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English, Public-Community, 1 season, 1849 episodes, 4 days, 3 hours, 13 minutes
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Access Utah is UPR's original program focusing on the things that matter to Utah. The hour-long show airs daily at 9:00 a.m. and covers everything from pets to politics in a range of formats from in-depth interviews to call-in shows. Email us at upraccess@gmail.com or call at 1-800-826-1495. Join the discussion!
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Faith and the Environment with Tamarra Kemsley on Monday's Access Utah

Today Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Tamarra Kemsley joins us to talk about how religious faith affects peoples’ views of the environment.
2/26/202449 minutes, 2 seconds
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Moab Kane Creek development on Thursday's Access Utah

A developer plans to build a large luxury home and commercial development on scenic agricultural land in the Colorado River floodplain just outside Moab, and a residents’ group, as part of a groundswell of local opposition, has formed to oppose the development. KZMU's Molly Marcello and other guests join to discuss.
2/22/202450 minutes, 58 seconds
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2024 legislature with Tyler Clancy on Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Rep. Clancy about mental health issues, homelessness, and other issues.
2/21/202442 minutes, 27 seconds
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Revisiting The "Pill Mill Killer" on Tuesday's Access Utah

We revisit our conversation with Philip Eil about his book Prescription for Pain. It follows his years-long investigation into his father’s old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona.
2/20/202450 minutes, 37 seconds
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'Sleepless' with Annabel Abbs-Streets on Thurday's Access Utah

In the tradition of books like Breath and Wintering, Sleepless combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness.
2/15/202447 minutes, 22 seconds
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Love magic for Valentine's Day 2024 on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this Valentine’s Day we're joined by Jeannie Thomas to talk about love spells, heartbreak rituals, a study about fruit flies and breakups, and anthropologist Helen Fisher’s studies on what happens to our brains when we fall in love.
2/14/202446 minutes, 7 seconds
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Discussing Lisa Thompson's 'Wild Wasatch Front' on Tuesdays Access Utah

Lisa Thompson and the Natural History Museum of Utah have a new book out called Wild Wasatch Front, an urban adventure guide that invites both locals and tourists to discover unexpected nature thriving in the cities and suburbs of the Wasatch Front
2/13/202449 minutes, 10 seconds
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2024 Legislative water issues on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode we’ll talk about water policy as it's being debated and acted upon at the Utah Legislature. Our guests include Salt Lake Tribune water and land use reporter Leia Larsen and Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-SLC.
2/12/202450 minutes, 47 seconds
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Great Salt Lake & the 2024 Legislature on Wednesday's Access Utah

Our guest is Great Salt Lake Commissioner and Great Salt Lake Strike Team Co-Chair Brian Steed, here to talk about the Great Salt Lake Data and Insights Summary, prepared for the 2024 Utah Legislature.
2/7/202447 minutes, 16 seconds
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Revisiting 'National Dish' with Anya von Bremzen on Tuesday's Access Utah

We all have an idea in our heads about what French food is—or Italian, or Japanese, or Mexican, or . . . But where did those ideas come from? Who decides what makes a national food canon? Recipient of three James Beard awards, Anya von Bremzen joins us to discuss.
2/6/202448 minutes, 55 seconds
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'Our Secret Society' with Tanisha Ford on Monday's Access Utah

Today historian Tanisha Ford will join us to talk about her biography of Mollie Moon, who was one of the most influential women of the civil rights era.
2/5/202448 minutes, 36 seconds
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Revisiting Michael Finkel's 'The Art Thief' on Thursday's Access Utah

Michael Finkel’s book The Art Thief chronicles one of the most outrageous crime sprees in history.
2/1/202450 minutes, 12 seconds
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David Zook on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this episode of Access Utah we check in with Cache County Executive David Zook to talk about housing, transportation, the economy, homelessness and more.
1/31/202444 minutes, 55 seconds
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Utah legislation and the 2024 energy policy on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk about energy policy as it's being acted upon at the Utah Legislature.
1/30/202448 minutes, 29 seconds
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Revisiting ''Walt Longmire' with Craig Johnson on Monday's Access Utah

We're once again joined by Craig Johnson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels.
1/29/202449 minutes, 10 seconds
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'Patricia Turner's Trash Talk' on Thursday's Access Utah

Today we'll talk with UCLA Professor Patricia Turner discusses her latest book, Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century.
1/25/202449 minutes, 12 seconds
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Neurodiversity with Sara Sanders Gardner on Wednesday's Access Utah

Sara Sanders Gardner is the openly autistic designer and developer of Bellevue College's nationally recognized Neurodiversity Navigators program, and they are the guest for this episode.
1/24/202441 minutes, 56 seconds
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Science reporting in Panama on Tuesday's Access Utah

On this episode we talk with scientists and reporters who have been researching and reporting at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
1/23/202448 minutes, 36 seconds
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Advocacy groups and the 2024 Legislative Session on Monday's Access Utah

As the 2024 session of the Utah Legislature enters its second week there are many organizations advocating for their causes. We’ll talk to several of these groups today.
1/22/202444 minutes, 21 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Cat's Meow' with Jonathan Losos on Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we talk cats. Our guest is Jonathan Losos, and on this episode we discuss his book The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa.
1/18/202451 minutes, 30 seconds
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Revisiting 'Like, Literally Dude' with Valerie Fridland on Access Utah

On this episode we talk speech. We revisit our conversation with Valerie Fridland, professor of linguistics in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno and author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.
1/17/202450 minutes, 46 seconds
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'The Codex of the Endangered Species Act' with Lowell Baier on Access Utah

The year 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. It was also another year in an ongoing crisis of biodiversity loss, species extinctions, climate change, and natural disasters. On this episode we talk with Lowell Baier about the new books: The Codex of the Endangered Species Act, volumes 1 & 2.
1/11/202448 minutes, 56 seconds
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Revisiting 'Hollywood Harmony' with Frank Lehman on Tuesday's Access Utah

We revisit our converstaion about music in the movies! We're joined by Frank Lehman, Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University. He is author of Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema and recent essay, How to Write Music for Rolling Boulders.
1/9/202451 minutes, 19 seconds
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Poetry in the New Year 2024 on Monday's Access Utah

We continue our tradition of bringing you poetry in the New Year. This year we feature conversation with and poetry from Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore, along with poets Michael Sowder and Ben Gunsberg.
1/8/202449 minutes, 25 seconds
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Digital trends in Folklore for 2023 on Thursday's Access Utah

We're once again joined by USU English professors Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill to talk about folklore. On this episode we focus on the most popular memes and digital trends of last year.
1/4/202449 minutes, 16 seconds
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Homelessness and Logan's warming center

Today we’ll spotlight the William A. Burnard Warming Center in Logan. We’ll also talk about the causes of homelessness in Cache Valley and how those differ from other areas of the state.
10/23/202354 minutes, 2 seconds
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'ROLL BACK THE WORLD' with Deborah Kasdan on Monday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Deborah Kasdan about her new book ROLL BACK THE WORLD: A Sister’s Memoir. Threaded throughout this love letter to her older sister are stories of four siblings and their parents. As the second sibling, Deborah Kasdan struggled for decades with painful emotions of grief, shame, and survivor’s guilt before deciding to share her story, and her family’s.
10/9/202352 minutes, 17 seconds
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Exploring 'Secret Salt Lake City' with Jeremy Pugh

Where can you find a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What is the origin of Iosepa, the Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? And why is Utah called the Beehive State?
12/1/202254 minutes
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Revisiting 'To Boldly Grow' with Tamar Haspel

"To Boldly Grow" allows us to journey alongside Tamar Haspel as she learns to scrounge dinner from the landscape around her and discovers that a direct connection to what we eat can utterly change the way we think about our food — and ourselves.
11/30/202246 minutes, 12 seconds
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'Time To Think Small': Climate action with Todd Myers

"Time to Think Small" examines ways we can leverage the growing power of smartphones and other technologies to protect threatened species, reduce the risk from climate change and stop ocean plastic.
11/30/202254 minutes, 3 seconds
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The Great Salt Lake

Today we’ll talk to two reporters participating in the Great Salt Lake Collaborative who recently traveled to Las Vegas to learn what that water-starved city is doing and what Utah might learn from them.
11/30/202249 minutes, 56 seconds
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Revisiting 'For You When I Am Gone' with Steve Leder

We revisit our conversation with Rabbi Steve Leder about life, death and the concept or writing an ethical will.
11/30/202251 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Our Sixth Sense: Math' with David Brown

On this episode we talk about math. We're joined David Brown who recently delivered the 47th Annual Honors Last Lecture on the USU Logan Campus, which was entitled: Our Sixth Sense: Math.
11/30/202249 minutes, 58 seconds
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'Pump' with Bill Schutt

On this episode we're joined by zoologist Bill Schutt to talk about the origins of circulation, still evident in microorganisms today, to the tiny hardworking pumps of worms, to the golf-cart-size hearts of blue whales.
11/30/202249 minutes, 46 seconds
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Revisiting understanding the world and more with Jim Enote

We revisit our conversation with Jim Enote to talk about the different ways that western scientists and Native people understand the world, Bears Ears National Monument, challenges facing the Colorado Plateau, Native response to rock art and more.
11/30/202251 minutes, 42 seconds
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Folklore and music

On this episode we talk folklore and music with Steven Hatcher, the Idaho Folk Arts Coordinator, and Damian Rodriguez, a Tejano musician who performed as part of the 2022 Fife Honor lecture.
11/30/202243 minutes, 27 seconds
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The Utah abortion debate

On this episode, we discuss how Utah’s trigger law (SB 174) went into effect briefly following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision earlier this year, but is now being appealed and an injunction is in place.
11/30/202243 minutes, 34 seconds
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'In the Mouth of the Wolf' with Katherine Corcoran

On this episode we talk with Katherine Corcoran about her new book: In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press.
11/30/202249 minutes, 49 seconds
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'Visual Thinking' with Temple Grandin

On this episode we're joined by Temple Grandin to talk about her new book Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions.
11/29/202250 minutes, 22 seconds
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2022 midterm recap with Damon Cann

On this episode we recap the 2022 midterm election with Utah State University Political Science Professor Damon Cann.
11/29/202251 minutes, 42 seconds
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Internet and social media with Scott Cleland

On this episode we feature another episode in our periodic series of programs about the internet and social media, and our guest today is Scott Cleland.
11/29/202249 minutes, 36 seconds
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Dogs with Alexandra Horowitz and Jules Howard

Today’s program is all about man’s best friend. In the first half of the program we talk with Alexandra Horowitz about her new book "The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves." In the second half, Jules Howard joins us to talk about his new book "Wonderdog: The Science of Dogs and Their Unique Friendship with Humans."
11/29/202244 minutes, 48 seconds
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'Indivisible' with Joel Richard Paul

In his new book Indivisible, historian and law professor Joel Richard Paul tells the fascinating story of Daniel Webster. Joel Richard Paul joins us to discuss.
11/29/202249 minutes, 17 seconds
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'Cropping Up'

Utah food producers provide products that are unique to the state referred to as specialty crops. In the Cropping Up series, Utah Public Radio has been featuring some of these crops, their health benefits, and the role they play in helping us access fresh food.
11/29/202246 minutes, 49 seconds
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Fry Street Quartet and Robert Davies

On this episode we have a conversation with members of the Fry Street Quartet and physicist Dr. Robert Davies about The Crossroads Project.
11/29/202251 minutes, 18 seconds
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'Jesus and John Wayne' with Kristin Du Mez

Kristin Du Mez joins us to talk about her new book, 'Jesus and John Wayne', which is on our latest UPR Community Booklist.
11/29/202249 minutes, 50 seconds
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Pride flags in schools

On this episode we discuss Pride Flags in Schools and are joined by Larry Williams, Logan City School Board of Education President; Katie Lee-Koven, parent of a Logan elementary school student; Yvonee Marcyes, Board President of Logan Pride; and Andrea Sinfield.
11/29/202250 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Bringing War Home' with Rich Etchberger

On this special 'Bringing War Home' edition of Access Utah we talk with Rich Etchberger, recorded live from our event at the USU Moab Campus.
11/29/202257 minutes, 49 seconds
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'Nothin' Lastin'' with Hal Cannon

On this episode we're joined by Hal Cannon to talk about (and listen) to his new release, Nothin' Lastin'.
11/29/202251 minutes, 29 seconds
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Ute tribe and monuments on

We’ll talk with Ute Tribe Business Committee Chairman and Uncompahgre Band Representative Shaun Chapoose regarding a new monument designation, and we revisit a portion of our conversation with Senator Mazie Hirono.
11/29/202249 minutes, 43 seconds
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'Rusty Barbed Wire' with David Lee on Wednesday's Access Utah

Poet David Lee joins us today to talk about his latest collection Rusty Barbed Wire.
11/22/202252 minutes, 53 seconds
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'Conversations with Birds' with Priyanka Kumar on Tuesday's Access Utah

We're joined by Priyanka Kumar to discuss our place in the landscape—and in the cosmos—by way of watching birds.
11/22/202248 minutes, 17 seconds
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The music of Ralph Vaughan Williams with Eric Saylor on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode we're joined by Eric Saylor, Professor of Music History at Drake University, to discuss the compositions of Ralph Vaughan Williams.
11/22/202250 minutes, 50 seconds
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Archaeology of the recent past on Thursday's Access Utah

Dr. Benjamin Pykles will deliver the 2022 Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, titled “Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past” Thursday evening at 7:00 in the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall at Utah State University.
11/22/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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'Utah Women & Leadership Project' With Dr. Susan Madsen

Susan Madsen is the Inaugural Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and Founding Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project. Today we’ll check in with Dr. Madsen to explore topics concerning Utah women.
11/22/202246 minutes, 21 seconds
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Revisiting 'Forced Out' With Judy Kawamoto on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we revisit our conversation with Judy Kawamoto, winner of the 2022 Evans Handcart Award from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University, for her book Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search for a Home in America.
11/22/202245 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Stretching the Heavens' with Terryl Givens on Monday's Access Utah

Terryl Givens, winner of the 2022 Evans Biography Award from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University, for his new book Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism.
11/22/20221 hour, 2 minutes, 59 seconds
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Education and criminal justice with Sam Arungwa on Thursday's Access Utah

We're joined by Professor Sam Arungwa from the USU Blanding campus, Rep. Lowry Snow, and Jason Torgerson, San Juan County Sheriff.
11/22/202252 minutes, 25 seconds
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The state of the war in Ukraine with Corey Flintoff on Wednesday's Access Utah

Former NPR Moscow Bureau Chief Corey Flintoff joins us once again to discuss the current state of affairs in Ukraine and Russia.
11/22/202250 minutes, 52 seconds
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Doing good in our communities: Fall '22 on Tuesday's Access Utah

On this episode, It’s another non-profit spotlight where we highlight your favorite non-profits within the community.
11/22/202250 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Passion Plays' with Randall Balmer on Monday's Access Utah

What do sports and religion have in common? Randall Balmer joins us to discuss.
11/22/202243 minutes, 41 seconds
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'Bringing War Home: Objects of War' on Thursday's Access Utah

We know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered. On this episode we discuss.
11/22/202249 minutes, 32 seconds
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'Tolkien and The Great War' on Wednesday's Access Utah

A conversation with John Garth, author of Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, which tells the story of how Tolkien embarked on the creation of Middle-earth in his youth as the world around him was plunged into catastrophe, revealing the horror and heroism that he experienced as a signals officer in the Battle of the Somme and introducing the circle of friends who spurred his mythology to life.
11/22/202246 minutes, 34 seconds
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'Walt Longmire' with Craig Johnson on Tuesday's Access Utah

We're once again joined by Craig Johnson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels.
11/22/202250 minutes, 47 seconds
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'This is What it Sounds Like' on Monday's Access Utah

We're joined by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas to discuss the science of music and the brain, and Rogers also takes us behind the scenes of record-making and working with artists like Prince.
11/22/202251 minutes, 19 seconds
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Pledge drive book special with Ken Sanders on Thursday's Access Utah

It’s a member drive special edition of the program today and our special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders.
11/22/202253 minutes, 45 seconds
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Civil discourse and building bridges on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this special member drive episode, we talk with Jason Gilmore about bridge building and civil discourse in our current political climate.
11/22/202251 minutes, 57 seconds
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Member drive food special on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today in a special Member Drive edition of the program we’re going to talk about food with Tammy Proctor, Jeannie Sur, and Jaimie Sanders, hosts of Eating the Past and Lael Gilbert, one of the hosts of Bread and Butter.
11/22/202252 minutes, 51 seconds
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Great Salt Lake member drive special on Monday's Access Utah

In the first of our member drive specials for Fall 2022, we discuss the Great Salt Lake. We're joined by Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Bonnie Baxter, Jaimi Butler and Aimee Van Tatenhove.
11/22/202255 minutes, 7 seconds
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How new technologies can reshape our world

Adam Dorr, an environmental social scientist and technology theorist, explains why he's optimistic about coming disruptions to energy, transportation and food technologies. Dorr says these changes will usher in a new era of prosperity and freedom.
9/15/202254 minutes, 1 second
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'Bringing War Home' on Wednesday's Access Utah

Many of us are familiar with wartime souvenirs, whether we have direct experience with the battlefield or not. Molly Cannon, USU Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Susan Grayzel, USU Professor of History, join us to discuss how these objects can tell timeless stories of our veterans.
9/14/20220
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Queen Elizabeth II: The end of an era on Tuesday's Access Utah

Queen Elizabeth II was England's longest serving monarch, and the second-longest reigning monarch in history. She served with 15 Prime Ministers, beginning with Winston Churchill. We put her long and eventful reign in context.
9/14/202254 minutes, 1 second
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'After Ayotzinapa' on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode we talk with Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Kate Doyle, who created the After Ayotzinapa series for Reveal.
9/14/202248 minutes, 56 seconds
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'American Injustice': wrongful conviction on Thursday's Access Utah

In the past thirty years, more than 2,700 innocent American prisoners - their combined prison sentences adding up to nearly 25,000 years - have been exonerated and freed.
9/13/202250 minutes, 35 seconds
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Our end-of-summer book list on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this special Access Utah book show we discuss what we are currently reading, and want to know what you are reading too.
9/13/202250 minutes, 43 seconds
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'Air You Can Chew' with Logan Mitchell on Tuesday's Access Utah

On this episode we're joined by Logan Mitchell, faculty in the University of Utah’s Department of Atmospheric Science. We talk about pollution and the history of air quality in Utah.
9/13/202250 minutes, 49 seconds
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Moab Music Festival 2022 on Thursday's Access Utah

In this look into to the 2022 Moab Music Festival we're joined by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (Chickasaw, who will be attending and performing) and Pianist and conductor Timothy Long (Muscogee, Thlopthlocco, and Choctaw).
9/13/202250 minutes, 55 seconds
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Revisiting 'Tracing Time': Rock art on the Colorado Plateau on Wednesday's Access Utah

"Rock art holds power that words from the mouth don't carry," writes Craig Childs in his new book. We revisit our conversation.
9/13/202249 minutes, 27 seconds
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Shannon Hale on Tuesday's Access Utah

Shannon Hale is the Utah-based New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Academy series, Rapunzel’s Revenge and Austenland, which was made into a movie. Her latest, Amethyst, is on our latest UPR Booklist. We revisit our conversation.
9/13/202250 minutes, 18 seconds
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'Path Lit by Lightning' with David Maraniss on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode, a conversation with David Maraniss about his new book "Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe."
9/13/202248 minutes, 34 seconds
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Isabel Allende on Thursday's Access Utah

Isabel Allende is one of the most widely-read authors in the world, having sold more than 75 million books. She is our guest for today's Access Utah.
8/25/202248 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Wednesday's Access Utah

Next time on Access Utah we’ll revisit our conversation from March with writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.”
8/25/202251 minutes, 2 seconds
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Land, water and air with Brian Steed on Tuesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour on Tuesday’s Access Utah is Brian Steed, the new Executive Director of the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water and Air at Utah State University. Established in 2021, the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air connects researchers from Utah State University with problem solvers and decision-makers around Utah. The institute envisions a state with a high quality of life for our citizens that values and optimizes our state’s shared resources while managing continued growth. We value data-driven decision-making, shared partnerships, and a non-partisan perspective as we share the latest land, water, and air research.
8/23/202249 minutes, 35 seconds
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Food insecurity on Monday's Access Utah

About one in five adults reported experiencing food insecurity in the previous 30 days. Al Switzler joins us to discuss Tabitha’s Way, a Utah-based food pantry.
8/22/202248 minutes, 39 seconds
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'Waiting for an Echo' on Thursday's Access Utah

We revisit our conversation with Dr. Christine Montross about her book, "Waiting For an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration."
8/22/202249 minutes, 5 seconds
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Impulsivity, poor decisions and what to do about it on Wednesday's Access Utah

Gregory Madden joins us to talk about his research, which has applications for public health including substance-use disorders, pathological gambling and obesity.
8/22/202249 minutes, 32 seconds
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'Blurred Fates' with Anastasia Zadeik on Tuesday's Access Utah

We're joined by storyteller Anastasia Zadeik and talk about her debut novel “Blurred Fates,” which addresses issues of mental health and family dysfunction, among other themes.
8/22/202250 minutes, 25 seconds
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'The Fisherman and the Dragon' on Monday's Access Utah

We're joined by author Kirk Wallace Johnson to discuss the story of white fishermen and Vietnamese shrimpers clashing on the Texas coast in the 1970s and ‘80s.
8/22/202250 minutes
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The politics of open space on Tuesday's Access Utah

Open space will be on the ballot in northern Utah in November. In this episode, we talk about a proposed $20 million bond in Cache Valley that would buy up open space to preserve it.
8/10/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Third parties on Monday's Access Utah

Gallup says that support for a third U.S. political party is at a high point. On this episode, we talk with representatives from the United Utah Party, the Constitution Party of Utah, the Utah Libertarian Party and the Green Party of Utah.
8/10/202253 minutes, 59 seconds
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Colorado River reporting with Alex Hager on Thursday's Access Utah

A recent report says that the Colorado River is America’s most endangered. Today we’ll talk with reporter Alex Hager.
8/10/202250 minutes, 25 seconds
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Railroad history with Molly Cannon & Michael Sheehan on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this episode we talk about some of the history behind the transcontinental railroad.
8/10/202250 minutes, 32 seconds
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'All You Can Ever Know' with Nicole Chung on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today, Nicole Chung joins us to talk about her book and about several recent topics covered in her I Have Notes newsletter from The Atlantic, including writing about trauma and grief.
8/10/202251 minutes, 20 seconds
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Revisiting 'Freedom' with Sebastian Junger on Monday's Access Utah

For much of a year, writer Sebastian Junger and three friends—a conflict photographer and two Afghan War vets—walked the railroad lines of the East Coast.
8/10/202248 minutes, 16 seconds
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News fatigue with Amanda Ripley on Thursday's Access Utah

Journalist Amanda Ripley joins us to discuss her new op-ed titled, “I stopped reading the news. Is the problem me — or the product?”
8/10/202250 minutes, 29 seconds
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'Eating Our Way through the Anthropocene' on Wednesday's Access Utah

In her new book, Jessica Fanzo explores how in the context of the broad global trends of population growth, climate crisis and inequitable food availability, food systems need to be re-oriented to ensure they can produce enough food to nourish the world.
8/10/202249 minutes, 5 seconds
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'Western Journeys' with Teow Lim Goh on Tuesday's Access Utah

On this episode we're joined by Teow Lim Goh, author of 'Western Journeys', and we discuss immigration, history and the American West.
8/10/202249 minutes, 48 seconds
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'The Backwoods of Everywhere' with R.E. Burrillo on Wednesday's Access Utah

R.E. Burrillo is an archaeologist and conservation advocate. He is the author of Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape. He joins us to talk about his new book, 'The Backwoods of Everywhere: Words from a Wandering Local.'
8/10/202252 minutes, 59 seconds
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Debunked: stories of addiction and recovery on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today, we’ll partner with DEBUNKED, which dispels myths about the opioid crisis and harm reduction, for a conversation with Brian Neilson and Michelle Church.
8/10/202249 minutes, 30 seconds
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Arts in Utah and the coronavirus pandemic on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode we do a summer check-in with the arts and talk with with Michael Ballam, Founding Director of the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater; and Herb Newsome, who is performing with the Lyric Repertory Company.
8/10/202250 minutes, 8 seconds
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'The Fun Thieves' on Thursday's Access Utah

Author & illustrator Carli Valentine joins to talk about her new book, 'The Fun Thieves'.
8/10/202251 minutes, 1 second
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HJ News reader surveys with Charles McCollum on Wednesday's Access Utah

Charles McCollum is Managing Editor of The Herald Journal in Logan. He regularly surveys readers via Facebook. He’ll join us to share the results of some of those surveys.
8/10/202250 minutes, 4 seconds
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Utah's housing crisis with David Zook on Tuesday's Access Utah

Cache County Executive David Zook joins us to talk about housing, availability and affordability.
8/10/202248 minutes, 37 seconds
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Doing good in our communities on Monday's Access Utah

Amy Anderson, Director of Outreach for the Sunshine Terrace Foundation and Spiritual Counselor with Sunshine Hospice in Logan will join us to discuss non-profits, and we also hear from Utah Nonprofits Association CEO Jill Bennett, Nicole Burnard with the William Burnard Warming Center and Wendi Hassan with the Cache Valley Center for the Arts.
8/10/202250 minutes, 18 seconds
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Understanding the world and more with Jim Enote on Thursday's Access Utah

Jim Enote joins us to talk about the different ways that western scientists and Native people understand the world, Bears Ears National Monument, challenges facing the Colorado Plateau, Native response to rock art and more.
8/10/202250 minutes, 39 seconds
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'The Utah Women & Leadership Project' with Susan Madsen on Wednesday's Access Utah

We're Joined on this episode by Dr. Susan Madsen to discuss The Utah Women and Leadership Project, their podcast and more.
8/10/202251 minutes, 13 seconds
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'This America of Ours' with Nate Schweber on Tuesday's Access Utah

Nate Schweber joins us with his new book, This America Of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild.
7/6/202248 minutes, 18 seconds
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Far right extremism with Thomas LeCaque on Thursday's Access Utah

Thomas LeCaque, Associate Professor of History at Grand View University, joins us to discuss the rise in far right violence and extremist groups.
7/6/202249 minutes, 30 seconds
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'Sharon Says' with Sharon McMahon on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode, Sharon McMahon joins us to talk politics, polarization, identity and more.
7/6/202250 minutes
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Addressing domestic violence and sexual assault on Thursday's Access Utah

On this episode of Access Utah, we preview the Northern Utah Conference on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, which takes place next week at Utah State University.
7/6/202254 minutes, 5 seconds
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The future of libraries with Sam Passey on Wednesday's Access Utah

In a changing reading landscape that now includes ebooks consumed on your device, what is the role of the public library, and how is that role changing?
6/23/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Declining social capital with Peter Reichard on Tuesday's Access Utah

Social capital refers to the bonds between people and among networks, which they can use to benefit themselves and the group as a whole. Low levels of social capital often lead to poor economic and social outcomes, both for individuals and for populations.
6/23/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Juneteenth 2022 on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we talk about Juneteenth and USU's corresponding events. We're joined by Cree Taylor, Lecturer in the USU English Department and event organizer, and filmmaker Mauli Junior Bonner, whose film, “His Name is Green Flake,” will be screened on Saturday.
6/22/202252 minutes, 10 seconds
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'The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter' on Thursday's Access Utah

Today we talk beavers with environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb, author of “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter,” and Cache Valley resident Nate Norman, who works with the USU Beaver Ecology and Relocation Center.
6/22/202249 minutes, 5 seconds
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'For You When I Am Gone' with Steve Leder on Wednesday's Access Utah

Rabbi Steve Leder joins us on a conversation about life, death and the concept or writing an ethical will.
6/22/202250 minutes, 44 seconds
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Myths and misconceptions on American religious history on Tuesday's Access Utah

We are joined by USU Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Chris Babits and former student Chloe Miller, and dive into some short podcasts on myths and misconceptions of American religious history.
6/22/202250 minutes, 27 seconds
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Defenders, bullies & victims with Diana Meter on Monday's Access Utah

What causes bullying? How can defenders reduce its frequency? Is bullying preventable? Diana Meter joins us to help answer these questions.
6/22/202250 minutes, 29 seconds
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'Daughter of the Morning Star' with Craig Johnson on Thursday's Access Utah

On this episode, a conversation with Wyoming-based writer Craig Johnson. He joins to discuss his latest novel in the Longmire series, “Daughter of the Morning Star” and more.
6/22/202251 minutes, 19 seconds
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A conversation with President Cockett on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we feature a conversation with Utah State University President Noelle Cockett. where we discuss telework and the labor market, preparing students for careers as K-12 teachers, mental health issues and more.
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Revisiting 'Martita, I Remember You' on Wednesday's Access Utah

We revisit our conversation with writer Sandra Cisneros. Her book Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo is included in our UPR Community Booklist.
6/22/202254 minutes, 7 seconds
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Forests and climate change with William Anderegg on Wednesday's Access Utah

We're joined by William Anderegg, Associate Professor in the University of Utah School Of Biological Sciences, to discuss the effects of threats, including climate change and drought, on trees and forests.
6/22/202249 minutes, 57 seconds
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'Life on the Rocks' with Juli Berwald on Tuesday's Access Utah

Juli Berwald joins us for Access Utah to talk about her new book “Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs.
6/22/202250 minutes, 23 seconds
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'Sand and Sky' with Phyllis Barber on Monday's Access Utah

Award-winning Utah essayist Phyllis Barber has a new book out titled The Precarious Walk: Essays from Sand and Sky, which she discusses on this episode of Access Utah.
6/22/202249 minutes, 49 seconds
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'Sisters of Mokama' with Jyotti Thottam on Thursday's Access Utah

After hearing her mother’s story, Thottam set out to discover the full story of Nazareth Hospital, which had been established in 1947 by six nuns from Kentucky. She joins us on this Access Utah.
6/22/202247 minutes, 56 seconds
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DEBUNKED: storytelling and healing on Tuesday's Access Utah

On the next Access Utah we’ll partner with DEBUNKED for a conversation with Valentina Sireech, Member of Ute Tribe and Program Coordinator for the Tribal & Rural Opioid Initiative Resource Center with USU Extension - Roosevelt Office. Her passion is to inspire Indigenous and Rural communities to create art as a form of healthy healing. We’ll also be talking with Larry Cesspooch, Ute Filmmaker/Storyteller/Spiritual Leader, who uses all forms of media to tell his stories, film, music, and lecture.
5/19/202251 minutes, 26 seconds
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The fate of Roe v. Wade on Monday's Access Utah

According to Politico, in a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade. Quoting the Salt Lake Tribune: “Depending on how the Supreme Court officially rules, either Utah’s trigger law — which outlaws most abortions in the state — or a ban on the procedure after 18 weeks of pregnancy are likely to go into effect.” in Utah. On Monday’s Access Utah we’ll talk with Planned Parenthood Association of Utah President and CEO Karrie Galloway; and Mary Taylor, President of Pro-Life Utah.
5/19/202248 minutes, 10 seconds
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Protecting the past on Thursday's Access Utah

Utah has launched a “Pledge to Protect the Past” campaign to protect archaeological sites and artifacts. And Utah State Historic Preservation Office public archaeologist Elizabeth Hora says that summer often brings an increase in vandalism to important preservations of the past. To discuss, we're joined by Elizabeth Hora and Angelo Baca.
5/19/202252 minutes, 8 seconds
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Title 42 and immigration on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this episode we're joined by Chelsea Sachau and Pedro De Velasco to discuss the situation at the border and Title 42.
5/19/202251 minutes, 38 seconds
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'Revelations in Air' with Jude Stewart on Tuesday's Access Utah

Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. In her new book Revelations in Air, Jude Stewart takes us on a fascinating journey into the weird and wonderful world of smell.
5/19/202251 minutes, 13 seconds
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'Inspired: Understanding Creativity' with Matt Richtel on Monday's Access Utah

How does creativity work? How can we maximize our creative potential? Matt Richtel joins us to help answer these questions.
5/18/202250 minutes, 18 seconds
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Social media and free speech on Thursday's Access Utah

We're joined by Jaigris Hodson and discuss why speech on Twitter, and we revisit a 2021 conversation with Eli Saslow.
5/18/202250 minutes, 19 seconds
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Coexisting with wildlife on Wednesday's Access Utah

Wildlife in urban areas can pose some concerns, especially as our population grows. Joining us to discuss is doctoral student at U of U Austin Green and USU Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist Terry Messmer.
5/18/202252 minutes, 38 seconds
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'Was It Worth It?' with Doug Peacock on Tuesday's Access Utah

In his new book Was It Worth It?, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in the wild, recounting adventures both close to home and farther afield. He joins us on this Access Utah Episode.
5/18/202251 minutes, 54 seconds
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'Life Lived Wild' with Rick Ridgeway on Monday's Access Utah

Rick Ridgeway joins us on this episode to share stories and talk about his new book, Life Lived Wild.
5/18/202251 minutes, 23 seconds
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Bringing War Home: live from Hill Aerospace Museum on Thursday's Access Utah

Hear some fascinating stories told inside of a C-130 aircraft on this episode of Access Utah.
5/18/202258 minutes, 2 seconds
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How marriage has evolved over time on Wednesday's Access Utah

We're joined by Stephanie Coontz and Greg Smalley to discuss different perspectives on marriage.
4/27/202250 minutes, 56 seconds
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'The People Behind the Byline' on Tuesday's Access Utah

On this episode we talk with Emily White and USU Associate Professor of Journalism Matthew LaPlante about the challenges of being a journalist in an increasingly hostile environment for journalism.
4/27/202251 minutes, 20 seconds
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'Fire and Flood' with Eugene Linden on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode we discuss climate change with Eugene Linden, and talk about his new book Fire and Flood.
4/27/202248 minutes, 56 seconds
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All about birds on Wednesday's Access Utah

Last summer we devoted an entire episode to monarch butterflies and fireflies, and after a listener suggested we do a similar episode focused on birds, we've done just that!
4/27/202252 minutes, 45 seconds
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'(Solve For) X' with Katharine Coles on Tuesday's Access Utah

We're joined by Katharine Coles, and dig into her new collection, '(Solve For) X' in this poetry-filled Access Utah.
4/20/202251 minutes, 26 seconds
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Teaching and religious literacy on Monday's Access Utah

On this episode we're joined by Partick Mason and Lauren Kerby to discuss the importance of teaching and understanding religion.
4/20/202250 minutes, 5 seconds
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War crimes in Ukraine with David Schwendiman on Thursday's Access Utah

David Schwendiman served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice for more than twenty-five years. He joins on this episode of Access Utah to discuss war crimes and the war in Ukraine.
4/20/202249 minutes, 29 seconds
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Bridging our divides with Peter Coleman on Wednesday's Access Utah

Peter Coleman joins on this episode of Access Utah to help us dive into why we are so politically polarized, and why it's making us miserable.
4/13/202250 minutes, 11 seconds
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Red, blue and purple states with Damon Cann on Tuesday's Access Utah

Damon Cann joins to discuss how things stand in Utah and nationally, in this election year, as we head toward the primaries.
4/12/202249 minutes, 32 seconds
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Finding joy, adventure and dinner in your own backyard on Monday's Access Utah

Tamar Haspel joins on this episode to discuss "first-hand food", including gardening, foraging and hunting.
4/12/202249 minutes, 20 seconds
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'Dangerous Love' with Chad Ford on Thursday's Access Utah

Chad Ford joins to discuss his book Dangerous Love, which is about conflict and how to work though it.
4/12/202250 minutes, 35 seconds
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Access Utah book show: spring edition

On this special Access Utah book show we discuss what we are currently reading, and want to know what you are reading too.
4/6/202251 minutes, 8 seconds
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House Bill 11: transgender girls and school sports on Monday's Access Utah

A bill regarding transgender girls and sports was passed in the recent legislative session, and we discuss on this episode of Access Utah.
4/6/202250 minutes, 42 seconds
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Member drive folklore special with Lynne McNeill on Thursday's Access Utah

On this episode we are joined by Lynne McNeill. We talk Slenderman's origins, The Kevin Bacon Number and more.
4/1/202250 minutes, 15 seconds
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'Bringing War Home' with Sue Grayzel & Molly Cannon on Wednesday's Access Utah

On this special Member Drive edition of the program we’ll talk about the Bringing War Home project with USU History Professor Susan Grayzel and Molly Cannon, Director of the USU Anthropology Museum and the USU Mountain West Center.
3/30/202251 minutes, 23 seconds
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Russia, Ukraine and the UPR member drive with Corey Flintoff on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today it’s another Member Drive special edition of the program and our guest is former NPR Moscow Bureau Chief Corey Flintoff. We’ll talk about the war in Ukraine, the situation in Russia, and about reporting on war.
3/29/202251 minutes, 24 seconds
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Member drive special with Ken Sanders on Monday's Access Utah

It’s a member drive special edition of the program today. My special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City.
3/29/202251 minutes, 53 seconds
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'A Molecule Away from Madness' on Thursday's Access Utah

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds.
3/26/202249 minutes, 40 seconds
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Sandy Hook, misinformation and the battle for truth on Wednesday's Access Utah

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth, uncovers what followed the horrifying events that took place almost ten years ago, when a shooter entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut and killed twenty first-graders and six teachers.
3/23/202251 minutes, 54 seconds
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'Disorder: Hard Times in the Twenty-First Century' on Tuesday's Access Utah

Cambridge Professor of Political Economy Helen Thompson analyzes the intersecting energy, financial, and democratic crises facing our world today and reveals the disruptions that have led us to this turbulent point.
3/23/202250 minutes, 18 seconds
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Unlikely allies in preventing sexual misconduct on Wednesday's Access Utah

A recent report regarding sexual misconduct on university campuses proposes some new ideas to help educate students on how to respond. We're joined by the authors of that report.
3/21/202250 minutes, 37 seconds
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Russia and Ukraine: what you should know on Thursday's Access Utah

We are joined once again by Anna Pechenkina, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. We talk about the current situation unfolding in Ukraine, the possible future and some of the politics involved.
3/21/202251 minutes, 29 seconds
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'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Monday's Access Utah

Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.
3/21/202249 minutes, 29 seconds
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DEBUNKED: substance use disorders and harm reduction on Tuesday's Access Utah

Stigma is a major barrier to recovery, because people don’t want to be labeled as “junkies” and experience social exclusion when they ask for help. What can we do?
3/17/202252 minutes, 19 seconds
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Utah Legislature: looking back and looking forward on Monday's Access Utah

We talk with House Speaker Brad Wilson; Senate Majority Whip Ann Millner; and Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City.
3/16/202251 minutes, 19 seconds
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'Tracing Time': rock art on the Colorado Plateau on Thursday's Access Utah

"Rock art holds power that words from the mouth don't carry," writes Craig Childs in his new book. He joins us on Thursday's Access Utah.
3/11/202253 minutes, 12 seconds
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How nature benefits human health on Wednesday's Access Utah

A growing body of research confirms the link between nature and physical, emotional and mental health. How and why does nature wield these benefits?
3/11/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Remembering writer Bernard DeVoto on Tuesday's Access Utah

This year marks the 125th anniversary of Bernard DeVoto's birth, a man described by Wallace Stegner as “Utah’s most prominent writer,” yet who has been largely forgotten in Utah and in his hometown of Ogden.
3/11/202254 minutes, 7 seconds
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Women in politics on Monday's Access Utah

What barriers prevent women from running for office? We talk with Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson, and Yándary Chatwin and Nina Barnes, hosts of the “Real Women Run” podcast.
3/9/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Reporting on Ukraine with Matthew LaPlante on Monday's Access Utah

We hear about Matthew LaPlante's experiences as a reporter in the Iraq war, and also reflect on his experiences in Ukraine, the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova and the "frozen conflict" state of Transnistria.
3/3/202253 minutes, 55 seconds
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Isabel Allende on Thursday's Access Utah

One of the most widely-read authors in the world, having sold more than 75 million books, Isabel Allende is our guest for today's Access Utah.
3/3/202254 minutes, 12 seconds
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'The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness' on Wednesday's Access Utah

A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether.
3/2/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Best-selling author Shannon Hale on Tuesday's Access Utah

Shannon Hale is the Utah-based New York Times best-selling author of the Princess Academy series, Rapunzel’s Revenge and Austenland, which was made into a movie. Her latest, Amethyst, is on our latest UPR Booklist.
3/1/202254 minutes, 17 seconds
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The most popular memes of 2021 on Thursday's Access Utah

A TikTok video of a young Scottish mailman singing the traditional sea shanty “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” and memes that poked fun at the self-described “QAnon Shaman” were among the top digital folklore trends of 2021.
2/24/202249 minutes, 43 seconds
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Doing good in our communities on Wednesday's Access Utah

There are many needs in our communities and many step up to help. On this episode, we shine a light on non-profits and individuals doing good in our communities.
2/23/202252 minutes, 5 seconds
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Conservatives and climate dialogue with Rep. John Curtis on Tuesday's Access Utah

We’ll talk about fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear, hydrogen, methane and more.
2/22/202254 minutes, 3 seconds
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'American Injustice': wrongful conviction on Monday's Access Utah

In the past thirty years, more than 2,700 innocent American prisoners - their combined prison sentences adding up to nearly 25,000 years - have been exonerated and freed.
2/17/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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How to consume the news without drowning in it on Thursday's Access Utah

We hear from many these days who say “the news is depressing” or “the news just makes me mad.” Today we’re going to talk about how news consumption can affect our mental health.
2/17/202253 minutes, 59 seconds
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'The Fuzzy and The Techie' with Scott Hartley on Monday's Access Utah

Could the liberal arts be the future of the digital world?
2/16/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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How COVID has affected religious congregations on Tuesday's Access Utah

Have you ever thought about how Covid-19 has changed the way our religious communities continue to organize their efforts in promoting and maintaining spiritual faith? On this episode of Access Utah, we are joined by five religious leaders/academics who will be informing us what kind of changes they have noticed in their respective religious communities throughout the pandemic, and what the future might hold in store for them.
2/16/202254 minutes, 2 seconds
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The great resignation on Wednesday's Access Utah

Many people have not returned to the workforce following the height of the Covid pandemic. Higher-than-usual numbers of employees have quit in some areas.
2/16/202254 minutes, 4 seconds
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The case for and against the death penalty on Wednesday's Access Utah

HB 147, sponsored by Rep. Lowry Snow, R-St. George, which would have repealed the death penalty in Utah and replaced it with a possible sentence of 45 years to life, was defeated in committee. The debate will go on, however, today on Access Utah.
2/16/202253 minutes, 59 seconds
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The future of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday's Access Utah

Since U. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement last month, speculation about his replacement has ramped up.
2/15/202254 minutes, 2 seconds
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Yes means yes: a new legal standard for consent on Tuesday's Access Utah

Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, is sponsoring HB98 which would create a third-degree felony offense of sexual conduct without affirmative consent. Current Utah law defines sexual abuse as when “the victim expresses lack of consent through words or conduct.”
2/15/202254 minutes, 2 seconds
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Russia and Ukraine: the politics and identities at play on Wednesday's Access Utah

The New York Times reports that “Russian troops are encircling Ukraine from three sides. In Washington and Brussels, there are warnings of crushing sanctions if Vladimir V. Putin orders an invasion. Embassy families — both American and Russian — are being evacuated from Kyiv.” We will be talking with Anna Pechenkina, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Utah State University.
2/2/202254 minutes, 2 seconds
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Local government with Cache County Executive David Zook on Tuesday's Access Utah

Cache County Executive David Zook joins us to talk about public health, transportation, homelessness, mental health, the economy, immigration, COVID and other issues.
2/2/202254 minutes, 2 seconds
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What happens when viruses pass from humans to animals on Monday's Access Utah

The Times reports that mink farms (some of them in Utah) threaten to become a source of new coronavirus variants — and an object lesson in how ‘spillback’ can make deadly diseases even deadlier. Today we’ll talk with David Quammen about spillover, spillback, Coronavirus and future viruses.
1/31/202253 minutes, 58 seconds
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Boa Ogoi and the Bear River Massacre on Wednesday's Access Utah

How do we heal from the traumas of the past, without forgetting the events that happened? Today on Access Utah we explore the Hyrum City Museum's newest exhibit and ongoing events commemorating the 159th anniversary of the US Army’s massacre of Shoshone at Boa Ogoi.
1/26/202254 minutes
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Legislative redistricting and gerrymandering on Tuesday's Access Utah

Every ten years, following the United States’ release of the Census report, we take to the drawing board and redefine district lines in order to more appropriately represent U.S. citizens in the House of Representatives. On this episode, we discuss what the new maps mean for Utah.
1/26/202248 minutes, 51 seconds
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Journalistic ethics with Mark Memmott on Thursday's Access Utah

1/20/202254 minutes, 2 seconds
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Prospects for peace in the Middle East on Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday's Access Utah, we talk about such issues as recognition of rights, the sharing of Jerusalem, delineation of borders, West Bank settlements, security and refugees.
1/20/202254 minutes, 16 seconds
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Protecting the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday's Access Utah

Rep. Brad Wilson, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, is convening a Great Salt Lake Summit, and ahead of that summit we’ll be talking to Lynne De Freitas, Executive Director of Friends of the Great Salt Lake; Wayne Wurtsbaugh, USU Emeritus Professor of Watershed Sciences; and Marcelle Shoop, Director of the National Audubon Society’s Saline Lakes Program.
1/20/202249 minutes, 6 seconds
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Social media and school violence on Wednesday's Access Utah

Recent events at several Utah schools have shown the danger, including the potential for violence, in the misuse of social media. We talk about the risks, the causes and how to address them on Access Utah.
1/19/202254 minutes, 3 seconds
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Water, COVID and education: the 2022 legislative session opens on Tuesday's Access Utah

Tuesday was the opening day of the 2022 Utah Legislature. We broadcast live from the state capitol in Salt Lake City and talked about the issues likely to be addressed in the legislature this year.
1/19/20221 hour, 2 seconds
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'The Choir of Man' on Thursday's Access Utah

The Choir of Man is a hit musical from Andrew Kay and Nic Doodson, featuring pub tunes, folk, rock, choral and Broadway numbers. We talked with three of the cast members on Thursday.
1/13/202254 minutes
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COVID-19: health, emotion and society with Marion Bishop on Wednesday's Access Utah

Almost two years into the pandemic, there are record numbers of new COVID cases and hospitalizations. Today we’ll talk with ER doctor and writer Marion Bishop about hope, endemicity, health care workers and about how many of us are just “over it” — and where that leaves all of us.
1/12/202254 minutes, 10 seconds
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Poets in the new year: Wednesday's Access Utah

Poets get to the heart of what we’re thinking and feeling. As we open the new year, we’ll hear from Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal; Logan Poet Laureate Shanan Ballam; and poet and Sonosopher Alex Caldiero.
1/11/202249 minutes, 35 seconds
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The politics of migration from Central America on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll be talking with Pitzer College professor Suyapa Portillo and DePaul University professor Ester Trujillo about the root causes of immigration from Central America, the dangerous immigrant journey and integration of immigrants into the United States.
1/11/202253 minutes, 59 seconds
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Japanese-American 'voluntary evacuation' in WWII with Judy Kawamoto on Monday's Access Utah

In her new book, “Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America,” Judy Kawamoto offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II.
1/11/202254 minutes, 1 second
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Fate, friendship and Vietnam: 'Chances Are...' on Monday's Access Utah

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today – Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin’ age.
11/30/202120 minutes, 36 seconds
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'Shots Fired': police and deadly force on Tuesday's Access Utah

With police shootings in Utah reaching record highs amid a nationwide debate over police accountability, FRONTLINE and The Salt Lake Tribune are presentingShots Fired: the first nationally broadcast documentary stemming from FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative.
11/30/20210
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Our fall 2021 community booklist on Thursday's Access Utah

As we head toward the holidays we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now? Is there a book that has had a big impact on you? Which books are you looking forward to reading or giving as gifts? Perhaps you’d like to tell us a personal story connected to a favorite book. We’d love to hear about books in the adult, young adult and children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome.
11/19/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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The true crime story behind 'Crime and Punishment' on Tuesday's Access Utah

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece is the true crime story-behind-the-story of Dostoevsky’s greatest work, Crime and Punishment, and why it changed the world. November 11th marked the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth and author Kevin Birmingham spent years researching archival material to evoke Czarist Russia at the birth of the Russian intelligentsia, along with Siberian prison camps, high-stakes trials, and gory murders and the details of Dostoevsky’s fascinating life.
11/16/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Bridge of Clay' with Markus Zusak on Tuesday's Access Utah

Bridge of Clay is the new sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, author of the international bestseller The Book Thief, which swept the world and was made into a movie.
11/9/202154 minutes, 1 second
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The challenges of peacebuilding in Afghanistan on Monday's Access Utah

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan raises important questions about the meaning of peacekeeping and peacebuilding in the 21st century. There is a panel discussion today (4:30 p.m. in Old Main 115 at USU and on Zoom) called “The Afghanistan Crisis: The Challenges of Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding.”
11/8/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Last Winter' with Porter Fox on Thursday's Access Utah

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes. In his new book “The Last Winter,” journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything—from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of the world as we know it. This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys—each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine.
11/4/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Disability and accessibility on Tuesday's Access Utah

