Female black Rhino, runs after it was darted at Nairobi National Park, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006. Kenyan wildlife officials began relocating 33 endangered rhinos to the Meru National Park to restock the animal. (AP)

Montana writer Rick Bass goes way into Africa on the trail of the 3000-pound black rhino.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Sleeping on the subway. (MattHurst/Flickr)

The science and mystery of sleep and dreams. It’s becoming more clear.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012 | 11:00 AM
In an exhibition on forgeries at the Detroit Institute of Arts, a painting titled "A Female Saint", left, that once was attributed to Italian artist Sandro Botticelli is exhibited alongside "The Resurrected Christ," right, a Botticelli painting from around 1480. (AP)

Ken Perenyi made millions forging famous works of art. Now he tells all.

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Friday, August 3, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Corey Slater fly fishes in Lower Lake Mary Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 near Flagstaff, Ariz. (AP)

Everything you wanted to know about fly fishing. We wade into the waters with fly fisherman Taylor Streit.

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic novel by British author E. L. James. (captain.orange/Flickr)

The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has sold 20 million copies. We’ll ask what’s up with the ladies?

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | 10:00 AM
President Barack Obama lays out his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, during an announcement from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP)

James Carville and Stan Greenberg on Election 2012. Money. Power. And the battle over America’s battered middle class.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A view of New York's Central Park from a giant-helium filled balloon as it hovers to celebrate the park's 150th anniversary, Friday July 25, 2008. The purpose of the rides is to mark the 150th anniversary of Central Park, the U.S.'s first major urban park, created by architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and opened to the public in 1858. (AP)

19 writers on the magic of Central Park.

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Friday, July 6, 2012 | 11:00 AM
US soldiers have lunch at the shopping area of the Kandahar military base, south Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug 2, 2006. (AP)

From long before 9-11, when American first tried to remake Afghanistan, to Obama’s surge.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012 | 11:00 AM
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves (cover photo)

Why we lie. Why we cheat. Psychology has a new theory of the case.

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May 24, 2013
President Obama talks about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Oklahoma’s monster tornado. The president on counterterrorism. A vote on gay Boy Scouts.

May 24, 2013
A metal fan crowd surfs in a mosh pit during the heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air in Germany. (Philipp Guelland, DAPD/AP)

The definitive history of heavy metal and what it’s always been about.

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May 23, 2013
In this 2011 photo, U.S. Navy sailors participate in intense 10-minute workout intervals. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael K. McNabb/U.S. Navy)

Rock-hard bodies in a fraction of the time. We’ll look at the 7-minute workout and the promises of high-intensity exercise.

 
May 23, 2013
In this 2010 photo, a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards is seen at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Congress says food stamps are costing the country too much and debating big cuts. One in every seven Americans is using them to eat. What’s going on?

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Is American Coming Undone?
Thursday, May 23, 2013

New York writer George Packer says yes. He reflected on the nation’s core institutions failing the American people.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Henry Fords Of Today
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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