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Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Jim Andrew kneels in a grain hauler full of soybeans on his farm, near Jefferson, Iowa. Soybean growers are hoping the government will approve a new genetically modified soybean they say will produce oil that is lower in saturated fat, allowing people to eat healthier, including fried foods they may have given up as they tried to reduce fat in their diet. (AP)

California will vote in November on whether to require explicit labeling of genetically modified foods. We’ll look at what that would mean for the state and the country.

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Monday, August 20, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Catherine Devine, 22, reads instant messages on her laptop screen at her home in Kings Park, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. (AP) Composited with Facebook comments. (Dean Russell/WBUR)

Has posting updates online of our dinners out, our work promotions, our vacations turned us into a nation of braggarts?

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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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Friday, August 17, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Young immigrants stand in a long line at Chicago's Navy Pier on Wednesday, Aug.15, 2012, for guidance with a new federal program that would help them work legally in the United States and avoid deportation. (AP)

Paul Ryan shakes the race. Candidates cry foul. Young immigrants get a break. There’s a new galaxy on the map. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, August 16, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A tarantula spider is observes during a live spiders exhibition in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. (AP)

Black widows, orb weavers, the brown recluse. We go to the amazing world of spiders.

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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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Thursday, July 26, 2012 | 11:00 AM
This artist's concept depicts a sky crane lowering NASA's Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface. (JPL-Caltech/NASA)

NASA’s viral video “seven minutes of terror” and what it’s like to land on Mars.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012 | 10:00 AM
The "black hat" cyber-security conference is going on this week in Las Vegas. (AP)

How to hack into any hotel room in the world – and more. We’ll go to the “black hat” cyber-security conference in Las Vegas.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Bacteria under a microscope.

Trillions of bacteria live in our bodies. They outnumber our human cells, 10 to 1. So who’s in charge? What are we?

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Friday, May 25, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Rendering of Daedalus starship, art by Adrian Mann

Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman in space. Now, she’s leading a wildly ambitious project: to achieve interstellar travel in the next 100 years. She’s with us.

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May 21, 2013
Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

May 21, 2013
Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

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May 20, 2013
Senate subcommittee on Personnel Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, greets members of the third panel before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military. (AP)

Solving the U.S. military’s sex abuse problem. We look at the chain of command issue and what needs to change

 
May 20, 2013
In this Friday, July 20, 2012 photo, workers are pictured on a drilling rig near Calumet, Okla. Oklahoma is one of several states, including North and South Dakota, that has enjoyed a boom in the energy sector driven in large part by new and improved drilling techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which cracks open fissures in rock formations to retrieve oil and gas. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

North America as the new fossil fuel powerhouse. We’ll look at the blessing, the curse and how it may reshape geopolitics and energy politics.

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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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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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