One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture.
11/2/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Mary Jane Wild' with Brooke Williams on Monday's Access Utah

Brooke Williams walked twice into Southern Utah’s Mary Jane Wilderness: at the beginning of the Trump presidency, and four-years later at its end. In Mary Jane Wild, Brooke Williams documents his experience in this magical place, his sense of what happened during the Trump presidency, why and its possible long-term effects. It is also his story of how walking in the wilderness heals, helps him identify, then adapt to changing modern conditions and understand the role wildness continues to play in the evolution of life.
11/2/202154 minutes
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Revisiting the natural history heist of the century on Tuesday's Access Utah

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History.
10/26/202153 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Outlaw Ocean' on Monday's Access Utah

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.
10/25/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting the 'good death' and why it's so rare in medicine on Thursday's Access Utah

Medical researcher and ICU physician Samuel Brown says, “While writing a book about death culture and American religion before the Civil War, I read hundreds of accounts of the ‘good death.’ I began to wonder why good dying was incredibly rare in the hospitals where I practiced medicine.”
10/21/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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How the index fund changed finance forever on Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Robin Wigglesworth, the global finance correspondent at the Financial Times, about his new book "Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever."
10/20/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Moth Mainstage host Jon Goode on Tuesday's Access Utah

The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. You hear the Moth Radio Hour each week on UPR. The Moth Mainstage, the live stage show, is coming to Cache Arts in Logan. Ahead of that event, one of the Moth Mainstage hosts, Jon Goode, will join us today.
10/20/202153 minutes, 43 seconds
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The Arab-American University in Palestine on Monday's Access Utah

Today we’ll be talking about theArab-American University in Palestine. Several USU faculty members and others played a role in the founding and early success of AAUP in the early 2000s.
10/20/202153 minutes, 57 seconds
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Civil discourse in a polarized age: Sen. Brent Hill on Thursday's Access Utah

Today a conversation with Sen. Brent Hill about civil discourse. Brent Hill is the Next Generation Program Director for the National Institute for Civil Discourse. He’ll be talking with Neil Abercrombie, USU Vice President for Government Relations, in an event at the David B. Haight Center on the USU campus on Monday at 4:00 p.m.
10/14/202153 minutes, 47 seconds
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'Dog Valley' tells the story of a murdered gay man on Monday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour today is Chad Anderson. He has made a documentary film called Dog Valley which tells the story of Gordon Church, a young gay man who was kidnapped, raped, tortured and brutally murdered in rural Utah, as well as the stories of the two men who killed him, Michael Archuleta (currently on death row) and Lance Wood (currently in a minimum security prison). The film features an interview with Wood himself and delves into true crime and the long-term effects of trauma.
10/12/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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A marvelous work: reading Mormonism in West Africa on Thursday's Access Utah

Two decades before official missionary work began, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pamphlets, books and other church materials began circulating in West Africa, leading to a unique “native” Mormonism. Believers crafted churches from these bare materials and doctrinal interpretations during the 1960s and 1970s.
10/7/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'A History of America in 100 Maps' On Wednesday's Access Utah

Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.
10/6/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Leading with creativity, kindness and inclusion: Janice Brooks on Tuesday's Access Utah

Janice Brooks, Chairwoman of the Utah Humanities Council, governing board member for Intermountain Healthcare St. George Regional Hospital and IHC Ethics Committee member, will give a keynote address to the One Utah Summit titled Leading with Creativity, Kindness and Inclusion. That speech is tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. The summit is ongoing today and tomorrow at Southern Utah University and is being streamed live at suu.edu/sutvlive.
10/5/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'The Mike File: A Story of Grief and Hope' on Monday's Access Utah

Stephen Trimble’s new book The Mike File is a memoir. Psychosis overwhelmed Trimble’s brother Mike at 14. Trimble’s parents had no choice but to commit Mike to the Colorado State Hospital. Mike left when Steve was six. He never lived at home again. In his new book Trimble takes readers along on Mike's heartbreaking journey, noting that Mike’s life parallels the history of our treatment of the mentally ill over the last 70 years. Stephen Trimble and Douglas Goldsmith, the former Executive Director of The Children’s Center in Salt Lake City will join us today.
10/5/202154 minutes, 5 seconds
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'A Time To Die': Physician-Assisted Dying On Thursday's Access Utah

The USU College of Science is presenting a panel discussion titled “A Time to Die.” This virtual panel is tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Panelists will discuss physician-assisted dying, currently legal in a number of U.S. states, and how this practice might be implemented in Utah.
9/30/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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15 Things Utahns Can't Live Without In A Pandemic On Wednesday's Access Utah

In conjunction with the Moth Mainstage event coming to Logan next month, UPR and Cache Arts are presenting 15 Things Utahns Can’t Live Without in a Pandemic, which is based on NPR’s 15 Things Folks Can’t Live Without in a Pandemic. The project is about the power of storytelling, and how it can be a catharsis and a way of processing as we collectively deal with this ongoing global pandemic.
9/30/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Should We Give Drug Users A Second Chance? DEBUNKED Live On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we are presenting our sixth live episode of Debunked, the only Utah podcast combining evidence-based health practices with storytelling to challenge the stereotypes, and debunk the myths about harm reduction, substance use disorders and homelessness.
9/28/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Day The World Stops Shopping' On Monday's Access Utah

The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosure.
9/27/202154 minutes
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A Member Drive Special: Marion Bishop On Thursday's Access Utah

It’s UPR’s Fall Member Drive. During our Spring Drive we talked with emergency room doctor, writer and UPR member Marion Bishop, who works at Cache Valley Hospital and Brigham City Community Hospital. We also talked with her last year as a part of an episode featuring frontline workers.
9/24/202156 minutes, 41 seconds
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A Member Drive Special: Cache Refugee And Immigrant Connection On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s a special Member Drive edition of the program again today. And today we’ll shine a spotlight on the Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection (CRIC), an organization in northern Utah devoted to helping refugees. We’ll review the history of refugees in northern Utah as well as current needs and we’ll talk about doing good in challenging times.
9/22/202156 minutes, 2 seconds
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A Member Drive Special: Craig Jessop On Tuesday's Access Utah

Once again it's a Member Drive edition of the program. Our special guest for the hour is Craig Jessop, Music Director of the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra.
9/22/202156 minutes, 39 seconds
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A Member Drive Special: Ken Sanders On Monday's Access Utah

It’s a member drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite recent episodes of the program.
9/21/202151 minutes
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'Remember The 43 Students' On Thursday's Access Utah

Dixie State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences is bringing the “Remember the 43 Students” art installation to their campus. This installation commemorates the six people who were killed and the 43 students who were “disappeared” in a night of unspeakable political violence in Iguala, Guerrero state, Mexico on September 26, 2014.
9/16/202155 minutes, 1 second
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Pam Houston On Wednesday's Access Utah

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants.
9/15/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Library Book' With Susan Orlean On Tuesday's Access Utah

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’”
9/14/202154 minutes, 47 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Man Who Caught The Storm' On Monday's Access Utah

The Man Who Caught the Storm is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon.
9/14/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'Homesickness: An American History' On Thursday's Access Utah

Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity: it's what children feel at summer camp. But in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back.
9/9/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Boys In The Boat' On Wednesday's Access Utah

Daniel James Brown’s bestseller The Boys in the Boat is a story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
9/8/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Chasing Coral' With Zack Rago On Tuesday's Access Utah

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. We’ve lost 50% of the world’s coral in the last 30 years. Scientists say that climate change is now their greatest threat and it is estimated that only 10% can survive past 2050. In a new documentary film, “Chasing Coral,” a team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why coral are vanishing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
9/7/202154 minutes
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COVID-19 In Utah Schools And More On Behind The Headlines

The U.S. Department of Education launches an investigation into Utah's ban on school mask mandates. Health officials hope personal stories — like that of a Vernal woman who got COVID after declining a vaccine — will help change minds. Gov. Spencer Cox questions the effectiveness of masks, contradicting healthcare professionals. And what the data from a European soccer championship can tell us about the spread of coronavirus at sports events in the US.
9/3/202154 minutes
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Revisiting The Secret Life Of Beavers With Ben Goldfarb On Thursday's Access Utah

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat.
9/2/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'Nature's Best Hope' With Douglas Tallamy On Wednesday's Access Utah

Douglas Tallamy’s first book, “Bringing Nature Home,” awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. “Nature’s Best Hope” shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Talllamy says that because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. Even more important, it’s practical, effective, and easy.
9/1/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Half Broke' With Ginger Gaffney On Monday's Access Utah

An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many— the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney’s job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses and residents form a profound bond, and teach each other patience, control, and trust.
8/30/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Japanese-American Internment With George Takei On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we feature a conversation with renowned actor and author George Takei. He is coming to Utah for the Moab Music Festival, which has commissioned a new work based on his speeches, personal writings, and recollections of his and his family’s internment in camps for Japanese Americans during World War II.
8/26/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'Unraveled: The Life And Death Of A Garment' On Wednesday's Access Utah

Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says “Made in Bangladesh” or “Made in Sri Lanka.” But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you?
8/25/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Can Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Groups Work Together? Debunked Live On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we present a live episode of the Debunked Podcast. Host Tom Williams and Debunked Podcast host Don Lyons welcome Mary Jo McMillen, Executive Director of USARA (Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness) and Ashanti Moritz, Outreach Director for the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes' Warrior Spirit Recovery Center to debunk the myth “indigenous and non-indigenous groups can't work together to solve social problems.”
8/24/202154 minutes
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Housing In Utah: Affordability, Availability, And Solutions On Monday's Access Utah

We’re going to talk about housing in Utah today. Here are some headlines from the past several months: How tight is Utah’s housing market? Some buyers offer $100K over asking; ‘Hyper-, hyper-competitive’ Salt Lake area housing market is white hot, but are Californians to blame?; What’s driving Utah’s housing crisis? It’s not what you think, says economist; Housing affordability in Utah entering ‘perilous territory,’ study says; The pandemic has supercharged Utah’s housing market.
8/23/202154 minutes
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Revisiting Mindfulness And Meditation On Thursday's Access Utah

A while back on Access Utah, Michael Sowder, USU professor of English and affiliated professor of religious studies, helped us learn some of the history and current practice of yoga. On Tuesday’s Access Utah he’ll lead us in an exploration of mindfulness and meditation, which may be of special interest during these times of pandemic.
8/19/202154 minutes, 16 seconds
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The Art Of Skepticism In A Data-Driven World With Jevin West On Wednesday's Access Utah

Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Jevin West is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington. He directs the Center for an Informed Public, whose mission is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. He is co-author with Carl Bergstrom of “Calling Bullshit,” a book on how to spot and refute misinformation.
8/18/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Personal Librarian' With Marie Benedict On Tuesday's Access Utah

The Personal Librarian is a historical novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.
8/17/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Radium Girls: The Dark Story Of America's Shining Women' On Monday's Access Utah

The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
8/16/202154 minutes
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Salt Lake County Council Overturns School Mask Mandate And More On Behind The Headlines

In a 6-3, party-line vote, the Salt Lake County Council votes to overturn the public health school mask order issued by county health director Dr. Angela Dunn. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues a call to its members to wear masks and get vaccinated. And new census figures cement Utah's place as the fastest growing state in the nation.
8/13/202154 minutes, 6 seconds
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'Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy In America Who Got Away' On Thursday's Access Utah

“Sleeper Agent” is the story of the only Soviet military spy to have full security clearance in America’s top-secret project to build the first atomic bomb. He was a U.S. soldier born and raised in Iowa who charmed everyone he met, loved baseball and Walt Whitman, and all the while he was sending atomic secrets to Moscow to help build their own atomic bomb. He was never caught.
8/12/202152 minutes, 16 seconds
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Revisiting 'Heart Of Fire' With Sen. Mazie Hirono On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Senator Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, the first Asian American woman and the only immigrant currently serving in the U.S. Senate. Her new memoir "Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story" is an inspiring account of one woman coming into her personal and political power, a heartwarming homage to the women who raised her, and a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most fraught moments of the Trump administration.
8/11/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting St. Anne's Retreat On Tuesday's Access Utah

St. Anne’s Retreat, located in Logan Canyon, is well-known to Cache Valley residents due to the folklore of the place: tales of demonic nuns, evil witches, murdered babies, and more. Often referred to as “The Nunnery,” the site is a hub for thrill-seekers who trespass onto the property to see for themselves if the stories are true.
8/10/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Stranger I Become' With Katharine Coles On Monday's Access Utah

Part memoir, part meditation on poetry, part conversation with her husband, friends, and the many animals that live with and around her, Katharine Coles’s The Stranger I Become probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Coles begins this collection of lyric essays with a meditation on walking, and “the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, estranged.”
8/9/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Critical Race Theory On Thursday's Access Utah

Quoting the Salt Lake Tribune: “In response to the uproar over critical race theory, the Utah Board of Education has approved a new set of standards that spell out what teachers can — and especially what they cannot — say to their students about ethnicity, inclusion, equity and culture.” The Utah Legislature has also passed resolutions on the topic. Today we’ll try to define what Critical Race Theory is and isn’t and talk about what should and shouldn’t be taught in Utah’s K-12 schools.
8/5/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'West: A Translation' With Paisley Rekdal On Wednesday's Access Utah

In 2019, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion. The result is “West: A Translation:” a linked collection of poems that responds to a Chinese elegy carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained. “West” translates this elegy character by character through the lens of Chinese and other transcontinental railroad workers’ histories, and through the railroad’s cultural impact on America.
8/4/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we’re doing another non-profit spotlight. There are many needs in our communities and many step up to help. We’d love to shine a light on your favorite non-profit or individual doing good in your community.
8/3/202154 minutes
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'Last Best Hope: America In Crisis And Renewal' On Monday's Access Utah

In his new book, Last Best Hope, award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic George Packer explores the four narratives that now dominate American life and describe our divides: Free America, which imagines a nation of separate individuals and serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy; Smart America, the world view of Silicon Valley and the professional elite; Real America, the white Christian nationalism of the heartland; and Just America, which sees citizens as members of identity groups that inflict or suffer oppression.
8/2/202154 minutes, 7 seconds
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Conflict Resolution And High-Stakes Conversations On Thursday's Access Utah

It sometimes seems like life is nothing but conflict these days, with heated disagreements on Social Media and around the dinner table. And you may be dreading a high-stakes conversation in your near future. Next time on Access Utah we’ll talk with consultant and USU lecturer Clair Canfield.
7/30/202154 minutes, 7 seconds
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Your Place In The Multiverse: Artist Jean Lowe On Wednesday's Access Utah

Jean Lowe is an American pop/conceptual multimedia artist whose work carefully and humorously unpacks the ironies and challenges of our 21st-century culture. Lowe employs wit and satire to create work that is both entertaining and seductive as well as intellectually provocative. Her work revolves around the intersection of popular culture, environmentalism, commerce, politics, and art history.
7/28/202154 minutes
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Debunking The Myth That There Are Plenty Of Resources On Tuesday's Access Utah

Next time on Access Utah, we’ll present another live episode of Debunked, the only Utah podcast combining evidence-based health practices with storytelling to challenge the stereotypes, and debunk the myths about harm reduction, substance use disorders and homelessness. This time we’re debunking the myth, “There are plenty of resources but people just don’t want the help.”
7/28/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Making Oscar Wilde' With Michele Mendelssohn On Monday's Access Utah

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him.
7/26/202154 minutes, 1 second
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How To Consume The News Without Drowning In It On Thursday's Access Utah

We hear from many these days who say “the news is depressing” or “the news just makes me mad.” Today we’re going to talk about how news consumption can affect our mental health. We’ll explore how to vet the news and how to find trustworthy news sources. There’s a growing divide in what we collectively accept as facts. What do we do about that? How do we combat misinformation?
7/26/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Astrotourism' With Marlin On Wednesday's Access Utah

In the span of a single lifetime, light pollution stemming from Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) has severed the connection with the stars that we’ve had since the dawn of time. With the nocturnal biosphere significantly altered, light’s anthropogenic influence has compelled millions of people to seek out the last remaining dark skies.
7/22/202154 minutes, 1 second
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The Impact Of COVID-19 On Utah Women And Work On Tuesday's Access Utah

Dr. Susan Madsen, Director of The Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) at Utah State University will join us on Tuesday’s Access Utah to talk about new research from UWLP into how the pandemic has affected women and work, specifically focusing on caregiver experiences.
7/20/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'Waiting For An Echo: The Madness Of American Incarceration' On Monday's Access Utah

Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients became caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care—and what happened to them in that legal system.
7/19/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Across The Airless Wilds' With Earl Swift On Thursday's Access Utah

8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles into this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape. As they gathered samples, they strode at the outermost edge of mankind’s travels. This place, this moment, marked the extreme of exploration for a species born to wander.
7/15/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Weight Of Shadows' With José Orduña On Wednesday's Access Utah

In his memoir, “The Weight of Shadows,” José Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities—rooted in the continuity of US imperialism to globalism—form the landscape of Orduña’s daily experience, where the geopolitical meets the quotidian.
7/14/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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STEM Training For Native American Middle Schoolers On Tuesday's Access Utah

American Indian Services Pre-Freshman Engineering Program (AIS PREP) is a free STEM summer school program for middle schoolers from eight different Native American tribes. Alice Min Soo Chun, founder and CEO of Solight Designs, Inc., is this year’s AIS PREP graduation keynote speaker.
7/13/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Watershed Trade Offs And Modeling On Monday's Access Utah

All of us—people, fish, and many other creatures—depend on the water in Utah’s rivers. The choices we make about how to develop water resources have big impacts on river habitats. In “Decisions Downstream,” an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah, watershed scientist Sarah Null teams up with artists Chris Peterson and Carsten Meier to explore new ways of seeing river habitats. Critical water decisions are being made in Utah. “Decisions Downstream” highlights the water development tools, trade offs, and alternatives that can guide our choices.
7/12/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Freedom' With Sebastian Junger On Thursday's Access Utah

For much of a year, writer Sebastian Junger and three friends—a conflict photographer and two Afghan War vets—walked the railroad lines of the East Coast. It was an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence. Dodging railroad cops, sleeping under bridges, cooking over fires, and drinking from creeks and rivers, the four men forged a unique reliance on one another.
7/8/202154 minutes, 24 seconds
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Mozart's Requiem On Wednesday's Access Utah

American Festival Chorus and Orchestra (AFCO) is performing the Mozart Requiem this weekend. Craig Jessop, Director of AFCO and Gary Griffin, Managing Director of Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater (UFOMT) will join us in-studio to talk about Mozart, the Requiem, and performing arts as we come out of the pandemic.
7/7/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight': Discussing Thoreau With David Gessner On Tuesday's Access Utah

When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons—of learning our own backyard, rewilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience—hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate. Gessner’s new book is Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis, published by Torrey House Press.
7/6/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Celebrating 50 Years Of NPR Memories On Thursday's Access Utah

As you know, NPR is celebrating 50 years. You’ve been hearing some memories from UPR staff members and now it’s your turn! Continue the conversation and share your memories by emailing upraccess@gmail.com.
7/1/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Already Toast: Caregiving And Burnout In America' On Wednesday's Access Utah

When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs.
6/30/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Rising Out Of Hatred' With Eli Saslow On Tuesday's Access Utah

By the time he turned nineteen, Derek Black was regarded as the "the leading light" of the white nationalist movement. While at college he started to question his worldview. Then he decided to confront the damage he had done. In the book, Rising Out of Hatred,” the author, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Eli Saslow, asks what Derek Black's story can tell us about America's increasingly divided nature.
6/29/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel' With Val Holley On Monday's Access Utah

Utah’s path to statehood was the most tortuous in U.S. history, due in no small part to the Mormon practice of polygamy. Frank J. Cannon, newspaperman, Congressional delegate, and senator, guided Utah toward becoming the forty-fifth state in the Union in 1896. But when he lost favor with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his contributions fell into obscurity.
6/28/202154 minutes
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Wildfires: Prevention And Safety On Thursday's Access Utah

Many wildfires continue to burn across Utah, with the threat of more fire with the persisting hot and dry conditions. We’ll talk about wildfires in Utah today. Our guests will include Staci Olson, who has fought wildfires in the western U.S. for 10 years; Kait Webb with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands; and Moab Mayor Emily Niehaus.
6/24/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Monarchs And Other Winged Wonders On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Monarch and Other Winged Wonders Festival will happen on Thursday in Nibley. We’ll preview the event next time on Access Utah. We’ll learn about Monarch butterflies, bats, bees, fireflies, night pollinators, dragonflies and birds. We’ll talk about the decline in some of these species and how we can help. And we’ll discuss how being in nature can improve our health and well-being.
6/23/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'The Great Dissenter' With Peter Canellos On Tuesday's Access Utah

History isn’t always written by the victors. 19th century America saw a series of high-profile court cases that stripped civil rights from Black Americans following the Civil War. John Marshall Harlan was the only U.S. Supreme Court justice to stand in dissent, and his blistering, passionate rebuttals inspired future justices, such as Thurgood Marshall, who said that Harlan’s writings were his “Bible” and his blueprint as he helped to tear down Segregation a century later.
6/22/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting DNA Testing And Race With Libby Copeland On Monday's Access Utah

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, titled “America’s Brutal Racial History Is Written All Over Our Genes,” Libby Copeland writes: “The debate around race consuming America right now is coinciding with a technological phenomenon — at-home genetic testing kits — revealing many of us are not who we thought we were. Some customers of the major DNA testing companies, which collectively have sold 37 million of these kits, are getting results that surprise them.”
6/21/202154 minutes
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Previewing 'The Mountaintop' And The Lyric Repertory Company Season On Thursday's Access Utah

The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a gripping two-person drama about the last day of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the play, King is alone in his hotel room when he is joined by Camae, a maid who works for the Lorraine Motel. What follows is a reflective, often funny, often touching conversation in which Dr. King examines his achievements, his failures, and his unfinished dreams.
6/17/202154 minutes, 9 seconds
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Long COVID: Symptoms And Treatment On Wednesday's Access Utah

A few months ago we talked with several Covid-19 long haulers. They said that some continued to suffer debilitating effects of the disease months after being infected with the virus. Many long haulers say they had active lifestyles prior to getting sick, but they are nowhere near getting back to normal. Today we’re going to check back in with Lisa O’Brien, founder of a Utah COVID-19 Long Haulers group. We’ll also be talking to Dr. Brayden Yellman of the Bateman Horne Center and Dr. Jeanette Brown, Director of the new post-COVID care clinic at the University of Utah.
6/16/202154 minutes, 42 seconds
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Debunking Myths About Homeless People On Tuesday's Access Utah

Utah residents are facing a housing shortage in virtually every community and a segment of our population struggles with housing insecurity on a regular basis, partially associated with stigma and shame. Some don't fully understand the obstacles many have overcome. On the next Access Utah we’ll present another live episode of the podcast Debunked. We’ll be debunking the myth: Homeless people are lazy and don’t want to work.
6/15/202154 minutes
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A New Israeli Government: Amos Guiora On Monday's Access Utah

On Sunday, Israel’s parliament (Knesset) voted in favor of a new government, ending Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year reign as prime minister. The vote ushered in a “change government”—a coalition of eight different political parties that plan to use a rotation system to fill the prime minister’s seat. Naftali Bennett, leader of the New Right Party, will initially serve as prime minister for two years, followed by Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid for two years. For the first time in Israel’s history, an Israeli Arab party will be part of the government.
6/14/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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Highways, Tortoises, Traffic, Smart Growth, And Climate Action On Thursday's Access Utah

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department to prevent a highway from being built through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in Southwest Utah. The groups claim that paving over the protected land would be a violation of environmental laws which require agencies to analyze potential environmental harms before making decisions. Red Cliffs was established as a conservation area in 2009 to help recover a threatened species - the Mojave desert tortoise.
6/10/202154 minutes, 15 seconds
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Revisiting 'Dusk, Night, Dawn' With Anne Lamott On Wednesday's Access Utah

In her new book, “Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage,” Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us are grappling with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?”
6/9/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Hospital' With Brian Alexander On Tuesday's Access Utah

Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio’s northwest corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession.
6/8/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Noelle Cockett And Sara Freeman On Thursday's Access Utah

UPR broadcasts a weekly interview with Utah State University President Noelle Cockett, checking in on whatever is happening at the university that week. Earlier you heard the condensed version of this conversation. Today on Access Utah we’ll hear the full interview. We’ll talk about new rules at USU regarding face masks, vaccination rates, transitioning to a more-normal life, and we’ll look ahead to the fall.
6/7/202154 minutes, 49 seconds
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'Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis And Myth In A Man-Made World' On Monday's Access Utah

Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As she learned to live with her unpredictable disease she turned to history for answers, and found an enraging legacy of suffering, mystification, and misdiagnosis.
6/7/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Engaging And Teaching The Strength Of Race And Difference On Wednesday's Access Utah

Almost one year ago in the midst of a global pandemic, we watched the death of George Floyd. Americans responded, protesting the realities of racial injustice in cities across the country. For many individuals, this may have been the first time they recognized the depth and breadth of discrimination in the United States, in their communities, and in their classrooms.
6/2/202154 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting Land, Food, And Bridging Social Divisions With Gary Paul Nabhan On Tuesday's Access Utah

Gary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural diversity of the arid binational Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement.
6/1/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'West Like Lightning' With Jim DeFelice On Thursday's Access Utah

On the eve of the Civil War, three American businessmen launched an audacious plan to create a financial empire by transforming communications across the hostile territory between the nation’s two coasts. In the process, they created one of the most enduring icons of the American West: the Pony Express.
5/27/202154 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting 'Air Mail' On Wednesday's Access Utah

When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide.
5/26/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'Picture A Scientist' On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Sharon Shattuck, director and producer of the documentary film Picture a Scientist, which offers a sobering portrait of struggles women face in pursuing studies and careers in science. We’ll also be talking with Sara Freeman, USU Assistant Professor of Biology, and Sojung Lim, USU Assistant Professor of Sociology. We’ll also hear sound clips from the film.
5/25/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'In Defense Of Piñon Nut Nation' On Monday's Access Utah

In a recent article for Terrain.org titled “In Defense of Pinon Nut Nation,” writer and photographer Stephen Trimble says “Piñons and junipers are the size of humans. We don’t look down at them, casually, and we don’t gaze up in awe. We are equal in scale. ‘Tree’ usually means tall, vertical, but these trees often are round. They have the reserved warmth of a Native grandmother. When you live in piñon-juniper woodland, you live with the trees, not under them. You participate, you reside."
5/24/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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DEBUNKED Live On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we bring you another live episode of DEBUNKED, a podcast combining evidence-based health practices with storytelling to challenge the stereotypes, and debunk the myths about harm reduction, substance use disorders and homelessness. We will be coming to you live from the 2021 Intermountain Tribal and Rural Opioid Wellness Summit: Bridging Harm Reduction and Recovery Communities.
5/20/202159 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting Wildfires In The West On Wednesday's Access Utah

In a commentary published recently at Mongabay.com, Paul Rogers, a forest ecologist and Director of the Western Aspen Alliance at Utah State University, argues that forest managers’ “goal should not be to stop wildfire but to reduce conflicts with it.”
5/19/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Sky Songs: Meditations On Loving A Broken World' On Tuesday's Access Utah

“Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World” is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through.
5/18/202154 minutes
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Reopening The Arts And The 45-Star Flag On Monday's Access Utah

Kurt Bestor is a Utah-based composer and performer, known for his Christmas concerts, his film and television scores, and his haunting musical prayer for peace “Prayer of the Children.” He will be leading performances of “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” in Logan on May 21 and 22.
5/17/202154 minutes
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'Violence In Gaza And Israel' With Amos Guiora On Thursday's Access Utah

You’ve been hearing about the violence in Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and southern Israel. Amos Guiora, a law professor at the University of Utah is at his home just outside Jerusalem. He’ll join us for the next Access Utah to give us a report directly from the area. Here’s the Deseret News: “What started as a week of tense clashes in Jerusalem has escalated into violent unrest on the streets of Arab Israeli towns, as well as a deadly aerial conflict. More than 1,000 rockets lit up the skies of Israeli cities, while at least two high-rise buildings were leveled in the Israeli bombardment of the blockaded and impoverished Gaza Strip, home to 2 million Palestinians.”
5/13/202149 minutes, 44 seconds
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'The Stranger I Become' With Katharine Coles On Wednesday's Access Utah

Part memoir, part meditation on poetry, part conversation with her husband, friends, and the many animals that live with and around her, Katharine Coles’s The Stranger I Become probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Coles begins this collection of lyric essays with a meditation on walking, and “the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, estranged.”
5/12/202155 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting The World Of Dog Sledding With Maren Johnson On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today our guest is Cache Valley resident Maren Johnson. She’ll tell us some fascinating stories from the world of dog sledding. For the past five years she worked for dog sledding businesses in Alaska. She lived on a glacier with 280 sled dogs. She also worked for four-time Iditarod winner Jeff King in his tourist business and assisted him in the 1,000-mile Iditarod race.
5/11/202156 minutes, 2 seconds
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'West: A Translation' With Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access Utah

In 2019, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion. The result is “West: A Translation:” a linked collection of poems that responds to a Chinese elegy carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained. “West” translates this elegy character by character through the lens of Chinese and other transcontinental railroad workers’ histories, and through the railroad’s cultural impact on America.
5/10/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting The Poetry Of Margaret Pettis On Thursday's Access Utah

Today Margaret Pettis will join us to talk about her new book of poetry titled “In the Temple of the Stars.” Her previous collection “Chokecherry Rain,” won the Utah State Poetry Society book award.
5/6/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Woman's Hour': The Fight For The 19th Amendment On Wednesday's Access Utah

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade.
5/5/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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Memes, Conspiracy Theories, And Fake News: Lynne McNeill On Tuesday's Access Utah

Quoting Kristen Munson in Utah State Magazine: “In mid-January, the internet was awash in sea shanty videos on TikTok. A week later, memes of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, bundled in a Burton coat and sweater mittens, made the rounds on Twitter. Within minutes, Sanders, originally photographed at the January 20 inauguration ceremony, was Photoshopped sitting on a subway, perched on the iconic Friends couch, and on the White House lawn near a boy pushing a lawnmower. Where do memes come from and why do we love them so?”
5/4/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'Appropriate: A Provocation' With Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access Utah

How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first?
5/3/202154 minutes
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Revisiting 'Prairie Fires: The American Dreams Of Laura Ingalls Wilder' On Thursday's Access Utah

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls―the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told.
4/29/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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St. Anne's Retreat On Wednesday's Access Utah

St. Anne’s Retreat, located in Logan Canyon, is well-known to Cache Valley residents due to the folklore of the place: tales of demonic nuns, evil witches, murdered babies, and more. Often referred to as “The Nunnery,” the site is a hub for thrill-seekers who trespass onto the property to see for themselves if the stories are true.
4/28/202156 minutes, 8 seconds
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'Heart Of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story' With Senator Mazie Hirono On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Senator Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, the first Asian American woman and the only immigrant currently serving in the U.S. Senate. Her new memoir "Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story" is an inspiring account of one woman coming into her personal and political power, a heartwarming homage to the women who raised her, and a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most fraught moments of the Trump administration.
4/27/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Astrotourism And Dark Skies On Monday's Access Utah

In the span of a single lifetime, light pollution stemming from Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) has severed the connection with the stars that we’ve had since the dawn of time. With the nocturnal biosphere significantly altered, light’s anthropogenic influence has compelled millions of people to seek out the last remaining dark skies.
4/26/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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30x30: Earth Day 2021 On Thursday's Access Utah

Every year for Earth Day, we check in with writer and photographer Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America,” and many other books. Next time on Access Utah, Stephen Trimble joins us along with Terri Martin, Intermountain West Organizer with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; and Jesse Prentice-Dunn, Policy Director with the Center for Western Priorities.
4/22/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Racial Justice And Policing On Wednesday's Access Utah

In the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, charged in the death of George Floyd the verdict is in: guilty on all charges. Our guests today include Darlene McDonald, of the Utah Black Roundtable and a member of the Salt Lake City Commission on Racial Equity in Policing; Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City; and Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City.
4/21/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Debunking The Myth That All Native Americans Live On Reservations On Tuesday's Access Utah

Something exciting today: a live episode of the podcast DEBUNKED which seeks to dispel harmful myths and stereotypes about people who use drugs, persons in recovery, and evidenced-based harm reduction efforts. Today we’ll debunk the myth; Native Americans only live on reservations. Our guests are: Sandy Sulzer, Director of the Office of Health Equity and Community Engagement at USU; Kristina Groves, LCSW, Ute/Hopi Tribe, Therapist at Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake; and podcast host Don Lyons.
4/20/202154 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting How Viruses Shape Our World With David Quammen On Monday's Access Utah

Montana-based writer David Quammen says that Covid-19 is a reminder of viruses’ destructive power, but that life as we know it would be impossible without them. In his latest article for National Geographic titled “How Viruses Shape Our World,” he reviews the evolutionary origins of viruses and how they have helped shape the history of life.
4/19/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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American Farmer On Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday’s Access Utah our theme is farming. In the first half of the program we’ll talk about the AgrAbility program, which helps farmers, ranchers and their family members remain in agriculture when facing limitations due to aging, disease, injury, illness, or other disability. In the second half we’ll talk about an exhibit now showing at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art called “American Farmer,” which features photographic portraits in addition to interviews with farmers from across the United States, telling the inspiring stories of the stewards of this land.
4/15/202154 minutes, 8 seconds
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'Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship With The Natural World' On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed in the face of global climate breakdown. So how might we develop the inner resolve to confront it? Full Ecology, a collaboration between social-cultural psychologist Mary Clare and longtime science writer Gary Ferguson, suggests a path forward. Breaking the modern impulse to see humans as separate from nature, Clare and Ferguson encourage us to learn from the “supremely methodical and highly improvisational” natural systems that touch our lives. True change, they argue, begins with us stopping and questioning assumptions about our place in the world.
4/14/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Forced Out' With Judy Kawamoto On Tuesday's Access Utah

Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland. In her new book, “Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America” Judy Kawamoto offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, In the book, she addresses her personal and often unconscious reactions to her parents’ trauma, as well as her own subsequent travels around much of the world, exploring, learning, enjoying, but also unconsciously acting out a continual search for a home.
4/13/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Already Toast: Caregiving And Burnout In America' With Kate Washington On Monday's Access Utah

When Kate Washington and her husband, Brad, learned that he had cancer, they were a young couple: professionals with ascending careers, parents to two small children. Brad’s diagnosis stripped those identities away: he became a patient and she his caregiver. Brad’s cancer quickly turned aggressive, necessitating a stem-cell transplant that triggered a massive infection, robbing him of his eyesight and nearly of his life. Kate acted as his full-time aide to keep him alive, coordinating his treatments, making doctors’ appointments, calling insurance companies, filling dozens of prescriptions, cleaning commodes, administering IV drugs.
4/12/202154 minutes, 8 seconds
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Utah Arts In The Pandemic On Thursday's Access Utah

On Access Utah, we’ve checked in with arts organizations a couple of times during the pandemic. Today we’ll do so again. We’ll see how these organizations have fared in difficult circumstances, what creative new ideas might become standard practice, and what the future looks like. And we’ll ask you how your habits have changed during the pandemic and what you’re most looking forward to attending as things ease a bit.
4/8/202154 minutes, 5 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities: Wednesday's Access Utah

We do this periodically. Today we’re doing another non-profit spotlight. There are many needs in our communities, especially during these extraordinary times. We’d love to shine a light on your favorite non-profit or individual doing good in your community.
4/7/202154 minutes, 12 seconds
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Utah Gun Laws On Tuesday's Access Utah

The Deseret News reports “Guns once again were a contentious issue on Capitol Hill during the Legislature’s 45-day session that ended March 5, and after several tries through the years, lawmakers succeeded in ending the permit requirement for carrying a concealed weapon in Utah. HB60 lets any Utah resident who is 21 years or older and can legally possess a firearm to carry their weapon concealed without needing a permit.”
4/6/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'This Is Her Place: Who Tells Your Story' On Monday's Access Utah

There’s a recurring line in the musical Hamilton that George Washington says to Alexander Hamilton: “You have no control over who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” Today we’ll feature an episode of the podcast This Is Her Place, which tells the stories of Utah women, past and present. In this episode we talk about two women who were determined to take control and make sure the true story of their people was told: Mae Timbimboo Parry, historian and matriarch of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone; and Betty Sawyer, Community Engagement Coordinator in Access and Diversity at Weber State University and an activist on issues of racial justice in Utah for more than 40 years. We’ll also be talking to podcast co-host Naomi Watkins.
4/5/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Harassment In The Salt Lake County Republican Party And More On Behind The Headlines

This week in Utah news:
4/2/202154 minutes
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Women And Leadership On Thursday's Access Utah

Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson recently issued a challenge for more women to get involved in their communities and in politics. Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Henderson have issued a 500 Day Roadmap, which includes a section on Equality and Opportunity. Today, we’ll talk about the Roadmap and issues such as the gender wage gap, women in public office, and opportunities for women in leadership in the private and public sectors.
4/1/202154 minutes, 1 second
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'Rising Out Of Hatred' With Eli Saslow On Wednesday's Access Utah

By the time he turned nineteen, Derek Black was regarded as the "the leading light" of the white nationalist movement. While at college he started to question his worldview. Then he decided to confront the damage he had done. In the book, Rising Out of Hatred,” the author, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Eli Saslow, asks what Derek Black's story can tell us about America's increasingly divided nature.
3/31/202151 minutes, 34 seconds
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Southern Utah Uranium Mills On Tuesday's Access Utah

Russ Beck, an author and a Senior Lecturer in the USU English Department, recently spent some time in southeastern Utah researching the history of uranium mining and milling and talking with local residents about the after-effects of the uranium boom in the Moab/Monticello/Blanding area.
3/30/202154 minutes, 5 seconds
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Revisiting Triaging Resilience In The Midst Of Crisis With Em Capito On Monday's Access Utah

Clinical therapist Em Capito spoke with us in October, ahead of her presentation at the Fall speaker series from the Utah Women’s Giving Circle.Titled “Triaging Resilience in the Midst of Crisis,” Em Capito shared “a research-based tangible framework for triaging our personal resilience along with the strategic shifts that deepen our roots, for ourselves, our families and our teams, toward the collective resilience that will lead our communities into the reinvention and renewal ahead.” We spoke with her about her personal history and why she defines resilience as a skill, rather than a trait.
3/29/202154 minutes, 29 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Jason Gilmore: Bridging Our Divides

It’s UPR’s Spring Member Drive. On Access Utah that means some very special programming, including some Best Of segments from favorite episodes and some great new conversations. On Wednesday’s Access Utah we’re talking about bridging racial and political divides. How do we talk to each other, understand each other, connect with each other when the divides only seem to be deepening? Our guest for the hour is Jason Gilmore, Associate Professor of Global Communication at Utah State University.
3/24/202156 minutes, 3 seconds
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Writer And Emergency Room Doctor Marion Bishop On Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s UPR’s Spring Member Drive. On Access Utah that means some very special programming, including some Best Of segments from favorite episodes and some great new conversations. On Tuesday we’ll be talking with emergency room doctor, writer and UPR member Marion Bishop. We talked with her last year as a part of an episode featuring pandemic frontline workers. We’ll check back in to see how she’s been dealing with the pandemic, professionally and personally, since we talked last. We’ll also talk about the roll out of the vaccines and what the future might look like. And we’ll talk about grieving and loss during the pandemic.
3/23/202156 minutes, 8 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah: Lael Gilbert And Lynne McNeill On Utah Food And Folklore

It’s UPR’s Spring Member Drive. On Access Utah that means some very special programming, including some Best Of segments from favorite episodes and some great new conversations. Today we’re talking about food and food culture and folklore with Lael Gilbert, one of the hosts of UPR’s Bread & Butter feature; and Lynne McNeill, folklorist and Associate Professor in the USU English Department. We’ll hear some Bread & Butter segments and a portion of our Access Utah conversation from October with the editors of the book This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions.
3/22/202156 minutes, 6 seconds
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Watershed Trade Offs And Modeling With Sarah Null On Thursday's Access Utah

All of us—people, fish, and many other creatures—depend on the water in Utah’s rivers. The choices we make about how to develop water resources have big impacts on river habitats. In “Decisions Downstream,” an exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah, watershed scientist Sarah Null teams up with artists Chris Peterson and Carsten Meier to explore new ways of seeing river habitats. Critical water decisions are being made in Utah. “Decisions Downstream” highlights the water development tools, trade offs, and alternatives that can guide our choices.
3/18/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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Better Days 2020 Essay Contest Winners: Wednesday's Access Utah

January 2021 was the 125th anniversary of Utah statehood. Utah women have always made history, but they’re often missing in our textbooks, history classrooms, and public art. Better Days 2020 said to young people “We need your help to change that!” So they appealed to Utah students grades 4-12 to create an original essay or piece of art to tell us about a woman in Utah history who made a difference in their community, and to include what they are inspired to do today to follow in her footsteps. On the next Access Utah we’ll talk with some of the winners of the essay contest and hear them read their essays.
3/17/202154 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Reel Latinxs': Latinx Representation In TV And Film On Monday's Access Utah

Latinx representation in the popular imagination has infuriated and befuddled the Latinx community for decades. These misrepresentations and stereotypes soon became as American as apple pie. But these cardboard cutouts and examples of lazy storytelling could never embody the rich traditions and histories of Latinx peoples.
3/15/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Exceptional Me': Donald Trump And American Exceptionalism On Thursday's Access Utah

Donald Trump has forged a unique relationship with American exceptionalism, parting ways with how American politicians have long communicated this idea to the American public.
3/11/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Hospital' With Brian Alexander On Wednesday's Access Utah

Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health systems seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio’s northwest corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession.
3/10/202153 minutes, 58 seconds
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2021 Legislative Recap On Tuesday's Access Utah

The 2021 session of the Utah Legislature ended on Friday. Today we’ll recap the session with Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City; House Executive Appropriations Chair Rep. Brad Last, R-Hurricane; Senate Minority Whip Sen. Luz Escamilla, D-Salt Lake City, and Senate Majority Whip Sen. Ann Millner, R-Ogden. We’ll talk about Covid-19 restrictions, police reform, the budget, homelessness and more. Continue the conversation by emailing upraccess@gmail.com.
3/9/202153 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting Writing Historical Fiction With Julie Berry On Monday's Access Utah

Julie Berry is the award-winning author of books for young adults and children. Her books include Lovely War, All the Truth That’s in Me, The Passion of Dolssa, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, and Happy Right Now.
3/8/202154 minutes, 2 seconds
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'DNA Tests & Race' With Libby Copeland On Thursday's Access Utah

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, titled “America’s Brutal Racial History Is Written All Over Our Genes,” Libby Copeland writes: “The debate around race consuming America right now is coinciding with a technological phenomenon — at-home genetic testing kits — revealing many of us are not who we thought we were. Some customers of the major DNA testing companies, which collectively have sold 37 million of these kits, are getting results that surprise them.” We talked with Libby Copeland, author of The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are, last year. The book is coming out soon in paperback. We’ll check back in with Libby Copeland today.
3/4/202150 minutes, 39 seconds
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'Dusk, Night, Dawn' With Anne Lamott On Wednesday's Access Utah

In her new book, “Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage,” Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us are grappling with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?” We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. Drawing from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us. “Yes, these are times of great illness and distress,” she says. “Yet the center may just hold.”
3/3/202149 minutes, 18 seconds
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'The State Of Vaccines And COVID-19 In Utah' On Tuesday's Access Utah

Vaccines are being rolled out and warmer weather is approaching. Those are hopeful developments. What else should we know about Covid-19 in Utah right now?
3/2/202150 minutes, 1 second
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'This Is Her Place: Bridging The Gap' With Naomi Watkins On Monday's Access Utah

On Monday’s Access Utah we’ll broadcast a full episode from This Is Her Place, a podcast that tells the remarkable stories of Utah women past and present, in all their diversity. Podcast co-host Naomi Watkins will also join us.
3/1/202157 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Picture A Scientist' With Sharon Shattuck, Sojung Lim And Sara Freeman On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with Sharon Shattuck, director and producer of the documentary film Picture a Scientist, which offers a sobering portrait of struggles women face in pursuing studies and careers in science. UPR is among several organizations sponsoring a virtual film screening of Picture a Scientist (March 5-7) and a panel discussion (March 8). We’ll also be talking with Sara Freeman, USU Assistant Professor of Biology, who is coordinating the USU events; and Sojung Lim, USU Assistant Professor of Sociology, who is participating in the panel discussion. We’ll also hear sound clips from the film.
2/25/202149 minutes, 57 seconds
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'Project Resilience: Mental Health During The Pandemic' On Wednesday's Access Utah

The pandemic is coming up on the year mark. More than 500,000 have died in the U.S. and millions have been or are sick. The need for caregiving has increased. Many of us are tired, mentally, emotionally, and physically. Stress and isolation and worry are taking a toll. Today we’re going to talk about mental health during the pandemic.
2/24/202151 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Police Reform & Voting Rights' With Darlene McDonald On Tuesday's Access Utah

Last summer, amid the protests demanding police reform following the death of George Floyd, we spoke with Darlene McDonald, of the Utah Black Roundtable and a member of the then newly-created Salt Lake City Commission on Racial Equity in Policing. She said at the time: “Once the protests end and the streets become quiet, it is imperative that we not lose focus. We must redefine a new normal in policing.”
2/23/202149 minutes, 35 seconds
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'Stories From The World Of Dog Sledding' With Maren Johnson On Monday's Access Utah

Today our guest is Cache Valley resident Maren Johnson. She’ll tell us some fascinating stories from the world of dog sledding. For the past five years she worked for dog sledding businesses in Alaska. She lived on a glacier with 280 sled dogs. She also worked for four-time Iditarod winner Jeff King in his tourist business and assisted him in the 1,000-mile Iditarod race.
2/22/202151 minutes
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'Rural Issues & The Utah Legislature' On Thursday's Access Utah

Today our focus is on rural Utah and the legislature. What issues are especially important to residents outside of the Wasatch Front? What legislation is being proposed? Our guests will include Sen. Chris Wilson, R-Logan; Sen. Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City; Rep. Christine Watkins, R-Price; Rep. Kera Birkeland, R-Morgan; and Sen. Ronald Winterton R-Roosevelt. We would love to hear from you. What is the most important issue where you live? Email us to upraccess@gmail.com
2/18/202144 minutes, 32 seconds
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'Wildfires In The West' With Paul Rogers And Larissa Yokum On Wednesday's Access Utah

In a commentary published recently at Mongabay.com, Paul Rogers, a forest ecologist and Director of the Western Aspen Alliance at Utah State University, argues that forest managers’ “goal should not be to stop wildfire but to reduce conflicts with it.” The headline for the piece is:
2/17/202148 minutes, 42 seconds
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Revisiting 'Transracial Adoption' With Sara Jones On Tuesday's Access Utah

The Utah Women’s Giving Circle presented their “Resilient 2020 Speaker Series | From Susan B. Anthony to RBG: The history, resilience and call to community.” The concluding event in the series was held in November 2020, and was titled “New Possibilities Amidst the Unraveling.” Sara Jones, CEO of InclusionPro talked about how to identify opportunities in the midst of turmoil. She reminded us that unraveling our expectations gives us space, freedom, and clear eyes to see things differently.
2/16/202150 minutes, 6 seconds
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'Addressing Appropriation' With Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access Utah

How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In her new book, “Appropriate: A Provocation,” creative writing professor and Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is an exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. “Appropriate” presents a new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.
2/15/202150 minutes, 19 seconds
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'Love And Loss During A Pandemic' With Sara Freeman On Thursday's Access Utah

Sara Freeman is an Assistant Professor of Neurobiology at Utah State University. She studies the neurobiology of strong social bonds. Last year, during the height of the pandemic, her mother died. Sara Freeman wrote recently about science and grief and love in Utah State Magazine, in an article titled “Love and Loss During a Pandemic.” She’ll join us for the hour next time on Access Utah.
2/11/202150 minutes, 10 seconds
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'The State Of Public Lands' With Jim Robbins On Wednesday's Access Utah

Jim Robbins has written recently about pandemic-related overcrowding on Montana’s rivers; the connection between the growth of deadly viruses and the destruction of nature; the effects of public lands policy during the Trump Administration; geothermal energy; and an internet of animals. We’ll talk with him about public lands and related topics as the Biden Administration gets underway.
2/10/202149 minutes, 44 seconds
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Impeachment Trial Preview With Damon Cann On Tuesday's Access Utah

The second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in the U.S. Senate today. We'll provide a preview on the program today. We'll talk about procedure, recent history and all things related. We'll be talking to USU Political Science Professor Damon Cann. And I’d love to know what you’re thinking about this. Is impeachment of a former president constitutional? Should President Trump be convicted or acquitted? What would you advise Senators Lee and Romney? If President Trump is acquitted does that mean the impeachment process is broken? What will the outcome of the trial mean going forward for our national divide? You can send us your comment or question now to upraccess@gmail.com
2/9/202151 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Nuclear Workers & A Different Side To Utah's Nuclear History' On Monday's Access Utah

The film Downwinders and the Radioactive West has been airing on PBS Utah. Today we’re going to review a different part of America’s nuclear history. Susan Dawson and Gary Madsen are retired Utah State University professors whose research and Congressional testimony contributed to passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. In addition to providing financial compensation to downwinders and uranium miners and others, RECA also acknowledged that Congress "apologizes on behalf of the nation" to individuals who were "involuntarily subjected to increased risk of injury and disease to serve the national security interests of the United States." Professors Dawson’s and Madsen’s research from 1988 to 2010 focused on radiation exposures to underground and above ground uranium miners, uranium millworkers, and uranium transportation workers.
2/8/202149 minutes, 33 seconds
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'Project Resilience: Using Technology To Stay Connected During the Pandemic' On Access Utah

This special is part of UPR’s ongoing series Project Resilience. Project Resilience is made possible with support from the Utah State University Center for Persons With Disabilities.
2/4/202150 minutes, 42 seconds
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'This is Her Place: Putting Their Art Into It' With Naomi Watkins On Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday’s Access Utah we’ll broadcast a full episode from This Is Her Place, a podcast that tells the remarkable stories of Utah women past and present, in all their diversity. Podcast co-host Naomi Watkins will also join us.
2/3/202158 minutes, 16 seconds
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'Discussing The Biden Administration's Oil & Gas Leasing Moratorium' On Tuesday's Access Utah

President Biden has issued an executive order placing an indefinite moratorium on new leases for oil and gas development on federal lands. Proponents of the moratorium say it’s a positive step and that previous lease sales on federal lands have harmed some of the West’s most cherished landscapes and slowed the nation’s shift to clean energy. Opponents argue that the moratorium will further harm already hard-hit economies with an outsized impact on rural areas. We’ll talk about it on Tuesday’s Access Utah. Our guests will include Sen. Ronald Winterton, R-Roosevelt; and Steve Bloch, Legal Director with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.
2/2/202150 minutes, 39 seconds
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Utah's Roadmap On Climate And Air Quality On Monday's Access Utah

At the request of the Utah Legislature, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute – with the assistance of a 37-person Technical Advisory Committee – has prepared a Utah Roadmap to help legislators make policy to improve air quality and address causes and impacts of a changing climate. We’ll ask legislators and others how the Roadmap is being implemented this legislative session. Our guests will include Rep. Steven Handy, R-Layton and Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City. Representatives Handy and Briscoe are among the co-chairs of the Clean Air Caucus. We’ll also be talking with Thomas Holst, Senior Energy Analyst with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute; and Josh Craft, Government and Corporate Relations Manager with Utah Clean Energy.
2/1/202149 minutes, 50 seconds
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'How Viruses Shape Our World' With David Quammen On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we’ll talk with David Quammen about viruses in general and the SARS-CoV-2 virus specifically.
1/28/202150 minutes, 41 seconds
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'Russian Protests & Navalny' With Corey Flintoff On Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday’s Access Utah we’ll talk about the situation in Russia with former NPR Moscow Bureau Chief Corey Flintoff.
1/27/202149 minutes, 18 seconds
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Advocacy Groups & Their Priorities For The 2021 Utah Legislature On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah we’ll continue our coverage of the 2021 Utah Legislature by checking in with several advocacy and research groups. We’ll ask them what their priorities are and what they hope emerges from this session of the legislature. We’ll be talking to representatives from Sutherland Institute, Libertas Institute, Utah Health Policy Project, Utah Foundation, Utah League of Cities and Towns, and Crossroads Urban Center.
1/26/202149 minutes, 48 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Storm On Our Shores' With Mark Obmascik On Monday's Access Utah

May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American and Japanese forces were tirelessly fighting in a yearlong campaign, and both sides would suffer thousands of casualties.
1/25/202149 minutes, 32 seconds
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Revisiting 'Wildfires And His Latest Book, With Gary Ferguson,' On Thursday's Access Utah

Gary Ferguson’s books include “Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West.” We’ll talk with Gary Ferguson about the wildfires burning now in the west. We’ll also talk about his latest book “The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World.”
1/21/202147 minutes, 17 seconds
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2021 Legislature Opening Day On Tuesday's Access Utah

Join us for Access Utah on Tuesday: the opening day of the 2021 session of the Utah Legislature. We’ll be talking to Governor Spencer Cox and legislative leaders, including House Assistant Minority Whip, Rep. Angela Romero; and Senate Majority and Minority Whips, Sen. Ann Milner and Sen. Luz Escamilla, respectively. And we hear some of the priorities of our listeners as we head into this legislative session.
1/19/202151 minutes, 43 seconds
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Theatre For Radio On Thursday's Special Evening Access Utah

Welcome to a special edition of Access Utah on Utah Public Radio. In this hour we’ll be highlighting L.A. Theatre Works, which can be heard on UPR on Friday evenings at 9:00. Susan Albert Loewenberg, founder, host and Producing Director of L.A. Theatre Works will join me to talk about producing theatre for radio and the role the arts play during these pandemic times and other topics. We’ll also hear sound clips from several productions.
1/15/20211 hour, 5 seconds
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Previewing The 2021 Legislative Session On Thursday's Access Utah

The 2021 session of the Utah Legislature begins on Tuesday and we’re going to get a preview of possible priorities, key legislation and the key players today on Access Utah. The Utah Capitol building will be closed to the public on opening day due to security concerns. Issues likely to be addressed by the legislature include tax cuts, education, and the economic effects of the pandemic.
1/14/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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Revisiting Women In The Movements Of The 20th Century On Tuesday's Access Utah

Our guest today on Access Utah is Selina Gallo-Cruz, Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts. We’ll talk about the women’s suffrage movement, women's resistance in civil war, civics education and the ongoing movement for voting rights.
1/12/202153 minutes, 57 seconds
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Digital Folklore Trends Of 2020 On Monday's Access Utah

Today we look at the top Digital Trends of 2020, from the fun to the profound. Each year folklore students at Utah State University track digital trends. They then meet at the end of the year to prepare a ballot that goes out to a national panel of experts in digital folklore, which selects the winning trend. Top results for 2020 include #BreonnaTaylor and #GeorgeFloyd, as well as the meme: “How It Started/How It’s Going/How It Ended,” and gender-reveal, presidential election, and Zoom meetings memes.
1/11/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman's Search For A Home In America' On Thursday's Access Utah

Of the roughly 120,000 people forced from their homes by Executive Order 9066, around 5,000 were able to escape incarceration beforehand by fleeing inland. In her new book, “Forced Out: A Nikkei Woman’s Search for a Home in America” Judy Kawamoto offers insight into “voluntary evacuation,” a little-known Japanese American experience during World War II, In the book, she addresses her personal and often unconscious reactions to her parents’ trauma, as well as her own subsequent travels around much of the world, exploring, learning, enjoying, but also unconsciously acting out a continual search for a home.
1/7/202154 minutes, 5 seconds
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'Red Stone Heart' With Kevin Holdsworth On Wednesday's Access Utah

Kevin Holdsworth’s new book is about the Uinta Mountains, Utah's loftiest range. “Red Stone Heart” celebrates the peak bagging experience and shares a little lore. The highest named peaks, The Notorious Nine, form a goal, but as with an Uinta stream, there is much meandering in the book through forest and meadow. Peaks and routes are pulled from a life's rucksack, and we are carried along as we watch a young fool somehow survive to a riper age.
1/6/202154 minutes, 6 seconds
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'This Is Her Place: Don't Try To Be A Man' With Naomi Watkins On Tuesday's Access Utah

Utah’s first female sheriff, Rosie Rivera, got some good advice when she became an officer: “Don’t try to be a man.” More than a century earlier, Utah’s first female deputy sheriff, Claire Ferguson, said to those who doubted her ability to handle danger, “Why should I fear more than the men?” Today we’ll broadcast a full episode from This Is Her Place, a podcast that tells the remarkable stories of Utah women past and present, in all their diversity. Podcast co-host Naomi Watkins will also join us.
1/5/202154 minutes, 4 seconds
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'In The Temple Of The Stars' With Poet Margaret Pettis On Monday's Access Utah

Today Margaret Pettis will join us to talk about her new book of poetry titled “In the Temple of the Stars.” Her previous collection “Chokecherry Rain,” won the Utah State Poetry Society book award.
1/4/202153 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Lightwood Duo And Tim Slover On Thursday's Access Utah Holiday Special

We hope you’ll join us on Thursday for the Access Utah Holiday Special. Lightwood Duo, Mike Christiansen on guitar and Eric Nelson on clarinet, will play music for the holidays and playwright Tim Slover, author of The Christmas Chronicles, will present readings for the season.
12/17/20201 hour, 7 seconds
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Revisiting 'Of Bears And Ballots' With Heather Lende On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we talk with Heather Lende about her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics.
12/15/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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A Zesty Garden Holiday Special On Monday's Access Utah

Today we present some readings for the season from a special holiday edition of The Zesty Garden from 2013. This gardening program, hosted by Bryan Earl, ran for several years on UPR and included a regular segment called Petals and Prose. Helen Cannon and Nancy Williams were regular contributors. Today we'll hear from Helen's husband, Larry Cannon, along with Nancy Willians and Bryan Earl with stories, memories and at least one holiday recipe.
12/14/20201 hour, 1 minute, 47 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Unidentified' With Colin Dickey On Thursday's Access Utah

In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational–in the fringe–is on the rise. There’s a new book out called “The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained.” The author, Colin Dickey, will join me for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah. We’ll talk about everything from the great Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 to UFOs to QAnon and Pizzagate.
12/10/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah we’re doing another non-profit spotlight. There are many needs in our communities, especially during this extraordinary year and this special time of year. We’d love to shine a light on your favorite non-profit or individual doing good in your community.
12/9/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting 'Wayward' With Katharine Coles On Tuesday's Access Utah

Katharine Coles, former Utah Poet Laureate and current Distinguished Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah, joins us today for Access Utah to talk about her seventh collection of poems, Wayward, published last year.
12/8/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Christmas In Montpelier' With Ross Peterson On Monday's Access Utah

USU Professor Emeritus Ross Peterson is among the most beloved American history teachers ever to step inside a college classroom. Several generations of students have voted him their favorite instructor, and a fair number became teachers themselves. Ross Peterson’s new book “Christmas in Montpelier” offers a look into his early life, where his wry humor, work ethic, and kindness were honed. Twelve Christmases come to life as he grows from a small boy in a hardscrabble farmhouse with no running water inside and a two-hole privy outside, to one of the nation's most honored educators.
12/7/202054 minutes, 8 seconds
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Lessons From the Pandemic With Dr. Stuart Fischer on Thursday's Access Utah

With a surge in Covid-19 cases continuing in Utah and a vaccine on the horizon, we’ll look at the current situation and look ahead today. Our guest for the hour is Doctor Stuart Fischer, Medical Director of Bronx Gardens Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in New York City. We’ll talk about the impact of holiday travel on the spread of the virus, how people living with chronic conditions can stay healthy, and lessons learned from the pandemic, among many other topics.
12/3/202049 minutes, 49 seconds
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Revisiting Poems Of Pandemic And Parenthood With Ben Gunsberg On Wednesday's Access Utah

Poet Ben Gunsberg will join us for Access Utah on Wednesday. He’s been writing poems for the pandemic. We’ll hear some of those poems today. His latest collection is “Welcome, Dangerous Life.” He writes about the vulnerability of being a parent.
12/2/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Revisiting The Moab Music Festival On Tuesday's Access Utah

Thursday on Access Utah we’ll spotlight the ongoing Moab Music Festival. We’ll talk with master fiddler Alasdair Fraser, cellist Natalie Haas, and violinist Charles Yang, all of whom are performing at the festival. We’ll also hear music performed by these artists.
12/1/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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The American Legacy Project: Veterans' Histories On Monday's Access Utah

The American Legacy Project is a nonprofit organization committed to helping American veterans and their families memorialize their time in service to the nation so that their legacies are never lost. Wyatt Frasier and Zachery Page, two Army Lieutenants and West Point graduates, started The American Legacy Project to help veterans preserve their stories of service for their families and the American public. Frasier and Page realized that incredible stories, especially those decorating the landscape of the American military, are too often lost, simply because these stories’ protagonists do not know how or where to tell them.
11/30/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Thanksgiving With The Bread & Butter Team On Wednesday's Access Utah

Thanksgiving is traditionally a time when extended family gathers together. This year many of us will be gathering in smaller groups, but many of our traditions will endure and hopefully the food will be just as delicious. Today we’ll ask you about your traditions and your plans in this unusual year and we’ll answer your cooking questions.
11/25/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting Still Here: The 75th Anniversary Of Hiroshima With Mary Dickson On Monday's Access Utah

A coalition of organizations hosted a national virtual event in August on the 75th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to commemorate the survivors of nuclear weapons and production. Still Here: 75 Years of Shared Nuclear Legacy included highlights from local events, stories from survivors, and a look toward a future free from nuclear threats.
11/23/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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COVID-19 Long Haulers On Thursday's Access Utah

Responding to a recent Access Utah episode on COVID-19 in Utah, Lisa O’Brien wrote us to say that she had founded a Utah COVID-19 Long Haulers group, and that many are still struggling with long term effects of COVID. She says that some have hit 8 months or longer and that studies are now showing that at least 10% are ending up with long term effects & that Post COVID Care centers are going up across the country for Long Haulers to help those dealing with Post Viral symptoms. Today we’ll talk with Lisa O’Brien, Stacie Linderman, and Christine Maughan.
11/19/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting The Strange Lure Of Other People's Photos With Bill Shapiro On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, writer Bill Shapiro joins us to talk about what draws him to other people's photos. He says other people's photographs are "like time-travel and a shortcut to empathy." We talk about how photography can pull us outside of ourselves, connecting us to something greater.
11/18/202054 minutes, 7 seconds
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Climate Change In The Mountain West With Simon Wang On Tuesday's Access Utah

Simon Wang is Professor of Climate Dynamics and Assistant Director of the Utah Climate Center at Utah State University. Dr. Wang studies climate variability, weather process, extreme events, and long-term prediction. He recently gave a presentation to news reporters for a virtual event organized by InsideClimate News, titled “Wildfire, Heatwaves, Snowpack and Floods: Climate Change in the Mountain West.”
11/17/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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'In Defense Of Piñon Nut Nation' On Monday's Access Utah

In a recent article for Terrain.org titled “In Defense of Pinon Nut Nation,” writer and photographer Stephen Trimble says “Piñons and junipers are the size of humans. We don’t look down at them, casually, and we don’t gaze up in awe. We are equal in scale. ‘Tree’ usually means tall, vertical, but these trees often are round. They have the reserved warmth of a Native grandmother. When you live in piñon-juniper woodland, you live with the trees, not under them. You participate, you reside."
11/16/202054 minutes, 5 seconds
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Writing Historical Fiction With Julie Berry On Thursday's Access Utah

Julie Berry is the award-winning author of books for young adults and children. Her books include Lovely War, All the Truth That’s in Me, The Passion of Dolssa, The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, and Happy Right Now. She’s leading a virtual workshop on Writing Historical Fiction for the Provo City Library and The King’s English Bookshop this evening at 7:00.
11/12/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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A New Coronavirus State Of Emergency On Wednesday's Access Utah

Governor Herbert has issued a State of Emergency due to an increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations and what he says are unsustainable case rates. The Utah Department of Health says that hospitalizations and ICUs are nearing capacity, and that healthcare providers will be unable to care for Utahns in the coming days if this surge continues.
11/11/202054 minutes, 1 second
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'Wonders Of Sand And Stone' With Frederick Swanson On Monday's Access Utah

From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah’s five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America’s most amazing scenic treasures. In his new book “Wonders of Sand and Stone,” Frederick Swanson presents little-known accounts of people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth protecting. introducing us to the early explorers, scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents and tourism promoters who worked with the National Park Service to build the system of parks and monuments we know today.
11/9/202054 minutes, 5 seconds
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Revisiting 'Leave It As It Is': Theodore Roosevelt With David Gessner On Thursday's Access Utah

“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s rallying cry signaled the beginning of an environmental fight that still wages today.
11/5/202054 minutes, 1 second
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What We Know The Morning After The Election On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s the day after Election Day. We don’t know for sure who has won the presidential election. Control of the U.S. Senate is still unclear. Many votes are still being counted. The picture in Utah is clearer. We’ll talk about where we are and where we go from here.
11/4/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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How Arts Organizations Are Adapting To The Continued Pandemic On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we check in with representatives from several arts organizations in Utah. With COVID cases not only continuing but increasing in many of our communities, how are arts organizations adapting? And how can audiences support the arts while staying safe?
11/3/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Your COVID-19 Questions Answered On Monday's Access Utah Hour Two

Utah recently set a new single-day record for Covid-19 cases. Governor Herbert has announced new guidelines. And the Utah Public Health Association is calling for stricter measures to be taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
11/3/202055 minutes, 7 seconds
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Transracial Adoption With Sara Jones On Monday's Access Utah Hour One

The Utah Women’s Giving Circle is presenting their “Resilient 2020 Speaker Series | From Susan B. Anthony to RBG: The history, resilience and call to community.” The concluding event in the series is on Thursday and is titled “New Possibilities Amidst the Unraveling” Sara Jones, CEO of InclusionPro will talk about how to identify opportunities in the midst of turmoil. She will remind us that unraveling our expectations gives us space, freedom, and clear eyes to see things differently.
11/2/202054 minutes, 58 seconds
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The Role And Logic Of Third Parties In Utah On Thursday's Access Utah

On a page on their website titled “Fix Our Broken System,” and in answer to the question: Why a third party? The Green Party says that third parties can force progress on political issues; they can provide an “emotional bridge” for voters weary of voting for one major party but not ready to vote for the other; and they can help turn one of the major parties out of power.
10/29/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Nigerian Protests Against Police Brutality On Wednesday's Access Utah

According to the BBC a new round of “...[p]rotests calling for an end to police brutality began on 7 October [in Nigeria]. The demonstrations, dominated by young people, started with calls for a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), to be disbanded.” The Sars unit has been accused of extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings. Nigeria’s president has announced that the unit is being disbanded, but protests have continued, with protesters seeking broader reforms. The president has said that criminals have hijacked the protests and has ordered police to end the “violence, killings, looting and destruction of property.”
10/28/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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What Utah Voters Are Thinking In The Final Week Of The Election On Tuesday's Access Utah

As the election approaches, we want to hear from you. Today, we're inviting you to join us on Access Utah to share your thoughts and feelings leading up to the election which is, now, one week away. Which candidates are you passionate about? What issues are top of mind? Which races are you following most closely?
10/27/202054 minutes, 7 seconds
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Triaging Resilience In The Midst Of Crisis With Em Capito On Monday's Access Utah

The Fall speaker series from the Utah Women’s Giving Circle continues on Thursday with a presentation titled “Triaging Resilience in the Midst of Crisis.” The speaker, clinical therapist Em Capito, says she’ll share “a research-based tangible framework for triaging our personal resilience along with the strategic shifts that deepen our roots, for ourselves, our families and our teams, toward the collective resilience that will lead our communities into the reinvention and renewal ahead.” Em Capito will join us for Monday’s Access Utah.
10/26/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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'This Is The Plate': Utah Food History, Culture, And Folklore On Thursday's Access Utah

The first book-length treatment of Utah’s distinctive food heritage, “This is the Plate” traces Utah’s food history from pre-contact Native American times through the arrival of multinational Mormon pioneers, miners, farmers, and other immigrants to today’s moment of “foodie” creativity, craft beers, and “fast-casual” restaurant-chain development.
10/22/202054 minutes, 1 second
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The 2020 Disinformation War With McKay Coppins On Wednesday's Access Utah

McKay Coppins is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Wilderness, a book about the battle over the future of the Republican Party. He appeared last week at a virtual event presented by USU’s Institute of Government and Politics and the USU Department of Journalism & Communication. The title of the event was “The 2020 Disinformation War: How Propaganda, Conspiracy Theories, and Fake News are Shaping the Presidential Election -- And What To Do About It” McKay Coppins will join us for the hour on the next Access Utah.
10/21/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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The Art And Science Of Polling With Morgan Lyon Cotti On Tuesday's Access Utah

Next time on Access Utah, we’ll preview the upcoming election with Morgan Lyon Cotti, Associate Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. We’ll talk about the art and science of polling, vote by mail, projected voter participation rates, and what’s on your 2020 ballot, including several proposed constitutional amendments.
10/20/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Butch Cassidy: The True Story Of An American Outlaw' On Monday's Access Utah

“There are few subjects that interest us more generally than the adventures of robbers and bandits.” That’s Scottish writer Charles MacFarlane, quoted in Charles Leerhsen’s new book. One such outlaw was Robert LeRoy Parker, born in Beaver, Utah and raised in Circleville, who became, of course, Butch Cassidy. Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life, revealing the fascinating and complicated man behind the legend in the new book BUTCH CASSIDY: The True Story of an American Outlaw. Charles Leerhsen joins us for the program today.
10/19/202054 minutes, 11 seconds
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National Disability Employment Awareness Month On Thursday's Access Utah

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Jump the Moon Art Studio, which offers art-making opportunities to people with disabilities, along with the Cache Employment and Training Center (CETC), is working to bring attention to the strength and diversity that persons with disabilities contribute to our communities.
10/15/202054 minutes, 17 seconds
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'This Is Her Place: A Matter Of Trust' On Wednesday's Access Utah

Whether the issue is a pandemic, vaccinations, or any number of other public health issues, a major challenge for advocates is communicating crucial information in a way that builds trust and changes behavior. Today we’ll hear an episode of the new podcast This Is Her Place which tells the stories of three women who rose to that challenge.
10/14/202054 minutes, 9 seconds
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The History Of Women Reinventing The World On Tuesday's Access Utah

The Utah Women’s Giving Circle is presenting a series of events this month and next titled “Resilience 2020: From Susan B. Anthony to RBG: The History, Resilience, and Call to Community.” The first event is this week. Katherine Kitterman and Tiffany Greene from Better Days 2020 will discuss “The History of Women Reinventing the World.”
10/13/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Air Mail' With Pam Houston And Amy Irvine On Monday's Access Utah

When the state of Colorado ordered its residents to shelter in place in response to the spread of coronavirus, writers Pam Houston and Amy Irvine—who had never met—began a correspondence based on their shared devotion to the rugged, windswept mountains that surround their homes, one on either side of the Continental Divide.
10/12/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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'Reel Latinxs' With Christopher Gonzalez And Frederick Luis Aldama On Thursday's Access Utah

Christopher Gonzalez and Frederick Luis Aldama join us for the hour to talk about their book “Reel Latinxs” on Thursday’s Access Utah.
10/12/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Sky Songs: Meditations On Loving A Broken World' With Jennifer Sinor On Wednesday's Access Utah

“Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World” is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has passed through. Beginning with the conception of her first son, which coincided with the tragic death of her uncle on an Alaskan river, and ending a decade later in the Himalayan home of the Dalai Lama, Sinor offers a lyric exploration of language, love, and the promise inherent in the stories we tell: to remember.
10/12/202054 minutes, 5 seconds
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Women In The Movements Of The 20th Century With Selina Gallo-Cruz On Thursday's Access Utah

Our guest today on Access Utah is Selina Gallo-Cruz, Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester Massachusetts. We’ll talk about the women’s suffrage movement, women's resistance in civil war, civics education and the ongoing movement for voting rights.
10/1/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting Productivity And Grizzly Bears On Wednesday's Access Utah

Pulitzer prize winning New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg joins us in the first half of the program today. Duhigg’s book “The Power of Habit” explores the science of habit formation in our lives, companies, and society. His book “Smarter Faster Better” explores the science of productivity. Duhigg says that in today’s world, it’s more important to manage how you think, rather than what you think. (Encore broadcast from 2011).
9/30/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Run' With Ann Patchett On Monday's Access Utah

Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm inadvertently causes an accident that involves a stranger and her child, all Bernard cares about is his ability to keep his children all his children safe.
9/28/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Introducing JohnTaylor, On Thursday's Access Utah

John Taylor fled to a welcoming St. George in 2018 to escape California’s foul air. A graduate of New York University, writing letters to the editor helped launch a 30-year career as a newspaper reporter and editor. He especially relished covering religion, health care and education. A native of Brooklyn, he’s a fan of the Yankees, the Packers and Fresno State roughly aligning with where he’s worked as a journalist and, until retirement, as public affairs director for nonprofit Community Medical Centers in Fresno. He and wife Judy, a retired teacher, relish chatting with everyone they meet, helping address community needs such as homelessness and discovering the special pleasures of being Utahns.
9/24/202052 minutes, 51 seconds
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Another Look At 'radium Girls', With Kate Moore, On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
9/23/202053 minutes, 15 seconds
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A Look At 'River Of Lost Souls', with Jonathan Thompson, on Tuesday's Access Utah

Part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, Jonathan Thompson’s book “River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster” (Torrey House Press), tells the gripping story behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado orange with sludge and toxic metals for more than 100 miles downstream, wreaking havoc on cities, farms, and the Navajo Nation along the way.
9/22/202054 minutes, 13 seconds
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Wildfires And His Latest Book, With Gary Ferguson, On Monday's Access Utah

Gary Ferguson’s books include “Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West.” We’ll talk with Gary Ferguson about the wildfires burning now in the west. We’ll also talk about his latest book “The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World.”
9/21/202053 minutes, 6 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Craig Jessop

Once again during this Fall Member Drive, we’re doing the Best of Access Utah. Today our focus is on the arts and music.
9/17/202054 minutes, 59 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Ken Sanders

It’s a member drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite recent episodes of the program.
9/16/202054 minutes, 59 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Jason Gilmore

It’s UPR’s Fall Member Drive. We’ll be joined for the hour by USU Associate Professor of Communications Studies Jason Gilmore. And we’ll present parts of several recent Access Utah interviews.
9/15/202055 minutes, 15 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Lynne McNeill

It’s UPR’s Fall Member Drive and Tom Williams will be joined for the hour by Lynne McNeill, Co-Director of the Digital Folklore Project at USU and Associate Professor of English.
9/14/202055 minutes
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'Wayward' With Poet Katharine Coles On Thursday's Access Utah

Katharine Coles, former Utah Poet Laureate and current Distinguished Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Utah, joins us today for Access Utah to talk about her seventh collection of poems, Wayward, published last year.
9/10/202054 minutes, 18 seconds
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Revisiting The Music Of Tom Paxton On Wednesday's Access Utah

Tom Paxton says folk music is lumber with the bark still on. His legendary career spans six decades of traditional music and topical songs. He says today's political climate presents an embarrassment of riches to the song writer.
9/9/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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One Person, No Vote: Carol Anderson On Tuesday's Access Utah

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
9/8/202054 minutes, 5 seconds
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The Moab Music Festival On Thursday's Access Utah

Thursday on Access Utah we’ll spotlight the ongoing Moab Music Festival. We’ll talk with master fiddler Alasdair Fraser, cellist Natalie Haas, and violinist Charles Yang, all of whom are performing at the festival. We’ll also hear music performed by these artists.
9/3/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Making Oscar Wilde' With Michele Mendelssohn On Wednesday's Access Utah

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him.
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Revisiting The Changing Way We See Native America: Matika Wilbur On Tuesday's Access Utah

In 2012, photographer Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562, which reflects her commitment to visit, engage with and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States. With this project she has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, many in her RV (which she has nicknamed the “Big Girl”) but also by horseback through the Grand Canyon, by train, plane, and boat and on foot across all 50 states.
9/1/202054 minutes, 12 seconds
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Revisiting 'We Are All Living In The Same Moment' With Gretel Ehrlich On Monday's Access Utah

The Atlantic magazine recently “asked photographers in 24 locations around the globe to point their cameras up to the sky at precisely the same moment—1 p.m. GMT, April 25. At a time when the world is so isolated, these photos are a reminder of what we share.” The resulting article is We Are All Living the Same Moment, written by Gretel Ehrlich.
9/1/202054 minutes, 11 seconds
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'After The Last Border': Refugees And Resettlement With Jessica Goudeau On Thursday's Access Utah

In 2007, the number of refugees worldwide hit 26 million. Thirteen years later that number has more than doubled to 70.8 million people displaced, cementing this crisis as the humanitarian issue of our time. And while the crisis itself has been well covered, the question that has not been explored is what happens to those “lucky” few who not only manage to escape persecution, but also get what is perceived to be the “golden ticket” of resettlement in the United States?
8/27/202054 minutes, 5 seconds
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Revisiting The Definitive History Of Racist Ideas In America: Ibram Kendi On Wednesday's Access Utah

Renowned American political activist, scholar and author Ibram X. Kendi visited USU in 2017 for a keynote presentation on “How to be an Anti-Racist.” The presentation was sponsored by the USU Inclusion Center.
8/26/202030 minutes, 41 seconds
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The Fight For Voting Rights, Past And Present, On Tuesday's Access Utah

On August 26th, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. Women were no longer barred from voting because of gender. Today on Access Utah, we’ll preview an event happening tomorrow celebrating this anniversary and honoring the people, past and present, who fight for voting rights.
8/25/202054 minutes
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Revisiting The Pandemic Through An Anticipatory Intelligence Perspective On Monday's Access Utah

The USU Center for Anticipatory Intelligence (CAI) looks across all disciplines to spot threats posed by emerging technologies and other threats. CAI is an interdisciplinary nexus fusing expertise in national security and geopolitics with cutting-edge instruction in cyber threats, data analytics, and emergent technology. CAI students predicted a novel zoonotic outbreak last year.
8/24/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Genealogy And DNA Testing With Libby Copeland On Thursday's Access Utah

You swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity.
8/20/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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The Strange Lure Of Other People's Photos With Bill Shapiro On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, writer Bill Shapiro joins us to talk about what draws him to other people's photos. He says other people's photographs are "like time-travel and a shortcut to empathy." We talk about how photography can pull us outside of ourselves, connecting us to something greater.
8/19/202054 minutes, 7 seconds
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Remembering Jeff Metcalf On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we remember a friend of Access Utah, the writer Jeff Metcalf, who died this summer. I had the privilege of interviewing him several times on the show. He was unfailingly warm, witty, open, funny and profound.
8/18/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting Meditation And Mindfulness With Michael Sowder On Monday's Access Utah

A while back on Access Utah, Michael Sowder, USU professor of English and affiliated professor of religious studies, helped us learn some of the history and current practice of yoga. On Tuesday’s Access Utah he’ll lead us in an exploration of mindfulness and meditation, which may be of special interest during these times of pandemic.
8/17/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Reopening K-12 Schools In A Pandemic On Thursday's Access Utah

Students will be returning to schools in many districts across Utah soon. How are officials planning to keep students and teachers safe amid the pandemic? What will the mix of in-person and online teaching be? How does everyone feel about going back to school?
8/13/202054 minutes, 1 second
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'Leave It As It Is': Theodore Roosevelt And The West With David Gessner On Wednesday's Access Utah

“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s rallying cry signaled the beginning of an environmental fight that still wages today.
8/12/202054 minutes, 11 seconds
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'Why We Drive' With Matthew Crawford And Brian Champagne On Tuesday's Access Utah

Matthew Crawford, author of the new book “Why We Drive:Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road,” says that once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy “self-driving” future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? He says that much more may be at stake than we might think.
8/11/202054 minutes, 15 seconds
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'Butch Cassidy: The True Story Of An American Outlaw' With Charles Leerhsen On Monday's Access Utah

“There are few subjects that interest us more generally than the adventures of robbers and bandits.” That’s Scottish writer Charles MacFarlane, quoted in Charles Leerhsen’s new book. One such outlaw was Robert LeRoy Parker, born in Beaver, Utah and raised in Circleville, who became, of course, Butch Cassidy. Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life, revealing the fascinating and complicated man behind the legend in the new book BUTCH CASSIDY: The True Story of an American Outlaw. Charles Leerhsen joins us for the program today.
8/10/202054 minutes, 11 seconds
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Mary Dickson "Hiroshima 75th Anniversary & Downwinders" On Thursday's Access Utah

A coalition of organizations is hosting a national virtual event today, August 6, and Sunday, August 9, on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to commemorate the survivors of nuclear weapons and production. Still Here: 75 Years of Shared Nuclear Legacy will include highlights from local events, stories from survivors, and a look toward a future free from nuclear threats.
8/6/202058 minutes, 30 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah we’re doing another non-profit spotlight. We’d love to shine a light on your favorite non-profit or individual doing good in your community. Amy Anderson, Director of Outreach for the Sunshine Terrace Foundation and Spiritual Counselor with Sunshine Hospice in Logan will join us for the hour and we’ll hear from representatives of other nonprofits throughout the hour
8/5/202059 minutes, 1 second
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CAPSA And USU's Office Of Equity On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah we’re going to check in with CAPSA, a domestic violence, sexual abuse, and rape recovery center serving Cache County and the Bear Lake area. CAPSA’s Misty Hewitt says that rates of domestic violence are up during the pandemic. We’ll talk about services, reporting abuse, and healing from trauma, among other topics. We’ll also check in with Hilary Renshaw from USU’s Office of Equity, addresses cases of sexual misconduct and discrimination at USU
8/4/20201 hour, 3 minutes, 5 seconds
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Poet Ben Gunsberg On Monday's Access Utah

Poet Ben Gunsberg will join us for Access Utah on Monday. He’s been writing poems for the pandemic. We’ll hear some of those poems today. His latest collection is “Welcome, Dangerous Life.” He writes about the vulnerability of being a parent. He says (in an article in Utah State University Today) “The stakes are raised once you’ve got children. The title [of the collection] sort of hints at the way life seems more dangerous once you have children, once you have this vulnerable being you’re responsible for, and the way the world has colored and changed.” Ben Gunsberg will read some of these poems as well.
8/3/202056 minutes, 54 seconds
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Revisiting The Marks Nature Leaves In Us With Gary Ferguson On Wednesday's Access Utah

“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides beauty, mystery and community, traits that each of us very much needs. He is the author of 25 books.
7/29/202053 minutes, 58 seconds
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The Music Of Venezuelan Double Bassist Edicson Ruiz On Tuesday's Access Utah

Venezuelan double bassist Edicson Ruiz is one of the premier double bass soloists in the world. He is a previous winner of the International Society of Bassists solo competition and in 2003 became one of the youngest members of the Berlin Philharmonic at the age of 18. He’s described as a shining example of the ground-breaking El Sistema.
7/28/202054 minutes, 1 second
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'The Unidentified' With Colin Dickey On Monday's Access Utah

In a world where rational, scientific explanations are more available than ever, belief in the unprovable and irrational–in the fringe–is on the rise. There’s a new book out called “The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained.” The author, Colin Dickey, will join me for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah. We’ll talk about everything from the great Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 to UFOs to QAnon and Pizzagate.
7/27/202049 minutes, 49 seconds
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Systemic Racism In Policing On Thursday's Access Utah

Following the death of George Floyd in May, protests across the nation have demanded police reform and an end to systemic racism in policing. Today we’ll talk about how we’re doing with this in Utah. We'll speak with Rep. Sandra Hollins, D-Salt Lake City; and Darlene McDonald, Chairwoman of the Utah Black Roundtable and a member of the newly-created Salt Lake City Commission for Racial Equity in Policing. We'll discuss systemic racism and police reform on the city and state level.
7/23/202053 minutes, 57 seconds
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COVID-19 In Utah Prisons And Jails On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll take a look at the Coronavirus pandemic’s effects in Utah jails and prisons. Our guests will include Salt Lake Tribune reporter Jessica Miller; Mayra Cristobal, whose husband has contracted COVID-19 and is incarcerated at the Weber County Jail; and Angie Millgate, whose former husband is incarcerated in the Washington County Jail.
7/22/202054 minutes, 12 seconds
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Photography Of Craig Law In 'Sky Above, Earth Below' On Tuesday's Access Utah

The work of photographer Craig Law is included in an exhibition at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. The exhibit is called Sky Above, Earth Below: A History of Western Landscape Photography. You can view the exhibit at artmuseum.usu.edu.
7/21/202052 minutes, 38 seconds
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Revisiting Our Conversation With Pet Psychic Patty Rayman On Monday's Access Utah

Patty Rayman was born with the ability to communicate with animals and has helped thousands of people resolve many types of behavior, health, attitude and relationship issues with their animal companions. In working with all types of animals, she has developed techniques to help people move from conflict to cooperation in their relationships.
7/20/202054 minutes, 8 seconds
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Revisiting Our Celebration Of The 50th Anniversary Of Earth Day On Thursday's Access Utah

Every year for Earth Day, we check in with writer and photographer Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America,” and many other books. This time, Stephen Trimble suggested we also reach out to his friend, ecologist, ethnobotanist and writer, Gary Paul Nabhan.
7/17/202054 minutes, 7 seconds
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Revisiting 'Chris Terry, On Sabbatical' On Wednesday's Access Utah

While artist Chris Terry is known for his contemplative interior landscapes, an exhibition at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) featured the experimental work he was able to create during four sabbaticals throughout his tenure at USU.
7/15/202054 minutes, 1 second
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What Are You Reading? Our Summer Pandemic Booklist On Monday's Access Utah

We’re compiling another UPR Community Booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now? What is the best book you’ve read so far this year? Which books are you suggesting to friends and family? We’d love to hear about any book you’re reading, including in the young adult & children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome.
7/14/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Of Bears And Ballots' With Heather Lende On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we talk with Heather Lende about her new book Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics.
7/14/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting 'Nature's Best Hope' With Douglas Tallamy On Thursday's Access Utah

Douglas Tallamy’s first book, “Bringing Nature Home,” awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives.
7/9/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Mapping Literary Utah With Paisley Rekdal On Wednesday's Access Utah

Several years ago, writer Paisley Rekdal created a digital community project that mapped the people, places, buildings and events that defined Salt Lake City. When she became Utah’s poet laureate, she decided to build on this idea and create a literary map for the entire state.
7/8/202054 minutes, 30 seconds
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Revisiting 'Transitioning Within Landscapes': Photographer Kimberly Anderson On Monday's Access Utah

Photographer, marriage and family therapist and Utah State University alum Kimberly Anderson was on the USU campus in early March to give a presentation on her work. Her presentation, “Transitioning Within Landscapes: The Photography of Kimberly Anderson,” touched on her work as a photographer interwoven with her identity as a transgender woman.
7/6/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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Ethics Slams, Thursday's Access Utah

On Thurday's Access Utah, we looked back on our
7/2/202050 minutes, 17 seconds
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Jodi Byrd And Digital Animus In The Age Of Liberation, Wednesday's Access Utah

Jodi Byrd joined Tom Williams to discuss the next lecture in the USU College of Humanities’ Tanner Talks series: “Digital Animus in the Age of Liberation.”
7/1/202058 minutes, 44 seconds
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David Hole, On Feeding The World, Tuesday's Access Utah

From Utah State Magazine, "In the parched black desert of northeast Jordan, archaeologists recently unearthed a stone hearth containing loaves of flatbread more than 14,000 years old.
6/30/202059 minutes, 54 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Science Of Sasquatch' With Jeff Meldrum On Monday's Access Utah

Jeff Meldrum is Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University. He is author of “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” He is a leading expert on Bigfoot or Sasquatch, or the term he prefers: “Relict Hominoid.” He says “...[I]t is one matter to address the theoretical possibility of a relict species of hominoid in North America, and the obligate shift in paradigm to accommodate it, but there must also be something substantial to place within that revised framework. There must be essential evidence to lend weight to the hypotheses, and counter the critics’ various aspersions. I was once confronted by a colleague, who declared, ‘After all, these are just stories.’ My response: ‘Stories that apparently leave tracks, shed hair, void scat, vocalize, are observed and described by reliable experienced witnesses. Hardly just stories.’”
6/29/202049 minutes, 3 seconds
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COVID-19 Outbreak At JBS Meatpacking Plant On Thursday's Access Utah

Meatpacking plants in Cache Valley have been hit hard with COVID-19 with several hundred workers diagnosed with the disease in the past several weeks. Community organizations and individuals are trying to provide needed help to the affected families. Some of the workers at the JBS plant in Hyrum staged a walk-out to protest the company’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
6/25/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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'This Is Her Place' Podcast On Wednesday's Access Utah

This Is Her Place is a new podcast that tells the remarkable stories of Utah women, past and present, in all their diversity. Businesswomen and religious leaders, poets and politicians, healers and homemakers, artists and activists, women in the Beehive state have never fit into easy stereotypes.
6/24/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Peace Corps Evacuation From Zambia With Barbara Farris On Tuesday's Access Utah

Barbara Farris is a retired health education teacher who lives in Cache Valley. Until March of this year she was in Zambia with the Peace Corps DREAMS program.
6/23/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Social Unrest: Resolving The Dichotomies Of Me/You And Us/Them' On Monday's Access Utah

Derrik Tollefson is Professor of Social Work and head of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Utah State University. He also directs the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies at USU.
6/22/202054 minutes
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Revisiting Air Quality In The 2020 Utah Legislative Session On Thursday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, a look at state air quality legislation. This episode was first broadcast in March during the final week of the 2020 session of the Utah Legislature.
6/18/202051 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting Writing Auto/Biography With Evans Biography Award Winners On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah we revisit a conversation from last year with presenters at the Mountain West Center and Evans Biography Awards Writers Workshop for Auto/Biography.
6/17/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'UNLADYLIKE2020' On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s Access Utah, Tom Williams will talk with UNLADYLIKE2020 Executive Producer Sandra Rattley and series creator Charlotte Mangin.
6/16/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting 'Half Broke' With Ginger Gaffney On Monday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, Ginger Gaffney joins us to talk about her memoir “Half Broke," about an alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducting a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses.
6/15/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Revisiting The Digital Folklore Trends Of 2019 On Thursday's Access Utah

Co-directors of the USU Digital Folklore Project Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill (USU English Department Head and USU Assistant Professor of English, respectively) will join Tom Williams to talk about the 2019 Digital Trends of the Year.
6/11/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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Craig Jessop's Pandemic Playlist On Wednesday's Access Utah

During these times of unrest and uncertainty we’ve been checking in with writers, poets, and musicians. Next time on Access Utah our guest is Craig Jessop, Director of American Festival Chorus and Orchestra and former Director of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, also former Dean of the USU Caine College of the Arts.
6/10/20201 hour, 4 seconds
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Revisiting 'Champions Of Change: 25 Women Who Made History' On Tuesday's Access Utah

In fighting to pass the 19th Amendment, brave suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline B. Wells fought to end laws and take down barriers that prevented them from voting. Champions of Change introduces young readers not only to Anthony and Wells, but also to a diverse group of firsts and freedom-fighters in America’s fight for equality.
6/9/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Land Of Wolves' With Craig Johnson On Monday's Access Utah

Today a conversation with Wyoming-based writer Craig Johnson. Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the Netflix original drama. Craig Johnson has received many awards for his books. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five. His latest novel in the Longmire series is “Land of Wolves.”
6/8/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women In Utah On Thursday's Access Utah

A study from the Urban Indian Health Institute found that Utah ranks 8th in the nation for the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
6/4/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting Utah's Proving Ground With David Maisel And Katie Lee-Koven On Wednesday's Access Utah

David Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist working in photography and video, and the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts.
6/3/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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Elections And Cybersecurity On Tuesday's Access Utah

A team from the University of Southern California has embarked on a 50-state tour to give cybersecurity training to poll workers and state and local campaign staffers who will be the last line of defense against Russian hacking in 2020. The group, called the Election Cybersecurity Initiative, views itself as a bottom-up, grass-roots counterpart to national-level election security efforts led by the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of Russia’s election interference in 2016.” (Washington Post January 30, 2020)
6/2/202053 minutes, 5 seconds
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Protests Against Police Violence On Monday's Access Utah

It’s been several days now of unrest, protests, and riots in many cities across the U.S. and the world (including Salt Lake City) since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. We'll talk about it on Access Utah today.
6/1/202054 minutes, 12 seconds
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Revisiting 'Wacko's City Of Fun Carnival' With Jeff Metcalf On Thursday's Access Utah

Today, a conversation with Jeff Metcalf about his new novel “Wacko’s City of Fun Carnival.”
5/28/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Gates Of Eden' With Nadene LeCheminant On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Gates of Eden isa historical novel inspired by Nadene LeCheminant’s great-great-grandmother. When Josephine Bell journeys from the slums of Victorian England to a remote Mormon settlement in Utah, the girl finds the Promised Land is not what she expected. Pressed into becoming the bride of an older polygamist, her struggle to find her own path takes her to unexpected places.
5/28/202048 minutes, 47 seconds
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Women's Suffrage Essay Contest Winners On Tuesday's Access Utah

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Utah Public Radio and the Cache County School District, in partnership with the Cache Celebration of Women's Suffrage 2020, sponsored a writing contest for students in elementary, middle, and high school.
5/26/202054 minutes, 5 seconds
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The Pandemic Through An Anticipatory Intelligence Lens On Thursday's Access Utah

The USU Center for Anticipatory Intelligence (CAI) looks across all disciplines to spot threats posed by emerging technologies and other threats. CAI is an interdisciplinary nexus fusing expertise in national security and geopolitics with cutting-edge instruction in cyber threats, data analytics, and emergent technology. CAI students predicted a novel zoonotic outbreak last year.
5/21/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Pandemic Frontline Workers On Wednesday's Access Utah

During this pandemic we rely on frontline workers to provide essential and important services even when they may be at increased risk. We’ll talk to some of them next time on Access Utah.
5/20/202054 minutes, 1 second
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The COVID-19 Conversation III: Utah's Transition To Yellow Risk On Tuesday's Access Utah

UPR has been presenting special programs that we’re calling COVID-19 CONVERSATIONS, answering your questions about the pandemic. We’re going to resume our conversation on the next Access Utah.
5/19/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Relationism: Centering Relationships In Politics On Monday's Access Utah

Retired USU professor Richard Ratliff has developed what he calls the theory of Relationism, which he hopes will help us bridge the many divides we’re experiencing in our increasingly polarized society. He’ll join Tom Williams to explain.
5/18/202054 minutes, 9 seconds
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We Are All Living The Same Moment: Gretel Ehrlich On Thursday's Access Utah

The Atlantic magazine recently “asked photographers in 24 locations around the globe to point their cameras up to the sky at precisely the same moment—1 p.m. GMT, April 25. At a time when the world is so isolated, these photos are a reminder of what we share.” The resulting article is We Are All Living the Same Moment, written by Gretel Ehrlich.
5/14/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Genealogy And DNA Testing With Libby Copeland On Wednesday's Access Utah

You swab your cheek or spit into a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal a long-buried family secret and upend your entire sense of identity.
5/13/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Meditation And Mindfulness With Michael Sowder On Tuesday's Access Utah

A while back on Access Utah, Michael Sowder, USU professor of English and affiliated professor of religious studies, helped us learn some of the history and current practice of yoga. On Tuesday’s Access Utah he’ll lead us in an exploration of mindfulness and meditation, which may be of special interest during these times of pandemic.
5/13/202054 minutes
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Interfaith Special: Messages Of Hope For The Coronavirus Pandemic

From social distancing to new levels of anxiety and distress, the coronavirus pandemic has rapidly transformed our lives. On Sunday morning at 10:00, tune in to UPR to hear an interfaith program featuring messages of hope tailored to this particular moment.
5/11/202052 minutes, 55 seconds
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Revisiting 'American Grief In Four Stages' With Sadie Hoagland On Thursday's Access Utah

Sadie Hoagland’s new book “American Grief in Four Stages,” a collection of short fiction, asks the question: why does our country do so little for the bereaved? Why do we have only empty cliché to address the grief of others? Why do we expect people to just "get over" insurmountable tragedy?
5/7/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Monroe Mountain Project: A Public Lands Cooperation Success Story On Wednesday's Access Utah

This time on Access Utah, a public lands cooperation success story. A while back, the aspen on Monroe mountain in Central Utah were in serious need of restoration. The situation could easily have descended into a blame game with wildlife advocates saying that livestock were eating all of the young aspen and grazing advocates saying that wildlife were eating all of the young aspen. Instead all sides launched an innovative project: the Monroe Mountain Working Group. Individuals and groups that in other circumstances might have been fighting came together to solve the problem.
5/6/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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The COVID-19 Conversation Continued: Transitioning To Moderate Risk Phase On Tuesday's Access Utah

A couple of weeks ago, UPR presented a special program called COVID-19 CONVERSATION, answering your questions about the pandemic. We’re going to resume our conversation on the next Access Utah. As the state moves from Red to Orange level, we’ll ask what that means and how it affects you.
5/5/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting The State Of Sexual Harassment In Utah On Monday's Access Utah

Today, as a part of our series: Stopping Sexual Harassment, we’ll talk with Susan Madsen and Robbyn Scribner of the Utah Women and Leadership Project at Utah Valley University. We’ll talk about sexual harassment and sexual assault. We’ll also talk about voting, leadership, body image and other topics.
5/4/202054 minutes
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Mapping Literary Utah With Paisley Rekdal On Thursday's Access Utah

Several years ago, writer Paisley Rekdal created a digital community project that mapped the people, places, buildings and events that defined Salt Lake City. When she became Utah’s poet laureate, she decided to build on this idea and create a literary map for the entire state.
4/30/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Chris Terry, On Sabbatical': NEHMA's Newest Exhibition On Wednesday's Access Utah

While artist Chris Terry is known for his contemplative interior landscapes, a new exhibition at the USU Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) features the experimental work he was able to create during four sabbaticals throughout his tenure at USU.
4/29/202054 minutes
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'Nature's Best Hope' With Douglas Tallamy On Tuesday's Access Utah

Douglas Tallamy’s first book, “Bringing Nature Home,” awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. “Nature’s Best Hope” shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Talllamy says that because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. Even more important, it’s practical, effective, and easy.
4/28/202051 minutes, 54 seconds
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Revisiting Photography Of The Union Pacific Railroad With Daniel Davis On Monday's Access Utah

Andrew J. Russell is primarily known as the man who photographed the famous “East and West Shaking Hands” image of the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. He also took nearly one thousand other images that document almost every aspect of the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
4/27/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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Religion, The West, & Coronavirus: Betsy Gaines Quammen & David Quammen On Thursday's Access Utah

Conservationist and historian Betsy Gaines Quammen and journalist David Quammen have been on a virtual book tour, conducted from their home in Bozeman and including special guest Boots the Python.
4/23/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Celebrating The 50th Anniversary Of Earth Day On Wednesday's Access Utah

Every year for Earth Day, we check in with writer and photographer Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America,” and many other books. This time, Stephen Trimble suggested we also reach out to his friend, ecologist, ethnobotanist and writer, Gary Paul Nabhan.
4/22/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Utah Legislators On Tuesday's Access Utah: New Economic & Public Health Commission & Vote-By-Mail

On Tuesday's Access Utah, we check in with Utah legislators about the historic special session that began last week in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
4/21/202054 minutes
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Revisiting Corey Flintoff's Journey From Alaska To NPR Foreign Correspondent On Monday's Access Utah

Corey Flintoff is a former NPR foreign correspondent whose assignments included Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Haiti, Ukraine and Russia.
4/21/202054 minutes
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How Coronavirus Is Impacting Utah Arts Organizations On Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday's Access Utah, we check in with our arts community. How has COVID-19 affected local arts organizations? How can audiences support the arts?
4/16/202054 minutes
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Revisiting 'Confluence' With Zak Podmore On Wednesday's Access Utah

In CONFLUENCE: NAVIGATING THE PERSONAL & POLITICAL ON RIVERS OF THE NEW WEST, paddler and journalist Zak Podmore takes readers down Western rivers and deep into some of the most pressing environmental and social justice issues of our time.
4/16/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Paul Parkinson's 'Unselfish: Love Thy Neighbor As Thy Selfie' On Tuesday's Access Utah

“Unselfish: Love Thy Neighbor as Thy Selfie” compiled by Paul Parkinson, features 99 inspiring stories of people putting others before themselves. Everyone is trying to get noticed. Selfies are taking over the internet. We live in a world where success and achievement seem to be determined by how many “likes” or “followers” one has on social media. Selfish behavior seems to be at an all–time high.
4/14/202052 minutes, 3 seconds
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Healing From Sexual Trauma On Monday's Access Utah

How do survivors of sexual trauma overcome the mental health issues that often accompany these kinds of experiences? On Monday’s Access Utah we will talk to survivors about their healing journeys, as well as a wide variety of healers, who help people overcome trauma in many different ways .
4/13/202055 minutes, 18 seconds
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Pet Psychic Patty Rayman On Thursday's Access Utah

Patty Rayman was born with the ability to communicate with animals and has helped thousands of people resolve many types of behavior, health, attitude and relationship issues with their animal companions. In working with all types of animals, she has developed techniques to help people move from conflict to cooperation in their relationships.
4/9/202054 minutes, 14 seconds
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How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Affecting Small Businesses On Wednesday's Access Utah

We know that the coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the economy as well as the obvious health effects. How is all of this affecting small businesses in Utah?
4/8/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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Digital Animus In The Age Of Liberation With Jodi Byrd On Thursday's Access Utah

Jodi Byrd joined Tom Williams to discuss the next lecture in the USU College of Humanities’ Tanner Talks series: “Digital Animus in the Age of Liberation.”
4/7/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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COVID-19 In Rural Utah: National Parks, Healthcare, And The Economy On Tuesday's Access Utah

How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting rural Utah? We’ll talk about concerns of smaller healthcare facilities, decisions over closures of national parks, and how the economies of rural communities are being affected.
4/7/202054 minutes
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Darren Parry: The Bear River Massacre On Monday's Access Utah

This year marks the 157th anniversary of the largest massacre of Native Americans in the United States.
4/6/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Chances Are...': The Vietnam War With Richard Russo On Thursday's Access Utah

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today–Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin’ age.
4/4/202053 minutes, 57 seconds
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Transitioning Within Landscapes: Photographer Kimberly Anderson On Wednesday's Access Utah

Photographer, marriage and family therapist and Utah State University alum Kimberly Anderson was on the USU campus in early March to give a presentation on her work. Her presentation, “Transitioning Within Landscapes: The Photography of Kimberly Anderson,” touched on her work as a photographer interwoven with her identity as a transgender woman.
4/1/202054 minutes, 9 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Best We Could Do' With Graphic Memoirist Thi Bui On Tuesday's Access Utah

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam three months before the end of the Vietnam War, and came to the United States in 1978. In November, she presented a lecture "Finding Home," based on her debut graphic memoir, “The Best We Could Do,” a beautifully illustrated and emotional story about the search for a better future and a longing for the past.
3/31/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Utah Education At-Home During COVID-19 On Thursday's Access Utah

Utah’s K-12 public schools are closed and teachers are teaching their students online because of precautions to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
3/31/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Reckoning': The Battle Against Sexual Abuse With Linda Hirschman On Monday's Access Utah

Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal—when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus.
3/31/202054 minutes
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What Are You Reading: Pandemic Edition On Wednesday's Access Utah

We’re compiling another UPR Community Booklist and we want to know what you’re reading.
3/26/202054 minutes, 14 seconds
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Remaining Resilient Through COVID-19 On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s Access Utah, as a part of UPR’s Project Resilience, we’re going to talk about how to be resilient with all that’s happening with the coronavirus pandemic, including social distancing. We’ll also talk about how all of this is impacting children and individuals with disabilities. Our guests will include Vonda Jump Norman, USU Assistant Professor of Social Work and Director of the Trauma Resiliency Project at The Family Place in Logan; Matthew Wappett, Director of the USU Center for Persons with Disabilities; and Kevin Webb, Associate Director of the I-System Institute for Transdisciplinary Studies and a Licensed Social Worker.
3/24/202052 minutes, 19 seconds
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Debunking COVID-19 Myths On Monday's Access Utah

DEBUNKED is a new podcast produced by the USU Tribal and Rural Opioid Initiative and USU Extension in conjunction with Utah Public Radio, which focuses on harm reduction and debunking myths around the opioid crisis. Their newest episode focuses on COVID-19.
3/23/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities Amid The Coronavirus Crisis On Wednesday's Access Utah

As we all deal the best we can with Coronavirus and COVID-19, we want to hear examples that you have heard or experienced of people, businesses or organizations doing good.
3/19/202051 minutes, 53 seconds
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Rural Utah On Coronavirus And The 2020 Legislative Session On Monday's Access Utah

The Utah Legislature concluded its 2020 session on Thursday. We’ll recap the session on Monday, with a special focus on issues important to people in rural Utah. We’ll also talk about COVID-19 and Coronavirus.
3/16/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Unladylike' With Sandra Rattley And Charlotte Mangin On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s Access Utah, Tom Williams will talk with UNLADYLIKE2020 Executive Producer Sandra Rattley and series creator Charlotte Mangin.
3/10/202053 minutes, 45 seconds
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A Look At Tax Reform On Tuesday's Access Utah

The tax reform bill that was passed in December by a special session of the Utah Legislature was soundly repudiated by a referendum drive that collected the required number of signatures before the regular session of the legislature began in January. Lawmakers subsequently repealed the tax reform bill. We wondered: what about now? Is there still a need for reform? What should happen next? What is likely to happen next? We’ll talk with the organizer of the referendum drive, Fred Cox. Our guests will also include Rep. Norm Thurston, R-Provo, a Republican who voted against the bill and two Democrats, Rep.Susan Duckworth, D-Magna, and Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City.
3/3/202050 minutes, 16 seconds
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Coronavirus: What Utahns Need To Know On Monday's Access Utah

The Coronavirus epidemic has affected lives around the world and in Utah. We’re going to talk about it Monday on Access Utah. More than 2,500 deaths have been reported in China. Iran is second in numbers of deaths. Two people have died so far in Washington state.
3/3/202054 minutes, 7 seconds
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Revisiting 'How To Be Less Stupid About Race' With Dr. Crystal Fleming On Thursday's Access Utah

Crystal Marie Fleming, Ph.D. is an author, public intellectual and expert on white supremacy and global racism. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University with affiliations in the Department of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Fleming is the author of two books: the critically-acclaimed How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide and Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Additionally, her scholarship appears in journals such as The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Poetics, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race and Mindfulness.
2/27/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Utah Voters And Super Tuesday On Monday's Access Utah

For the first time Utah voters are participating in the Super Tuesday presidential primaries this year, and ballots are already arriving. In the days leading up to the primary we’re interested in hearing what you’re thinking and the factors you’re considering in making your decision on how to vote. Continue the conversation by emailing us at upraccess@gmail.com.
2/26/202054 minutes, 2 seconds
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Plants, Moss And Indigenous Roots: Robin Wall Kimmerer On Thursday's Access Utah

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and Teaching of Plants, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
2/25/20202 minutes, 47 seconds
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Moab Leaders Oppose Potential Oil And Gas Lease On Thursday's Access Utah

Various Moab government and business leaders have come out in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to allow an oil and gas lease on the nearby Slickrock Trail. The group is decrying what they say is an opportunity currently mis-understood by the Department of the Interior to support the power of world famous recreation assets like the Slickrock Trail. They say that these types of outdoor treasures bring revenue flows and tax receipts to public land communities and create real long term jobs and that oil and gas development does not deliver the same economic benefits. They further assert that with less than 35% of existing leases on public lands now in production, there is no need to damage current recreation economies. The group says that the oil and gas auction scheduled for June includes landscapes within two miles of Arches National Park, span over 60 percent of the Slickrock Trail, a world-famous mountain biking trail, and threatens drinking water supply for the City of Moab.
2/20/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting Climate Change With Bob Inglis On Tuesday's Access Utah

"Eight years ago, Bob Inglis ran for a seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives and didn’t even make it out of the Republican primary. He lost by nearly 3 to 1. His estrangement from South Carolina voters ran deep, friends-gone-missing and allies-turned-enemies deep.
2/18/202054 minutes, 1 second
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USU Response To DOJ Report On Sexual Assault On Thursday's Access Utah

Utah State University has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) concluding its Title IX compliance review of USU’s policies and procedures for responding to reports of sexual misconduct involving students between 2013 and early 2017.
2/13/202054 minutes, 6 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Tuesday's Access Utah

We’re heartened by all the good being done in our communities by dedicated individuals and nonprofits. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help but don’t know where and how. Today we’re opening the phone lines, email and Twitter to give you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
2/11/202053 minutes, 58 seconds
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Impeachment Reaction On Thursday's Access Utah

The U.S. Senate has acquitted President Trump of both impeachment charges brought against him by the U.S. House of Representatives. Sen. Mitt Romney was the lone senator to break party ranks when he voted to convict the president on the first impeachment charge. today we’re going to look back on this historic impeachment and look forward to the presidential election.
2/6/202052 minutes, 33 seconds
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'Half Broke' With Ginger Gaffney On Tuesday's Access Utah

An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many— the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney’s job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses and residents form a profound bond, and teach each other patience, control, and trust.
2/5/202054 minutes, 3 seconds
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Digital Folklore Trends Of 2019 On Wednesday's Access Utah

Co-directors of the USU Digital Folklore Project Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill (USU English Department Head and USU Assistant Professor of English, respectively) will join Tom Williams to talk about the 2019 Digital Trends of the Year.
2/5/202054 minutes, 1 second
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'American Grief In Four Stages' With Sadie Hoagland On Thursday's Access Utah

Sadie Hoagland’s new book “American Grief in Four Stages,” a collection of short fiction, asks the question: why does our country do so little for the bereaved? Why do we have only empty cliché to address the grief of others? Why do we expect people to just "get over" insurmountable tragedy?
1/31/202054 minutes, 10 seconds
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Relationism: Centering Relationships In Politics On Wednesday's Access Utah

Retired USU professor Richard Ratliff has developed what he calls the theory of Relationism, which he hopes will help us bridge the many divides we’re experiencing in our increasingly polarized society. He’ll join Tom Williams to explain.
1/29/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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'The Peanuts Papers' With Andrew Blauner On Tuesday's Access Utah

Over the span of fifty years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture—hilarious, poignant, inimitable. Some twenty years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself.
1/28/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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The 2020 Utah State Legislative Session Opening Day On Monday's Access Utah

It's the opening day of the 2020 Utah Legislature, and Access Utah is back at the state capitol. We’ll speak with Senator Lyle Hillyard, Senator Evan Vickers, Senator Karen Mayne, and Representative Brian King. We’ll also hear from Bill Tibbetts with Crossroads Urban Center, Rusty Cannon with Utah Taxpayers Association, and Courtney Bullard with Utah Health Policy Project. You can get us your questions and comments by email to upraccess@gmail.com.
1/28/202059 minutes, 20 seconds
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The State Of Sexual Harassment In Utah With Susan Madsen & Robbyn Scribner On Access Utah Wednesday

Today, as a part of our series: Stopping Sexual Harassment, we’ll talk with Susan Madsen and Robbyn Scribner of the Utah Women and Leadership Project at Utah Valley University. We’ll talk about sexual harassment and sexual assault. We’ll also talk about voting, leadership, body image and other topics.
1/22/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'One Of Us: A Biologist's Walk Among Bears' With Barrie Gilbert On Access Utah Wednesday

Barrie Gilbert's fascination with grizzly bears almost got him killed in Yellowstone National Park. He recovered, returned to fieldwork and devoted the next several decades to understanding and protecting these often-maligned giants. He has spent thousands of hours among wild grizzles in Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, Alberta, coastal British Columbia, and along Brooks River in Alaska's Katmai National Park, where hundreds of people gather to watch dozens of grizzlies feast on salmon. His research has centered on how bears respond to people and each other, with a focus on how to keep humans and bears safe.
1/15/202054 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Across The Continent': Photographs Of The Union Pacific Railroad With Daniel Davis On Access Utah

Andrew J. Russell is primarily known as the man who photographed the famous “East and West Shaking Hands” image of the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. He also took nearly one thousand other images that document almost every aspect of the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.
1/15/202054 minutes, 15 seconds
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'Champions Of Change: 25 Women Who Made History' On Monday's Access Utah

In fighting to pass the 19th Amendment, brave suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Emmeline B. Wells fought to end laws and take down barriers that prevented them from voting. Champions of Change introduces young readers not only to Anthony and Wells, but also to a diverse group of firsts and freedom-fighters in America’s fight for equality, such as:
1/13/202054 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Reimagining A Place For The Wild' On Wednesday's Access Utah

Reimagining a Place for the Wild contains a diverse collection of personal stories that describe encounters with the remaining wild creatures of the American West and critical essays that reveal wildlife’s essential place in western landscapes.
1/10/202050 minutes, 9 seconds
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Feeding The World With David Hole On Tuesday's Access Utah

From Utah State Magazine, "In the parched black desert of northeast Jordan, archaeologists recently unearthed a stone hearth containing loaves of flatbread more than 14,000 years old.
1/10/202054 minutes
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'Indelible In The Hippocampus' With Paisley Rekdal On Thursday's Access Utah

“Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement” is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry. Whether reflecting on their teenage selves or their modern-day workplaces, each writer approaches the subject with authenticity and strength. Together the pieces create a portrait of a cultural sea-change.
1/9/202053 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Mendez V. Westminster: Desegregation For Latinx Americans On Monday's Access Utah

From Wikipedia: “Sylvia Mendez (born June 7, 1936) is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California[1] and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement.[2]
1/6/202053 minutes, 53 seconds
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The Lightwood Duo And Tim Slover On Monday's Access Utah Holiday Special

The holiday season is back, and so is the Access Utah holiday special. This season is time for special music old and new. It’s also time for wonderful stories humorous and poignant. We’ll hear music for the season performed by the Lightwood Duo (Mike Christiansen on guitar and Eric Nelson on clarinet). We’ll also hear readings for the season by the author of The Christmas Chronicles, playwright Tim Slover.
12/16/20191 hour, 5 seconds
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'Unselfish: Love Thy Neighbor As Thy Selfie' With Paul Parkinson On Thursday's Access Utah

“Unselfish: Love Thy Neighbor as Thy Selfie” compiled by Paul Parkinson, features 99 inspiring stories of people putting others before themselves. Everyone is trying to get noticed. Selfies are taking over the internet. We live in a world where success and achievement seem to be determined by how many “likes” or “followers” one has on social media. Selfish behavior seems to be at an all–time high.
12/12/201954 minutes, 13 seconds
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Revisiting The Costs And Benefits Of Electric Vehicles On Wednesday's Access Utah

We’re answering your questions about Electric Vehicles today. Our guests include USU student and EV owner Samuel Bona; EV owner and early adopter John Loveless; EV and Electric Bicycle owner and USU Associate Professor of Computer Science Nicholas Flann; and Rep. Raymond Ward, who is working to develop an EV charging infrastructure in Utah.
12/11/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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From Alaska, To NPR Foreign Correspondent, To Fiction Writer: Corey Flintoff On Access Utah Tuesday

Corey Flintoff is a former NPR foreign correspondent whose assignments included Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Haiti, Ukraine and Russia. He was NPR Southeast Asia Bureau Chief and Moscow Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, he now lives in Maryland. He’s now trying his hand at writing and his fiction has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review and other publications. Corey Flintoff was in Logan last week to help UPR raise money for our broadcast network and for student reporters. We’ll talk with him about his beginnings in Alaska, his reporting from hot spots like Iraq, and about the current news regarding Russia and Ukraine.
12/10/201949 minutes, 28 seconds
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'Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse And Harassment' With Linda Hirshman On Access Utah

Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal—when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus.
12/9/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Outlaw Ocean' With Ian Urbina on Thursday's Access Utah

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.
12/5/201949 minutes, 11 seconds
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Revisiting Environmental Pioneer George Bird Grinnell With John Taliaferro On Access Utah Wednesday

George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty?
12/4/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Navigating The Personal & Political On Rivers Of The New West With Zak Podmore On Access Utah

In CONFLUENCE: NAVIGATING THE PERSONAL & POLITICAL ON RIVERS OF THE NEW WEST, paddler and journalist Zak Podmore takes readers down Western rivers and deep into some of the most pressing environmental and social justice issues of our time, including uranium tailings on the Ute Mountain Ute lands near the San Juan River, the treatment of asylum-seekers crossing the Rio Grande, and one of the largest dam removal projects in history on Washington’s Elwha River. CONFLUENCE follows in the tradition of Thoreau or Edward Abbey — it takes us into the wild but always has one eye turned back toward the blessings and ills of civilization.
12/3/201948 minutes, 18 seconds
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Revisiting How Utahns Think About Climate Change With Peter Howe On Monday's Access Utah

Over 70% of Americans—and two-thirds of Utahns—think that climate change is happening. Research led by Dr. Peter Howe reveals this statistic, along with much more detailed data about how Americans think about climate change from the national to the local level.
12/2/201954 minutes, 17 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Passengers' With John Marss On Wednesday's Access Utah

You’re riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, “You are going to die.” Just as self-driving cars become the trusted, safer norm, eight people find themselves in this terrifying situation, including a faded TV star, a pregnant young woman, an abused wife fleeing her husband, an illegal immigrant, a husband and wife, and a suicidal man.
11/27/201954 minutes, 1 second
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'Wacko’s City Of Fun Carnival' With Jeff Metcalf On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today, a conversation with Jeff Metcalf about his new novel “Wacko’s City of Fun Carnival.”
11/26/201950 minutes, 25 seconds
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Revisiting Climate And Comedy With Stand-Up Economist Yoram Bauman On Wednesday's Access Utah

Yoram Bauman is the world’s first and only stand-up economist. He is co-author of the “Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change” and the two volume “Cartoon Introduction to Economics,” and the 1998 book “Tax Shift,” which helped inspire the revenue-neutral carbon tax in British Columbia. He is campaign co-chair for the new Clean the Darn Air initiative, which supporters are working to get on the ballot in Utah in 2020.
11/22/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'The Capitol Reef Reader' With Stephen Trimble And Chip Ward On Monday's Access Utah

For 12,000 years, people have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing—160 years worth of words that capture the spirit of the park and its surrounding landscape in personal narratives, philosophical riffs, and historic and scientific records.
11/22/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'What Is Self, A Question Of Continuity' With Charlie Huenemann On Thursday's Access Utah

Charlie Huenemann is professor of philosophy at Utah State University. He is the author of several books and essays on the history of philosophy, as well as some fun stuff, such as “How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft.” He was recently on the BBC talking about a thought expiriment, "When Capt. Jean-Luc Picard beams aboard the Enterprise, do the carbon atoms that make up his body make the leap, i.e., are the molecules compressed into a data stream? Or is he basically replicated aboard ship using his cellular coding, memories and other neural impulses — basically a blueprint of “him”?" That inquiry was made on BBC Radio4's “Naturebang.” On this episode of Access Utah, we discuss the inquiry and other philosophical questions about the self and continuity.
11/21/201948 minutes, 30 seconds
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Access Utah: Revisiting Nathan Richardson & Renée-Noelle Felice As Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott

Today on Access Utah, we preview an event next week. Living historians Nathan Richardson and Renée-Noelle Felice will perform on the USU campus as Frederick Douglass and Lucretia Mott, honoring their amazing lives and legacies, which are as relevant today as they were one hundred years ago.
11/19/201950 minutes, 25 seconds
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'Shaped By Snow' And The Threat Of Climate Change With Ayja Bounous On Thursday's Access Utah

Skier and debut author Ayja Bounous explores threats to the winters and watershed in the face of climate change and the far–reaching impacts of a diminishing snowpack on the American West—not only from ecological and economic perspectives, but also in regard to emotional and psychological health, as she realizes how deeply her personal relationships are tied to the snow–covered mountains of Utah's Wasatch range.
11/14/201951 minutes, 9 seconds
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Revisiting 'Silence: In The Age Of Noise' With Erling Kagge On Wednesday's Access Utah

Explorer, lawyer, art collector, publisher, and author, Erling Kagge is the first person to have completed the Three Poles Challenge on foot—the North Pole, the South Pole, and the summit of Mount Everest. He has written six previous books on exploration, philosophy, and art collecting, and runs Kagge Forlag, a publishing company based in Oslo, where he lives.
11/13/201953 minutes, 35 seconds
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History Of The American West From Past To Present With H.W. Brands On Tuesday's Access Utah

H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times-bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. He lives in Austin, Texas.
11/12/201948 minutes, 45 seconds
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Revisiting 'Walkable City Rules' With Jeff Speck On Monday's Access Utah

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
11/11/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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What Are You Reading? Wednesday's Access Utah

We’re compiling another UPR Community Booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now? What is the best book you’ve read so far this year? Which books are you suggesting to friends and family? We’d love to hear about any book you’re reading, including in the young adult & children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome.
11/8/201954 minutes, 1 second
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The Science Of Sasquatch With Jeff Meldrum On Thursday's Access Utah

Jeff Meldrum is Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University. He is author of “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” He is a leading expert on Bigfoot or Sasquatch, or the term he prefers: “Relict Hominoid.” He says “...[I]t is one matter to address the theoretical possibility of a relict species of hominoid in North America, and the obligate shift in paradigm to accommodate it, but there must also be something substantial to place within that revised framework. There must be essential evidence to lend weight to the hypotheses, and counter the critics’ various aspersions. I was once confronted by a colleague, who declared, ‘After all, these are just stories.’ My response: ‘Stories that apparently leave tracks, shed hair, void scat, vocalize, are observed and described by reliable experienced witnesses. Hardly just stories.’”
11/7/201951 minutes, 18 seconds
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Assimilating To Life In The United States With Thi Bui On Tuesday's Access Utah

Thi Bui was born in Vietnam three months before the end of the Vietnam War, and came to the United States in 1978. She will present a lecture "Finding Home," based on her debut graphic memoir, “The Best We Could Do,” a beautifully illustrated and emotional story about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. The lecture is Thursday, November 7, at 7:00 p.m. in the Nancy Tessman Auditorium at The Salt Lake City Public Library. The main sponsor/organizer is the Asia Center and the University of Utah along with The Office for Equity and Diversity.
11/5/201949 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting The Archaeology Of Bears Ears With Bill Lipe On Monday's Access Utah

Bill Lipe is professor emeritus of anthropology at Washington State University. He has spent much of his more than 50 year career in Utah archaeology beginning with the archaeological salvage of Glen Canyon before the dam construction and on into Cedar Mesa where he became a leading scholar in the early Basketmaker agricultural societies of southeastern Utah. Dr. Lipe began his work at a time when there was little federal legislation protecting archaeology or guiding preservation efforts. He became a leader in the development of what we now know of as Cultural Resource Management archaeology. Because of his involvement in CRM and his work in Cedar Mesa, he remains one of archaeology's main voices in the Bears Ears controversy.
11/4/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Erosion' With Terry Tempest Williams On Wednesday's Access Utah

We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. In her new book “Erosion: Essays of Undoing” Terry Tempest Williams explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?" And she says what has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.
11/4/201954 minutes, 6 seconds
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'How To Be Less Stupid About Race' With Dr. Crystal Fleming On Monday's Access Utah

Crystal Marie Fleming, Ph.D.is an author, public intellectual and expert on white supremacy and global racism. She is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University with affiliations in the Department of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Fleming is the author of two books: the critically-acclaimed How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide and Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Additionally, her scholarship appears in journals such as The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Poetics,Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race and Mindfulness.
11/4/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting 'Utah Politics: The Elephant In The Room' With Rod Decker On Tuesday's Access Utah

From the tempestuous fight for statehood to the evolution of Utah voters from Democrats to Republicans, Rod Decker analyzes the intersection of politics and faith in the complex political culture of modern Utah. Beginning with the state’s roots as a communal theocracy, Utah Politics deftly examines how Mormon morality influenced and continues to shape conflicts on both the local and federal levels.
10/29/201951 minutes, 5 seconds
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Going All In on Climate Change With Bob Inglis on Thursday's Access Utah

"Eight years ago, Bob Inglis ran for a seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives and didn’t even make it out of the Republican primary. He lost by nearly 3 to 1. His estrangement from South Carolina voters ran deep, friends-gone-missing and allies-turned-enemies deep.
10/24/201950 minutes, 10 seconds
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Plants, Moss, and Indigenous Roots With Robin Wall Kimmerer on Wednesday's Access Utah

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
10/23/201950 minutes, 39 seconds
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Judges, Debates, and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday's Access Utah

An unusual and significant event is happening today at Utah State University. The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the courts just below the U.S. Supreme Court and based in Denver, is in session at the Performance Hall on the USU campus. They are hearing oral arguments in two sessions and then will take questions from the audience.
10/22/201950 minutes, 13 seconds
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A Discussion with the Evans Biography Awards Writers' Workshop Presenters on Monday's Access Utah

This workshop is a one-day event, open to novice biographers, seasoned family historians, as well as more experienced writers who might hope to someday win a prize like the Evans Biography Awards. There will be four workshop sessions (two concurrent sessions in the morning and two in the afternoon). Space is limited, so register early.
10/21/201950 minutes, 33 seconds
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Discussing Utah's Proving Ground With David Maisel And Katie Lee-Koven on Thursday's Access Utah

David Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist working in photography and video, and the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Among his chief concerns are the politics and aesthetics of radically human-altered environments, and how we perceive our place in time via investigations of cultural artifacts from both past and present. His work focuses on power and the production of space by examining landscapes and objects that are off-limits, quarantined, or hidden from view. We are also joined in the studio by Katie Lee-Koven, Director and Chief Curator of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art.
10/17/201952 minutes, 20 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Marines, Counterinsurgency, & Strategic Culture' With Jeannie Johnson On Access Utah

The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences.
10/16/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Outpost: A Journey To The Wild Ends Of The Earth' With Dan Richards On Access Utah

For those who go in search of the isolation, silence and adventure of wild places it is―perhaps ironically―to the man-made shelters that they need to head; the outposts: bothies, bivouacs, cabins and huts. In his new book “Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth,” Dan Richards says that part of their allure is their simplicity: enough architecture to shelter from the weather but not so much as to distract from the immediate environment around.
10/15/201949 minutes, 34 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Future Of Artificial Intelligence' With David Brown On Thursday's Access Utah

David Brown is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University. A while back he gave a talk in the Science Unwrapped series from the College of Science titled “Artificial Intelligence: Too Late to Stop the Robot Apocalypse?” Professor Brown says “Perhaps ironically, salient technology superstars, like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and publicly known geniuses, like Stephen Hawking, have spoken out and warned us about the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). On the other hand, doing so won them the Luddite Award from CNET, and 'alarmist' labels from WIRED and E & T magazines. What's the truth? Is AI the next atomic bomb and are AI research labs the next Los Alamos? If Yes, are there nevertheless compelling reasons to pursue AI? What distinguishes AI from generic computer science or programming or robotics?” We’ll talk about it today on the next Access Utah.
10/10/201948 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Rosie Result' With Graeme Simsion On Wednesday's Access Utah

Until ten years ago, geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Then he developed The Wife Project and met Rosie, 'the world's most incompatible woman'. Now, having survived 3,653 days of marriage, Don's life-contentment graph, recently at its highest point, is curving downwards.
10/9/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Disengaging From The News And Politics On Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s anecdotal. But I think it’s a thing. I’m hearing from a growing number of people that they’re disengaging from the news and, in some cases, from politics. We’re going to talk about it next time on Access Utah. My guests will include USU Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Jason Gilmore; and University of Utah Law Professor RonNell Anderson Jones. And I’d love to get your perspective on this. You can email me right now to upraccess@gmail.com.
10/8/201951 minutes, 41 seconds
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Melting Ice, Artifacts And Human Presence In The Wilderness On Thursday's Access Utah

The Rocky Mountain Anthropological Conference is happening today through Saturday in Logan and will cover such topics as Japanese Railroad Worker Archaeology in Central Utah and Historic Filming Locations of Utah. We’ll talk with archaeologists Ken Cannon, Craig Lee, and Larry Todd about melting ice patches and the race to document thawing artifacts; the long-term presence of humans in current wilderness areas and how that affects our understanding of wilderness; how archaeology informs public policy decisions; and much more.
10/3/201951 minutes, 49 seconds
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'Science Be Damned': Water Rights And Scarcity With Eric Kuhn On Wednesday's Access Utah

Eric Kuhn, retired General Manager of the Colorado River Water Conservancy District, will speak about his new book “Science Be Dammed.” The talk was held in ENGR 201 at 3:30p on Wednesday, October 2.
10/2/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Tara McPherson "Platforming Hate: The Internet and the Rise of Hate Online" On Tuesday's Access Utah

USC Professor Tara McPherson recently gave a lecture in the Tanner Talk series at USU titled "Platforming Hate: The Internet and the Rise of Hate Online." In her talk Professor McPherson examined the ways in which platforms like Discord, Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook are used by various groups to spread hate and white supremacy both on- and off-line. She detailed the active recruitment of white teenage boys in online environments and considered the relationship of these more recent developments to the early digital presence of neo-confederates on the web more than twenty years ago. And she argued that the internet has changed in key ways that help support the spread of white supremacy online.
10/1/201950 minutes, 36 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Monday's Access Utah

We’re heartened by all the good being done in our communities by dedicated individuals and nonprofits. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help but don’t know where and how. Today we’re opening the phone lines, email and Twitter to give you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
9/30/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Craving Supernatural Creatures' With Claudia Schwabe On Thursday's Access Utah

Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness with terror, distance, and negativity, whereas contemporary North American popular culture adaptations navigate diversity by humanizing and redeeming such figures. This trend of transformation reflects a greater tolerance of other marginalized groups (in regard to race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, etc.) and acceptance of diversity in society today. The fairy-tale adaptations examined here are more than just twists on old stories—they serve as the looking glasses of significant cultural trends, customs, and social challenges. Whereas the fairy-tale adaptations that Claudia Schwabe analyzes suggest that Otherness can and should be fully embraced, they also highlight the gap that still exists between the representation and the reality of embracing diversity wholeheartedly in twenty-first-century America.
9/26/201950 minutes, 16 seconds
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Mendez V. Westminster: Desegregation For Latinx Americans In California On Wednesday's Access Utah

From Wikipedia: “Sylvia Mendez (born June 7, 1936) is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage. At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California[1] and paved the way for integration and the American civil rights movement.[2]
9/25/201954 minutes
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Understanding Bears and Staying Safe on Tuesday's Access Utah

Barrie Gilbert's fascination with grizzly bears almost got him killed in Yellowstone National Park. He recovered, returned to fieldwork and devoted the next several decades to understanding and protecting these often-maligned giants. He has spent thousands of hours among wild grizzles in Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, Alberta, coastal British Columbia, and along Brooks River in Alaska's Katmai National Park, where hundreds of people gather to watch dozens of grizzlies feast on salmon. His research has centered on how bears respond to people and each other, with a focus on how to keep humans and bears safe.
9/24/201951 minutes, 55 seconds
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Discussions about Electric Vehicles on Access Utah

We’re answering your questions about Electric Vehicles today. Our guests include USU student and EV owner Samuel Bona; EV owner and early adopter John Loveless; EV and Electric Bicycle owner and USU Associate Professor of Computer Science Nicholas Flann; and Rep. Raymond Ward, who is working to develop an EV charging infrastructure in Utah. Originally aired on 9-10-19
9/24/201952 minutes, 21 seconds
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Revisiting The Disappearing Great Salt Lake With Wayne Wurtsbaugh On Monday's Access Utah

John DeVilbiss writes in USU Magazine, "It flashes like a beacon to millions of birds on migratory marathons. It is a sea in the sand that shimmers lavender in one glance and pale turquoise in another. A place you can go for an entire day without seeing a single soul, yet where two million people live within an hour's drive. It is a lake of paradoxes, said historian Dale Morgan, a liquid lie, said Terry Tempest Williams. The salty truth, however, is that the Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake in the Western hemisphere, is drying up."
9/23/201954 minutes, 1 second
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How The Transcontinental Railroad Impacted Utah With Richard White On Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday's Access Utah, Richard White, Stanford University historian and lecturer, joins us to talk about the transcontinental railroad’s impact on Utah’s environment, culture and political atmosphere. We preview his talk Thursday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m., at the Logan Tabernacle as part of Utah State University Libraries’ 25th annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture.
9/21/201951 minutes, 48 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On The Humanities And Social Sciences With Dean Ward

On this pledge drive edition of Access Utah, we're joined by Dean Joseph Ward of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at USU. We’ll feature segments from our conversations with Nathan Richardson and Renée-Noelle Felice, Jeannie Johnson, and a conversation on community trauma and resilience.
9/16/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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'The Outlaw Ocean' With Ian Urbina On Wednesday's Access Utah

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation.Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways — drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely.
9/11/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Community Ethics Slams On Monday's Access Utah

On Monday's Access Utah, we preview an Ethics Slam: an event modeled around a Poetry Slam in the sense that it occurs in a community space and it is open mic. Members of the community are asked to share their thoughts in a civil, respectful manner about a pressing social issue. This slam will focus on responding to climate change. The event takes place on Monday, September 9th at 7:00 p.m at Lucky Slice pizza in Logan.
9/9/201954 minutes, 12 seconds
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Revisiting 'Legend Tripping' With Lynne McNeill And Elizabeth Tucker

Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common informal practice depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film throughout both contemporary and historical vernacular culture. In this collection, contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural or spiritual. The volume presents both insightful research and useful pedagogy, making this an invaluable resource in the classroom. Selected major articles on legend tripping, with introductory sections written by the editors, are followed by discussion questions and projects designed to inspire readers to engage critically with legend traditions and customs of legend tripping and to explore possible meanings and symbolics at work. Suggested projects incorporate digital technology as it appears both in legends and in modes of legend tripping.
9/4/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Passengers' With John Marss On Tuesday's Access Utah

You’re riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, “You are going to die.”
8/30/201954 minutes
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USU's Year Of The Woman On Wednesday's Access Utah

Utah State University is joining the nation and state in celebrating significant voting rights anniversaries in 2020: the 150th anniversary of suffrage for Utah women; the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States; and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. As the university honors these important milestones in our history, and as part of those celebrations, Utah State University also declares this the Year of the Woman.
8/28/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Native But Foreign' With Brenden Rensink On Monday's Access Utah

“Northern Indigenous Crees were native to Montana and the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line, Crees became asylum-seekers on their own lands 150 years ago. Though some were granted political refugee status, Crees were still denied basic rights. Instead, many were killed, ignored and deported on both sides of the border. … The Chippewa Cree story is little-known outside the tribe, but it echoes the uncertainty in the immigration crises the US faces today.”
8/26/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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The United Nations Civil Society Conference On Tuesday's Access Utah

Activists battling climate change, a former child soldier and health workers pioneering new treatments around the world are among thousands of participants who will gather in Salt Lake City, Utah, from 26 to 28 August at the sixty-eighth annual United Nations Civil Society Conference for a global conversation on building inclusive and sustainable cities and communities. More information on the conference can be found here.
8/23/201954 minutes, 8 seconds
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Revisiting Yoga: Past, Present And Future On Wednesday's Access Utah

Yoga is growing in popularity in the U.S. There were 36 million practitioners (or ~9% of the population) in 2016, up from 20.4 million in 2012, and 28% of Americans have participated in a yoga class at some point in their lives. (Yoga Journal 2016 U.S. Market Research Study). We’ll talk about Yoga, past, present and future on Tuesday’s Access Utah. Our guests include Emily Perry, Director of Yoga Studies at USU; Chantel Gerfen, Owner of Transcend Yoga Studio in Logan; Jennifer Sinor, USU Professor of English, who has been practicing yoga for ~20 years; and Michael Sowder, Poet, USU Professor of English, and affiliated faculty member in USU’s Religious Studies Program and its Yoga Studies Program, where he teaches a course on the History of Yoga.
8/22/201954 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Feather Thief' With Kirk Wallace Johnson On Thursday's Access Utah

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness.
8/22/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting The Extraordinary Science Of The Immune System With Matt Richtel On Monday's Access Utah

A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science's centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.
8/19/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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'The Fifth Domain': Cybersecurity And Defense With Robert Knake On Thursday's Access Utah

There is much to fear in the dark corners of cyberspace. From well-covered stories like the Stuxnet attack which helped slow Iran’s nuclear program, to lesser-known tales like EternalBlue, the 2017 cyber battle that closed hospitals in Britain and froze shipping crates in Germany in midair, we have entered an age in which online threats carry real-world consequences. But we do not have to let autocrats and criminals run amok in the digital realm. We now know a great deal about how to make cyberspace far less dangerous–and about how to defend our security, economy, democracy, and privacy from cyber attack.
8/15/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Walkable City Rules' With Jeff Speck On Wednesday's Access Utah

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck’s follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer’s guide to making change in cities, and making it now.
8/14/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Chances Are. . .' With Richard Russo On Tuesday's Access Utah

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today–Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin’ age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disappearance of the woman each of them loved–Jacy Calloway. Now, more than forty years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery. Shot through with Russo’s trademark comedy and humanity, Chances Are . . . also introduces a new level of suspense and menace that will quicken the reader’s heartbeat throughout this absorbing saga of how friendship’s bonds are every bit as constricting and rewarding as those of family or any other community.
8/13/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Community Trauma And Resilience On Monday's Access Utah

In May, a 5-year-old girl, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Shelley, went missing in Logan. Many in the community got involved in the search. Most in the community sent their thoughts and prayers for the safe return of the girl. Then Lizzie’s body was found and an uncle is charged in her death. This was and is a community experience. A community trauma. Our communities suffer trauma on a frequent basis, recent mass shootings are examples. How does a community heal from such trauma? How does a community become resilient?
8/12/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Mosquito: A Human History Of Our Deadliest Predator' With Timothy Winegard On Access Utah

Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington’s secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this nefarious pest, roughly the size and weight of a grape seed, has been at the frontlines of history as the grim reaper, the harvester of human populations, and the ultimate agent of historical change. As the mosquito transformed the landscapes of civilization, humans were unwittingly required to respond to its piercing impact and universal projection of power. The mosquito has determined the fates of empires and nations, razed and crippled economies, and decided the outcome of pivotal wars, killing nearly half of humanity along the way. She (only females bite) has dispatched an estimated 52 billion people from a total of 108 billion throughout our relatively brief existence. As the greatest purveyor of extermination we have ever known, she has played a greater role in shaping our human story than any other living thing with which we share our global village.
8/8/201954 minutes
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Revisiting 'Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country' With Pam Houston On Access Utah Wednesday

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.
8/7/201954 minutes
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'A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence' With Kartik Hosanager On Tuesday's Access Utah

Through the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms and the artificial intelligence that underlies them make a staggering number of everyday decisions for us, from what products we buy, to where we decide to eat, to how we consume our news, to whom we date, and how we find a job. We’ve even delegated life-and-death decisions to algorithms–decisions once made by doctors, pilots, and judges. In his new book, Kartik Hosanagar surveys the brave new world of algorithmic decision-making and reveals the potentially dangerous biases they can give rise to as they increasingly run our lives. He makes the compelling case that we need to arm ourselves with a better, deeper, more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of algorithmic thinking. And he gives us a route in, pointing out that algorithms often think a lot like their creators–that is, like you and me.
8/6/201954 minutes, 1 second
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'Utah Politics: The Elephant In The Room' With Rod Decker On Monday's Access Utah

From the tempestuous fight for statehood to the evolution of Utah voters from Democrats to Republicans, Rod Decker analyzes the intersection of politics and faith in the complex political culture of modern Utah. Beginning with the state’s roots as a communal theocracy, Utah Politics deftly examines how Mormon morality influenced and continues to shape conflicts on both the local and federal levels.
8/5/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Born Criminal': Women's Suffrage With Angelica Shirley Carpenter On Access Utah

Here is the opening passage from Angelica Shirley Carpenter’s book “Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist:”
7/31/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting 'Wonderland: How Play Made The Modern World' With Steven Johnson On Tuesday's Access Utah

This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.
7/30/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Naked Money' With Charles Wheelan On Monday's Access Utah

Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually worth twenty dollars? In the third volume of his best-selling Naked series, Charles Wheelan uses this seemingly simple question to open the door to the surprisingly colorful world of money and banking.
7/29/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'A Raisin In The Sun': Family, Racism, And The American Dream On Thursday's Access Utah

The New York Times calls A Raisin in the Sun “the play that changed American theater forever.” In this play, Hansberry - a pioneering, female, African-American playwright - covers issues of racism, discrimination, generational clashes, civil rights, and the women’s movement through the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family. The Younger family’s heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.
7/25/201954 minutes
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9/11 First Responders On Tuesday's Access Utah

USA Today reports, "The firefighters, police officers and other emergency personnel who risked their lives answering the call on Sept.11, 2001, may finally be getting the rescue they've been demanding. The Senate Tuesday is expected to pass a bill that would replenish a compensation fund set up shortly after the 2001 terror attacks in New York City and at the Pentagon to compensate first responders who suffered illnesses, injuries and other medical problems as a result of the attacks."
7/23/201954 minutes
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'Escalante's Dream': The Spanish Discovery Of The Southwest With David Roberts On Access Utah

In late July 1776, fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Francisco Vélez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to chart a route to the new Spanish missions in California. The Fransiscans planned to scout the country for mineral wealth and locate the Ute and Navajo tribes for conversion. In present- day Utah, however, the dangers of starvation and hypothermia forced them to turn back. By November the friars were reduced to survival mode: stymied by the raging Colorado River, they had to kill their horses for food. At last they succeeded in fording the river at a place later known as “Crossing of the Fathers.”
7/22/201953 minutes, 56 seconds
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Connecting Local Food With Underserved Populations On Thursday's Access Utah

Utah State University was awarded a $500,000 three-year Farmers Market Promotion Program grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant will fund a variety of capacity-building, outre
7/18/201954 minutes
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The Rural Opioid Health And Wellness Summit On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Tribal and Rural Opioid Initiative was launched by Utah State University Extension in 2018 in an effort to provide effective resources to address opioid use among rural Utahns. The initiative team is working to combat the effects of opioid misuse through prevention, recovery and treatment, with a primary focus on stigma reduction education. Today on Access Utah we preview the summit.
7/17/201954 minutes, 5 seconds
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'Grinnell': America's Environmental Pioneer With John Taliaferro On Tuesday's Access Utah

George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America’s conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro’s commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair.
7/16/201954 minutes
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What Is Organic, Sustainable Agriculture With Jennifer Reeve On Monday's Access Utah

We’ve all heard the terms ‘organic’ and ‘sustainable’ agriculture, but what do those descriptions really mean?
7/15/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Land, Food, And Bridging Social Divisions With Gary Paul Nabhan On Thursday's Access Utah

Gary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural diversity of the arid binational Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement.
7/11/201954 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Peach And The Coconut': Bridging Cultural Divides With Scott Hammond On Access Utah

When we encounter conflict with another culture, we get confused, frustrated, offended, or even angry.
7/10/201953 minutes, 22 seconds
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'Outpost: A Journey To The Wild Ends Of The Earth' With Dan Richards On Tuesday's Access Utah

For those who go in search of the isolation, silence and adventure of wild places it is―perhaps ironically―to the man-made shelters that they need to head; the outposts: bothies, bivouacs, cabins and huts. In his new book “Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth,” Dan Richards says that part of their allure is their simplicity: enough architecture to shelter from the weather but not so much as to distract from the immediate environment around.
7/9/201954 minutes
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'The Capitol Reef Reader' With Stephen Trimble and Chip Ward on Monday's Access Utah

For 12,000 years, people have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing—160 years worth of words that capture the spirit of the park and its surrounding landscape in personal narratives, philosophical riffs, and historic and scientific records.
7/8/201954 minutes, 13 seconds
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Revisisting Diversity In The Comic Universe With Debra Jenson On Wednesday's Access Utah

Superhero stories have been called the myths of our day, helping us understand who we are and what unites us. Since Superman first leapt tall buildings with a single bound, the vast majority of the characters have been white, straight, men. Movies and television have consistently held to this standard, giving us Han Solo and Luke Skywalker to root for as they rescue Leia. However, in recent years we have seen new faces in popular franchises and behind the masks of our already beloved heroes.
7/3/201954 minutes, 1 second
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'The Marines, Counterinsurgency And Strategic Culture' With Jeannie Johnson On Tuesday's Access Utah

The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. In her new book “The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars,” USU Associate Professor of Political Science Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps's long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error―but also a story of cultural collisions.
7/2/201954 minutes
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'Be Surrounded By Poems': Revisiting Our Conversation With Naomi Shihab Nye On Monday's Access Utah

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye says “I grew up in Ferguson, Mo. No one ever heard of it, unless you lived elsewhere in St. Louis County. Then my family moved to Palestine – my father’s first home. A friend says, ‘Your parents really picked the garden spots.’ In Ferguson, an invisible line separated white and black communities. In Jerusalem, a no-man’s land separated people, designated by barbed wire.
7/1/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Prairie Fires': The Life Of Laura Ingalls Wilder With Caroline Fraser On Access Utah

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls―the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser―the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series―masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books.
6/27/201954 minutes
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Climate And Comedy With Stand-Up Economist Yoram Bauman On Wednesday's Access Utah

Yoram Bauman is the world’s first and only stand-up economist. He is co-author of the “Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change” and the two volume “Cartoon Introduction to Economics,” and the 1998 book “Tax Shift,” which helped inspire the revenue-neutral carbon tax in British Columbia. He is campaign co-chair for the new Clean the Darn Air initiative, which supporters are working to get on the ballot in Utah in 2020.
6/26/201954 minutes, 1 second
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'The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water And Dust Across California' With Mark Arax On Tuesday's Access Utah

Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth.
6/25/201954 minutes
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The Science Of Dreams With Allan Peterkin On Monday's Access Utah

Have you ever wondered where your dreams come from? Why they’re so hard to remember? Today on Access Utah, we explore the mysteries of the unconscious mind. We'll go over tips on how to get a good night’s sleep, remember more about what you dream, and conjure lucid dreams.
6/24/201954 minutes
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'Before Us Like A Land Of Dreams' With Karin Anderson on Thursday's Access Utah

Writer Karin Anderson will launch her latest novel Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. Join Anderson for reading and conversation at The King's English.
6/20/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Anointed With Oil: How Christianity & Crude Made Modern America' With Darren Dochuk On Access Utah

“Anointed with Oil” places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation’s special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry’s leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics — boosting America’s ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today’s political and environmental debates.
6/19/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting Native American Cuisine With Chef Nephi Craig On Tuesday's Access Utah

Native American Culinary Association founder, Chef Nephi Craig, is visiting Utah State University to conduct a series of foods presentations and deliver a lecture on his work with the “Three Sisters” of Native American cuisine—beans, corn and squash—and to teach nutrition and share cultural heritage.
6/18/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Craving Supernatural Creatures' With Claudia Schwabe On Monday's Access Utah

Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness with terror, distance, and negativity, whereas contemporary North American popular culture adaptations navigate diversity by humanizing and redeeming such figures. This trend of transformation reflects a greater tolerance of other marginalized groups (in regard to race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, etc.) and acceptance of diversity in society today. The fairy-tale adaptations examined here are more than just twists on old stories—they serve as the looking glasses of significant cultural trends, customs, and social challenges. Whereas the fairy-tale adaptations that Claudia Schwabe analyzes suggest that Otherness can and should be fully embraced, they also highlight the gap that still exists between the representation and the reality of embracing diversity wholeheartedly in twenty-first-century America.
6/17/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Homecomers: Returning To Rural Roots With Michele Anderson On Thursday's Access Utah

Michele Anderson says “I am what you might call a ‘homecomer.’ Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer and farmer, uses that word to describe people who have spent some time away, usually to pursue better opportunities in cities, and then choose to return to their rural roots.” Her recent opinion piece in the New York Times is headlined “Go Home to Your ‘Dying’ Hometown.” Michele Anderson says “I did, and it isn’t what I expected. I am more involved in social and racial justice, economic development and feminism than I ever was in a big city.”
6/13/201954 minutes
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The Future Of Artificial Intelligence With David Brown On Wednesday's Access Utah

David Brown is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University. A while back he gave a talk in the Science Unwrapped series from the College of Science titled “Artificial Intelligence: Too Late to Stop the Robot Apocalypse?” Professor Brown says “Perhaps ironically, salient technology superstars, like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and publicly known geniuses, like Stephen Hawking, have spoken out and warned us about the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). On the other hand, doing so won them the Luddite Award from CNET, and 'alarmist' labels from WIRED and E & T magazines. What's the truth? Is AI the next atomic bomb and are AI research labs the next Los Alamos? If Yes, are there nevertheless compelling reasons to pursue AI? What distinguishes AI from generic computer science or programming or robotics?” We’ll talk about it today on the next Access Utah.
6/12/201954 minutes
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The Disappearing Great Salt Lake With Wayne Wurtsbaugh On Tuesday's Access Utah

John DeVilbiss writes in USU Magazine, "It flashes like a beacon to millions of birds on migratory marathons. It is a sea in the sand that shimmers lavender in one glance and pale turquoise in another. A place you can go for an entire day without seeing a single soul, yet where two million people live within an hour's drive. It is a lake of paradoxes, said historian Dale Morgan, a liquid lie, said Terry Tempest Williams. The salty truth, however, is that the Great Salt Lake, the largest saline lake in the Western hemisphere, is drying up."
6/11/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Beyond The Savanna' With Maryann Martinsen On Monday's Access Utah

In a rural Kenyan village, nineteen-year-old Hannah Blake labors alongside her American parents to provide healthcare for a tight-knit tribal community steeped in culture and tradition. But it is impossible for her to deny her true north—her spiritual connection to the wild creatures of the African savanna.When a lion cub is orphaned, Hannah instinctively comes to its rescue and the two form an unbreakable bond. Her unbridled passion to protect animals leads to a crossroads with a poacher, creating a dangerous enemy and unintentionally setting off a chain of events that leaves her life in shambles.Forced to flee to America, she faces an unknown future. Alone in a foreign land and surrounded by cold hearted strangers, she is certain she will never know happiness again, until she finds comfort in the companionship of a handsome young college professor. Hannah senses a powerful shared connection with Sam Daniels, but since he is both her teacher and a taken man, anything more than friendship seems unthinkable.In her journey beyond the savanna, Hannah must find a reason to believe, a way to forgive, and the courage to trust in her wild heart again.
6/10/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Global Development And Conservation: Joseph Kiesecker On Thursday's Access Utah

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is necessary to combat climate change. But many renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity and conservation. Is it possible to meet this rise in energy demand, while still conserving natural places and species?
6/6/201953 minutes, 58 seconds
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Remembering Barre Toelken On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, we remember acclaimed folklorist Barre Toelken. Our guests include Randy Williams, folklore curator and oral history specialist with the Special Collections and Archives at the Merrill-Cazier Library, USU Assistant Professor of English Lynne McNeill, and Barre's daughter Kazuko Toelken.
6/5/201953 minutes, 54 seconds
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Nathan Richardson & Renée-Noelle Felice As Frederick Douglass & Lucretia Mott On Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, we preview an event next week. Living historians Nathan Richardson and Renée-Noelle Felice will perform on the USU campus as Frederick Douglass and Lucretia Mott, honoring their amazing lives and legacies, which are as relevant today as they were one hundred years ago.
6/4/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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'The Rosie Result' With Graeme Simsion On Monday's Access Utah

Until ten years ago, geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Then he developed The Wife Project and met Rosie, 'the world's most incompatible woman'. Now, having survived 3,653 days of marriage, Don's life-contentment graph, recently at its highest point, is curving downwards.
6/3/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Silence: In The Age Of Noise' With Erling Kagge On Wednesday's Access Utah

Explorer, lawyer, art collector, publisher, and author, Erling Kagge is the first person to have completed the Three Poles Challenge on foot—the North Pole, the South Pole, and the summit of Mount Everest. He has written six previous books on exploration, philosophy, and art collecting, and runs Kagge Forlag, a publishing company based in Oslo, where he lives.
5/31/201953 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting The Crisis On The Colorado River With Jim Robbins On Thursday's Access Utah

A recent article in the online magazine Yale Environment 360 is headlined “The West’s Great River Hits Its Limits: Will the Colorado Run Dry?” And the sub-headline: “As the Southwest faces rapid growth and unrelenting drought, the Colorado River is in crisis, with too many demands on its diminishing flow. Now those who depend on the river must confront the hard reality that their supply of Colorado water may be cut off.”
5/30/201954 minutes
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Revisiting 'Olio' With Tyehimba Jess on Tuesday's Access Utah

Tyehimba Jess is winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book “Olio.” With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, his much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. “Olio” is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them.
5/28/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Reimagining A Place For The Wild' On Thursday's Access Utah

Reimagining a Place for the Wild contains a diverse collection of personal stories that describe encounters with the remaining wild creatures of the American West and critical essays that reveal wildlife’s essential place in western landscapes. Gleaned from historians, journalists, biologists, ranchers, artists, philosophers, teachers, and conservationists, these narratives expose the complex challenges faced by wild animals and those devoted to understanding them. Whether discussing keystone species like grizzly bears and gray wolves or microfauna swimming the thermal depths of geysers, these accounts reflect the authors’ expertise as well as their wonder and respect for wild nature. The writers do more than inform our sensibilities; their narratives examine both humanity’s conduct and its capacity for empathy toward other life. A selection of photos and paintings punctuates the volume.
5/23/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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How Americans Think About Climate Change With Peter Howe On Wednesday's Access Utah

Over 70% of Americans—and two-thirds of Utahns—think that climate change is happening. Research led by Dr. Peter Howe reveals this statistic, along with much more detailed data about how Americans think about climate change from the national to the local level. Drawing from large surveys of the American public, Dr. Howe’s research has developed statistical methods to map public opinion, risk perceptions, and responses in every state, county, and even neighborhood across the country. Although climate change has become a politically polarized issue, the data show that Americans agree about many of the solutions. This presentation will highlight how these newly available tools can help decisionmakers, researchers, and educators understand how local communities are thinking about and responding to climate change and associated risks.
5/22/201953 minutes, 57 seconds
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The Archaeology Of Bears Ears With Bill Lipe On Tuesday's Access Utah

Bill Lipe is professor emeritus of anthropology at Washington State University. He has spent much of his more than 50 year career in Utah archaeology beginning with the archaeological salvage of Glen Canyon before the dam construction and on into Cedar Mesa where he became a leading scholar in the early Basketmaker agricultural societies of southeastern Utah. Dr. Lipe began his work at a time when there was little federal legislation protecting archaeology or guiding preservation efforts. He became a leader in the development of what we now know of as Cultural Resource Management archaeology. Because of his involvement in CRM and his work in Cedar Mesa, he remains one of archaeology's main voices in the Bears Ears controversy.
5/21/201950 minutes, 37 seconds
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'Being Elizabethan' With Norm Jones On Monday's Access Utah

Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God, nation, society and self. Being Elizabethan portrays how people’s lives were shaped and changed by the tension between a received belief in divine stability and new, destabilizing, ideas about physical and metaphysical truth.
5/20/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Witchcraft In Western Civilization With Julia Gossard On Thursday's Access Utah

Julia Gossard, assistant professor of history at Utah State University, says that since thousands of witch trials took place across Europe and North America, one stereotypical image of an early modern woman is that of a witch. Gossard teaches a class called “Witches, Workers, & Wives,” which examines attitudes, ideas, and stereotypes about gender, sexuality, and power - including how the witch became a quintessential early modern trope.
5/16/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Almost Everything' By Anne Lamott On Wednesday's Access Utah

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives.
5/15/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Legend Tripping' With Lynne McNeill And Elizabeth Tucker

Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common informal practice depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film throughout both contemporary and historical vernacular culture. In this collection, contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural or spiritual. The volume presents both insightful research and useful pedagogy, making this an invaluable resource in the classroom. Selected major articles on legend tripping, with introductory sections written by the editors, are followed by discussion questions and projects designed to inspire readers to engage critically with legend traditions and customs of legend tripping and to explore possible meanings and symbolics at work. Suggested projects incorporate digital technology as it appears both in legends and in modes of legend tripping. Legend Tripping is appropriate for students, general readers, and folklorists alike. It is the first volume in the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research series, a set of casebooks providing thorough and up-to-date studies that showcase a variety of scholarly approaches to contemporary legends, along with variants of legend texts, discussion questions, and projects for students.…
5/14/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'The Weight Of Shadows' With José Orduña On Monday's Access Utah

In his memoir, “The Weight of Shadows,” José Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities—rooted in the continuity of US imperialism to globalism—form the landscape of Orduña’s daily experience, where the geopolitical meets the quotidian. In one anecdote, he recalls how the only apartment his parents could rent was one that didn’t require signing a lease or running a credit check, where the floors were so crooked he once dropped an orange and watched it roll in six directions before settling in a corner. Orduña describes the absurd feeling of being handed a piece of paper—his naturalization certificate—that guarantees something he has always known: he has every right to be here. An exploration of race, class, and identity, “The Weight of Shadows” is a meditation on the nature of political, linguistic, and cultural borders, and the meaning of “America.”
5/13/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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USU's Gear Up Program On Thursday's Access Utah

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federally-funded program through the U.S. Department of Education that was designed to help students prepare for and succeed in college. GEAR UP is a highly competitive grant program that helps empower local partnerships comprised of schools, institutions of higher education, state agencies, and community organizations.
5/9/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The People' With Carol and Cevin Ormond On Wednesday's Access Utah

An ignored people who, despite all odds, were instrumental in the success of John Wesley Powell's Expeditions. Immortalized in the only existing collection outside the Smithsonian of John Hillers' 116 original 1872 albumen photographs. Now the photos are preserved and this people's incredible story of surviving and thriving in the most inhospitable place in North America can be told.
5/8/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'An Answering Flame' And 'Havoc Red': Historical Fiction With Margo Mowbray On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, author Margo Mowbray joins us for the hour to discuss two of her books: An Answering Flame and Havoc Red.
5/7/201954 minutes, 7 seconds
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Revisiting The Life Of Napoleon With Historian Adam Zamoyski On Monday's Access Utah

"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic.
5/6/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Look Both Ways' With Katharine Coles On Thursday's Access Utah

Walter Link and Miriam Wollaeger, a young geologist couple in 1920s Wisconsin, set out to find oil to supply the surging U.S. demand. This exciting work will allow them to build their lives in South and Central America, Indonesia, and Cuba. But from the first posting in Columbia, they quickly discover that no women are working in the field in these places. While Walter faces the hardships and thrills of exploration in the jungles and mountains, and eventually becomes chief geologist for Standard Oil, Miriam is left behind in the colonial capitals during Walter’s often lengthy times away. She defines herself through the limited means left to a woman within their small societies: playing bridge or polo by day and dancing into the wee hours with early KLM pilots, diplomats, and the footloose sons of moneyed Americans and the European aristocracies. She also raises three children, has intimate involvements, learns the local languages, and takes up teaching. But she is not satisfied. And finally she does something about it.
5/2/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Heirs Of The Founders' With H.W. Brands On Wednesday's Access Utah

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands’ latest book is “Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants” It tells the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy.
5/1/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Yoga: Past, Present And Future On Tuesday's Access Utah

Yoga is growing in popularity in the U.S. There were 36 million practitioners (or ~9% of the population) in 2016, up from 20.4 million in 2012, and 28% of Americans have participated in a yoga class at some point in their lives. (Yoga Journal 2016 U.S. Market Research Study). We’ll talk about Yoga, past, present and future on Tuesday’s Access Utah. Our guests include Emily Perry, Director of Yoga Studies at USU; Chantel Gerfen, Owner of Transcend Yoga Studio in Logan; Jennifer Sinor, USU Professor of English, who has been practicing yoga for ~20 years; and Michael Sowder, Poet, USU Professor of English, and affiliated faculty member in USU’s Religious Studies Program and its Yoga Studies Program, where he teaches a course on the History of Yoga.
4/30/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting Willa Cather's 'My Antonia' On Monday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, as a part of “Our Favorite Books” series, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Willa Cather’s “My Antonia.” Tom Williams’ guests include Cather scholars and USU professors Evelyn Funda and Steve Shively. Funda says that “My Antonia” is fresh and contemporary and raises issues about immigration, assimilation, class and female power that resonate today. We also talk about Funda’s mother, also named Antonia, who escaped her native Czechoslovakia in 1955 as the Communist Iron Curtain closed in.
4/29/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Feather Thief' With Kirk Wallace Johnson On Thursday's Access Utah

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness.
4/25/201954 minutes, 5 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Library Book' With Susan Orlean On Wednesday's Access Utah

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
4/24/201954 minutes
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After #MeToo: A New Frontier On Tuesday's Access Utah

The Utah Women’s Giving Circle’s upcoming Spring Dialogue is titled “After #MeToo: A New Frontier.” The Utah Women’s Giving Circle says that their members want “to take the awareness generated by #MeToo to drive the conversation forward into solution and a new standard, answering the question,
4/23/201954 minutes, 4 seconds
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Celebrating The National Parks For Earth Day On Monday's Access Utah

Every year for Earth Day, we talk about the earth with writer and photographerStephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America,” and many other books. This time, we’ll also be talking to retired Westminster professor David Stanley and former National Park Service naturalist and planner Greer Chesher. All are editors of books in the ongoingNational Park Reader Series published by University of Utah Press. We’ll explore the literature surrounding the national parks and talk about overcrowding, crumbling infrastructure, national park policy and much more.
4/22/201954 minutes
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'Superlative: The Biology Of Extremes' With Matthew LaPlante On Thursday's Access Utah

The world's largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms.
4/18/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Wednesday's Access Utah

We’re heartened by all the good being done in our communities by dedicated individuals and nonprofits. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help but don’t know where and how. Today we’re opening the phone lines, email and Twitter to give you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
4/17/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'In A Rugged Land' With James Swensen On Tuesday's Access Utah

Though photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, most of their work portrays contrasting subject matter. Lange’s artistic photodocumentation set a new aesthetic standard for social commentary; Adams lit up nature’s wonders with an unfailing eye and preeminent technical skill. That they joined together to photograph Mormons in Utah in the early 1950s for Life magazine may come as a surprise.
4/16/201954 minutes, 6 seconds
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The Extraordinary New Science Of The Immune System With Matt Richtel On Monday's Access Utah

A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical marvel defies HIV. Two women with autoimmunity discover their own bodies have turned against them. Matt Richtel's An Elegant Defense uniquely entwines these intimate stories with science's centuries-long quest to unlock the mysteries of sickness and health, and illuminates the immune system as never before.
4/15/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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'The Storm On Our Shores' With Mark Obmascik On Thursday's Access Utah

May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American and Japanese forces were tirelessly fighting in a yearlong campaign, and both sides would suffer thousands of casualties.
4/11/201954 minutes, 21 seconds
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Revisiting Ogden's '25th Street Confidential' With Val Holley On Wednesday's Access Utah

Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden—known in its first century as a “gambling hell” and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row—by the street’s gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street’s decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists. In the same preservationist spirit as Denver’s Larimer Square, today’s 25th Street is home to art galleries, fine dining, live theater, street festivals, mixed-use condominiums, and the Utah State Railroad Museum.
4/10/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Born Criminal': Women's Suffrage With Angelica Shirley Carpenter On Tuesday's Access Utah

Here is the opening passage from Angelica Shirley Carpenter’s book “Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist:”
4/9/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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What Are You Reading On Monday's Access Utah

We’re compiling another UPR Community Booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now? What is the best book you’ve read so far this year? Which books are you suggesting to friends and family? We’d love to hear about any book you’re reading, including in the young adult & children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome.
4/8/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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'Native But Foreign' With Brenden Rensink On Thursday's Access Utah

“Northern Indigenous Crees were native to Montana and the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line, Crees became asylum-seekers on their own lands 150 years ago. Though some were granted political refugee status, Crees were still denied basic rights. Instead, many were killed, ignored and deported on both sides of the border. … The Chippewa Cree story is little-known outside the tribe, but it echoes the uncertainty in the immigration crises the US faces today.”
4/4/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country' With Pam Houston On Wednesday's Access Utah

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect.
4/3/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting The Surprising, Secret Life Of Beavers & Why They Matter With Ben Goldfarb On Access Utah

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver Believers”—including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens—recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them. From the Nevada deserts to the Scottish highlands, Believers are now hard at work restoring these industrious rodents to their former haunts. Eager is a powerful story about one of the world’s most influential species, how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. Ultimately, it’s about how we can learn to coexist with our fellow travelers on this planet.
4/2/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting 'A History Of America In 100 Maps' With Susan Schulten On Monday's Access Utah

Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.
4/1/201953 minutes, 55 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On Music And More With Craig Jessop

Today on the final day of UPR’s Spring Pledge Drive, my Access Utah co-host is Craig Jessop, Dean of the USU Caine College of the Arts, and Music Director of the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra. We’ll present a portion of a recent interview with eminent historian Joseph Ellis, author most recently of “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us.” We’ll also hear a segment from an interview with ecologist Jeremy Jackson, co-author of “Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises.” And we’ll hear part of Lee Austin’s interview with Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac.
3/28/201953 minutes, 35 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On Food And Folklore With Lynne McNeill

Folklorist and USU Assistant Professor of English Lynne McNeill joins me for this special pledge drive edition of the program. We’ll hear a segment from a recent episode featuring Chef Nephi Craig, founder of the Native American Culinary Association. We’ll also feature a portion of one of our most memorable episodes, an interview (from 2011) with Utah author Lee Cantwell. His novel “Mother George” tries to flesh out an incredible true story for which there is little information: Mother George was a black midwife who practiced her art in a small southeastern Idaho town for 40 years. When she died around 1919, the women dressing her for burial discovered that she was a man. We’ll also hear an episode from our Bread & Butter series.
3/27/20190
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Best Of Access Utah On The Changing Media Landscape With Lee Austin

On this special pledge drive edition of Access Utah. My co-host is Access Utah founding host and former UPR Program Director Lee Austin. We’ll feature new conversations with USU Associate Professor of Journalism Matthew LaPlante and BBC host Dan Damon. We’ll be talking about the media landscape in the U.S. and the U.K. We’ll also talk about all the latest twists and turns in the Brexit saga.
3/26/201943 minutes, 22 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On Land And The Environment With Ken Sanders

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite recent episodes of the program. We’ll hear from Amy Irvine, Regina Whiteskunk Lopez and Kirsten Johanna Allen, talking about themes in Amy Irvine’s book “Desert Cabal,” which is a response to Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire.” Ken Sanders was a friend of Edward Abbey. We’ll also present part of an interview with another of Ken Sanders’ friends, legendary river-runner Ken Sleight, talking about Glen Canyon. We’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah continues strong.
3/25/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On Reaching Across The Aisle With Jason Gilmore

On the first day of UPR’s Spring Pledge Drive Tom Williams and co-host USU Communications Studies Assistant Professor Jason Gilmore will present parts of several recent Access Utah interviews: We’ll hear some of our listeners expressing opposing viewpoints. StoryCorps founder David Isay will urge us to try to overcome our differences by truly listening to each other. And we’ll talk about UPR’s upcoming partnership with StoryCorps in their One Small Step initiative, which invites two strangers to share life stories across a political divide. Finally, we'll hear from Richard Saunders on the way contemporary contexts inform our understanding of history.
3/21/201954 minutes, 6 seconds
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Mahler's Third Symphony On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah: the music of Gustav Mahler from his Third Symphony. Our guests include USU Music Professor Sergio Bernal, Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini with Vienna Hofmusikkapelle, and mezzo-soprano and USU Alumna Tamara Mumford of Metropolitan Opera. Immerse yourself in a universe of awakenings, nature, humankind, and eternity envisioned by Mahler, a composer for whom ''a symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.''
3/20/201954 minutes, 4 seconds
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Climate Science With Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel On Tuesday's Access Utah

Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel is Director of Climate Science for the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She will be in Utah later this week for events in Salt Lake City and Ogden. She says we can adapt to and reduce risks from changing weather patterns and other consequences of releasing heat-trapping emissions to the atmosphere, and that we can switch to a lower emissions trajectory. Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel will give us specific examples for Utah on the program today.
3/19/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Understanding Utah History Through Juanita Brooks With Richard Saunders On Monday's Access Utah

Richard Saunders is librarian and professor of history at Southern Utah University. He has written widely on the Mormons and American history topics. He will deliver the 36th annual Juanita Brooks lecture on Thursday, March 28, at 7:00 p.m. in Cox Auditorium on the campus of Dixie State University in St. George.
3/18/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Homecomers: Returning To Rural Roots With Michele Anderson On Thursday's Access Utah

Michele Anderson says “I am what you might call a ‘homecomer.’ Wendell Berry, the Kentucky writer and farmer, uses that word to describe people who have spent some time away, usually to pursue better opportunities in cities, and then choose to return to their rural roots.” Her recent opinion piece in the New York Times is headlined “Go Home to Your ‘Dying’ Hometown.” Michele Anderson says “I did, and it isn’t what I expected. I am more involved in social and racial justice, economic development and feminism than I ever was in a big city.”
3/14/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Gift Of Failure' With Jessica Lahey On Wednesday's Access Utah

Jessica Lahey’s The Gift of Failure focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults.
3/13/201954 minutes
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'Be Surrounded By Poems': Naomi Shihab Nye On Tuesday's Access Utah

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye says “I grew up in Ferguson, Mo. No one ever heard of it, unless you lived elsewhere in St. Louis County. Then my family moved to Palestine – my father’s first home. A friend says, ‘Your parents really picked the garden spots.’ In Ferguson, an invisible line separated white and black communities. In Jerusalem, a no-man’s land separated people, designated by barbed wire.
3/12/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Anatomy Of A Soldier' With Harry Parker On Monday's Access Utah

Here is the unforgettable story of Captain Tom Barnes, whom we first meet as he is leading British troops in Afghanistan. We then meet two young Afghani boys—and the man who trains one of them to fight against the infidel invaders. Finally, there are the family and friends who radiate out from these lives: the people on all sides of a war where virtually everyone is caught up in something unthinkable. But this novel regards them not as they see themselves but as the objects surrounding them do: a helmet, a bag of fertilizer, a beer glass, dog tags—and a horrific improvised explosive device that binds them all together by blowing one of them apart. A work of extraordinary humanity and hope, Anatomy of a Soldier takes its place among the great novels that articulate the lives of soldiers. In the boom of an instant, we see things we’ve never understood so clearly before.
3/11/201954 minutes, 1 second
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'Prairie Fires: The American Dreams Of Laura Ingalls Wilder' With Caroline Fraser on Access Utah

Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls―the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true saga of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser―the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series―masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder’s biography. Revealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books.
3/7/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Apache Chef Nephi Craig On Wednesday's Access Utah

Native American Culinary Association founder, Chef Nephi Craig, is visiting Utah State University to conduct a series of foods presentations and deliver a lecture on his work with the “Three Sisters” of Native American cuisine—beans, corn and squash—and to teach nutrition and share cultural heritage.
3/6/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Dementia Dialogues On Tuesday's Access Utah

More than 5 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease; including 30,000 in Utah who along with their 152,000 family caregivers face the highest rate per capita of the disease in the nation. In 2015, the Utah State Legislature declared Alzheimer’s a public health crisis, directing the Utah Department of Health to coordinate and implement the state’s response to this growing crisis.
3/5/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'The Montana Vigilantes' With Mark Dillon On Monday's Access Utah

Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.
3/4/201953 minutes, 54 seconds
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Revisiting 'Sacred Smokes' With Ted Van Alst On Thursday's Access Utah

Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians. He will be in readers’ heads for a long time to come.
2/28/201954 minutes, 11 seconds
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'If We Can Keep It' With Michael Tomasky On Wednesday's Access Utah

Why has American politics fallen into such a state of horrible dysfunction? Can it ever be fixed? These are the questions that motivate Michael Tomasky’s deeply original examination into the origins of our hopelessly polarized nation. “One of America’s finest political commentators” (Michael J. Sandel), Tomasky ranges across centuries and disciplines to show how America has almost always had two dominant parties that are existentially, and often violently, opposed. When he turns to our current era, he does so with striking insight that will challenge readers to reexamine what they thought they knew. Finally, not content merely to diagnose these problems, Tomasky offers a provocative agenda for how we can help fix our broken political system―from ranked-choice voting and at-large congressional elections to expanding high school civics education nationwide.
2/27/201954 minutes
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'Olio' With Tyehimba Jess On Tuesday's Access Utah

Tyehimba Jess is winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book “Olio.” With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Jess presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, his much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. “Olio” is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them.
2/26/201954 minutes
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Desert Cabal: Expanding The Desert Narrative On Monday's Access Utah

How can the stories we tell protect the places we love? Friends of Cedar Mesa and Torrey House Press are presenting a conversation on the unique ways desert communities can organize around and diversify narratives to protect Utah’s red rock landscapes. Desert Cabal Expanding the Desert Narrative is Friday, March 1 at 7 PM at the Bears Ears Education Center,
2/25/201954 minutes
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Revisiting 'American Dialogue' With Historian Joseph Ellis On Thursday's Access Utah

The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present In his new book “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis focuses on the often-asked question “What would the Founding Fathers think?” He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today’s political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.
2/21/201954 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting 'Bridge Of Clay' With Markus Zusak On Wednesday's Access Utah

“Bridge of Clay” is the new sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, author of the international bestseller “The Book Thief,” which swept the world and was made into a movie.
2/20/201953 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Logan Notebooks' With Poet Rebecca Lindenberg On Tuesday's Access Utah

Clouds, Mountains, Birds, Different Ways of Speaking. Things That Matter, and Things That Do Not Matter. Things Found in a Local Grocery Store. Things Found in The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Billboards, Clouds. One Week in April. Beautiful Things. Fires.
2/19/201953 minutes, 56 seconds
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Breakpoint: Reckoning With America's Environmental Crises: Jeremy Jackson On Thursday's Access Utah

In their new book “Breakpoint: Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises,” eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple examine the looming threats from recent hurricanes and fires, industrial agriculture, river mismanagement, extreme weather events, drought, and rising sea levels that, they say, are pushing the country toward the breaking point of ecological and economic collapse.
2/14/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'This Blessed Earth' With Ted Genoways On Wednesday's Access Utah

For forty years, Rick Hammond has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation farm. But as he prepares to hand off the operation to his daughter Meghan and her husband Kyle, their entire way of life is under siege. Confronted by rising corporate ownership, encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, climate change, and shifting trade policies, small farmers are often caught in the middle and fighting just to preserve their way of life. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, This Blessed Earth is both a history of American agriculture and a portrait of one family’s struggle to hold on to their legacy.
2/13/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Carry Forth The Stories' With Ethnographer Rodney Frey On Tuesday's Access Utah

Author and ethnographer Rodney Frey won the 2018 Evans Handcart Award from Utah State University's Mountain West Center for Regional Studies for his book Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer’s Journey into Native Oral Tradition (Washington State University Press, 2017).
2/12/201953 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting 'A Bestiary' With Lily Hoang On Monday's Access Utah

Lily Hoang’s latest book is “A Bestiary,” In this genre-transcending work, selected by Wayne Koestenbaum as the winner of the 2015 Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Essay Collection, Hoang teases apart mythology, familial memory, and investigative essay into searing fragments, then weaves them into a dazzling swarm. Hoang models her postcolonial bestiary on the Chinese zodiac—“A pack of dogs. A swarm of insects. A mischief of rats./ You desire the human equivalent”—and uses it to represent such concepts as fidelity, beauty, and “the disgust of desire.” In doing so, she confronts such topics as feminine subjection, familial suffering due to assimilation (“‘Vietnamese women suffer better than all other people,’ my mother used to tell me”), and a sister’s addiction and death with a precision that is by turns vulnerable and justly incensed. Hoang subverts the moralizing tendencies of folklore to form a new hybrid mythology that, like all belief systems, reassures the believer—and the reader—that human vulnerability is undergirded by a sense of mutual care. “In order to join the collective, you must un-become, lose your face and skin, eject your identity,” she writes. “This is called belonging.” In Hoang’s mutinous cosmos, time warps and dilates to link ruptures between games and reality, the living and the dead, pain internalized and sickness expressed.
2/11/201953 minutes, 51 seconds
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Crisis On The Colorado River With Jim Robbins On Thursday's Access Utah

A recent article in the online magazine Yale Environment 360 is headlined “The West’s Great River Hits Its Limits: Will the Colorado Run Dry?” And the sub-headline: “As the Southwest faces rapid growth and unrelenting drought, the Colorado River is in crisis, with too many demands on its diminishing flow. Now those who depend on the river must confront the hard reality that their supply of Colorado water may be cut off.”
2/7/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Never Again Is Now': Ann Burroughs On Japanese Internment On Wednesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour is Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and newly elected chair of the Global Assembly of Amnesty Interational. She gave the keynote speech for the Tanner Center for Human Rights lecture series on August 30th at the University of Utah. The title of her lecture was "Never Again is Now: Remembering and Reaffirming Our Collective Commitment to Protecting Civil Rights."
2/6/201953 minutes, 58 seconds
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Is Polarizing Partisanship The New Normal? Sen. Jeff Flake And Scott Howell On Tuesday's Access Utah

The USU Institute of Government and Politics’ Foxley Forum presented a talk by former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake yesterday titled “Is Polarizing Partisanship the New Normal?”
2/5/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting The Ephemeral And Living Nature Of Folklore With Kay Turner On Monday's Access Utah

In the age of the Nano-second, folklore studies claim a perspective on the critical importance of the short-lived, as observed in numerous traditional forms such as memorial altars, henna-painted Yemen brides, and evaporative moments, such as the traces left by marginalized queer encounters or the reformulation in art of Mormon legend by local Provo artist Bryan Hutchison.
2/4/201954 minutes, 4 seconds
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'The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee' With David Treuer On Thursday's Access Utah

The received idea of Native American history–as promulgated by books like Dee Brown’s mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee–has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well.
1/31/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Chesapeake Requiem' With Earl Swift On Wednesday's Access Utah

Earl Swift began writing for a living in his teens. In the years since, the Virginia-based journalist has penned seven books and hundreds of major features for newspapers and magazines, and has earned a reputation for fast-moving narrative and scrupulous reporting. His editors have nominated his work for the National Book Award, the National Magazine Award, and six times for a Pulitzer Prize.
1/30/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Chasing Ice' With James Balog On Tuesday's Access Utah

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.
1/29/201954 minutes, 1 second
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The 2019 Legislative Session Opens On Monday's Access Utah

On opening day of the 2019 Utah Legislature we’re at the State Capitol. We’ll speak with Utah Governor Gary Herbert; Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers; Senate Minority Leader Karen Mayne; House Executive Appropriations Chair Brad Last and House Minority Leader Brian King. We’ll discuss propositions approved by the voters last year on medical marijuana, medicaid expansion, and redistricting. We’ll also talk about air quality, education, the budget, taxes and more.
1/28/20191 hour, 20 seconds
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Southern Utah Clean Air Forum: Legislation For A Brighter Future On Thursday's Access Utah

An event titled the “Southern Utah Clean Air Forum” was held recently in St. George. It was billed as “a discussion of proposed federal, state & local legislation focused on reducing energy emissions to improve our health and our children’s futures.” As we head toward the opening of the Utah Legislature next week, we’ll talk about clean air and the climate with three of the panelists from the forum on Thursday’s Access Utah.
1/24/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'All Better Now' With Emily Wing Smith On Wednesday's Access Utah

All her life, Emily felt different from other kids. Between therapist visits, sudden uncontrollable bursts of anger, and unexplained episodes of dizziness, things never felt right. For years, her only escape was through the stories she crafted. It wasn’t until a near-fatal accident when she was twelve years old that Emily and her family discovered the truth: a grapefruit-size brain tumor at the base of her skull. In her memoir, “All Better Now,” Utah writer Emily Wing Smith chronicles her struggles with both mental and physical disabilities, the devastating accident that may have saved her life, and her way through it all: writing.
1/23/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting 'Out Of The Woods: Seeing Nature In The Everyday' With Julia Corbett On Access Utah

In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions.
1/22/201954 minutes, 2 seconds
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Utah Women 20/20: The Women's Wave On Thursday's Access Utah

Here’s what organizers of the national Women’s March are saying: “The 2017 Women’s March inspired hundreds of women to run, millions more to vote, and dozens to win elected office. The 2019 Women’s March marks two years of resistance to the Trump presidency, two years of training new activists, and two years of building power. And this time, we're coming back with an agenda. … The #WomensWave is coming.”
1/17/201954 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting 'Making Oscar Wilde' With Michele Mendelssohn On Wednesday's Access Utah

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. 'Success is a science,' Wilde believed, 'if you have the conditions, you get the result.'
1/16/201954 minutes, 22 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Crime Of Complicity' With Amos Guiora On Tuesday's Access Utah

If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough?
1/15/201954 minutes
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Utah Women 20/20: Utah Women In Leadership & Higher Education On Monday's Access Utah

Utah Valley University professor Susan Madsen has been focusing for several years now on helping more women graduate from college and helping more girls and women in Utah become leaders in their organizations and communities. She is the founder and director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project at UVU.
1/14/201954 minutes, 4 seconds
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'The Library Book' With Susan Orlean On Thursday's Access Utah

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
1/10/201953 minutes, 57 seconds
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'Sagebrush Collaboration' With Peter Walker On Wednesday's Access Utah

Every American is co-owner of the most magnificent estate in the world—federal public forests, grazing lands, monuments, national parks, wildlife refuges, and other public places. The writer Wallace Stegner famously referred to public lands as “America’s best idea,” but there have always been some who oppose the idea for ideological reasons, or because they have a vested economic interest. In the current decade, federal public lands have been under physical threat as never before, with armed standoffs and takeovers that the US government has proved stunningly unsuccessful at prosecuting in federal courts.
1/10/201953 minutes, 51 seconds
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The Government Shutdown's Impact On Utah On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah: As the federal government shutdown continues with no end in sight, we talk about its effects in Utah. We look at effects on government employees and how the shutdown is affecting Utah’s national parks, among other topics. And we want to hear from you. Is the shutdown affecting you? What do you think should be done? Continue the conversation at upraccess@gmail.com.
1/8/201953 minutes, 50 seconds
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'In A Rugged Land' With James Swensen On Monday's Access Utah

Though photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, most of their work portrays contrasting subject matter. Lange’s artistic photodocumentation set a new aesthetic standard for social commentary; Adams lit up nature’s wonders with an unfailing eye and preeminent technical skill. That they joined together to photograph Mormons in Utah in the early 1950s for Life magazine may come as a surprise.In a Rugged Land examines the history and content of the two photographers’ forgotten collaboration Three Mormon Towns. Looking at Adams’s and Lange’s photographs, extant letters, and personal memories, the book provides a window into an important moment in their careers and seeks to understand why a project that once held such promise ended in disillusionment and is now little more than a footnote in their illustrative biographies. Swensen’s in-depth research and interpretation help make sense of what they did and place them alongside others who were also exploring the particular qualities of the Mormon village at that time.
1/7/201953 minutes, 54 seconds
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Digital Trends Of 2018 On Thursday's Access Utah

It’s the top Digital Trends of 2018, from the fun to the profound, on the next Access Utah. We’ll talk about the “Me Voting in 2016 vs. Me Voting in 2018” and “My Culture is Not Your Prom Dress” memes along with explorations in the digital world of #MeToo and toxic masculinity and, yes, we’ll probably end up talking about cats as well. Our guests are the co-directors of the USU Digital Folklore Project, USU English Department Head Jeannie Thomas and USU Assistant Professor of English Lynne McNeill.
1/3/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Heirs Of The Founders' With H.W. Brands On Wednesday's Access Utah

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands’ latest book is “Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, The Second Generation of American Giants” It tells the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy.
1/2/201953 minutes, 59 seconds
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Holiday Music And Stories On Thursday's Access Utah Special

The holiday season is time for special music old and new. It’s also time for wonderful stories humorous and poignant. We’ll hear music for the season performed by the Lightwood Duo (Mike Christiansen on guitar and Eric Nelson on clarinet). We’ll also hear readings for the season by the author of The Christmas Chronicles, playwright Tim Slover.
12/13/201855 minutes
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'Look Both Ways' With Katharine Coles On Wednesday's Access Utah

Walter Link and Miriam Wollaeger, a young geologist couple in 1920s Wisconsin, set out to find oil to supply the surging U.S. demand. This exciting work will allow them to build their lives in South and Central America, Indonesia, and Cuba. But from the first posting in Columbia, they quickly discover that no women are working in the field in these places. While Walter faces the hardships and thrills of exploration in the jungles and mountains, and eventually becomes chief geologist for Standard Oil, Miriam is left behind in the colonial capitals during Walter’s often lengthy times away. She defines herself through the limited means left to a woman within their small societies: playing bridge or polo by day and dancing into the wee hours with early KLM pilots, diplomats, and the footloose sons of moneyed Americans and the European aristocracies. She also raises three children, has intimate involvements, learns the local languages, and takes up teaching. But she is not satisfied. And finally she does something about it.
12/12/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Climate Science And Activism On Tuesday's Access Utah

At a recent Climate Change Town Hall in Logan, USU physicist and climate researcher Dr. Rob Davies invited audience members to share their stories of environmental change and activism. He encouraged brainstorming possible solutions to climate change and acknowledged the power of an individual to effect change in the world, even though “often we’re paralyzed, we’re passive because we don’t see the whole path to the finish line.”
12/11/201850 minutes, 48 seconds
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Utah Women 20/20: Women University And College Presidents On Monday's Access Utah

This is a unique moment for Utah. Five colleges and universities in the state now have women presidents, several for the first time. These institutions include Utah State University, University of Utah, Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College, and Westminster College. As a part of our UPR Original Series Utah Women 20/20, we’ll talk with three of those presidents on Monday’s Access Utah. We’ll explore what this means for Utah and for these universities and colleges. Our guests will include USU President Noelle E. Cockett, UVU President Astrid S. Tuminez, and SLCC President Deneece G. Huftalin.
12/10/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'The Peach And The Coconut': Bridging Cultural Divides With Scott Hammond On Thursday's Access Utah

When we encounter conflict with another culture, we get confused, frustrated, offended, or even angry.
12/6/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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What Are You Reading? Wednesday's Access Utah

As we head into the holidays we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now? What is the best book you’ve read this year? Which books would you suggest as gifts? We’d love to hear about any book you’re reading, including in the young adult & children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome.
12/5/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Surprising, Secret Life Of Beavers And Why They Matter: Ben Goldfarb On Tuesday's Access Utah

In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver Believers”—including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens—recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those without them. From the Nevada deserts to the Scottish highlands, Believers are now hard at work restoring these industrious rodents to their former haunts. Eager is a powerful story about one of the world’s most influential species, how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries, and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages of climate change. Ultimately, it’s about how we can learn to coexist with our fellow travelers on this planet.
12/4/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'A History Of America In 100 Maps' With Susan Schulten On Monday's Access Utah

Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.
12/3/201849 minutes, 21 seconds
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Balancing Global Development And Conservation With Joseph Kiesecker On Thursday's Access Utah

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of the energy sector are preparing to meet this demand by increasing renewable energy production, which is necessary to combat climate change. But many renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity and conservation. Is it possible to meet this rise in energy demand, while still conserving natural places and species?
11/29/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Boys In The Boat' With Daniel James Brown On Wednesday's Access Utah

Daniel James Brown’s bestseller “The Boys in the Boat” is a story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
11/28/201853 minutes, 55 seconds
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Revisiting 'Humans Think. Animals Feel,' With Pet Psychic Patty Rayman On Access Utah

Patty Rayman was born with the ability to communicate with animals and has helped thousands of people resolve many types of behavior, health, attitude and relationship issues with their animal companions. In working with all types of animals, she has developed techniques to help people move from conflict to cooperation in their relationships.
11/27/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Chasing Coral' With Zack Rago On Monday's Access Utah

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. We’ve lost 50% of the world’s coral in the last 30 years. Scientists say that climate change is now their greatest threat and it is estimated that only 10% can survive past 2050. In a new documentary film, “Chasing Coral,” a team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why coral are vanishing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
11/26/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting 'American Wolf' With Nate Blakeslee On Wednesday's Access Utah

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves.
11/21/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Tuesday's Access Utah

There are many needs in our communities, and there are dedicated individuals and nonprofits working to meet those needs. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help but don’t know where and how. Next time on Access Utah we’re opening the phone lines, email and Twitter to give you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
11/20/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting StoryCorps With Founder David Isay On Monday's Access Utah

StoryCorps founder David Isay joins Tom Williams for Monday's Access Utah. David Isay is editor of several books from StoryCorps including “Listening Is an Act of Love.” He’ll talk about the power of listening and the importance of each life story. StoryCorps’ mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
11/19/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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'The Weight Of Shadows' With José Orduña On Thursday's Access Utah

In his memoir, “The Weight of Shadows,” José Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities—rooted in the continuity of US imperialism to globalism—form the landscape of Orduña’s daily experience, where the geopolitical meets the quotidian. In one anecdote, he recalls how the only apartment his parents could rent was one that didn’t require signing a lease or running a credit check, where the floors were so crooked he once dropped an orange and watched it roll in six directions before settling in a corner. Orduña describes the absurd feeling of being handed a piece of paper—his naturalization certificate—that guarantees something he has always known: he has every right to be here. An exploration of race, class, and identity, “The Weight of Shadows” is a meditation on the nature of political, linguistic, and cultural borders, and the meaning of “America.”
11/15/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Writing Obituaries On Wednesday's Access Utah

How do you sum up a life? What do you include and what do you leave out? Heather Lende, author of the new book "Find the Good," is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in a beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska. She says "we are all writing our own obituary every day by how we live." Shanan Ballam, who teaches Creative Writing at Utah State University, wrote her brother Dylan's obituary. She felt that the obituary was not enough--it left too much unsaid. So she's been writing "addendum" poems, to "more fully characterize, celebrate, and mourn [her] brother."
11/14/201853 minutes, 48 seconds
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'Battle Over Bears Ears' On Tuesday's Access Utah

At its heart, it’s a battle for homeland and sovereignty. Bears Ears, a remote section of land characterized by its distinctive red cliffs and abundance of juniper and sage, is at the center of a fight over who has a say in how Western landscapes are protected and managed. “Battle Over Bears Ears,” a new documentary film, explores the deep connections to place and the vast cultural divides that are fueling the fight over how the Bears Ears Monument is protected and managed. Whose voices are heard, whose are lost, and how do all sides find common ground in this uncommon place?
11/13/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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American Dialogue: Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Joseph Ellis On Monday's Access Utah

The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present In his new book “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis focuses on the often-asked question “What would the Founding Fathers think?” He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today’s political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.
11/12/201853 minutes, 56 seconds
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'Sacred Smokes' With Ted Van Alst On Access Utah

Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians. He will be in readers’ heads for a long time to come.
11/8/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Election Recap With Damon Cann On Wednesday's Access Utah

The midterm elections are (mostly) in the books. The Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives and made some inroads in governorships and state legislatures. The Republicans expanded their majority in the U.S. Senate. In Utah, Mitt Romney became Senator-elect, the race for the 4th Congressional District is too close to call. Several of the Propositions on the ballot appear headed for passage. And turnout was extremely high. We recap the elections and look ahead with Damon Cann, USU Professor of Political Science.
11/7/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting 'I'll Tell You What' With Advice Columnist Ann Cannon On Tuesday's Access Utah

The King’s English Bookshop (TKE) has published a collection of Ann Cannon’s Salt Lake Tribune columns. It’s titled “I’ll Tell You What.” Ann Cannon joins us for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah.
11/6/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting 'Becoming Wise' With Krista Tippett On Monday's Access Utah

“I’m a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I’ve learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations.” That’s Krista Tippett, host of “On Being” (heard on UPR Sunday evenings at 5:00) talking about her new book “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living” Tippett has interviewed many of the most profound voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time.
11/5/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'War And The Human Heart' On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we're previewing an upcoming concert, War and the Human Heart: Songs of Battle, Loss, and Love commemorating the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day and honoring veterans. We'll speak with Jeffrey Gettleman, an attorney in the Chicago area, who is the artistic director and producer of the concert. Our other guest is Craig Jessop, Music Director of the American Festival Chorus & Orchestra.
11/1/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Utah Women 20/20: Women Running For Office On Wednesday's Access Utah

Record numbers of women are running for office and engaged in the political process this year. We’ll ask why? And is this temporary or a lasting trend? What will all this mean this year and going forward? As a part of the UPR Original Series, Utah Women 20/20, we’ll discuss these issues on Wednesday’s Access Utah. Our guests will include Patricia Jones, former state senator and current CEO of the Women’s Leadership Institute; Erin Jemison, Director of Public Policy at YWCA Utah; and Debbie Walsh, Director of the Center for American Women in Politics.
10/31/201853 minutes, 50 seconds
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'Napoleon: A Life' With Historian Adam Zamoyski On Tuesday's Access Utah

"What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic.The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon: A Life brilliantly sets the man in his European context.
10/30/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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The Long History Of Witchcraft In Western Civilization: Julia Gossard On Monday's Access Utah

Julia Gossard, assistant professor of history at Utah State University, says that since thousands of witch trials took place across Europe and North America, one stereotypical image of an early modern woman is that of a witch. Gossard teaches a class called “Witches, Workers, & Wives,” which examines attitudes, ideas, and stereotypes about gender, sexuality, and power - including how the witch became a quintessential early modern trope. Julia Gossard is giving a presentation on Halloween for the USU Center for Women and Gender. Her presentation is titled “Witchy Women: The Long History of Witchcraft in Western Civilization.” It will be held in the USU Merrill-Cazier Library Room 101 at noon on October 31st.
10/29/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Between War And Here: Anne Garrels, Neal Conan, And Carolyn Surrick On Thursday's Access Utah

War is not an abstraction. And the wounds of war don’t stop at the warrior. They reverberate through families and communities. The salient question remains “When does war end?” For veterans and their families and loved ones the answer is complex. “Between War & Here” is a new collaboration between journalists and musicians, exploring honor, courage, loss, and hope, with music, poetry, and memoir.
10/25/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Back Cast' With Author Jeff Metcalf On Wednesday's Access Utah

In his new book “Back Cast: Fly Fishing and Other Such Matters” Jeff Metcalf writes: “These waters have been my home, and I fish them more than most. In truth, they have saved my life on more than a few occasions. I seek refuge in the quiet solitude of rivers, and in dark hours of my life—including this particular year—I need desperately to be fly-fishing." Metcalf’s play “A Slight Discomfort,” is a humorous take on his battle with prostate cancer. And a previous award-winning collection of essays, “Requiem for the Living,” resulted from a challenge Metcalf gave himself when presented with a dire prognosis with his cancer: writing one essay each week for a year. Metcalf volunteers with Reel Recovery, an organization that conducts retreats for men living with cancer. He says that it’s important for men to learn to talk about their cancers and their lives.
10/24/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Almost Everything: Notes On Hope' With Author Anne Lamott On Tuesday's Access Utah

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives.
10/23/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting 'Bearskin' With Author James McLaughlin On Monday's Access Utah

James A. McLaughlin grew up in rural Virginia and lives in the Wasatch Range east of Salt Lake City. His debut novel “Bearskin” is getting rave reviews. He joins us for the hour next time on Access Utah.
10/22/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Rep. Mia Love Calls On Ben McAdams To Withdraw And More On Behind The Headlines

Rep. Mia Love says the Federal Election Commission has cleared her of illegal fundraising and that her challenger, Ben McAdams, is unethical and should withdraw from the race. Also, four women ask the Utah Supreme Court to assign a special prosecutor to sexual assault cases that the Salt Lake County District Attorney's office declined to pursue. And the story of an unsolved murder from 1978 shows how evidence is maintained--and how cold cases are investigated today.
10/19/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Our Favorite Books: Willa Cather's My Antonia On Thursday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, as a part of “Our Favorite Books” series, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Willa Cather’s “My Antonia.” Tom Williams’ guests include Cather scholars and USU professors Evelyn Funda and Steve Shively. Funda says that “My Antonia” is fresh and contemporary and raises issues about immigration, assimilation, class and female power that resonate today. We also talk about Funda’s mother, also named Antonia, who escaped her native Czechoslovakia in 1955 as the Communist Iron Curtain closed in.
10/18/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Kavanaugh, Midterms, & Today's Political Climate With Scott Howell & Thomas Wright On Access Utah

Scott Howell and Thomas Wright, co-chairs of the Utah Debate Commission will join me to talk about the debates, which are airing on Utah Public Radio, and the political climate in Utah and the nation as we head into the midterm elections, now less than three weeks away. Scott Howell is a former state senator and senate minority leader, and candidate for the U.S. Senate. Howell is CEO Howell Consulting Group and a retired IBM Executive. Thomas Wright is former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and current President & Principal Broker, Summit Sotheby’s International Realty. Wright is one of eight chairpeople of the Republican National Committee.
10/17/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Judge' Documentary With Director Erika Cohn On Tuesday's Access Utah

Religious courts in the Middle East had historically banned women from adjudicating domestic and family matters - in both the Shari'a courts of Islam and the Rabbinic courts of Judaism -until Kholoud Al-Faqih, dares to challenge that history. With the support of a progressive Sheik, Kholoud becomes the first woman judge with her appointment to a Palestinian Shari'a court in the West Bank, bringing a subtle new perspective garnered from her early professional life working with battered women as an attorney in both the criminal and Shari'a courts.
10/16/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting 'West Like Lightning' With Jim DeFelice On Monday's Access Utah

On Monday's Access Utah, Jim DeFelice joins us to talk about his new book “West Like Lightning: The Brief Legendary Ride of the Pony Express."
10/15/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Last Cowboys' With Author John Branch On Thursday's Access Utah

For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders ― some call them the most successful rodeo family in history.
10/11/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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God & Smog: Scholars & Religious Leaders Discuss Preserving Our Planet On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we're speaking with Margaret Barker, Dr. David Haberman, and Anuttama Dasa, panelists at the conference God & Smog: The Challenge of Preserving Our Planet. The conference is taking place today in the USU John M. Huntsman School of Business Perry Pavilion until 5 p.m.
10/10/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Supreme Stakes: Understanding Sexual Violence On Access Utah And Utah Women 20/20

A coalition of faculty and students at USU have come together to organize a day-long discussion of sexual violence, in order to understand the issues that informed the Kavanaugh hearings and investigation. This teach-in will happen on Tuesday, October 9 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the USU Anthropology Museum (Old Main 252) on the USU campus.
10/9/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Bridge Of Clay' With Author Markus Zusak On Monday's Access Utah

“Bridge of Clay” is the new sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, author of the international bestseller “The Book Thief,” which swept the world and was made into a movie.
10/8/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting 'Chosen Country: A Rebellion In The West' With James Pogue On Thursday's Access Utah

In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Pogue met ranchers and militiamen ready to die fighting the federal government.
10/4/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Ephemeral And Living Nature Of Folklore With Dr. Kay Turner On Wednesday's Access Utah

In the age of the Nano-second, folklore studies claim a perspective on the critical importance of the short-lived, as observed in numerous traditional forms such as memorial altars, henna-painted Yemen brides, and evaporative moments, such as the traces left by marginalized queer encounters or the reformulation in art of Mormon legend by local Provo artist Bryan Hutchison.
10/3/201853 minutes, 56 seconds
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What It Means To Be Educated In The 21st Century: Norm Jones On Tuesday's Access Utah

An eminent professor of History and Religious Studies at Utah State University, Dr. Norman Jones has spent a career learning what makes an "educated person."
10/2/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Glen Canyon: A River Guide Remembers On Monday's Access Utah

Iconic Utah outfitter Ken Sleight began his river-guiding career in Glen Canyon during the mid-1950s, just as the Glen Canyon Dam blueprints jumped from the drawing board to remote desert terrain. The pulse of the Colorado River through the canyon would soon be halted by a cement wall and Glen Canyon backfilled with water. Sleight knew the condition of the canyon was terminal. He used every ray of daylight to memorize every detail of the canyon before inundation: to learn its 125 side canyons, to observe Native American ruins and mining relics, and to immerse himself in the lives of seminal guides who preceded him like Dave Rust, Bert Loper, and Moki Mac.
10/1/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Block Film And Art Festival On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Block Film and Art Festival is this weekend in Logan. Today, we're previewing the festival. Our guests include Michael Bingham, founder of Jump the Moon Art Studios, Jolynne Lyon, UPR feature correspondent for our Diagnosed series, Steve Smith, submission manager for the festival, and Brenda Hawley, the festival's art curator.
9/26/201853 minutes, 55 seconds
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Never Again Is Now: Ann Burroughs Discusses Japanese Internment In WWII On Tuesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour is Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and newly elected chair of the Global Assembly of Amnesty Interational. She gave the keynote speech for the Tanner Center for Human Rights lecture series on August 30th at the University of Utah. The title of her lecture was "Never Again is Now: Remembering and Reaffirming Our Collective Commitment to Protecting Civil Rights."
9/25/201853 minutes, 56 seconds
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'Eat Cake. Be Brave' With Melissa Radke On Monday's Access Utah

Once upon a time, Melissa believed a teacher who told her she would never amount to anything; a guy in high school who stood her up at the senior prom and made her feel unworthy of love; and a friend who said she was fat and an embarrassment.
9/24/201853 minutes, 57 seconds
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Black LDS Leader Darius Gray On Thursday's Access Utah

This year’s Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture will be presented by Darius Gray. The lecture, titled “Redeeming a People: The Critical Role of Historical Examination in Moving Cultural and Moral Trajectories,” is 7 p.m. today at the Logan Tabernacle, 50 N. Main St. The evening’s events will also include performances by the Deborah Bonner Unity Gospel Choir.
9/20/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Best of Access Utah On River Rafting, Poetry, And Books With Ken Sanders

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is rare bookseller Ken Sanders. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite episodes of the program. We’ll hear a segment from our conversation on the exhibit Glen Canyon: A River Guide Remembers. Then we’ll revisit a portion of our interview on poetry with Edward Hirsch and Michael Sowder. And finally, we'll hear from Anthony Doerr, author of "All the Light We Cannot See."
9/19/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah's Music Programs With Dean Craig Jessop

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Dean Craig Jessop of USU's Caine College of the Arts. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite episodes of the program. We’ll hear a segment from our interview with composer John Luther Adams. Then we’ll revisit a portion of our conversation with GENTRI, the Gentlemen Trio. And finally, we'll hear from Ann Cannon, author of "I'll Tell You What," tell how her father LaVell Edwards and mother Patty Edwards met.
9/18/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On Science And Folklore With Dr. Lynne McNeill

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Dr. Lynne McNeill, assistant professor of English at Utah State University. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite episodes of the program. We’ll hear a segment from our conversation on Slender Man, with Amanda Brennan, Dr. Elizabeth Tucker, and Dr. Trevor J. Blank. Then we’ll revisit a portion of our interview with Michael Poland and Jamie Farrell on the Yellowstone Supervolcano. And finally, we'll hear from commentor Gina Wickwar on dogs, Barbara Streisand, and cloning.
9/17/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting 'A House Full Of Females' With Laurel Thatcher Ulrich On Wednesday's Access Utah

Historian and Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was recently on the USU campus to give a talk presented by the USU History Department and sponsored by the Tanner Talks Series in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
9/13/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah On Social Issues With Dr. Jason Gilmore

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Dr. Jason Gilmore, assistant professor of Communication Studies at Utah State Unviersity. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite episodes of the program. We’ll hear from Phillip Dray, author of "At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America." Then we’ll hear part of my conversation with Sonia Nazario on the family separation and zero tolerance immigration crisis. Sonia Nazario is author of the book "Enrique's Journey." And we'll conclude with a segment from my interview with Gary Paul Nabhan who is working to use food to unite people across social and political divisions. We also discuss Chimamanda Adichie's TED Talk, "The Danger of a Single Story."
9/13/201855 minutes, 45 seconds
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'Making Oscar Wilde' With Author Michèle Mendelssohn On Tuesday's Access Utah

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar's career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. 'Success is a science,' Wilde believed, 'if you have the conditions, you get the result.'
9/11/201853 minutes, 50 seconds
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Revisiting 'Collecting On The Edge: The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art' On Monday's Access Utah

Today, as a part of Utah State University’s Year of the Arts, we’ll focus on the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, which is looking forward to its grand reopening Saturday, September 15th. We talk about a new book, “Collecting on the Edge: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art.” We’ll talk with the museum’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Katie Lee-Koven; writer, curator, and museum director Bolton Colburn, who edited the book; and independent curator and corresponding editor for Art in America, Michael Duncan, who wrote an introductory essay for the book.
9/10/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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'Carry Forth The Stories': Ethnographer Rodney Frey On Native Oral Tradition On Access Utah

Utah State University’s Mountain West Center for Regional Studies has announced the 2018 winners of the Evans Biography Awards for books published in 2017. Author and ethnographer Rodney Frey won the Evans Handcart Award for his book Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer’s Journey into Native Oral Tradition (Washington State University Press, 2017).
9/6/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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'The Crime Of Complicity: The Bystander In The Holocaust' With Amos Guiora On Access Utah

If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough?Amos N. Guiora addresses these profound questions and the bystander-victim relationship from a deeply personal and legal perspective, focusing on the Holocaust and then exploring cases in contemporary society. He shares the experiences of his parents and grandparents during the Holocaust and examines sexual assault cases at Vanderbilt and Stanford and other crimes where bystanders chose not to intervene. Guiora recommends that we must make the obligation to intervene the law, and thus non-intervention a crime.
9/5/201853 minutes, 50 seconds
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'Out Of The Woods: Seeing Nature In The Everyday' With Julia Corbett On Tuesday's Access Utah

In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions.
9/5/20180
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Revisiting 'Stickwork' With Sculptor Patrick Dougherty On Monday's Access Utah

Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlesslyintertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical images of nests, cocoons, cones, castles, and beehives. Over the last twenty-five years, Dougherty has built more than two hundred works throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia that range from stand-alone structures to a kind of modern primitive architectureevery piece mesmerizing in its ability to fly through trees, overtake buildings, and virtually defy gravity. Stickwork, Dougherty's first monograph, features thirty-eight of his organic, dynamic works that twist the line between architecture, landscape, and art. Constructed on-site using locally sourced materials and local volunteer labor, Dougherty's sculptures are tangles of twigs and branches that have been transformed into something unexpected and wild, elegant and artful, and often humorous. Sometimes freestanding, and other times wrapping around trees, buildings, railings, and rooms, they are constructed indoors and in nature. As organic matter, the stick sculptures eventually disintegrate and fade back into the landscape. Featuring a wealth of photographs and drawings documenting the construction process of each remarkable structure, Stickwork preserves the legend of the man who weaves the simplest of materials into…
9/5/20180
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Revisiting 'The Man Who Caught The Storm' With Journalist Brantley Hartgrove On Access Utah

“The Man Who Caught the Storm” is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon.
8/30/20180
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Revisiting 'The Climbers' With Photographer Jim Herrington On Wednesday's Access Utah

For nearly 2 decades, professional photographer Jim Herrington has been working on a portrait series of influential rock and mountain climbers. The resulting book, “The Climbers” documents these rugged individualists who, from roughly the 1930s to 1970s, used primitive gear along with their wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. Today, these men and women are renowned for their accomplishments and, in many cases, are the last of the remaining practitioners from the so‐called “Golden Age” of 20th century climbing.
8/29/20180
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Revisiting 'Standard Deviation' With Author Katherine Heiny On Tuesday's Access Utah

When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can also be exhausting, constantly interrupted by chatty phone calls, picky-eater houseguests, and invitations to weddings of people he’s never met. Audra firmly believes that through the sheer force of her personality she can overcome the most socially challenging interactions, shepherding her son through awkward playdates and origami club, and even deciding to establish a friendship with Graham’s first wife, Elspeth. Graham isn't sure he understands why Audra longs to be friends with the woman he divorced. After all, former spouses are hard to categorize—are they enemies, old flames, or just people you know really, really well? And as Graham and Audra share dinners, holidays, and late glasses of wine with his first wife he starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did I make the right choice? Is there a right choice? “Standard Deviation” is a hilarious and rueful novel of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami.
8/28/201821 seconds
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Utah Women 20/20: Utah's Legacy Of Women's Advocacy With Neylan McBaine On Monday's Access Utah

We hope you’ll join us for our newest UPR Original Series, called Utah Women 20/20, which will explore the unique challenges and opportunities facing women in Utah today. We’re going to explore Gender Parity, the #MeToo movement, Elections, and much more. We begin the series today on Access Utah. Our guest is Neylan McBaine, CEO of Better Days 2020. Better Days 2020 says that “Utah helped lead the nation in advocating for women’s rights. [And we believe] that by popularizing our history in creative and communal ways, we can challenge Utahns to live up to this great legacy of women's advocacy.”
8/27/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting 'River Of Lost Souls' With Author Jonathan Thompson On Thursday's Access Utah

Part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, Jonathan Thompson’s new book “River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster” (Torrey House Press), tells the gripping story behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado orange with sludge and toxic metals for more than 100 miles downstream, wreaking havoc on cities, farms, and the Navajo Nation along the way.
8/23/201854 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Broken Country' And The Impact Of The Vietnam War With Paisley Rekdal On Access Utah

The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident―in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war―Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations suffered by the Vietnamese and also by American-born veterans over the past decades. She interweaves a narrative about the crime with information collected in interviews, historical examination of the arrival of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s, a critique of portrayals of Vietnam in American popular culture, and discussions of the psychological consequences of trauma. This work allows us to better understand transgenerational and cultural trauma and advances our still complicated struggle to comprehend the war.
8/22/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'In Full Flight: A Story Of Africa And Atonement' With John Heminway On Access Utah

Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, the French-born Spoerry learned how to fly a plane at the age of forty-five and earned herself the cherished nickname, "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--from the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa. Now, in the first comprehensive account of her life, Dr. Spoerry's revered selflessness gives way to a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname--this one sinister--working as a "doctor" in a Nazi concentration camp.
8/21/201854 minutes
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Revisiting 'The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote' With Elaine Weiss On Access Utah

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the “Antis”–women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel’s, and the Bible.
8/20/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting 'Into The Night: Portraits Of Life And Death' With Filmmaker Helen Whitney On Access Utah

We don’t know how. We don’t know when. But death comes for us all.
8/16/201854 minutes, 1 second
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'The Boys In The Boat' With Author Daniel James Brown On Wednesday's Access Utah

Daniel James Brown’s bestseller “The Boys in the Boat” is a story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
8/15/201854 minutes
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Revisiting The Way We See Native America With Photographer Matika Wilbur On Tuesday's Access Utah

In 2012, photographer Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562, which reflects her commitment to visit, engage with and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States. With this project she has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, many in her RV (which she has nicknamed the “Big Girl”) but also by horseback through the Grand Canyon, by train, plane, and boat and on foot across all 50 states.
8/14/201853 minutes, 57 seconds
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'Chesapeake Requiem' With Journalist Earl Swift On Monday's Access Utah

Earl Swift began writing for a living in his teens. In the years since, the Virginia-based journalist has penned seven books and hundreds of major features for newspapers and magazines, and has earned a reputation for fast-moving narrative and scrupulous reporting. His editors have nominated his work for the National Book Award, the National Magazine Award, and six times for a Pulitzer Prize.
8/13/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting The Marks Nature Leaves In Us With Gary Ferguson On Thursday's Access Utah

“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides beauty, mystery and community, traits that each of us very much needs. He is the author of 25 books. We talked with Gary Ferguson a few months ago about his latest “Land on Fire.” Today we’ll talk with him about “The Carry Home” a haunting meditation on wilderness, conservation, and grief, written following the death of his wife in a canoeing accident. We’ll also talk about “Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild.” And we’ll talk about the Yellowstone wolves, which Gary Ferguson has written about in two books “Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year,” and “Decade of the Wolf.”
8/9/201853 minutes, 54 seconds
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Land, Food, And Bridging Social Divisions With Gary Paul Nabhan On Wednesday's Access Utah

Gary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural diversity of the arid binational Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement.
8/8/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'The World In A Grain' With Journalist And Author Vince Beiser On Tuesday's Access Utah

After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future.And, incredibly, we're running out of it.
8/7/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Where The Water Goes' With David Owen On Monday's Access Utah

The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from Colorado's headwaters, to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. He takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and rv parks, to the spot near the U.S.-Mexico border where the river runs dry.
8/6/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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'The Immeasurable World: Journeys In Desert Places' With William Atkins On Thursday's Access Utah

"The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places," features William Atkins' travels across five continents over three years, visiting deserts both iconic and little-known to discover a realm as much internal as physical. His journey takes him to the Arabian Peninsula’s Empty Quarter and Australia’s nuclear-test grounds; the dry Aral Sea of Kazakhstan and ‘sand seas’ of China’s volatile north-west; the contested borderlands of Arizona and the riotous Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert; and the ancient monasteries of Egypt’s Eastern Desert. Along the way, Atkins illuminates the people, history, topography, and symbolism of these remarkable but often troubled places.
8/2/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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'Troubeliever Fest' With Musicians Rodney Crowell And Anna Wilson

With roots steeped in Nashville’s songwriting tradition, TrouBeliever Fest founders Monty Powell and Anna Wilson say they had a deep desire to create a festival where the songs themselves would be the stars. The 1st Annual Troubeliever Festival is happening at Snowbasin on August 3 & 4 featuring Americana legends Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell.
8/1/201853 minutes, 50 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Future Of Humanity' With Physicist Michio Kaku On Tuesday's Access Utah

Physicist and futurist Michio Kaku says that moving human civilization to the stars, formerly the domain of fiction, is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility–and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species.
7/31/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Revisiting 'Ordinary Trauma' With Author Jennifer Sinor On Thursday's Access Utah

Jennifer Sinor is the author of Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe, a collection of essays inspired by the letters of the American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma, a memoir of her military childhood told through linked flash nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University where she is a professor of English. She is also the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, a book about the diary of her great, great, great aunt, a woman who homesteaded the Dakotas in the late nineteenth century. All of her books work to reveal the extraordinary possibilities that arise in the most ordinary moments of our lives.
7/30/201853 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting 'The Radium Girls' With Author Kate Moore On Monday's Access Utah

The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
7/30/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Transgender Children With Professors Ann Travers And Denise Dowling

Imagine being a boy forced to attend school dressed in a girls’ uniform. Imagine being a girl banned from the girls’ bathroom and too afraid to “go” in a stall surrounded by boys. Imagine being asked, again and again, by other kids, “Are you a boy or a girl?” Imagine having your deepest sense of self refuted by adults in authority. Imagine the routine stress of being a transgender kid.
7/25/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Voting Rights, Security, And Participation On Monday's Access Utah

David Leonhardt writes recently in the New York Times that “In the suburbs of Salt Lake City, there is a planned community called Suncrest that has turned out to be a good place to study voter turnout. Suncrest feels like one community, full of modern, single-family houses. But it straddles two different counties — Salt Lake and Utah. And in 2016, the two used different voting systems.
7/23/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'In Defense Of Gun Control' With Philosopher Hugh LaFollette On Thursday's Access Utah

Philosophy professor Hugh LaFollette says that he was raised in a gun culture. Later, he was struck by the very different policy responses to the killing of children in Dunblane, Scotland and Newtown, Connecticut. He says “my dis-ease at having no settled view of the topic nagged at me for several years before I decided that agnosticism on this topic was neither intellectually tenable nor morally responsible. I was impelled to examine the arguments and the evidence to reach a fair and informed view.” In his book “In Defense of Gun Control” (from Oxford University Press) LaFollette says that “the public debate about the private ownership of guns is contentious, often nasty, and rarely insightful” and grotesquely oversimplified. In the book he reviews the various philosophical perspectives on gun control; explains why Americans have a culture of guns not found elsewhere in the developed world; discusses armchair arguments on both sides; and examines empirical evidence relating to guns and gun control.
7/19/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Laureate, And Logan Native Kip Thorne On Wednesday's Access Utah

Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) until 2009 and is one of the world's leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein's general theory of relativity. He continues to do scientific research and scientific consulting, most notably for the Christopher Nolan film Interstellar.
7/18/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Underwater Photographer And 'Coral Nerd' Zack Rago On Tuesday's Access Utah

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. We’ve lost 50% of the world’s coral in the last 30 years. Scientists say that climate change is now their greatest threat and it is estimated that only 10% can survive past 2050. In a new documentary film, “Chasing Coral,” a team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why coral are vanishing and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world.
7/17/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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'Air Traffic' With Pulitzer-Winning Poet Gregory Pardlo On Monday's Access Utah

Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family's money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his family's jazz club.
7/16/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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A New Justice for SCOTUS? Judge Ted Stewart On Thursday's Access Utah

President Donald Trump has nominated appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. William Cummings, writing in USA Today sums up the coming nomination fight: “Conservatives argued that Democrats were prepared to oppose anyone Trump nominated but that Kavanaugh is such a strong nominee that their efforts to block him are certain to fail. Liberals said Kavanaugh would shift the court sharply to the right and that he would ensure a vote in Trump's favor if issues tied to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation ever came before the Supreme Court.”
7/12/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting 'Fantasyland' With Author Kurt Andersen On Wednesday's Access Utah

How did we get here?
7/11/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Finding Stillness In A Noisy World' With Author Jana Richman On Tuesday's Access Utah

Moving through the settings of her life—red rock canyons, aspen forests, mountains, and cities—Jana Richman probes the depths of her internal landscape and asks how we can find stillness in our noisy world. In essays both personal and universal, Richman eschews quick and easy answers for quiet reflections on these questions: In a culture demanding that every voice be heard, how do we make sense of the resulting roar? Where do we seek solace when the last quiet places are sacrificed to human hubris? How do we shed the angst thrust upon us to create lives of peace?
7/10/201853 minutes, 49 seconds
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Revisiting 'Through The Valley Of Shadows' With Samuel Brown On Monday's Access Utah

Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better. So says medical researcher and ICU physician Samuel Brown. In his new book “Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human” (Oxford University Press) Dr. Brown uses stories from his clinical practice to outline a new way of thinking about life-threatening illness.
7/9/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Thursday's Access Utah: Yellowstone's Supervolcano With Scientists Michael Poland And Jamie Farrell

Volcanoes have been much in the news of late, with eruptions in Hawaii, Guatemala, and most recently, in Bali. You may know that Yellowstone National Park sits on a “supervolcano,” 44 miles wide. An eruption of this caldera volcano, as scientists call it, is very unlikely, but potentially catastrophic. We’ll talk about volcanoes in general and the Yellowstone supervolcano specifically today. Our discussion will include the different types of volcanic eruptions and different kinds of dangers; predicting volcanic eruptions and earthquakes; and the latest science of volcanoes and earthquakes. We’ll also talk about Yellowstone geysers and hot springs. Our guests include Michael Poland, Scientist-in Charge at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory and a Geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey; and Jamie Farrell, Assistant Research Professor in the University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Chief Seismologist with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
7/5/201853 minutes, 54 seconds
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'Northland: A 4,000 Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border' With Porter Fox On Access Utah

Travel writer Porter Fox’s latest adventure is a quest to rediscover America’s other border—the fascinating but little-known northern one, a journey he recounts in his new book “Northland.”
7/3/201854 minutes
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Revisiting 'No Man's Land' With Author Simon Tolkien On Monday's Access Utah

No Man’s Land is dedicated to the author’s grandfather. Not unusual in itself, but Simon Tolkien has a somewhat unusual grandfather, JRR Tolkien, whose experiences in the Somme inspired his grandson’s fifth novel, published to mark Friday’s centenary of the battle.
7/2/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Suicide Prevention With Researchers Jane Pearson And Craig Bryan On Thursday's Access Utah

About 123 people die of suicide every day in the U.S. It’s the 10th-leading cause of death for Americans and the No. 2 killer of teens. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 45,000 Americans died by suicide in 2016 and the vast majority of states saw increases in the rates of suicide between 1999 and 2016. Suicide is the leading cause of death in Utah for youths ages 10 to 17. The state’s suicide rate for all ages is more than 60 percent above the national average. Recent celebrity deaths have also shone a spotlight on the problem. We’ll talk about it with Jane Pearson, a suicide research expert at the National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland; and Craig Bryan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and Executive Director of the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah.
6/28/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Elections, President Trump, And Insights From History With Julian Zelizer On Wednesday's Access Utah

The editors of The Atlantic write: “The election of Donald Trump … [has] driven many Americans to rummage through history in search of context and understanding. Trump himself has been compared to historical figures ranging from Ronald Reagan to Henry Ford, and from Andrew Jackson to Benito Mussolini. His steps have been condemned as unprecedented by his critics, and praised as historic by his supporters.”
6/27/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting The Murders Of The Osage Nation And The FBI With Author David Grann On Access Utah

After oil was discovered beneath their land in the 1920's, the richest people per capita were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. They rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.
6/26/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Bearskin' With Author James A. McLaughlin On Monday's Access Utah

James A. McLaughlin grew up in rural Virginia and lives in the Wasatch Range east of Salt Lake City. His debut novel “Bearskin” is getting rave reviews. He joins us for the hour next time on Access Utah.
6/25/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Zero Tolerance & Children Separated From Their Families: Thursday's Access Utah

President Trump has signed an executive order allowing families to be detained together under his “zero tolerance” immigration policy. This comes amid a furor over the separation of children from their parents at the border. In the meantime, Congress continues to search for a fix to the immigration system. We’ll talk about the crisis at the border today on Access Utah. Our guests will include Pastor Steve Klemz of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Salt Lake City; Erika George, Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law in the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah; and Sonia Nazario, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Enrique’s Journey.
6/21/201817 minutes, 57 seconds
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Slender Man, Digital Folklore, And Dark Memes With Folklorists On Wednesday's Access Utah

From USU's College of Humanities and Social Sciences:
6/20/201854 minutes
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Revisiting 'Churchill And Orwell: The Fight For Freedom' With Author Thomas Ricks On Access Utah

Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. Thomas Ricks writes in his new book “Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom” that In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north.
6/19/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'I'll Tell You What' With Author Ann Cannon On Monday's Access Utah

The King’s English Bookshop (TKE) has published a collection of Ann Cannon’s Salt Lake Tribune columns. It’s titled “I’ll Tell You What.” Ann Cannon joins us for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah.
6/18/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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'Back Cast' With Author Jeff Metcalf On Wednesday's Access Utah

In his new book “Back Cast: Fly Fishing and Other Such Matters” Jeff Metcalf writes: “These waters have been my home, and I fish them more than most. In truth, they have saved my life on more than a few occasions. I seek refuge in the quiet solitude of rivers, and in dark hours of my life—including this particular year—I need desperately to be fly-fishing." Metcalf’s play “A Slight Discomfort,” is a humorous take on his battle with prostate cancer. And a previous award-winning collection of essays, “Requiem for the Living,” resulted from a challenge Metcalf gave himself when presented with a dire prognosis with his cancer: writing one essay each week for a year. Metcalf volunteers with Reel Recovery, an organization that conducts retreats for men living with cancer. He says that it’s important for men to learn to talk about their cancers and their lives.
6/14/20181 hour, 1 second
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Revisiting Fugees Family With Luma Mufleh On Thursday's Access Utah

Luma Mufleh was raised in a wealthy family in Jordan, but left that life behind to come to school in America. After graduating from Smith College, she moved to Georgia to begin a life for herself. She did not have family support and was struggling on her own. One day she made a wrong turn and came across a group of refugee boys playing soccer. She says they were barefoot, playing with an old ball, and having the time of their lives. Mufleh continued to watch the boys play, and on her third visit, joined them. That was the beginning of her Fugees organization, which grew from a focus on soccer to include education and more. Luma Mufleh continues to help hundreds of refugee boys and girls through Fugees Family. www.fugeesfamily.org
6/14/201854 minutes, 3 seconds
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North Korea And The Reported Abduction Of Utah Man David Sneddon On Tuesday's Access Utah

Cache Valley residents Roy and Kathleen Sneddon have been living with their son’s disappearance since 2004. 24-year-old David Sneddon was last seen hiking in China, leaving no physical trace. The Sneddons and several sources in Asia believe David was kidnapped by North Korea. The Sneddons believe their son is likely one of many who have been abducted and held captive in North Korea.
6/12/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Your Summertime Suggestions On Monday's Access Utah

It’s Summertime! The kids are out of school and life slows down for some of us and speeds up for others. Trips to favorite vacation spots and into the backcountry ramp up. On Monday’s Access Utah, we’ll come together as a UPR community to share ideas for summertime trips, activities, traditions and stories.
6/11/201854 minutes, 1 second
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Access Utah: Revisiting The Donner Party And 'The Best Land Under Heaven' With Author Michael Wallis

The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny.
6/7/201854 minutes, 1 second
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Retired FBI Special Agent Frank Montoya, Jr. On Wednesday's Access Utah

Frank Montoya, Jr. is a retired FBI special agent and senior executive. In addition to running FBI field offices in Honolulu and Seattle in the course of his career, from February 2012 to May 2014, he served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as the National Counterintelligence Executive, in which role he was head of national counterintelligence for the United States government.
6/6/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting Sasquatch With Jeff Meldrum On Tuesday's Access Utah

Jeff Meldrum is Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University. He is author of “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” He is a leading expert on Bigfoot or Sasquatch, or the term he prefers: “Relict Hominoid.” He says “...[I]t is one matter to address the theoretical possibility of a relict species of hominoid in North America, and the obligate shift in paradigm to accommodate it, but there must also be something substantial to place within that revised framework. There must be essential evidence to lend weight to the hypotheses, and counter the critics’ various aspersions. I was once confronted by a colleague, who declared, ‘After all, these are just stories.’ My response: ‘Stories that apparently leave tracks, shed hair, void scat, vocalize, are observed and described by reliable experienced witnesses. Hardly just stories.’”
6/5/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Glen Canyon: A River Guide Remembers' On Monday's Access Utah

Iconic Utah outfitter Ken Sleight began his river-guiding career in Glen Canyon during the mid-1950s, just as the Glen Canyon Dam blueprints jumped from the drawing board to remote desert terrain. The pulse of the Colorado River through the canyon would soon be halted by a cement wall and Glen Canyon backfilled with water. Sleight knew the condition of the canyon was terminal. He used every ray of daylight to memorize every detail of the canyon before inundation: to learn its 125 side canyons, to observe Native American ruins and mining relics, and to immerse himself in the lives of seminal guides who preceded him like Dave Rust, Bert Loper, and Moki Mac.
6/4/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting 'All The Light We Cannot See' With Anthony Doerr On Thursday's Access Utah

Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” was one of the most-mentioned books on our most recent UPR Community Booklist. The book was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. He dropped by the UPR studios for a fascinating conversation with Tom Williams about “All the Light We Cannot See” and related topics. We’ll revisit that conversation today.
5/31/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today, as a part of Utah State University’s Year of the Arts, we’ll focus on the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, which is looking forward to a grand re-opening in September after renovation and expansion. We talk about a new book, “Collecting on the Edge: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art.” We’ll talk with the museum’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Katie Lee-Koven; writer, curator, and museum director Bolton Colburn, who edited the book; and independent curator and corresponding editor for Art in America, Michael Duncan, who wrote an introductory essay for the book.
5/30/201853 minutes, 57 seconds
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The Bennion Teachers' Workshop On Tuesday's Access Utah

The Bennion Teachers' Workshop for the Perpetuation of Democratic Principles is a program made possible by an endowment to Utah State University's Mountain West Center for Regional Studies. The endowment was created by Ione Bennion, a teacher and community activist, to "provide an atmosphere and the educational resources to explore the concepts upon which democracy is built, the conditions under which it flourishes, and the dangers to its existence." Taught by Utah State University faculty and guest speakers who represent the latest scholarship in the topics presented, the workshops focus on giving inservice and pre-inservice teachers practical tools that they can use in the classroom.
5/29/201853 minutes, 50 seconds
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'Drive: The Definitive History Of Driving' With Author Giles Chapman on Monday's Access Utah

From Amazon.com:
5/29/201854 minutes, 51 seconds
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The Utah Women's Giving Circle On Thursday's Access Utah

The Utah Women's Giving Circle (UWGC) will host a panel on The Slippery Slope of Sexual Harassment at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30th in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Auditorium at the University of Utah. The panelists will talk about the media representations of sexual harrassment and violence, the connection between sexual harrassment and violence, and the role of public policy.
5/24/201854 minutes, 2 seconds
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Summer Reading Lists With Elaine Thatcher On Wednesdays's Access Utah

As we head toward summer we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now? Is there a book that has had a big impact on you? Which books are you looking forward to reading? Perhaps you’d like to tell us a personal story connected to a favorite book. We’d love to hear about books in the adult, young adult & children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome.
5/23/201854 minutes
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'Chosen Country' With Author James Pogue On Tuesday's Access Utah

In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Pogue met ranchers and militiamen ready to die fighting the federal government.
5/22/201854 minutes, 6 seconds
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'Courage To Be You': Gail Miller, Allison Lew And Jenny Wecker On Monday's Access Utah

Gail Miller, owner of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies, is author of a new book, “Courage to be You: Inspiring Lessons from an Unexpected Journey.” She will be the keynote speaker at United Way of Cache Valley’s Annual Fundraising Dinner on May 24. She joins us for the first half of today’s program o talk about motherhood, work/life balance, navigating the business world as a woman after the death of her husband, and finding her voice and identity.
5/21/201853 minutes, 9 seconds
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Access Utah Thursday: The Future Of Local News With Salt Lake Tribune Editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce

A recent article in Politico took as a given “the newspaper industry’s coming death.”
5/17/201853 minutes, 53 seconds
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'The Last Cowboys:' Pulitzer Prize-winner John Branch On Wednesday's Access Utah

For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders ― some call them the most successful rodeo family in history.
5/15/201853 minutes, 56 seconds
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'West Like Lightning:' The Pony Express With Author Jim DeFelice On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s Access Utah, Jim DeFelice joins us to talk about his new book “West Like Lightning: The Brief Legendary Ride of the Pony Express."
5/15/201853 minutes, 53 seconds
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'It's All Relative' With A.J. Jacobs On Monday's Access Utah

A.J. Jacobs, author of the new book: “It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree,” joins us for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah.
5/14/201852 minutes, 47 seconds
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Revisiting Author Elva Trevino Hart And Her Book 'Barefoot Heart' On Thursday's Access Utah

“My whole childhood, I never had a bed.” That’s how Elva Trevino Hart opens her memoir “Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child.”
5/10/201848 minutes, 45 seconds
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Revisiting Legendary Musician Tom Paxton On Wednesday's Access Utah

Tom Paxton says folk music is lumber with the bark still on. His legendary career spans six decades of traditional music and topical songs. He says today's political climate presents an embarrassment of riches to the song writer. He hasn't penned a Trump song yet, but that will come.
5/9/201854 minutes
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'The Judge' With Emmy-Winning Director Erika Cohn On Tuesday's Access Utah

Religious courts in the Middle East had historically banned women from adjudicating domestic and family matters - in both the Shari'a courts of Islam and the Rabbinic courts of Judaism -until Kholoud Al-Faqih, dares to challenge that history. With the support of a progressive Sheik, Kholoud becomes the first woman judge with her appointment to a Palestinian Shari'a court in the West Bank, bringing a subtle new perspective garnered from her early professional life working with battered women as an attorney in both the criminal and Shari'a courts.
5/8/201854 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Little Women' & 'Call The Midwife' With Heidi Thomas On Monday's Access Utah

Loved by generations worldwide, “Little Women” is a universal coming of age story. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, and while their father is away at war, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from sibling rivalry and first love, to loss and marriage.
5/7/20181 hour, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
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'The Man Who Caught The Storm': Journalist Brantley Hargrove on Thursday's Access Utah

“The Man Who Caught the Storm” is the saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring, and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon.
5/3/201853 minutes, 55 seconds
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Doing Good In The Community On Wednesday's Access Utah

There are many needs in our communities, and there are dedicated individuals and nonprofits working to meet those needs. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help but don’t know where and how. On Access Utah we’re inviting you to send us email or tweet to give you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
5/2/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Christian: The Politics Of A Word In America' With Matthew Bowman On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today, a conversation with Matthew Bowman about his book “Christian: The Politics of a Word in America.”
5/1/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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The Lynching Of Black America & The Epic Story Of Hunting In America: Philip Dray On Access Utah

Historian Philip Dray joins us for the hour to talk about two of his books:
4/30/201853 minutes, 54 seconds
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Crossing Borders: Jackson Olsen And 'Teaching For America' On Thursday's Access Utah

When Jackson Olsen graduated from college, he had every intention of going to law school and becoming a lawyer.
4/26/201854 minutes, 8 seconds
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Celebrating Earth Day With Stephen Trimble And Torrey House Press On Thursday's Access Utah

We have established an Access Utah tradition: On or near Earth Day each year we invite Utah writer Stephen Trimble and other guests to talk about the earth, the land, and the environment. Trimble suggested we focus on the Torrey House Press this year and specifically focus on their blog which is full of powerful posts written by young authors who are passionate about our beautiful planet. Stephen Trimble joins us for the hour along with writers Mishka Banuri, Brooke Larsen, Tim Glenn, and Forrest Cuch.
4/20/201858 minutes, 5 seconds
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Nicholas Kraemer And Amanda Eubanks Winkler On Wednesday's Access Utah

Wednesday’s Access Utah is a part of USU’s Year of the Arts. We’ll talk about Henry Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas,” and related topics. Our guests will include conductor Nicholas Kraemer and Purcell scholar and Syracuse University professor Amanda Eubanks Winkler. And we’ll hear some music from the opera.
4/18/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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"Standard Deviation" With Author Katherine Heiny On Tuesday's Access Utah

When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can also be exhausting, constantly interrupted by chatty phone calls, picky-eater houseguests, and invitations to weddings of people he’s never met. Audra firmly believes that through the sheer force of her personality she can overcome the most socially challenging interactions, shepherding her son through awkward playdates and origami club, and even deciding to establish a friendship with Graham’s first wife, Elspeth. Graham isn't sure he understands why Audra longs to be friends with the woman he divorced. After all, former spouses are hard to categorize—are they enemies, old flames, or just people you know really, really well? And as Graham and Audra share dinners, holidays, and late glasses of wine with his first wife he starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did I make the right choice? Is there a right choice? “Standard Deviation” is a hilarious and rueful novel of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami.
4/17/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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Poetry With Michael Sowder & Edward Hirsch On Thursday's Access Utah

Edward Hirsch is the celebrated author of nine books of poetry. He is also the author of “A Poet's Glossary,” a complete compendium of poetry terms and the author of the bestseller about poetry, “How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.” He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Prix de Rome. He is an international advocate for poetry and serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He taught creative writing at Wayne State University and the University of Houston and is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which offers fellowships to those engaged in any field of knowledge and creation of the arts.
4/12/201853 minutes, 59 seconds
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Debating Medical Marijuana On Wednesday's Access Utah

Utah Patients Coalition, which is leading a ballot initiative campaign in support of medical marijuana, says that “right now, Utah patients battling cancer, seizures, and other life-threatening conditions must break the law in order to relieve their pain and suffering. By passing the medical cannabis ballot initiative … Utah can end this cruel and unjust policy.” A recent poll, published by UtahPolicy.com, shows that 77% of Utahns strongly or somewhat favor access to medical marijuana. It appears likely that this measure will appear on the November ballot in Utah.
4/11/201853 minutes, 56 seconds
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'Limits Of The Known' With Author David Roberts On Monday's Access Utah

David Roberts has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In his new book, “Limits of the Known,” he reflects on humanity’s—and his own—relationship to extreme risk; and he tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the pursuit of adventure.
4/9/201849 minutes, 44 seconds
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Revisiting Jane Austen With Brian McCuskey & Mattie Burkert On Thursday's Access Utah

Some 200 years after her death, Jane Austen's books are still widely read and loved. Many film adaptations and spin-offs such as 'Pride, Prejudice and Zombies' are also adored by many. The BBC said this about Austen.
4/5/201853 minutes, 20 seconds
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Talking Martin Luther King Jr. 50 Years After His Assassination On Wednesday's Access Utah

Fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., just one in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement. That’s according to a recent poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. On Wednesday’s Access Utah, on the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s death, we’ll talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his legacy, and the future of the ideals he so eloquently articulated and strove for.
4/4/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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Meaning And #MeToo On Tuesday's Access Utah

Last week USU’s Department of Languages Philosophy and Speech Communications hosted a panel discussion titled “Meaning and #MeToo.” Panelists discussed the #MeToo movement and provided historical, cultural, and legal analysis. On Tuesday’s Access Utah we’ll continue the discussion with the panelists: Erica Holberg, USU Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Mattie Burkert, USU Assistant Professor of English; and Nicole Vouvalis, Director of USU’s Institutional Review Board Office.
4/3/201854 minutes
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Sonia Nazario & Child Migration & Immigration Issues On Monday's Access Utah

This episode of Access Utah is part of the “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” Initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils in partnership with the Pulitzer Prizes Board for a collaboration between UPR, Utah Humanities, and The Salt Lake City Library. The initiative seeks to deepen the public’s knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry. The initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
4/2/201856 minutes, 10 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Our Former Interns On Thursday's Access Utah

It’s the final pledge drive special edition of Access Utah for our Spring drive today. My special guests this hour are some of the great people who have served as student interns and producers of Access Utah. We’ll be talking with Dani Hayes, Adison Pace, Katie Swain, Bennett Purser, Aimee Cobabe and Connor Rivers. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our most memorable episodes. We’ll revisit discussions about lifting the ban on gay Boy Scouts, and about Sex Positivity. And we’ll hear some music from our program on the history of the Banjo. We’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah continues strong on this last day of UPR’s Spring Pledge Drive.
3/29/201857 minutes, 38 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With Ken Sanders On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of our favorite episodes of the program. We’ll hear from Evelyn Funda, Associate Dean of the USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences and author of “Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament.” Evelyn Funda will tell us the gripping story of her mother’s escape from communist Czechoslovakia. Then we’ll hear part of my conversation with Colin Dickey, author of the forthcoming book “The Unidentified,” about conspiracy theories. And Ken Sanders will read poems of Ken Brewer and prose of Edward Abbey. We’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah continues strong.
3/28/201850 minutes, 12 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah With One Of Our Favorite Folklorists Lynne McNeill On Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is folklorist and USU Assistant Professor of English Lynne McNeill. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some great episodes of the program. We’ll hear from Eric Nuzum, former Vice President of Programming at NPR and author of “Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, A Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted.” We’ll also hear part of my conversation with National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen about global warming and rapid changes in the Arctic. And Lee Austin will introduce us to the soundscape of Zion National Park. We’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah continues strong.
3/27/201854 minutes, 1 second
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Best Of Access Utah With Former UPR Station Manager Richard Meng On Monday's Access Utah

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is former UPR Station Manager Richard Meng. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of some of my most memorable interviews. We’ll hear from explorer and educator Helen Thayer; indomitable Holocaust survivor Eva Kor; and singer-songwriter Rosalie Sorrells. And we’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah and all the programming you value continues strong.
3/26/201854 minutes, 1 second
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The Best of Access Utah With Former Host And UPR Program Coordinator Lee Austin

It’s a pledge drive special edition of Access Utah today. My special guest for the hour is former UPR Program Director and Access Utah host Lee Austin. We’ll reach into the archives for parts of interviews Lee conducted with writer Gore Vidal and former Utah Poet Laureate Ken Brewer. We’ll also hear a portion of a special broadcast on the history of Capitol Reef National Park. We’ll talk about the history of Access Utah and the public affairs programs that preceded this program. And we’ll invite you to pledge your support to UPR to ensure that Access Utah and all the programming you value continues strong.
3/22/201853 minutes, 58 seconds
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'The Scarlet Letter,' 'Vedem' and 'The Three Feathers' With Composer Lori Laitman on Access Utah

Described by Fanfare Magazine as “one of the most talented and intriguing of living composers,” Lori Laitman has composed multiple operas and choral works, and over 250 songs, setting texts by classical and contemporary poets (including those who perished in the Holocaust). Her music is widely performed, internationally and throughout the United States, and has generated substantial critical acclaim. The Journal of Singing wrote “It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music.”
3/22/20181 hour, 6 minutes, 47 seconds
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'Into the Night: Portraits Of Life And Death' With Filmmaker Helen Whitney On Tuesday's Access Utah

We don’t know how. We don’t know when. But death comes for us all.
3/20/201853 minutes, 57 seconds
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'The Future Of Humanity' With Author Michio Kaku On Tuesday's Access Utah

Physicist and futurist Michio Kaku says that moving human civilization to the stars, formerly the domain of fiction, is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility–and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species.
3/19/201853 minutes, 4 seconds
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'In Full Flight: A Story Of Africa And Atonement' With Author John Heminway On Monday's Access Utah

Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years. A member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, the French-born Spoerry learned how to fly a plane at the age of forty-five and earned herself the cherished nickname, "Mama Daktari"--"Mother Doctor"--from the people of Kenya. Yet few knew what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa. Now, in the first comprehensive account of her life, Dr. Spoerry's revered selflessness gives way to a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname--this one sinister--working as a "doctor" in a Nazi concentration camp.
3/19/201854 minutes
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'Humans Think. Animals Feel.' With Animal Communicator Patty Rayman On Thursday's Access Utah

Patty Rayman was born with the ability to communicate with animals and has helped thousands of people resolve many types of behavior, health, attitude and relationship issues with their animal companions. In working with all types of animals, she has developed techniques to help people move from conflict to cooperation in their relationships.
3/15/201850 minutes, 19 seconds
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Utah High School Students Participation In School Walkouts On Wednesday's Access Utah

One month after seventeen people were killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Women’s March Youth Empower is organizing a national student walkout against gun violence. In most areas, including Utah, the walkout will happen at 10:00 a.m.local time on Wednesday, March 14.
3/14/201851 minutes
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'European Empires In The American South' With Author Joseph Ward On Wednesday's Access Utah

Joseph Ward, Dean of the USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is the editor of a new book titled “European Empires in the American South: Colonial and Environmental Encounters,” which examines the process of European expansion into a region that has come to be known as the American South. After Europeans began to cross the Atlantic with confidence, they interacted for three hundred years with one another, with the native people of the region, and with enslaved Africans in ways that made the South a significant arena of imperial ambition. As such, it was one of several similarly contested regions around the Atlantic basin.
3/12/201853 minutes, 52 seconds
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'River Of Lost Souls' With Author Jonathan Thompson On Tuesday's Access Utah

Part elegy, part ode, part investigative science journalism, Jonathan Thompson’s new book “River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster” (Torrey House Press), tells the gripping story behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster that turned the Animas River in southwestern Colorado orange with sludge and toxic metals for more than 100 miles downstream, wreaking havoc on cities, farms, and the Navajo Nation along the way.
3/12/201853 minutes, 39 seconds
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'The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote' With Author Elaine Weiss On Monday's Access Utah

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and racists who don’t want black women voting. And then there are the “Antis”–women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge in a boiling hot summer for a face-off replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel’s, and the Bible.
3/12/201859 minutes, 2 seconds
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'The Radium Girls: The Dark Story Of America's Shining Women' On Monday's Access Utah

The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.
3/5/201849 minutes, 57 seconds
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'Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth And Corporate Power' With Historian Michael Quinn

Salt Lake Tribune religion reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack writes that “[s]ome Mormons — and plenty of others — were appalled to witness their church build a $1.5 billion mall in downtown Salt Lake City and hear their prophet proclaim, “Let’s go shopping.” Isn’t religion, they argued, supposed to be about feeding the hungry and clothing the poor? How is selling Tiffany jewelry, Nordstrom cocktail dresses and luxury condos any part of a Christian faith?” That’s the introduction to her report on historian Michael Quinn’s book “The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power.” Quinn, by the way, says that the LDS church sees its mission as serving both the spiritual and physical needs of its people.
3/1/201853 minutes, 50 seconds
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UPR's 'LGBTQ: Off The Grid' On Wednesday's Access Utah

A formerly homeless man tries to help young people in Southern Utah. A transgender person in Brigham City finds community in a coven of witches. A gay Navajo man finally decides to leave the reservation to escape the loneliness. And in a suburb of Salt Lake City, a family turns a Mormon tradition on its head to find fellowship. Those are descriptions of episodes from the UPR original series “LGBTQ: Off the Grid,” broadcasting through mid-March. The series explores the often unseen and unaddressed aspects of rural life for LGBTQ individuals and their families.
2/28/201851 minutes, 32 seconds
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Changing The Way We See Native America With Photographer Matika Wilbur On Tuesday's Access Utah

In 2012, photographer Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562, which reflects her commitment to visit, engage with and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States. With this project she has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, many in her RV (which she has nicknamed the “Big Girl”) but also by horseback through the Grand Canyon, by train, plane, and boat and on foot across all 50 states.
2/27/201850 minutes, 5 seconds
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Author Gary Ferguson And The Marks That Nature Leaves On Us On Monday's Access Utah

“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides beauty, mystery and community, traits that each of us very much needs. He is the author of 25 books. We talked with Gary Ferguson a few months ago about his latest “Land on Fire.” Today we’ll talk with him about “The Carry Home” a haunting meditation on wilderness, conservation, and grief, written following the death of his wife in a canoeing accident. We’ll also talk about “Shouting at the Sky: Troubled Teens and the Promise of the Wild.” And we’ll talk about the Yellowstone wolves, which Gary Ferguson has written about in two books “Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year,” and “Decade of the Wolf.”
2/26/201852 minutes, 45 seconds
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American Historian And Author Joshua Zeitz On Thursday's Access Utah

Lyndon Johnson's towering political skills and his ambitious slate of liberal legislation are the stuff of legend: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start and environmental reform. But what happened after the bills passed? One man could not and did not go it alone. Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti, Joe Califano, Harry McPherson and the other staff members who comprised LBJ's inner circle were men as pragmatic and ambitious as Johnson, equally skilled in the art of accumulating power or throwing a sharp elbow.
2/23/201853 minutes, 23 seconds
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'Whose Streets?' The Ferguson Uprising And Anti-Racism At USU On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Culture & Mental Health Lab, Merrill-Cazier Library, and Cache Refugee & Immigrant Connection have partnered to host a college and community screening of “Whose Streets?,” a documentary about the Ferguson uprising. The event is made possibly with funding from Utah State University's Diversity Council. Following the screening will be a panel discussion with scholars, organizers, and community leaders. Please join us for this important event and panel discussion. Copied below is some important background on the documentary. Watch the trailer HERE.
2/21/201849 minutes, 42 seconds
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#MeToo With UCASA And Community On Tuesday's Access Utah

Several Utah-based organizations including the Rape Recovery Center and Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault recently hosted a town hall conversation focusing on the impact and future of the #MeToo movement. Organizers say “It is time for Utahns to come together to discuss the future of our community. To give survivors an opportunity to define what progress looks like for our community.” They hope to provide forums where the concerns of sexual assault and harassment survivors would be heard.
2/20/201850 minutes, 26 seconds
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What Are You Reading? Your Valentine And Black History Month Picks On Thursday's Access Utah

It’s time again to compile our UPR community book list. We want to know what you’re reading. Maybe something for Valentine’s Day or Black History Month? Whatever’s on your nightstand or device, you can send us your list right now by email to upraccess@gmail.com. Or you can email us or call us during the program, next time on Access Utah. Elaine Thatcher, our usual co-host for these episodes, is always reading something interesting. She’ll share her list with us. We’ll also get recommendations of interesting new books from various booksellers.
2/15/201852 minutes, 33 seconds
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The Regional Differences Of Hate With Richard Medina & Emily Nicolosi On Wednesday's Access Utah

From the University of Utah:
2/14/201849 minutes, 59 seconds
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Ongoing Need For Humanitarian Aid And A U.S. Reckoning For Puerto Rico On Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s been six months since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The hurricane is regarded as one of the worst natural disasters in Puerto Rican history. Some Puerto Ricans expressed the worry at the time that the news cycle would turn and the island’s needs will be forgotten. We’ll try to counteract that tendency today. We’re going to focus on Puerto Rico and try to point you to good ways you can help. We’ll also seek context and look at some history.
2/13/201853 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America: Ibram Kendi On Tuesday's Access Utah

Renowned American political activist, scholar and author Ibram X. Kendi visited USU last fall for a keynote presentation on “How to be an Anti-Racist.” The presentation was sponsored by the USU Access and Diversity Center. Kendi, an award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author, is professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. His second book, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. At 34-years-old, Kendi was the youngest ever winner of the NBA for Nonfiction. Ibram Kendi argues that racism in America has grown from deliberate policies rather than from emotional responses like fear or hatred. Kendi joins Tom Williams for Tuesday’s Access Utah.
2/12/201856 minutes, 14 seconds
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USU Guitar, Bass, & Drum Festival With Corey Christiansen & Steven Kovalcheck On Today's Access Utah

Today we preview Utah State University's Guitar, Bass, and Drum Festival which happens in the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall on the USU campus today and tomorrow.
2/9/201857 minutes, 29 seconds
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Revisiting Salt Lake City Author Gabriel Tallent & "My Absolute Darling" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Salt Lake City resident Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel “My Absolute Darling” has been getting rave reviews. Here’s a synopsis:
2/7/201848 minutes, 23 seconds
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Small Modular Reactors With Ed McGinnis Of USDOE & Michael Shae Of HEAL Utah On Monday's Access Utah

Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) is a consortium of public power agencies (Logan is a member). UAMPs reportedly is considering building a small modular nuclear reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls. It would likely be one of the first small modular reactors (SMR) in the country. Proponents say that SMRs are small, scalable, flexible and dramatically safer and less expensive than the traditional gigantic reactors. They also say that SMRs could replace coal-fired electrical generation and would complement wind and solar because they can ramp up and down quickly, providing c
2/5/201852 minutes, 26 seconds
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Director Of The Lab At DC David Yokum On Thursday's Access Utah

David Yokum is Director of The Lab @ DC. Under his leadership, The Lab conducts applied research projects to generate evidence that informs the District’s decisions. Yokum was previously a founding member of the White House’s Social & Behavioral Sciences Team and Director of its scientific delivery unit housed at the U.S. General Services Administration. President Obama further institutionalized the work in Executive Order 13707, “Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People.”
2/1/201853 minutes, 55 seconds
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Musicoligist, Mother, And Cancer Patient Linda Shaver-Gleason On Wednesday's Access Utah

On her Twitter account, which by the way is @LindaHyphen, Linda Shaver-Gleason describes herself as a “musicologist, mother, cancer patient. Recently adopted by a cat.” She writes a blog, Not Another Music History Cliché, in which she debunks music history myths and offers commentary on many aspects of classical music culture, from snobbery to composer hero-worship to the question: Is music a universal language?
1/31/201851 minutes, 26 seconds
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Politics And The State Of The Union With Frank Pignanelli And LaVarr Webb On Tuesday's Access Utah

On the day President Trump is set to deliver his first State of the Union Address, we’ll talk politics with Deseret News columnists LaVarr Webb and Frank Pignanelli.
1/30/201853 minutes, 53 seconds
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"Interwoven: Junipers And The Web Of Being" With Kristen Rogers-Iversen On Monday's Access Utah

What do the following have in common? Ghost beads, biotic communities, gin, tree masticators, Puebloan diapers, charcoal, folklore, historic explorers, spiral grain, tree life cycles, spirituality, packrat middens, climate changes, wildfire, ranching, wilderness, and land management policies. The answer is the juniper tree.
1/29/201850 minutes, 20 seconds
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'Quiet Heroes' And The 2018 Sundance Film Festival On Thursday's Access Utah

110 independent films from 29 countries will be presented at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, which is hosting screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and at Sundance Mountain Resort, through Sunday.
1/25/201853 minutes, 47 seconds
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Author James Anderson On Wednesday's Access Utah

Ben Jones, is a single, 38-year-old truck driver on the verge of losing his small trucking company. Ben's route takes him back and forth across one of the most desolate and beautiful regions of the Utah desert where he meets a mysterious cellist and the embittered owner of a small diner. That’s the plot, in brief, of James Anderson’s debut novel, “The Never-Open Desert Diner.”
1/24/201853 minutes, 51 seconds
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"The Climbers" With Photographer Jim Herrington On Tuesday's Access Utah

For nearly 2 decades, professional photographer Jim Herrington has been working on a portrait series of influential rock and mountain climbers. The resulting book, “The Climbers” documents these rugged individualists who, from roughly the 1930s to 1970s, used primitive gear along with their wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. Today, these men and women are renowned for their accomplishments and, in many cases, are the last of the remaining practitioners from the so‐called “Golden Age” of 20th century climbing.
1/24/201854 minutes, 52 seconds
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Opening Day of Utah Legislature On Monday's Access Utah

Join us on Monday at 9:00 a.m. for our annual live broadcast from the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City on the opening day of the Utah Legislature. Tom Williams will be talking with Governor Gary Herbert and majority and minority leaders from the Utah Senate and House of Representatives. We’ll take questions via email for the governor and legislative leaders. We want to know what’s on your mind as the 2018 Utah Legislature gets down to business. You can email us during the show or right now toupraccess@gmail.com and we’ll get your question or comment on during the program.
1/22/20181 hour, 26 minutes, 21 seconds
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Arguing The Death Penalty In Utah On Tuesday's Access Utah

A majority (55 percent) of Americans support the death penalty, according to the latest Gallup poll on the subject, but support continues to decline. In 1994, 80 percent supported the death penalty.
1/16/201851 minutes, 43 seconds
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'Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know' With Leslie and John Francis on Thursday's Access Utah

We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, interact with friends and loved ones, pay bills, stream videos, read the news, and listen to music. We operate with the understanding that data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. But the data tracks we leave through our health information, the internet and social media, financial and credit information, personal relationships, and public lives continuously make us prey to identity theft, hacking and even government surveillance.
1/11/201850 minutes, 11 seconds
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Digital Trends of 2017 With Lynne McNeil and Jeannie Thomas On Wednesday's Access Utah

There was a tie atop the 2017 Digital Trend of the Year survey conducted by theUSU Digital Folklore Project. The top trends were: #MeToo and the phenomenon of fake governmentsocial media accounts like @AltUSNatParkService. Jeannie Thomas, co-director ofthe USU Digital Folklore Project and head of the USU English Department toldthe Logan Herald Journal that when they first started the project, She “thoughtit’d be memes all the time we’d be naming. One of the things this shows me ishow much people engage with political and social justice issues.” We’ll talkwith Jeannie Thomas and Lynne McNeill, the other co-director of the USU DigitalFolklore Project and USU assistant professor of English, about #TakeAKnee(second on this year’s list). We’ll also talk about “covfefe” and much more andwe’ll ask you for your selection for top digital trend of the year.
1/10/201854 minutes, 3 seconds
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Nudity In Art And Art Education On Tuesday's Access Utah

A Cache Valley elementary school art teacher was fired after he had his class pass around prints of classical art from a collection of postcards from the school’s library, which included prints of nude paintings. The teacher, Mateo Rueda said he didn’t know those paintings were part of the set and would not have used them. This story drew international press coverage. Rueda and Cache County School district have reached an agreement in the case. We’ll talk about it on Tuesday’s Access Utah. Our guests will include Mateo Rueda and the mother of one of the students.
1/9/201849 minutes, 45 seconds
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"An American (Homeless) In Paris" With Author Chris Ames On Monday's Access Utah

“I’m not saying become homeless, but do understand it opens many doors, and helps us appreciate the doors we can close.” That’s Utah native Chris Ames, writing in his book, “An American (homeless) in Paris,” out from University of Utah Press.
1/8/201853 minutes, 57 seconds
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Tech Matters With Jonathan Choate On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll explore all things tech with Jonathan Choate from SD7 Technology Group in Logan.
1/3/201852 minutes, 24 seconds
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The Lightwood Duo On This Holiday Edition Of Access Utah

From lightwoodduo.com:
12/14/201751 minutes, 10 seconds
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Recent DACA Protests On Wednesday's Access Utah

Recently a group called Our Dream organized a sit-in at the Federal Building in Salt Lake City to, as the group puts it, “pressure our representatives to include protection for DACA recipients in the Omnibus Spending Bill or vote against the Spending Bill should protection not be included. And the World Trade Center Utah recently hosted an immigration roundtable with local leaders from agriculture, business, education, tech, and faith as well as political leaders to show support for immigration reforms. The event marked the launch of the iMarch for Immigration Campaign, a national day of action in all 50 states. The World Trade Center Utah thanked Utah’s Congressional Delegation for their efforts and called on them to push forward with action on a solution for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients--the “DREAMers”—quickly.
12/13/201746 minutes, 54 seconds
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GENTRI On Tuesday's Access Utah

GENTRI: The Gentlemen Trio was established in June 2014 and is comprised of three highly trained tenors: Brad Robins, Casey Elliott and Bradley Quinn Lever. Pioneering a signature sound that can only be described as “Cinematic Pop,” the music of GENTRI is transfused with lush, epic orchestrations and rich, dynamic three-part harmonies all composed by the group’s producer Stephen Nelson.
12/12/201753 minutes, 57 seconds
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Are Students Snowflakes? On Thursday's Access Utah

Recently, USU philosophy professors Erica Holberg, Charlie Huenemann, and Harrison Kleiner participated in a panel discussion with the provocative title: “Are Students Snowflakes?” Next time on Access Utah they’ll join Tom Williams to explore the tension between the value we place on free speech on college campuses and how that value can sometimes collide with the desires of students and others to not be exposed to ideas they find offensive.This discussion has obvious parallels to ongoing issues in broader society.
12/7/201754 minutes, 12 seconds
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"The Last Man Who Knew Everything" With Author David Schwartz On Wednesday's Access Utah

David Schwartz, author of “The Last Man Who Knew Everything,” joins us for Wednesday’s Access Utah.
12/6/201754 minutes
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National Monument Reductions On Tuesday's Access Utah

Announcing the actions in Salt Lake City, President Trump has removed some 2 million acres from the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments and split the two monuments into five. Bears Ears was split into two separate areas: Shash Jaa at 129,980 acres and Indian Creek at 71,896 acres. Together the two comprise 201,876 acres, as compared to the 1.35 million acres that President Barack Obama named last December. Grand Staircase, named by President Bill Clinton in 1996, has been divided into three monuments: Grand Staircase at 209,993 acres, Kaiparowits at 551,034 acres and Escalante Canyon at 242,836 acres. The combined areas covered by monument status in the former Grand Staircase Escalante national monument is just over 1 million acres, down from 1.9 million acres originally designated.
12/5/201756 minutes, 48 seconds
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'The Broken Country' With Author Paisley Rekdal On Monday's Access Utah

The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident―in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a number of white men purportedly in retribution for the war―Paisley Rekdal draws on a remarkable range of material and fashions it into a compelling account of the dislocations suffered by the Vietnamese and also by American-born veterans over the past decades. She interweaves a narrative about the crime with information collected in interviews, historical examination of the arrival of Vietnamese immigrants in the 1970s, a critique of portrayals of Vietnam in American popular culture, and discussions of the psychological consequences of trauma. This work allows us to better understand transgenerational and cultural trauma and advances our still complicated struggle to comprehend the war.
12/5/201754 minutes, 1 second
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Doing Good In The Community On Wednesday's Access Utah

There are many needs in our communities. And many groups and individuals step up to meet those needs. Periodically on Access Utah we shine a spotlight on non-profits and individuals doing good in our communities.
11/29/201753 minutes, 55 seconds
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What Are You Reading? Wednesday's Access Utah

Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, when you may have some extra time for books, we’re compiling our latest UPR booklist. I’ve recently jumped headlong into the history of the Civil War. I’ll tell you which books I recommend on that subject. Elaine Thatcher, our usual co-host for these episodes, always has several fascinating books on her nightstand. She’ll share her list with us. We’ll also get recommendations of interesting new books from booksellers in Moab and Ogden. Andy Nettle from Back of Beyond Books in Moab and Kent and Julie Ann Winward from Booked on 25th in Ogden, will join.
11/22/201752 minutes, 10 seconds
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Artist Sam Vernon On Monday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour today is visual artist Sam Vernon. This episode is a part of our ongoing series of programs focusing on Utah State University’s Year of the Arts. Sam Vernon earned her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale University in 2015 and her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009. Her installations combine xeroxed drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptural components in an exploration of personal narrative and identity. She uses installation and performance to honor the past while revising historical memory. Vernon has most recently exhibited with We Buy Gold, Interstitial Gallery, Coney Art Walls curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Fowler Museum at UCLA and Seattle Art Museum. Sam Vernon lives in Oakland, CA and teaches printmaking as an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA). She gave a presentation recently at USU as a part of the Communitas Lecture Series in the USU Caine College of the Arts.
11/20/201749 minutes, 20 seconds
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Historian And Author Gregory Prince On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we talk with scientific researcher and historian Gregory Prince, who earned his graduate degrees in dentistry (DDS) and pathology (PhD) at UCLA. He pursued a four-decade career in pediatric infectious disease research. His love of history led him to write three books: “Power on High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood,” “David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism,” co-authored with William Robert Wright, and “Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.” Gregory Prince is winner of the 2017 Evans Biography Award for this latest book. The Evans Biography Award is administered by Utah State University’s Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, a program and research area in USU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
11/16/201757 minutes, 9 seconds
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"Empress Of The East" With Leslie Peirce On Wednesday's Access Utah

The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire
11/15/201738 minutes, 11 seconds
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Author Of "This Blessed Earth" Ted Genoways On Tuesday's Access Utah

From tedgenoways.com: For forty years, Rick Hammond has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation farm. But as he prepares to hand off the operation to his daughter Meghan and her husband Kyle, their entire way of life is under siege. Confronted by rising corporate ownership, encroaching pipelines, groundwater depletion, climate change, and shifting trade policies, small farmers are often caught in the middle and fighting just to preserve their way of life. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, This Blessed Earth is both a history of American agriculture and a portrait of one family’s struggle to hold on to their legacy.
11/14/201754 minutes, 4 seconds
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"It's All Relative: Adventures Up & Down The Family Tree" With AJ Jacobs On Monday's Access Utah

A.J. Jacobs, author of the new book: “It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree,” joins us for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah.
11/13/201749 minutes, 44 seconds
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Martin Luther Expert Peter Marshall On Thursday's Access Utah

Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries been a powerful and enduring symbol of religious freedom of conscience, and of righteous protest against the abuse of power.
11/9/201754 minutes, 1 second
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The Importance Of Science Communication On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today's discussion is on the importance of science communication. We are joined by the Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University Laura Lindenfeld, Improv Program Leader of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, Phd candidate and UPR Science Reporter Daniel Kinka, and Aimee Tallian and Director Nancy Huntly of the USU Ecology Center.
11/8/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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The Sasquatch Expert Jeff Meldrum On Tuesday's Access Utah

Jeff Meldrum is Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University. He is author of “Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.” He is a leading expert on Bigfoot or Sasquatch, or the term he prefers: “Relict Hominoid.” He says “...[I]t is one matter to address the theoretical possibility of a relict species of hominoid in North America, and the obligate shift in paradigm to accommodate it, but there must also be something substantial to place within that revised framework. There must be essential evidence to lend weight to the hypotheses, and counter the critics’ various aspersions. I was once confronted by a colleague, who declared, ‘After all, these are just stories.’ My response: ‘Stories that apparently leave tracks, shed hair, void scat, vocalize, are observed and described by reliable experienced witnesses. Hardly just stories.’”
11/7/201754 minutes, 4 seconds
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"Stony Mesa Sagas" With Author Chip Ward On Monday's Access Utah

From Torrey House: Pursued by a hired killer after they protested at a mining site gate, Luna Waxwing and Hip Hop Hopi seek refuge in the remote Southwest village of Stony Mesa where they start over as micro-farming restaurateurs with a dangerous secret. With their rodeo princess partner Kayla and a colorful cast of unlikely allies, they struggle to find common ground between coyote-killing cowboys and bird-watching retirees.
11/6/201753 minutes, 52 seconds
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Musician Tom Paxton On Thursday's Access Utah

Tom Paxton says folk music is lumber with the bark still on. His legendary career spans six decades of traditional music and topical songs. He says today's political climate presents an embarrassment of riches to the song writer. He hasn't penned a Trump song yet, but that will come.
11/2/201753 minutes, 46 seconds
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Thomas Ricks "Churchill & Orwell: The Fight For Freedom" On Thursday's Access Utah

Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. Thomas Ricks writes in his new book “Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom” that In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north.
10/26/201753 minutes, 53 seconds
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'Memento Mori:' The Art and Inevitability of Death and Mourning on Wednesday's Access Utah

"Remember that you will die..."
10/25/201753 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting Vanessa Grigoriadis On Thursday's Access Utah

A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many “woke” male students are more sensitive to women’s concerns than previous generations ever were, while other men perpetuate the most cruel misogyny. Amid such apparent contradictions, it’s no surprise that intense confusion shrouds the topic of sex on campus.
10/24/201753 minutes, 51 seconds
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Puerto Rico Relief With Edwin Melendez, Dorany Rodriguez And Carlos Nunez On Thursday's Access Utah

One month after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, 3 million Puerto Ricans, or 80%, are still without power. More than a third of households are without reliable drinking water at home. The death toll may be in the hundreds. CNN reports that “much of the island feels like it was hit by a storm yesterday.” And some Puerto Ricans are expressing the worry that the news cycle will turn and the island’s needs will be forgotten.
10/19/201753 minutes, 58 seconds
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American Wolf: The Life And Death Of O-Six With Nate Blakeslee On Thursday's Access Utah

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves.
10/18/201753 minutes, 52 seconds
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'Where The Animals Go' On Monday's Access Utah

For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers reveal the natural world as never before. Where the Animals Go offers a comprehensive, data-driven portrait of how creatures like ants, otters, owls, turtles, and sharks navigate the world. Based on pioneering research by scientists at the forefront of the animal-tracking revolution, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti’s charts and maps tell fascinating stories of animal behavior, explaining how warblers detect incoming storms using sonic vibrations, how baboons make decisions, and why storks prefer garbage dumps to wild forage; they follow pythons racing through the Everglades, a lovelorn wolf traversing the Alps, and humpback whales visiting undersea mountains.
10/16/201754 minutes, 8 seconds
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Revisiting Author And Social Critic Sarah Gailey On Tuesday's Access Utah

In her first year of eligibility, Gailey was nominated for a Hugo Award for her critique and celebration of the women of Harry Potter, in a category alongside legendary fiction writer Neil Gaiman and the late Carrie Fisher.
10/11/201754 minutes
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Bestselling Author And Federal Judge Ted Stewart Discusses New Book On Tuesday's Access Utah

Bestselling author Ted Stewart explains how the Supreme Court and its nine appointed members now stand at a crucial point in their power to hand down momentous and far-ranging decisions. Today's Court affects every major area of American life, from health care to civil rights, from abortion to marriage.
10/10/201754 minutes
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Revisiting Fairy Tale Expert Jack Zipes On Thursday's Access Utah

Fairy tale expert Jack Zipes says that the tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society."
10/9/201748 minutes, 54 seconds
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Civil Rights Activist Bob Zellner On Thursday's Access Utah

Robert Zellner is a civil rights activist and original Freedom Rider. The Alabama-born son and grandson of Ku Klux Klan members, Zellner has devoted his life to building relationships across color lines. In 1963, he was a young organizer of the March on Washington, which gave us Martin Luther's King "I Have a Dream" speech. He describes his 50-plus year career in the memoir The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement.
10/5/201753 minutes, 59 seconds
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Reactions To The 'Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History' On Wednesday's Access Utah

A gunman opened fire on the crowd at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday evening, killing at least 59 and wounding hundreds.
10/4/201754 minutes
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'Dying In Vein' A Documentary About The Opiate Crisis On Tuesday's Access Utah

A documentary directed by Jenny MackenzieDying in Vein is a deeply personal exploration of opiate and heroin addiction through a cinéma vérité style that drops you directly into the lives of an addict in recovery, a couple trying to get clean, a family grieving the loss of their son, and an Emergency Room Physician trying to save one patient at time. Through these stories, the film explores the contemporary belief of 'living life pain free', and the shame and blame that exists around addiction. The film looks at the impact of socioeconomic class on our broken treatment system, and how a group of emergency care physicians are working to save their patients.
10/3/201750 minutes, 34 seconds
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Opera And Its Voices In Utah With Walter B. Rudolph On Thursday's Access Utah

Opera comes in all shapes and sizes. Considered an elitist art form by many, it is capable of touching souls from pioneers and farmers to apostles and politicians. While it may be an acquired taste, we are lured to it via recitals, concerts, oratorios, and even Broadway musicals and anecdotal tales.
9/28/201754 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting Singer-Songwriter Dar Williams On Monday's Access Utah

On Monday’s Access Utah, beloved folk singer Dar Williams joins us to talk about her latest book, described as “an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.”
9/27/201754 minutes, 1 second
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Best Of Access Utah: Book Shows

On our last pledge drive show, we go into the importance of books on Access Utah. We love getting to interview authors and we hope you enjoy listening to these interviews. Ken Sanders from Rare Books and our own Teri Guy join us for the hour to talk about the importance of these book interviews, and encourage your pledges. You will excerpts from some of our favorite book shows, and you can find full interviews for those shows below. Thanks for listening.
9/26/20171 hour, 9 minutes, 44 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah: Fun Programs

We are continuing our pledge drive this week with more of the best of Access Utah. Today's program has excerpts from our lighter and fun programs. USU assistant professor of English Lynne McNeill, and our own development officer Ted Twinting join us for the hour to encourage your pledges and talk about what makes Access Utah so great. We appreciate your support and hope you have as much fun listening to our show as we have making it.
9/25/20171 hour, 8 minutes, 36 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah: Current Events And Free Speech

We continue our fundraising efforts this week with another Best of Access Utah show. Today we focused on our current event shows and emphasized freedom of speech. Associate professor of communication studies at Utah State University Jason Gilmore, and our own Katie Swain join us for the hour to encourage your pledges and discuss the importance of free speech in America. You will hear excerpts from our shows on the Charlottesville Riot, Bears Ears National Monument, and the March For Science. Links to the full shows can be found below. Thanks for listening to Access Utah.
9/21/20171 hour, 6 minutes, 9 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah: Year Of The Arts

Wednesday, we are taking pledges and replaying excerpts from some of our best interviews on Access Utah. We appreciate your support not only of us, but of the arts as well. Dr. Craig Jessop, Dean of Utah State University's Caine College of the Arts, and UPR's station manager Peg Arnold join us to discuss the unique importance of the arts. Join us as we revisit our favorite interviews — the best Access Utah has to offer.
9/20/20171 hour, 3 minutes, 12 seconds
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Revisiting "The Names of the Stars" With Author Pete Fromm On Tuesday's Access Utah

At twenty years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs, seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Leaping at this chance to be a mountain man, with no experience in the wilds, he left the world. Thirteen years later, he published his beloved memoir of that winter, Indian Creek Chronicles ―Into the Wild with a twist.
9/12/201753 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Fantasyland" With Author Kurt Andersen On Thursday's Access Utah

How did we get here?
9/7/201753 minutes, 58 seconds
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'The Boy Who Loved Too Much:' Williams Syndrome on Wednesday's Access Utah

What would it be like to see everyone as a friend?
8/30/201752 minutes, 46 seconds
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Public Lands, Native Rights And The Antiquities Act on Monday's Access Utah

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has completed the review of national monuments mandated by President Trump. He has not released his recommendations. The New York Times is reporting that those recommendations include reducing the size of 4 national monuments, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah. Reports are that Secretary Zinke may recommend a drastic reduction in size for Bears Ears.
8/28/201754 minutes, 7 seconds
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White Supremacy, Minecraft and Reddit with Philosopher Charlie Huenemann on Tuesday's Access Utah

Charlie Huenemann is professor of philosophy at Utah State University. He is the author of several books and essays on the history of philosophy, as well as some fun stuff, such as “How You Play the Game: A Philosopher Plays Minecraft.” We’ll talk about white supremacists’ fascination with Nietzsche and ask if they are misreading the German philosopher. (Huenemann has written a book on Nietzsche).
8/22/201753 minutes, 15 seconds
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"The Women" With Author Kerry Bate on Monday's Access Utah

Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia. But many family sagas in the right hands can prove widely engaging, owing to inherent drama and historical relevance. They can truthfully illuminate larger matters of history, humanity, and culture.
8/21/201753 minutes, 56 seconds
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Utah's Reaction To The Recent Race Rallies On Thursday's Access Utah

We'll discuss the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia. We’ll ask if there should be any limits to free speech and assembly. What provisions should be made if the protesters are armed? Should ideas repugnant to most people be allowed expression? When such ideas are expressed what should the push-back look like? Is President Trump right to see an equivalence between the protesters and counter-protesters in Charlottesville? Regarding controversial monuments and memorials: How should we make decisions on what stays and what gets removed? We’ll try to put the seemingly-escalating tensions over race in context, and look at where we go from here.
8/17/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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Antibiotics In Beef Production On Wednesday's Access Utah

Quoting CNN: “More than 70% of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for food production animals, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. The problem is that many experts believe this is an overuse of antibiotics, and they fear significant public health consequences.
8/16/201753 minutes, 53 seconds
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Interview With Lucy Kalanithi "When Breath Becomes Air" On Tuesday's Access Utah

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air... chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a young neurosurgeon at Stanford, guiding patients toward a deeper understanding of death and illness, and finally into a patient and a new father to a baby girl, confronting his own mortality.
8/15/201754 minutes, 50 seconds
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Clueless About Physics? Author of "The Physics Of Everyday Things" Joins Us On Monday's Access Utah

Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital “clouds” to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles.
8/14/201753 minutes, 55 seconds
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"Hope, Heart, and the Humanities" With Jean Cheney on Thursday's Access Utah

Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells the story of how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors to improve the lives of people with low incomes who face barriers to attending college. For over a decade, this course has given hundreds of adults, some of them immigrants or refugees, the knowledge, confidence, and power to rechart their lives.
8/10/201753 minutes, 46 seconds
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'Stickin' It' to the Man: Sculptor Patrick Dougherty on Tuesday's Access Utah

Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist PatrickDougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlesslyintertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical images of nests, cocoons, cones, castles, and beehives. Over the last twenty-five years, Dougherty has built more than two hundred works throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia that range from stand-alone structures to a kind of modern primitive architectureevery piece mesmerizing in its ability to fly through trees, overtake buildings, and virtually defy gravity. Stickwork, Dougherty's first monograph, features thirty-eight of his organic, dynamic works that twist the line between architecture, landscape, and art. Constructed on-site using locally sourced materials and local volunteer labor, Dougherty's sculptures are tangles of twigs and branches that have been transformed into something unexpected and wild, elegant and artful, and often humorous. Sometimes freestanding, and other times wrapping around trees, buildings, railings, and rooms, they are constructed indoors and in nature. As organic matter, the stick sculptures eventually disintegrate and fade back into the landscape. Featuring a wealth of photographs and drawings documenting the construction process of each remarkable structure, Stickworkpreserves the legend of the man who weaves the simplest of materials into a…
8/8/201753 minutes, 53 seconds
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The New Water Plan With Warren Petersen and Timothy Hawkes on Monday's Access Utah

Timothy Hawkes and Warren Petersen join Tom Williams to discuss the governors proposed 50 year water plan.
8/7/201754 minutes, 1 second
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'One Nation Under Gold': The Gold Standard With James Ledbetter on Tuesday's Access Utah

In 2016, now President Donald Trump became the first major-party candidate in more than half a century to advocate a return to the gold standard for the U.S. dollar. In ONE NATION UNDER GOLD: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries (Liveright: June 2017) INC Magazine editor and financial writer James Ledbetter explains how most mainstream economists argue the idea of returning to the gold standard is just not possible.
8/1/201741 minutes, 18 seconds
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The Healing Power of Sound: Music Therapy on Monday's Access Utah

Monday's program is a window into the world of music therapy: an interesting intersection of arts and science.
7/31/201753 minutes, 50 seconds
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The When, Where and How of the August 21 Total Eclipse on Thursday's Access Utah

Thursday, Tom Williams’ guest for the hour is journalist, author and public radio broadcaster David Baron. Baron is an avid umbraphile who has witnessed five total solar eclipses; he has crossed the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia to catch the shadow of the moon. On August 21, Baron will be in Jackson Hole, Wyo., to witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the country from coast to coast in 99 years. We talked about the history and science of eclipses and share some tips for the best way to experience the upcoming eclipse.
7/27/201751 minutes, 15 seconds
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"Likes vs. Life: Getting A 'Like' Over Having A Life," On Wednesday's Access Utah

A new study by Joseph Grenny and David Maxfield, co-authors of four New York Times bestsellers on interpersonal communication and influencing human behavior, reveals that more and more of us are losing connection with our lives in order to earn “likes” and social media praise. We have, in a sense, turned into social media “trophy hunters.”
7/26/201751 minutes, 25 seconds
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Dementia, Identity and Self-Reckoning: Gerda Saunders on Thursday's Access Utah

In her memoir, "Memory's Last Breath: Field Notes on My Dementia,” Gerda Saunders writes: “When I was diagnosed with early- onset dementia just before my sixty- first birthday in 2010, I kept my hurt, anger, fear, and doubts under wraps. I had no choice. I had a job, a husband, children, grandchildren, friends. I had a life. However, there is nothing like a death sentence— in my case, the premature death of my mind— to provoke questions about life. What, actually, is memory, personality, identity? What is a self? Will I still be (have?) a self when my reason is gone? For me, the place to work out such questions has always been in writing. From that place of self- reckoning, then, came this book.”
7/20/201722 minutes, 49 seconds
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"Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War" With Author Mary Roach on Wednesday's Access Utah

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, flies, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Roach visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, she discovers that diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Back in the US, fashion designers at U.S. Army Natick Labs explain why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
7/19/201720 minutes, 58 seconds
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Discussing Salt Lake's Homeless Problem With Tribune Reporter Chris Smart on Monday's Access Utah

Salt Lake Tribune reporter Christopher Smart reports that “News is spreading across the country on the state of homelessness in downtown Salt Lake City — and it isn't pretty.
7/17/201747 minutes, 58 seconds
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Dinosaur Discoveries in Utah On Thursday's Access Utah

Today’s program is by request. Aleq in Southern Utah emailed us to ask for more science on Access Utah and to suggest that we talk about the great work being done in Utah in paleontology.
7/13/201754 minutes
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"Behaving Badly" With Author Eden Collinsworth on Wednesday's Access Utah

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business, cheating, lying, and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life, rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow, this hasn’t quite led to a complete free-for-all—people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. In her new book "Behaving Badly: The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business," Eden Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why. In her quest, she seeks out, among others, a prime minister, the editor of the Financial Times, a holocaust survivor, a pop star, and a former commander of the U.S. Air Force and grapples with the impracticality of applying morals to foreign policy; precisely when morality gets lost in the making of money; what happens to morality without free will; whether “immoral” women are just those having a better time; why celebrities have become the new moral standard-bearers; and if testosterone is morality’s enemy or its hero.
7/12/201759 minutes, 47 seconds
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Partisnahsip In Journalism With NYU Professor Mitchell Stephens On Tuesday's Access Utah

NYU professor Mitchell Stephens’ recent article in “Politico” is headlined “Goodbye Nonpartisan Journalism. And Good Riddance.” Stephens says that “journalism in the United States was born partisan and remained, for much of its history, loud, boisterous and combative. He says that this changed in the 1930s and 40s beginning with influential radio newsman Lowell Thomas who “intuited that the best way to hold [his] large audience was to avoid excessively offending any major political group. He tried to play it, as he put it, ‘down the middle’ ... “And Thomas’ main successors in the role of national newsmen—David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw—aimed for somewhere around “the middle” too.
7/11/201733 minutes, 43 seconds
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Summer Book Show And Good Reads On Monday's Access Utah

UPR listeners are avid readers, so our periodic question to you isn’t if you’re reading, but what are you reading? We hope you’ll share your booklist with us and we’ll compile a UPR list and post it on www.upr.org You can share your booklist by email to upraccess@gmail.com or on Twitter @upraccess. We’re also asking if you have any suggestions for beach or camping or summertime reading. And what do your children read during the summertime? Elaine Thatcher will join Tom Williams in studio for the hour and we’ll be talking with Betsy Burton from The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City and Andy Nettell from Back of Beyond Books in Moab.
7/10/201753 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting Land On Fire: The New Reality Of Wildfire In The West: Gary Ferguson On This Access Utah

With wildfires raging in Utah and other areas, we’ll turn to writer Gary Ferguson for a timely discussion about wildfires on Monday’s Access Utah. Wildfire season is burning longer and hotter, affecting more and more people, especially in the west. Ferguson’s book Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West explores the science behind this phenomenon and the ongoing research to find a solution and details how years of fire suppression and chronic drought have combined to make the situation so dire. Ferguson also brings to life the extraordinary efforts of those responsible for fighting wildfires, and explains how nature reacts in the aftermath of flames.
7/3/201729 minutes, 41 seconds
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Richard O. Prum's "The Evolution of Beauty" Darwin's Theory of Mate Choice on Thurday's Access Utah

In The Evolution of Beauty, Richard O. Prum’s award-winning career as an ornithologist and his lifelong passion for bird-watching come together in a thrilling intellectual adventure. Scientific dogma holds that every detail of an animal’s mating displays—every spot on the peacock’s tail—is an advertisement of its genetic material superiority to potential mates. But thirty years of research and fieldwork around the world led Prum to question this idea. Deep in tropical jungles are birds with dizzying array of plumages, songs, and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, and Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. Many such traits struck Prum as out-landishly unlikely to provide practical information.
6/29/201754 minutes, 9 seconds
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The ACA And Utah On Wednesday’s Access Utah

Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have delayed a vote on their Obamacare repeal bill (the Better Care Reconciliation Act) until after the 4th of the July recess.
6/28/201752 minutes, 15 seconds
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Bringing Issues of Civic Engagement Into The Classroom, Margaret Whitt On Tuesday's Access Utah

The 2017 Bennion Teacher Workshop and Literature of Protest: Civil Rights, Democracy, Social Justice is ongoing at USU. Sponsored by: The Mountain West Center for Regional Studies Utah State University.
6/27/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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"The New Asylums: How Utah Traps The Mentally Ill Behind Bars" On Monday's Access Utah

Across Utah, nearly 70 mentally ill men and women who are supposed to be receiving mental health treatment are instead trapped in jail cells. They're getting sicker. They're being released without treatment. They're dying.
6/26/201753 minutes, 59 seconds
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Talking About Conspiracy Theories with Colin Dickey on Thursday's Access Utah

According to Colin Dickey, author of the forthcoming book about conspiracy theories called “The Unidentified,” such theories appear and spread at moments of upheaval and cultural anxiety. Dickey, writing recently in The New Republic magazine, examines the rise of conspiracy theories, long thought to be more the province of the right wing, on the left in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as president. We’ll ask what it means that the president himself has dabbled in conspiracy theories and has applauded such figures as Alex Jones. And we’ll investigate the what, why, where, when, and how of conspiracy theories with Colin Dickey, next time on Access Utah.
6/22/201753 minutes, 42 seconds
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Michael Wallis's "The Best Land Under Heaven" a Book on the Donner Party on Wednesday's Access Utah

The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny.
6/21/201753 minutes, 48 seconds
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USU's Year of the Arts with Dr. Craig Jessop on Tuesday's Access Utah

Craig Jessop, Dean of Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts, Director of the American Festival Chorus and Orchestra, and former Music Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, has led an interesting life in the arts. He’ll join us today to talk about USU’s Year of the Arts which begins this month.
6/20/201749 minutes, 45 seconds
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Jazz, Blues and Rock 'n' Roll with Guitarist Cory Christiansen on Wednesday's Access Utah

Cory Christiansen is a recording artist, writer, educator and performer. He has played and taught around the globe for the last decade alongside the likes of Dr. Lonnie Smith, Vic Juris, Danny Gottlieb, Jeff Coffin, James Moody, Steve Houghton, Jeremy Allen and other jazz greats. His last recording, "Lone Prairie" received critical acclaim for its blending of jazz, rock, blues and music of the American Frontier.
6/15/201751 minutes, 41 seconds
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Summer Secrets: The Best of Utah's Summer Fun on Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s Summertime! The kids are out of school and life slows down for some of us and speeds up for others. Trips to favorite vacation spots and into the backcountry ramp up. Today on Access Utah, we came together as a UPR community to share ideas for summertime trips, activities, traditions and stories.
6/14/201751 minutes, 9 seconds
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The Ins and Outs of Zinke's Bears Ears Recommendation on Tuesday's Access Utah

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has released his interim report on Bears Ears National Monument.
6/13/201759 minutes, 52 seconds
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Author Martha Cooley And Her Memoir, “Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss”

Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on drinking our morning coffee, loving our life partners, stumbling through a world of such confusing, exquisite beauty?
6/12/201753 minutes, 52 seconds
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The Paris Agreement and Climate Solutions on Wednesday's Access Utah

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement was met with mixed reactions across the country and especially in Utah. While some climate scientists and government leaders including Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski called the decision a mistake, others argued the decision could have positive economic consequences for the United States.
6/7/201754 minutes, 4 seconds
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'Finding Common Reality' With Michael Patrick Lynch on Tuesday's Access Utah

Michael Patrick Lynch is featured in a TED talk about "Finding Common Reality." In his talk, Lynch explains the future of how we know information is true. Just because we can Google information does not mean the information is accurate. And even more surprising, Lynch explains how we are not just polarized in our opinions or values, but in the facts we learn.
6/6/201751 minutes, 22 seconds
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A Conversation About the 1920's Osage Murders with Author David Grann on Monday's Access Utah

After oil was discovered beneath their land in the 1920's, the richest people per capita were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. They rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.
6/5/201754 minutes, 7 seconds
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Net Neutrality with Jonathan Choate & Jason Williams on Wednesday's Access Utah

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing a ruling to roll back net neutrality rules enacted under President Obama, to, in part, spur innovation and investment. President Obamademanded that the FCC reclassify the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. He wanted rules to ensure “that neither the cable company nor the phone company [would] be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online."
6/1/201753 minutes, 58 seconds
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'Where the Water Goes' With Author David Owen On Wednesday's Access Utah

The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from Colorado's headwaters, to its parched terminus, once a verdant wetland but now a million-acre desert. HE takes readers on an adventure downriver, along a labyrinth of waterways, reservoirs, power plants, farms, fracking sites, ghost towns, and rv parks, to the spot near the U.S.-Mexico border where the river runs dry.
5/31/20170
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The United Utah Party on Tuesday's Access Utah

According to the Dessert News, "Some disaffected Republicans and Democrats who say extreme views are co-opting their parties have decided to carve out a middle ground in Utah politics. Taking a centrist approach, the group announced the formation of the United Utah Party.
5/30/20170
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Soda Tax and Food Addiction on Thursday's Access Utah

NPR reports that “The World Health Organization has called on nations around the globe toenact taxes on sugary beverages. AndBloomberg Philanthropies says raising taxes on sugary beverages can be part of the strategy to ‘reduce consumer demand for unhealthy foods and beverages, improve the food environment, and make healthier choices easier for everyone.’”
5/25/201752 minutes, 35 seconds
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The Handmaid's Tale: Wednesday's Access Utah

Margaret Atwood’s influential novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was published in 1985. The new Hulu series based on the book is creating quite a bit of buzz and some are saying the book’s themes are prescient in our times. Others are pushing back on that idea. Wednesday on Access Utah we’ll talk about it with Erin Webster Garrett, Professor of English at Radford University; and Sarah Jones, Social Media Editor with The New Republic magazine. You can comment right now to upraccess@gmail.com on Twitter @upraccess and on our Access Utah Facebook page.
5/24/201755 minutes, 3 seconds
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'Cages,' A Novel by Sylvia Torti on Tuesday's Access Utah

There are over 30 million birders in this country alone, according to the Cornell Institute of Ornithology. Why are so many people interested in birds and birdsong?
5/23/201755 minutes, 1 second
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'Richard Nixon: The Life' With Author John A. Farrell

The words “Nixonian” and “Watergate territory” are being used increasingly in connection with the Trump Administration.
5/18/201759 minutes, 46 seconds
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Laura McBride and Her New Book, "Round Midnight"

Las Vegas-based writer Laura McBride, is out with a new novel. “‘Round Midnight” spans the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today. It is the story of four women-- one who falls in love, one who gets lucky, one whose heart is broken, and one who has always wondered--whose lives change at the Midnight Room.
5/16/201757 minutes, 14 seconds
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'13 Reasons Why' And Teen Suicide On Access Utah

As of last year, suicide was the leading cause of death among 10- to 17-year-olds in Utah and the youth suicide rate had tripled since 2007. Teen suicide is a hot topic lately with the advent of the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.” Several groups, including The Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide, have expressed concerns that the media tends to glamorize and sensationalize suicide. We’ll talk about it next time on Access Utah, when our guests will include a representative from the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide.
5/15/20171 hour, 1 minute
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Access Utah: How Would Enactment of The AHCA Affect You?

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the American Health Care Act which, they say, fulfills their promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. The bill now moves to the Senate.
5/11/201759 minutes, 40 seconds
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Revisiting 'I'll Run Till the Sun Goes Down:' David Sandum on Wedneday's Access Utah

David Sandum appeared to have it all: a beautiful young family and a promising career ahead as a business consultant. But his life started veering off course, and upon returning to his native Scandinavia, he fell into an inexplicable, deep depression.
5/10/201757 minutes, 32 seconds
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Debating Trump's National Monument Review On Access Utah

President Trump has ordered Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to conduct a review of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments (along with many other other national monuments) and to report back with recommendations. Secretary Zinke is in Utah now, consulting with various stakeholders. We’re going to talk about this mandated review of national monuments today. Our guests include Josh Ewing, Executive Director of Friends of Cedar Mesa; Matt Anderson, Public Lands Policy Analyst with the Sutherland Institute; and Willie Grayeyes, Board Chairman with Utah Dine Bikeyah.
5/9/20171 hour, 37 seconds
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Revisiting Scott Hammond and Nancy Green on 'Search and Rescue' On Monday's Access Utah

If you were lost on a mountain, who would come to your rescue? Mother Nature can be harsh, especially if you're unprepared or in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately, hundreds of men and women are wiling to risk their lives to bring other to safety.
5/4/201754 minutes, 19 seconds
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Electric Vehicles on Access Utah

USU Marketing Professor Edwin Stafford and his family have been early adopters of various forms of green technology. They have solar panels and a ground sourced energy system, for example. The next step, they decided, was the purchase of a Tesla electric vehicle as the new family car. Professor Stafford recounts some of their experiences in his article “Bridging the Chasm: An Early Adopter’s Perspectives on how Electric Vehicles Can Go Mainstream,” to be published in June in Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
5/1/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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March for Science on Monday's Access Utah

4/24/201753 minutes, 43 seconds
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Earth Day on Thursday's Access Utah

We have established an Access Utah tradition: On or near Earth Day each year we invite Utah writer Stephen Trimble and other guests to talk about the earth, the land, and the environment. Here is Trimble’s suggestion for this year: Why don’t we talk about young people’s responses to the land, especially young people who are writing about the land. We’ll talk about it with Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America;” naturalist, teacher, and activist, Jack Greene, and his students Josh Velazquez and Darrin Bingham and, from Capitol Reef NP, UVU Adjunct Instructor Kiri Manookin and some of her students.
4/20/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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Cache Valley NAMI and Brain Disorders on Access Utah

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year.1 Approximately 1 in 25 adults in the U.S.—9.8 million, or 4.0%—experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.2 Approximately 1 in 5 youth aged 13–18 (21.4%) experiences a severe mental disorder at some point during their life. For children aged 8–15, the estimate is 13%.3
4/19/201753 minutes, 43 seconds
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Richard Bushman on Wednesday's Access Utah

Richard Bushman is professor of history emeritus at Columbia University and formerly the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is author, among many other books, of a biography of Joseph Smith titled "Rough Stone Rolling." Professor Bushman came in to the UPR studios in March 2017 for conversation with Tom Williams following his appearance at a conference on the USU campus titled “New Perspectives on Joseph Smith and Translation.” The conference was sponsored by USU’s Religious Studies Program and the Faith Matters Foundation, a non-profit organization that encourages discussion about Mormon topics.
4/12/201750 minutes, 13 seconds
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Cynthia Moe-Lobeda & Scott Thalacker on Access Utah

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, a professor of Christian ethics, is the author of the 2013 book, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress Press). She gave a lecture yesterday at USU in the Tanner Talks series from the College of Humanites and Social Sciences. Dr. Moe-Lobeda joins us for Access Utah today, along with Rev. Scott Thalacker, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Logan.
4/11/201754 minutes, 18 seconds
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Revisiting "Black Flags of ISIS" on Access Utah

In his book, “Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS” (now out in paperback), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. Drawing on high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. Black Flags reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.
4/10/201753 minutes, 59 seconds
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Carrie Newcomer on Access Utah

Carrie Newcomer's songwriting has impressed the likes of Billboard, USA Today, and Rolling Stone, which wrote that she "asks all the right questions". Newcomer speaks and teaches about creativity, vocation, activism, and spirituality at colleges, conventions and retreats. She has shared the stage with performers like alison Krauss and writers like Parker J. Palmer, Jill Bolte Taylor, Philip Gully, Scott Russell Sanders, Rabbi Sandy Sasso and Barbara Kingsolver. Newcomer has written two collections of essays and poetry as companion pieces to recent albums: A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays, and The Beautiful Not Yet: Essays, Poems and Lyrics. In 2016, Goshen College awarded her with an honorary degree of Bachelor's of Music in Social Change during a ceremony in which she delivered the college's commencement speech. Newcomer lives in Indiana and joins Access Utah to talk about her album, The Beautiful Not Yet.
4/10/201754 minutes
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Lily Hoang's "A Bestiary" on Access Utah

Lily Hoang’s latest book is “A Bestiary,” In this genre-transcending work, selected by Wayne Koestenbaum as the winner of the 2015 Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Essay Collection, Hoang teases apart mythology, familial memory, and investigative essay into searing fragments, then weaves them into a dazzling swarm. Hoang models her postcolonial bestiary on the Chinese zodiac—“A pack of dogs. A swarm of insects. A mischief of rats./ You desire the human equivalent”—and uses it to represent such concepts as fidelity, beauty, and “the disgust of desire.” In doing so, she confronts such topics as feminine subjection, familial suffering due to assimilation (“‘Vietnamese women suffer better than all other people,’ my mother used to tell me”), and a sister’s addiction and death with a precision that is by turns vulnerable and justly incensed. Hoang subverts the moralizing tendencies of folklore to form a new hybrid mythology that, like all belief systems, reassures the believer—and the reader—that human vulnerability is undergirded by a sense of mutual care. “In order to join the collective, you must un-become, lose your face and skin, eject your identity,” she writes. “This is called belonging.” In Hoang’s mutinous cosmos, time warps and dilates to link ruptures between games and reality, the living and the dead, pain internalized and sickness expressed.
4/5/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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Best of Access Utah: Pulitzer Prize Winners

This week, we are searching through the archives and bringing you the best of Access Utah. Today our theme is Pulitzer Prize winners, and we have Utah Humanities' Cynthia Buckingham with us to revisit our discussions with Annette Gordon-Reed, John Luther Adams, Ken Armstrong, and Pat Bagely.
3/31/201756 minutes, 3 seconds
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Best of Access Utah: Fun and Music

This week, we are searching through the archives and bringing you the best of Access Utah. Today our theme is fun and music, and we have Dr. Lynne McNeill with us to revisit our episodes on Sherlock Holmes, Mormon naming practices, and the band Evening in Brazil.
3/31/201754 minutes, 6 seconds
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Best of Access Utah: Current Events

This week, we are searching through the archives and bringing you the best of Access Utah. Today our theme is current events, and we have Teri Guy and Candi Carter Olson with us to revisit our episodes on the designation of Bears Ears National Monument, fake news and journalism, and Donald Trump's first executive order on refugees.
3/31/201752 minutes, 9 seconds
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Best of Access Utah: Race Relations

This week, we are searching through the archives and bringing you the best of Access Utah. Today our theme is race relations, and we have Dr. Jason Gilmore with us to revisit our episode on the Colin Kaepernick controversy and our discussions with Angela Pulley Hudson and Paul Reeve.
3/31/201754 minutes, 1 second
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Tuesday's Access Utah

Historian and Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was recently on the USU campus to give a talk presented by the USU History Department and sponsored by the Tanner Talks Series in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
3/21/201757 minutes, 46 seconds
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Zorba Paster on Monday's Access Utah

Public radio’s Dr. Zorba Paster is in Logan for several events presented by UPR and he’ll join us for the hour today to talk about healthy living, the latest medical science, and to answer your questions.
3/20/20171 hour, 1 minute
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Lisa Gabbert and St. Patrick's Day on Thursday's Access Utah

We’ll celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a day early, with folklorist Lisa Gabbert, who says “Over time, St. Patrick’s Day has become a very American holiday; today, it is largely a festive rite of spring—green being the appropriate spring color—characterized by the performance of “Irishness” through the use of (often stereotyped) symbols. Many people, not merely those with ancestral connections to Ireland, enjoy “being Irish” for the day, as it is a way to celebrate Irish music and culture, along with better weather.” We’ll ask why is this unofficial holiday so popular in the U.S. And we want to know your St. Patrick’s Day traditions. Do you wear green? Do you eat corned beef and cabbage? What else do you do?
3/16/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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Obamacare ACA Repeal on Wednesday's Access Utah

Republicans in Congress are attempting to keep their long-standing promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. They say the ACA is a disaster and likely to implode. Democrats warn that millions of people will lose access to affordable health care if the repeal passes. We’re going to talk about it on Access Utah today. What should our health care system look like? Is healthcare a right? Is the ACA a massive deficit-busting entitlement program? If you prefer a more market-based system how would that work? How do we promote a system that reduces costs and expands coverage?
3/15/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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Kenneth Woodward on Access Utah

Our guest for the hour is Kenneth Woodward, author of “Getting Religion: Faith, Culture, and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of Obama” Kenneth Woodward edited Newsweek’s Religion section from 1964 until his retirement in 2002. He remained a contributing editor at Newsweek until 2009. Altogether he has written more than a thousand essays, articles and reviews for a variety of magazines, newspapers and scholarly publications. Getting Religion is a culmination of that work and tells the story of how American religion, culture, and politics influenced one another in the second half of the twentieth century and offers portraits of many of the era’s major figures and their impact on religion in America. Beginning with a reassessment of the fifties, the narrative weaves through the Civil Rights era and the movements that followed in its wake.
3/14/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting Cheryl Strayed on Tuesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour on Monday’s Access Utah is Cheryl Strayed, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir “Wild,” the New York Times bestsellers “Tiny Beautiful Things” and “Brave Enough,” and the novel “Torch.”
3/13/201753 minutes, 39 seconds
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Brooke Williams on Thursday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour today is Brooke Williams, author most recently of Open Midnight:
3/2/201753 minutes, 21 seconds
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The Wage Gap on Wednesday's Access Utah

A Republican party official in Wasatch County recently criticized a bill that addresses a pay gap in the workforce. According to the Washington Post, James Green “said that men have traditionally earned more than women and, citing ‘simple economics,’ argued that things should stay that way.” Green’s letter to the editor, published in two Utah newspapers, produced a backlash and prompted him to write an apology and resign as vice chair of the Wasatch County Republican Party.
3/1/201754 minutes
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Jennifer Sinor on Tuesday's Access Utah

Jennifer Sinor is the author of Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O'Keeffe, a collection of essays inspired by the letters of the American modernist Georgia O'Keeffe and Ordinary Trauma, a memoir of her military childhood told through linked flash nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University where she is a professor of English. She is also the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, a book about the diary of her great, great, great aunt, a woman who homesteaded the Dakotas in the late nineteenth century. All of her books work to reveal the extraordinary possibilities that arise in the most ordinary moments of our lives.
2/28/201754 minutes, 5 seconds
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Natalie Andrews on Monday's Access Utah

Natalie Andrews, a Wall Street Journal social media editor and reporter, will give a talk today at USU as a part of the Morris Media & Society Lecture Series, which is facilitated by Utah State’s Department of Journalism and Communication. Here’s how the department describes the talk: “It's now clear that we live in an era of fake news, troll tweets and email dumps. So what does that mean for media, our democracy and our future? Natalie Andrews will discuss the role of the press in the 2016 election — and what the results of that election portend for the intertwined futures of journalism and democracy. Andrews, who graduated from the Department of Journalism and Communication at Utah State University in 2006 and served as KSL's social media director from 2011 to 2014, will seek put the Donald Trump “phenomenon” into historical context en route a clearer understanding of the future.”
2/27/201754 minutes
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Immigration and the Economy on Access Utah

Representatives from the group New American Economy participated Tuesday in a National Day of Action and marked the launch of their Map the Impact project, highlighting the economic impact of immigrants, and calling for immigration reform.
2/23/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting Damion Searls and "The Inkblots" on Access Utah

Our guest on Wednesday’s Access Utah is Damion Searls, author of "The Inkblots," a scientific and cultural history of the Rorschach test and the first biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach.
2/22/201754 minutes, 1 second
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Nicholas Kristof on Tuesday's Access Utah

On this episode of Access Utah our guest is Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. The website for the Half the Sky Movement, founded by Mr. Kristof and his wife Cheryl WuDunn, says: “The central moral challenge of our time is reaching a tipping point. Just as slavery was the defining struggle of the 19th century and totalitarianism of the 20th, the fight to end the oppression of women and girls worldwide defines our current century.” We’ll talk about this and some of the individuals profiled in their book “A Path Appears,” who are effecting positive change. We’ll also talk about President Trump, journalism in our new era, fake news, Women’s Marches, and the dangers of echo chambers on campus.
2/21/201753 minutes, 8 seconds
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Outdoor Retailer Show Leaving Utah After 20 Years On Friday's Access Utah

The Outdoor Industry Association has announced that after next year, Salt Lake City will no longer host the Outdoor Retailer show, which has called Utah home for 20 years. Some companies, like Patagonia, had said they would not participate in the shows because of the Utah Legislature’s opposition to the new Bear’s Ears National Monument and desire to shrink the size of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
2/17/201735 minutes, 21 seconds
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Revisiting A Conversation With Elizabeth Church On Thursday's Access Utah

For Meridian Wallace—and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s—being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother’s sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn’t expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he’s recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.
2/16/201753 minutes, 49 seconds
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Education, Betsy Devos And Funding On Wednesday's Access Utah

The confirmation battle over Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was riveting political theater, but it also highlights deep divisions regarding our K-12 education system. Quoting from the Washington Post: “Trump’s pick has intensified what already was a polarized debate about school choice. Advocates for such choice see in the Trump administration an extraordinary opportunity to advance their cause on a national scale, whereas teachers unions and many Democrats fear an unprecedented and catastrophic attack on public schools, which they see as one of the nation’s bedrock civic institutions.” We’re going to talk about education today. Our guests include UEA president, Heidi Matthews; Utah Association of Public Charter Schools, Communications Director, Cate Klundt; and Dr. Rich Kendell from Our Schools Now.
2/15/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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Writer Dan Moore And Valentine's Day On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Valentine’s Day 2017, we’re going to talk about the history, the idea, the cultural phenomenon of Valentine’s Day. It’s a wonderful day for some and painful for others. What do you think? Is Valentine’s Day an artificially-constructed minefield of expectations or a welcome opportunity to celebrate your romance? Has your view changed over time? What are your Valentine’s plans? We hope you’ll share your thoughts, your experience with us right now by email to upraccess@gmail.com
2/14/201754 minutes, 5 seconds
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Protests and Social Reform on Access Utah

The tumult at Rep. Jason Chaffetz’ recent town hall meeting made national news, but it’s not unusual of late. Marches and protests continue in the early days of the Trump presidency. In addition to the women’s marches, and protests at airports, there is the Indivisible movement and unusual events on Capitol Hill, such as the recent controversy surrounding Senators Warren and McConnell. Some are comparing the current situation to the Tea Party movement or Occupy Wall Street. Some Trump supporters say that protesters are sore losers and that the president should be given the chance to implement the policies he ran and won on. John Oliver, from Last Week Tonight, warns against resistance and anger fatigue and urges protesters to not just march but to give financial support to organizations they believe in.
2/13/201754 minutes, 42 seconds
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What Are You Reading? -Children's Book Edition on Thursday's Access Utah

From time to time we gather as a UPR community to compile a book list. On the next Access Utah we’re going to concentrate on Children’s Books. What are you reading to your kids? What are your children reading? What’s your favorite children’s book of all time? How about a new title or something you’ve just discovered that you’d like to share with us?
2/9/201754 minutes, 3 seconds
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Debating Assisted Death And The Right To Die On Wednesday's Access Utah

State Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake has proposed that Utah follow the example of six other states and legalize assisted suicide (HB76 End of Life Options Act). Each of those states requires that the patient be of sound mind and have less than six months to live. Proponents say that individuals should have more control over decisions about quality of life and the timing of the end of life.
2/8/20171 hour
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Revisiting Florence Williams And "The Nature Fix" on Monday's Access Utah

In an era when humans spend much of their time indoors staring at the dim glow of a screen, many of us have forgotten the simple pleasure of a stroll through a wooded glen, a hike up a secluded mountain path, or a nap in the grass. Many of us have a dog or go to the beach occasionally. But is that enough? In “The Nature Fix,” prize-winning science journalist Florence Williams asks, "What if?" What if something serious is missing from our lives? What if an occasional trip to the neighborhood park isn't enough? What if we've turned our backs on something that isn't merely pleasant and enjoyable, but is in fact vital to our happiness, our capacity to learn, and even our survival? And if the latest science shows that nature is necessary in our live, how do we recapture it?
2/7/201753 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting A Conversation With Graham Moore And "The Last Days of Night"

New York, 1888. The miracle of electric light is in its infancy. Thomas Edison has won the race to the patent office and is suing his only remaining rival, George Westinghouse, for the unheard of sum of one billion dollars. To defend himself, Westinghouse makes a surprising choice in his attorney: He hires an untested twenty-six-year-old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath.
2/6/201753 minutes, 58 seconds
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The Supreme Court, Political Division And Electoral Reforms On Thursday's Access Utah

One prominent theme of the recent election was a refrain that our political system is broken. The preferred fix of many Trump voters came in the person of now-President Trump. Others (including some UPR listeners) are prescribing such reforms as abolishing the Electoral College, instituting term limits, and changing the redistricting process.
2/2/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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Suspending Refugees On Wednesday's Access Utah

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions for 120 days, placing an indefinite ban on immigrants from Syria and a 90-day ban on people from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen (Salt Lake Tribune).
2/1/201758 minutes, 4 seconds
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Election 2016 - Opportunities and Challenges for a New Era on Tuesday's Access Utah

Faculty of CHaSS present a Panel Discussion: Election 2016 – Opportunities and Challenges for a New Era. Wednesday, February 1 at 4:00 PM, Merrill Cazier Library, room 101. Listen to a lively panel discussion with faculty members from throughout CHaSS: Debra Jenson, Journalism and Communication; Jason Gilmore, Languages, Philosophy and Communication Study; Anna Pechenkina and Damon Cann, Political Science; and Lawrence Culver, History.
1/31/201741 minutes, 16 seconds
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Revisiting Mark Sundeen And "The Unsettlers" On Wednesday's Access Utah

On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they've purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Americans to Detroit, and her husband, a product of the white flight from it, have turned to urban farming to revitalize the blighted city they both love. And near Missoula, Montana, a couple who have been at the forefront of organic farming for decades navigate what it means to live and raise a family ethically.
1/30/201754 minutes, 2 seconds
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Clean Air And The Utah Legislature On Thursday's Access Utah

Organizers of the “Clean Air, No Excuses Rally” which happened on Saturday in Salt Lake City say that “...each year clean air protections measures are considered at the legislature, and each year many of those proposals fail to become law. It’s time for a change, it’s time for Utah’s elected leaders to listen to the people. ...We must turn over every stone to find strong proposals to protect our families and our communities!”
1/26/201754 minutes, 5 seconds
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Revisiting A Conversation With Meg Little Reilly And "We Are Unprepared" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take.
1/25/201754 minutes, 5 seconds
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Revisiting Pulitzer Prize Winner Gregory Pardlo on Tuesday's Access Utah

From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Gregory Pardlo’s collection “Digest” draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father’s eyes and through their own.
1/24/201757 minutes, 55 seconds
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Opening of the State Legislature On Monday's Access Utah

Join us for the Opening Day of the 2017 Utah Legislature with this special 2-hour edition Access Utah from the Utah State Capitol.
1/23/201749 minutes, 13 seconds
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Women's March On Washington On Thursday's Access Utah

The Women’s March on Washington organization estimates that more than more than 1,300,000 people will participate in the Women’s March on Washington or in one of the estimated 600 sister marches happening on January 21 or in the days following. (The Women’s March on Utah State Capitol is January 23).
1/19/201753 minutes, 27 seconds
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VidAngel And Free Speech On Wednesday's Access Utah

VidAngel is Provo-based streaming service that lets viewers set custom filters to screen out content they might not like or find objectionable. VidAngel CEO Neal Harmon says that VidAngel honors two sides of a libertarian coin. “We agree with Hollywood that the director should have the right to determine how their work is performed in a public setting. That’s free speech. That’s everything America’s about. [But] once you take something into your own home, it makes sense that nobody has the right to tell you how to consume something in your own home.” Several Hollywood studios have sued VidAngel and a judge has granted a preliminary injunction against the company. In the meantime there’s a petition http://savefiltering.nationbuilder.com/ going around to ‘#SaveFiltering’ and VidAngel has crowdsourced more than 10 million dollars to help pay for their lawsuit
1/18/201754 minutes
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Steven Johnson And "Wonderland: How Play Made The Modern World" On Tuesday's Access Utah

In his new book “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World,” Steven Johnson argues that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change, and that throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation lies wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.
1/17/201754 minutes, 1 second
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Thursday's Access Utah

There are many needs in our communities, and there are dedicated individuals and nonprofits working to meet those needs. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help but don’t know where and how. On the next Access Utah we’re opening the phone lines, email and Twitter to give you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
1/12/201753 minutes, 59 seconds
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Fake News And News In A Trump Era On Tuesday's Access Utah

Join us for Tuesday’s Access Utah when our topic is Fake News & Journalism in the Age of Trump.
1/10/20171 hour, 20 minutes, 24 seconds
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Revisiting A Conversation With Rita Moreno On Monday's Access Utah

Today we revisit our conversation from October with Rita Moreno:
1/9/201753 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Nicholas Carr And "Utopia Is Creepy" On Thursday's Access Utah

Nicholas Carr started his blog “Rough Type” in 2005, when MySpace was a fast-growing social networking site and Facebook was a Palo Alto startup. Now in his book “Utopia Is Creepy and Other Provocations,” he has collected the best of those posts and added influential essays such as “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy,” which were published in such magazines and sites as The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and Politico. Carr’s favorite targets are zealots who believe so fervently in computers and data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools, he says, do not make us all the next Fellini or Dylan. Social networks are not vehicles for self-enlightenment. And “likes” and retweets are not going to elevate political discourse.
1/5/201754 minutes
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Revisiting A Conversation With Michael Copperman And "Teacher" On Wednesday's Access Utah

When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002 - recruited by Teach for America - he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naïve, the Asian-American from the West Coast says he soon lost his bearings in a world divided between black and white. Trying to help students, he often found he couldn’t afford to give what they required―sometimes with heartbreaking consequences.
1/4/201754 minutes, 6 seconds
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Lynne McNeill, Jeannie Thomas, Folkore And Twitter On Tuesday's Access Utah

In her TEDxUSU talk, folklorist Lynne McNeill says “When most people think of ‘folklore’ they think of the old, the rural, the rustic. They typically don’t think of the Internet, a technology that, if anything, is commonly judged to be dismantling our culture: destroying our interpersonal skills, squashing our cultural vitality, killing our individual creativity. Surprisingly, however, communications technologies like mobile phones, tablets, and computers have become the locus of a huge expanse of contemporary folk culture. Understanding the nature of folklore helps us identify the positive elements of digital culture.”
1/3/201754 minutes, 1 second
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Bears Ears Monument Designation On A Special Access Utah Friday

President Obama has used presidential power under the Antiquities Act to create a Bears Ears National Monument. Some are lauding this as a courageous decision which will protect vital lands. Others are calling it an arrogant act that ignores the wishes of a majority of Utahns. Today on the program we talked about this on a special two hour Access Utah. We were joined by John Kovash, Utah Public Radio's southern Utah correspondent, Chris Saeger, director of the Western Values Project, Scott Groene, Director of SUWA, John Ruple, University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law research associate professor, Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, former Ute. Tribal Councilwoman, Congressman Rob Bishop, Bob Keiter, University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, the Wallace Stegner Professor of Law and director of the Stegner Center, and Stan Summers, Box Elder County commissioner.
12/30/20161 hour, 6 seconds
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A Morning Of Readings And Christmas Music With

We hope you'll join us for our Access Utah holiday special. Playwriter of Christmas Chronicles author Tim Slover will read poems of the season. The Lightwood Duo (Mike Christiansen and Eric Nelson) will also be in the UPR studio to play holiday music.
12/15/201657 minutes, 22 seconds
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Discussing Objectified: More Than A Body On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, we're joined by Utah State University Professor Candi Carter Olson, Hailey Hendricks, Madi Smith and Mary Kay Anderson for a panel discussion on Objectified: More than a Body, a UPR original series. In partnership with the Utah Women's Giving Circle, Utah Public Radio has presented the original radio series "Objectified: More Than A Body." This 11-episode radio program has played weekly on Utah Public Radio and has showcased the people and programs empowering Utah women and girls.
12/14/201654 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Stephen Greenblatt On Thursday's Access Utah

Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.
12/13/201654 minutes
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Revisiting Author Gilbert King And "The Devil In The Grove" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.
12/12/201654 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting Pulitzer Prize Winner T.J. Stiles and "Custer's Trials"

T. J. Stiles won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America." In his biography, Stiles demolishes George Armstrong Custer’s historical caricature and says that the key to understanding Custer is that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves, yet rejected new civil rights laws. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street, yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer’s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation’s gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future.
12/8/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Diversity in the Comic Book Universe with Debra Jenson

Superhero stories have been called the myths of our day, helping us understand who we are and what unites us. Since Superman first leapt tall buildings with a single bound, the vast majority of the characters have been white, straight, men. Movies and television have consistently held to this standard, giving us Han Solo and Luke Skywalker to root for as they rescue Leia. However, in recent years we have seen new faces in popular franchises and behind the masks of our heroes, creating a more diverse universe.
12/7/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Rebroadcast: Discussing Conflict With Clair Canfield On Monday's Access Utah

Initially inspired by his own struggles with conflict, consultant and USU lecturer Clair Canfield is committed to changing the way people think and feel about conflict. He says, “Conflict holds up a mirror to our deepest needs and most cherished hopes and it is the doorway of opportunity for creating the change we want in our lives,” and “It is common to feel trapped and stuck when we experience conflict, but there is a way out!” His recent TEDxUSU talk is titled “The Beauty of Conflict.”
12/6/201654 minutes
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Revisiting: Environmental Writer Emma Marris On Monday's Access Utah

The publishers of Emma Marris’ book “Rambunctious Garden” say that “a paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that thwarts bold new plans to save the environment and prevents us from having a fuller relationship with nature. Humans have changed the landscapes they inhabit since prehistory, and climate change means even the remotest places now bear the fingerprints of humanity. Emma Marris argues...that it is time to look forward and create the ‘rambunctious garden,’ a hybrid of wild nature and human management.”
12/5/201654 minutes
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Revisiting Our Conversation With Cory Doctorow On Thursday's Access Utah

Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow joins us for Thursday’s AU. In a recent column, Doctorow says that “all the data collected in giant databases today will breach someday, and when it does, it will ruin peoples’ lives. They will have their houses stolen from under them by identity thieves who forge their deeds (this is already happening); they will end up with criminal records because identity thieves will use their personal information to commit crimes (this is already happening); … they will have their devices compromised using passwords and personal data that leaked from old accounts, and the hackers will spy on them through their baby monitors, cars, set-top boxes, and medical implants (this is already happening)...” We’ll talk with Cory Doctorow about technology, privacy, and intellectual property.
12/1/20161 minute, 34 seconds
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What Are You Reading? Wednesday's Access Utah Book Show

UPR listeners are avid readers, so our periodic question to you isn’t if you’re reading, but what are you reading? We’re also asking if you have anything special you read for the holidays, and do you have suggestions for books to give as gifts?
11/30/20161 hour, 8 minutes, 9 seconds
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Revisiting Pulitzer Prize Winner Megan Marshall and "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life"

From an early age, Margaret Fuller dazzled New England's intelligent elite. Her famous Conversations changed women's sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Megan Marshall tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a hunger for passionate experience.
11/29/201654 minutes, 6 seconds
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Revisiting "Banjo: An Illustrated History" With Bob Carlin On Monday's Access Utah

The banjo is emblematic of American country music. It is at the core of other important musical movements, including jazz and ragtime, and played an important part in the development of many genres, such as folk, bluegrass, and rock. The instrument has been adopted by many cultures and has been ingrained into many musical traditions, from Mento music in the Caribbean to dance music in Ireland. Virtuosos such as Bela Fleck have played Bach, African music, and Christmas tunes on the five-string banjo, and the instrument has had a resurgence in pop music with such acts a Mumford and Sons and the Avett Brothers.
11/28/201654 minutes, 13 seconds
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Revisiting Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Ken Armstrong On Tuesday's Access Utah

Tuesday on Access Utah we’ll spend the hour with multiple Pulitzer winning reporter Ken Armstrong, who, with T. Christian Miller (of ProPublica), won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for “a startling examination and expose of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims.” Tuesday’s episode is part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative.
11/22/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Julie Berry and "The Passion of Dolssa" on Monday's Access Utah

Julie Berry was inspired to write her new historical novel, “The Passion of Dolssa,” while listening to a college lecture she found online about medieval France. Fascinated, Berry began a two-year dive into research on the era, learning about the lives of several medieval female mystics like Clare of Assisi, Marguerite Porete, and Catherine of Siena, women who rejected marriage, almost unheard of at the time, and bucked the authority of the church with their own religious visions. “The Passion of Dolssa” is set during the 13th Century in southern France (the area now known as Provence), in the aftermath of the Albigensian Crusade.
11/21/201649 minutes, 37 seconds
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Revisiting "Sonic Sea" On Thursday's Access Utah

"Oceans are a sonic symphony. Sound is essential to the survival and prosperity of marine life. But man-made ocean noise is threatening this fragile world.” So say the producers of a documentary film, “Sonic Sea,” which takes us beneath the ocean’s surface to uncover the consequences of increased ocean noise pollution, including the mass stranding of whales around the planet, and looks at what can be done to stop it.
11/17/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Annette Gordon-Reed and "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs:Thomas Jefferson&the Empire of Imagination"

On Wednesday’s Access Utah we’ll talk with acclaimed law professor and historian, Annette Gordon-Reed, as a part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative.
11/16/201654 minutes, 2 seconds
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Angela Pulley Hudson And "Real Native Genius" On Tuesday's Access Utah

In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee". He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the name "Laah Ceil". Together, they embarked on an astounding, sometimes scandalous journey across the United States and Canada, performing as American Indians
11/15/201657 minutes, 55 seconds
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Jessica Lahey And "The Gift Of Failure" On Monday's Access Utah

Jessica Lahey’s The Gift of Failure focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults.
11/14/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Jessica Luther And "Unsportsmanlike Conduct" On Thursday's Access Utah

Today we speak with Jessica Luther, author of "Unsportsmanlike Conduct." Jessica Luther is and independent writer and investigative journalist living in Austin, Texas. Her work on sports and culture has appeared in the Texas Observer and the Austin Chronicle, and at Sport Illustrated, Texas Monthly, Vice Sports, Guardian Sport, and Bleacher Report. Luther's work gained national attention in August 2015 when writing for Texas Monthly; she and Dan Solomon broke open the story about a Baylor football player on trial for sexual assault, a case known by only a few in the community and not reported in the media for nearly two years.
11/10/201654 minutes
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Post Election Coverage on Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we discuss the results of the 2016 Presidential Election. Our listeners call in and share their post election feelings. We are also joined in studio by Dr. Damon Cann and Dr. Michael Lyons, Associate Professors from the Utah State University Political Science Department. To join in this conversation, you can still email us at upraccess@gmail.com.
11/9/201649 minutes, 45 seconds
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Revisiting David Quammen & Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday's Access Utah

In 2015 the number of visitors to Yellowstone exceeded four million for the first time. David Quammen, writing in the May 2016 edition of National Geographic magazine, asks "Can we hope to preserve, in the midst of modern America, any such remnant of our continent's primordial landscape, any such sample of true wildness-a gloriously inhospitable place, full of predators and prey, in which nature is still allowed to be red in tooth and claw? Can that sort of place be reconciled with human demands and human convenience? Time alone, and our choices, will tell. But if the answer is yes, the answer is Yellowstone."
11/8/201654 minutes, 5 seconds
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Shaun Usher And "Letters Of Note Volume 2" On Monday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah we discuss the companion volume to the international bestseller Letters of Note. It’s an assortment of correspondence that spans centuries and place--and an array of human emotions--written by the famous, the not-so-famous, and the downright infamous. Among this selection are an Egyptian customer complaint (written on a clay tablet); a hungover Jane Austen’s report on a ball; an American intelligence officer’s letter to his young son on Hitler’s letterhead; an invitation from John Lennon to Eric Clapton to join his band; and Albus Dumbledore’s rejection of a Muggle’s application for a teaching position at Hogwarts.
11/7/201654 minutes, 3 seconds
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Donald Trump Leads In Utah According To National Polls And Other Stories On Behind The Headlines

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rises above Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and independent candidate Evan McMullin in Utah, according to national polls. Incumbent Republican Gov. Gary Herbert holds nearly a 40-point lead over Democratic challenger Mike Weinholtz as election day approaches. And Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he's received death threats over comments made about a new FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
11/4/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Should Voters Approve a Cache Water District? On Thursday's Access Utah

Cache County voters are deciding the following question: Should a Cache Water District be created? We’ll talk about it next time on Access Utah. Logan Herald Journal reporter Clayton Gefre will give us some historical context. Then Dave Rayfield, Board Member with Bear River Land Conservancy, will tell us why he thinks voters should vote “yes” and Zach Frankel, Executive Director of Utah Rivers Council, will tell us why he thinks voters should vote “no.” Whether you’re a Cache County voter or not, water issues are front-and-center in our minds all over Utah.
11/3/201618 minutes, 32 seconds
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What's in a Name? on Wednesday's Access Utah

What’s in a name? Today we’ll explore that question. We’re asking you: What do you think of your name? What was your thought process in naming your children? Are there names that are passed down in your family? Have you ever wanted to change your name? Did you? What’s the most unusual or distinctive name you’ve encountered? How does your name affect you? How do you think your name is perceived?
11/2/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Revisiting Chris Crowe And Current Race Issues In Utah And America On Monday's Access Utah

BYU English Professor, Chris Crowe, is an award-winning author of books for young adults about the Civil Rights era. He recently gave a couple of talks on the USU campus in Logan as a part of the USU Department of English Speaker series. Crowe is the author of several books, most notably MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955, which won several awards, including the 2003 International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award. His nonfiction book, GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER: THE TRUE STORY OF THE EMMETT TILL CASE, was an Jane Addams Honor book. His first children's book, JUST AS GOOD: HOW LARRY DOBY CHANGED AMERICA'S GAME, appeared in 2012. His newest book, a historical novel DEATH COMING UP THE HILL, is about the tumultuous year of 1968.
11/1/201654 minutes, 27 seconds
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Mike McHargue And "Finding God in the Waves" On Monday's Access Utah

What do you do when God dies?
10/31/201654 minutes, 10 seconds
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Utah And WWI On Thusday's Access Utah

We’re approaching the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entrance into WWI. Today on Access Utah, we’ll discuss the Great War and how affected Utahns. We’ll speak with Allan Kent Powell, Editor of “Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I Experience.” We’ll also speak with E.B. Wheeler and Jeffery Bateman who recently wrote a fiction book called "No Peace with the Dawn: A Novel of the Great War."
10/27/201654 minutes, 4 seconds
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Revisiting Mary Ellen Hannibal And "Citizen Scientist" On Tuesday's Access Utah

“What does it take to really save nature?” writer and environmentalist Mary Ellen Hannibal asks in Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction. In this wide-ranging adventure—part memoir, part investigation— Mary Ellen Hannibal makes a deeply personal case for the necessity of citizen scientists, sharing stories from boaters recording whale sightings and tracking migration paths to the volunteers whose redwood restoration projects may provide our best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction. Hannibal traces the citizen science movement to its roots: the centuries-long tradition of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. In addition to facing the loss of species, Hannibal also chronicles her confrontation with personal loss; prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she examines her own past—and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. Both the story of a woman who rescued herself from an odyssey of loss and a blueprint for ordinary citizens to combat extinction on a local scale, Citizen Scientist provides a counter to the dire predictions that threaten to overwhelm us—and profound consideration of our place in the natural world.
10/26/201654 minutes
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Revisiting John McWhorter And "Words On The Move" On Monday's Access Utah

Language is always changing -- and we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively” rather than “by the letter,” or the way young people use LOL and like, or business jargon like What’s the ask? -- it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes.
10/25/201653 minutes, 28 seconds
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Journalists from Ukraine and Georgia Perspectives on US Election

Today we’ll get a view of our presidential election from journalists and academics from Ukraine and Georgia and from a journalism professor here in the U.S. We’ll talk about media independence and bias; how Mr. Trump and Secretary Clinton are viewed in eastern Europe; how the debate about Russian president Vladimir Putin is playing in Georgia and Ukraine and elsewhere; and we’ll ask our panel about vote rigging and the integrity of elections.
10/24/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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H. W. Brands And "The General Vs. The President" On Thursday's Access Utah

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's entry into the war, Truman replied testily, "The military commander in the field will have charge of the use of the weapons, as he always has." This suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way.
10/20/201654 minutes, 3 seconds
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Jens Lund And Occupational Poetry On Tuesday's Access Utah

Folklorist Jens Lund recently gave the 2016 Fife Honor Lecture at USU, presented by the USU Folklore Program and USU Department of English. His lecture was titled “‘I Done What I Could’: Occupational Folk Poetry in the Pacific Northwest.” The Fife Honor Lecture is an honorary lecture given every year in honor of Austin and Alta Fife, folklorists, documentarians, and founders of the Fife Folklore archives.
10/18/201651 minutes, 34 seconds
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Revisiting Our Favorite Books: Sherlock Holmes

We continue our occasional series, Our Favorite Books, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s enduringly popular creation Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is thriving on television and continues to occupy an important place in popular culture. The famous fictional detective even figures prominently in the debate over evolution vs. intelligent design. We’ll look at how the character has changed over the years (and how our response to him has changed) and we’ll ask what Sherlock Holmes means in our culture today. We’ll also explore Utah and Mormon connections and hear sound clips from radio, television and film. We’ll ask you to tell us your favorite Sherlock Holmes book, film or television series.
10/17/201653 minutes, 48 seconds
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J.D. Vance And "Hillbilly Elegy" On Thursday's Access Utah

The New York Times bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has, perhaps, never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
10/13/201654 minutes
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Matthew Garrett And "Making Lamanites" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour today is Matthew Garrett, author of “Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000” (University of Utah Press).
10/12/201654 minutes, 5 seconds
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Discussing The Olympics And George Hirthler's Book "The Idealist" On Tuesday's Access Utah

George Hirthler’s new historical novel, “The Idealist,” is the inspiring and tragic story of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French visionary who founded the modern Olympic Games. When the novel opens in early 1937, Coubertin is 74, he's broke, his health is failing, and although he has created one of the most influential international movements of the 20th century, he is completely unknown outside a small circle of admirers, whose financial help he has repeatedly declined. His wife can hardly withhold her bitter animosity, his son is an insensate abyss of sadness, his daughter in and out of touch with reality, and his great creation is about to fall into the hands of a Nazi madman leading the world to war. But hope begins to rise again when a new ally appears.
10/11/201654 minutes, 6 seconds
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Reactions To Donald Trump's Comments From 2005 And The Debate On Monday's Access Utah

This extraordinary campaign season got more so over the weekend. What is your reaction to Donald Trump’s comments from 2005? And Utah Republican’s and some national Republican’s repudiation of their presidential nominee? What did you think of the debate? What is on the top of your mind as you get ready to vote? Cache County Libertarian Party Chair, Jonathan Choate of SD7 Technologies in Logan joins us for the hour.
10/10/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Race, Police, Patriotism, Free Speech And Other Issues On Thursday's Access Utah

When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, he sparked a vigorous national conversation about Race, Police, Patriotism, Free Speech and other issues. We’re going to continue that conversation next time on Access Utah. We’ll be talking with Forrest Crawford, Professor of Teacher Education and former Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity at Weber State University; and Jason Gilmore, Assistant Professor of Global Communication at Utah State University.
10/6/201654 minutes, 9 seconds
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Deep Water Horizon on Wednesday's Access Utah

On April 20, 2010, a blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil platform killed 11 workers, critically injured others and caused a leak that spilled thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for more than three months. The Deepwater Horizon, one of worst environmental disasters in history, is now the subject of a pulse-pounding new movie. Historian and archaeologist, USU Professor of Environment and Society, Joseph Tainter will watch the film with special interest. He is author, with Tadeusz “Tad” Patzek of University of Texas-Austin, of “Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma.” Tainter, also author of the influential book “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” says “It takes energy to find and produce energy and the world’s remaining, untapped petroleum reserves are in deep, dark, cold, remote and dangerous locations...Energy is becoming very costly in terms of resources, safety and environmental health.”
10/5/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting "Alice & Oliver" By Charles Bock On Tuesday's Access Utah

Charles Bock's daughter was 5 months old when his wife was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. His wife died two and a half years later, just before their daughter's third birthday. Charles Bock has written a new novel that's based on that experience. It’s titled "Alice & Oliver."
10/4/20161 hour, 1 minute
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Chasing the Last Laugh on Monday's Access Utah

Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation’s worst investors. “There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. She wrote, “I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace.” Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. So, just when he imagined he would be settling into literary lionhood, he forced himself to mount the “platform” again. He did what no author had ever done, he embarked on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. Richard Zacks’ book “Chasing the Last Laugh,” chronicles this poignant chapter in Mark Twain’s life.
10/3/201654 minutes
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I.Q. And Social Intelligence On Wednesday's Access Utah

We’re going to talk about I.Q. v. E.Q. USU professors Jacob Freeman and Jacopo Baggio, along with UT-San Antonio professor Thomas Coyle, are studying the dynamics of nerds and poets. They want to understand the best brew of nerdiness and sensitivity to create teams that get things done. How can people work better together and why do some groups work well under pressure and some groups don’t? Professors Freeman and Baggio will join us to discuss the differences between I.Q. and emotional and social intelligence. They say that researching how different intelligences work together is especially important in a high-stakes world where natural resources are diminishing rapidly.
9/28/20161 hour, 1 minute
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Nicholas Carr And "Utopia Is Creepy" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Nicholas Carr started his blog “Rough Type” in 2005, when MySpace was a fast-growing social networking site and Facebook was a Palo Alto startup. Now in his book “Utopia Is Creepy and Other Provocations,” he has collected the best of those posts and added influential essays such as “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Privacy,” which were published in such magazines and sites as The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and Politico. Carr’s favorite targets are zealots who believe so fervently in computers and data that they abandon common sense. Cheap digital tools, he says, do not make us all the next Fellini or Dylan. Social networks are not vehicles for self-enlightenment. And “likes” and retweets are not going to elevate political discourse.
9/27/201632 minutes, 13 seconds
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Revisiting Author Donald Godfrey & his book on Philo T. Farnsworth On Thursday's Access Utah

Philo T. Farnsworth (1906–1971) has been called the "forgotten father of television." He grew up in Utah and southern Idaho, and was described as a genius by those who knew and worked with him. With only a high school education, Farnsworth drew his first television schematic for his high school teacher in Rigby, Idaho. Subsequent claims and litigation notwithstanding, he was the first to transmit a television image.
9/26/201654 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting Elizabeth Smart & radKIDS on Thursday's Access Utah

The abduction of Elizabeth Smart was one of the most followed child abduction cases of our time.
9/22/201652 minutes, 16 seconds
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Tershia d'Elgin and "The Man Who Thought He Owned Water" on Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday’s Access Utah our guest for the hour is Tershia d’Elgin, author of “The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food” (University Press of Colorado).
9/21/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Abby Kaplan "Women Talk More than Men... And Other Myths about Language Explained

“Women talk more than men. Text messaging makes you stupid. Chimpanzees have language, just like humans. These are some of the most popular ideas about language that many people think are true. Rumor also has it that men are more direct in their use of language than women; women speak more correctly than men; being bilingual makes you smarter; and the most beautiful language in the world is French. But a myth-busting new study of how language really works is set to blow the lid off conventional wisdom on everything from linguistic sex differences to the impact of technology on language.”
9/20/201659 minutes, 50 seconds
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Graham Moore and "The Last Days of Night" On Monday's Access Utah

New York, 1888. The miracle of electric light is in its infancy. Thomas Edison has won the race to the patent office and is suing his only remaining rival, George Westinghouse, for the unheard of sum of one billion dollars. To defend himself, Westinghouse makes a surprising choice in his attorney: He hires an untested twenty-six-year-old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath.
9/19/201654 minutes, 8 seconds
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Our Favorite Access Utah Episodes On Race Issues On Thursday

On Thursday's Access Utah, we revisit portions of our favorite episodes on race issues in America. We feature a discussion with Nikole Hannah Jones, talking about her book "A Letter From Black America," a segment from our episode on Black Lives Matter, and a conversation with author Sherman Alexie. Utah State University professor Jason Gilmore joined us in studio for the conversations.
9/15/20161 hour, 5 seconds
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Our Favorite Book Interviews On Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday's Access Utah, we revisit portions of our favorite book and author episodes. We feature a discussion with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, talking about her book "Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History"; a segment from our episode on with Scott Hammond discussing his book "Lessons of the Lost" and a conversation with listeners from an episode featuring Ron Chernow and his book "Hamilton," which inspired the musical "Hamilton."
9/14/20161 hour, 6 seconds
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Best Of Access Utah's Fun Episodes On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Monday's Access Utah, we revisit portions of our favorite "fun" episodes. We feature a discussion with USU Philosophy Professor Charlie Huenemann, talking about "the perfect language;" a segment from our episode on fandom and what fans own, and a conversation with award winning musician Rita Moreno.
9/13/201658 minutes, 32 seconds
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The BYU Cougars And The Utah Utes Prepare For Big Rivalry Game And More News On Behind The Headines

The Utah Utes and BYU Cougars prepare to meet up at Rice-Eccles Stadium for the big rivalry game. Rep. Jason Chaffetz calls for another investigation into Hillary Clinton's deleted emails. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Weinholtz addresses accusations of religious bigotry regarding a campaign fundraiser. And the summer's algal blooms prompt a deeper look into Utah's water quality and treatment.
9/9/201654 minutes
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Gregory Pardlo On Thursday's Access Utah

From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Gregory Pardlo’s collection “Digest” draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father’s eyes and through their own.
9/8/201653 minutes, 56 seconds
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"Being Mortal" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Seventy percent of Americans say they would prefer to die at home, but nearly 70 percent die in hospitals and institutions. Ninety percent of Americans know they should have conversations about end-of-life care, yet only 30 percent have done so.
9/7/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Paul Reeve And "Religion Of A Different Color" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In his book, “Religion of a Different Color,” W. Paul Reeve explores the ways in which nineteenth century Protestant white America made outsiders out of an inside religious group. Much of what has been written on Mormon otherness centers upon economic, cultural, doctrinal, marital, and political differences that set Mormons apart from mainstream America. Reeve instead looks at how Protestants radicalized Mormons, using physical differences in order to define Mormons as non-White to help justify their expulsion from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.
9/6/201654 minutes, 11 seconds
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Revisiting Nancy McHugh And "Food Fear" On Thursday's Access Utah

Nancy McHugh, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wittenberg University in Ohio, says the fear of bacteria, hormones, and antibiotics is rampant in our society. She is interested in the ways we go about making knowledge and ignorance about food and its relationship to health and argues that these practices have led to a new food movement, “clean eating,” which in turn has generated a new eating disorder, orthorexia, or righteous eating.
9/1/201654 minutes, 11 seconds
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Meg Little Reilly And "We Are Unprepared" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take.
8/31/201654 minutes, 2 seconds
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Revisiting Sue Klebold And "A Mother's Reckoning" On Tuesday's Access Utah

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
8/30/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Elliott Oring And "Joking Asides" On Monday's Access Utah

Elliott Oring is a folklorist drawn to the study of humor. In his new book, Joking Asides (Utah State University Press), Oring draws on the work of scholars from several disciplines—anthropology, folklore, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and literature—to ask basic questions about the construction and evolution of jokes, untangle the matter of who the actual targets of a joke might be, and characterize the artistic qualities of jokes and joke performances.
8/29/201653 minutes, 44 seconds
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Revisiting "Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West" On Thursday's Access Utah

Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.
8/25/201654 minutes, 4 seconds
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Revisiting Lawrence Hott And "Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America" On Monday's Access Utah

Frederick Law Olmsted, known as the father of American landscape architecture, made public parks an essential part of American life and forever changed our relationship with public open spaces. He was co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite commission, leader of the campaign to protect Niagara Falls, designer of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, site planner for the Great White City of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition,
8/22/201653 minutes, 58 seconds
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Rae Meadows And "I Will Send Rain" On Thursday's Access Utah

Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions. Annie's fragile young son, Fred, suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong daughter, Birdie, flush with first love, is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead; and Samuel, her husband, is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. As Annie, desperate for an escape of her own, flirts with the affections of an unlikely admirer, she must choose who she is going to become.
8/11/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting "The Future Of Libraries" On Monday's Access Utah

John Palfrey, founding president of the Digital Public Library of America and a director of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, told the Deseret News that he has “been struck by the number of times people tell [him] that they think libraries are less important than they were before, now that we have the Internet and Google. He says he thinks “just the opposite: Libraries are more important, not less important, and both as physical and virtual entities, than they’ve been in the past.” We’ll revisit our conversation with John Palfrey, author of "BiblioTECH: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google."
8/10/201653 minutes, 50 seconds
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Jonathan Bailey And "Rock Art" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Artist, researcher, and writer Jonathan Bailey is out with a new book: "Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape"
8/9/201654 minutes, 5 seconds
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Cyber And Power Grid Security On Wednesday's Access Utah

Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. In his New York Times bestselling book “Lights Out,” longtime Nightline host Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Koppel reports that, the federal government, while well prepared for natural disasters, has no plan for the aftermath of an attack on the power grid. In the absence of a government plan, some individuals and communities have taken matters into their own hands. Among the nation’s estimated three million “preppers,” Koppel introduces us to one whose doomsday retreat includes a newly excavated three-acre lake, stocked with fish, and a Wyoming homesteader so self-sufficient that he crafted the thousands of adobe bricks in his house by hand. Koppel also reports on the unrivaled disaster preparedness of the Mormon church, with its enormous storehouses, high-tech dairies, orchards, and proprietary trucking company – the fruits of a long tradition of anticipating the worst. But how, Koppel asks, will ordinary civilians survive? Ted…
8/3/201653 minutes, 47 seconds
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Revisiting Our Conversation With Susan Imhoff Bird And "Howl" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Commemorating twenty years since the wolf’s return to the American West, “Howl” explores passions and controversies surrounding nature’s most fascinating predator. Susan Imhoff Bird travels the West, journeying from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, through Yellowstone and Montana. Along the way, she interviews ranchers and park personnel, wolf watchers, biologists, and families, uncovering a range of emotions—from admiration and reverence to vitriol and anxiety—toward wolves and all that they have come to signify. Drawn to wolves’ resilience and innate sense of place, Bird discovers important personal truths and desires as she learns more about these often-misunderstood creatures.
8/2/201654 minutes, 2 seconds
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Michael Copperman And "Teacher: Two Years In The Mississippi Delta" On Monday's Access Utah

When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002 - recruited by Teach for America - he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naïve, the Asian-American from the West Coast says he soon lost his bearings in a world divided between black and white. Trying to help students, he often found he couldn’t afford to give what they required―sometimes with heartbreaking consequences.
8/1/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Bears Ears And The PLI on Thursday's Access Utah

In the wake of U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s recent visit to the area being proposed by some for designation as Bear’s Ears National Monument, we’ll consider anew public lands issues in Utah. Reps. Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz have released their Public Lands Initiative legislation for consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Chris Stewart has introduced an amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill that would restrict the president’s ability to create national monuments in Utah and other areas, under the Antiquities Act. And the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition is pushing for President Obama to create a national monument in southern Utah.
7/27/201624 minutes, 46 seconds
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Fandom & Ownership

In December 2015, Paramount and CBS sued the producers of a proposed fan-supported feature length movie called "Axanar" which was to be set in the Star Trek universe. Included in the issues at dispute was the question: who owns the Klingon language and can a language, albeit an invented one, be copyrighted?
7/26/201653 minutes, 53 seconds
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Bob Carlin And "Banjo: An Illustrated History" On Thursday's Access Utah

The banjo is emblematic of American country music. It is at the core of other important musical movements, including jazz and ragtime, and has played an important part in the development many genres, such as folk, bluegrass, and rock. The instrument has been adopted by many cultures and has been ingrained into many musical traditions, from Mento music in the Caribbean to dance music in Ireland. Virtuosos such as Bela Fleck have played Bach, African music, and Christmas tunes on the five-string banjo, and the instrument has had a resurgence in pop music with such acts a Mumford and Sons and the Avett Brothers.
7/21/201654 minutes, 1 second
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What Are You Reading? On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s been several months since we got together as a community and compiled a UPR book list. Public radio listeners are famous as avid readers. We want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or on your device right now? Fellow listeners may not know about it and may love it.
7/20/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Wildfires And Drones On Tuesday's Access Utah

In several cases this summer, efforts to fight wildfires have been hampered because of drones in the area. Utah lawmakers recently voted to allow authorities to disable or damage unauthorized drones near wildfires. The bill would also impose harsher penalties on people caught flying the aircraft. Tuesday on AU we’ll discuss this legislation, and talk about fighting wildfires in general. We’ll also look into the future of fighting wildfires. We’ll be joined by Scott Bushman who is a former hotshot who trains firefighters. We’ll also speak with Sam Ramsey, Regional Aviation Officer U. S. Forest Service Intermountain Region, about this year’s wildfires in the west.
7/19/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting Our Conversation With Winston Groom, Author of "Forest Gump" On Monday's Access Utah

In his book “The Generals” historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Their efforts revealed to the world the grit and determination that would become synonymous with America in the post-war years.
7/18/201653 minutes, 41 seconds
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Brad Watson and "Miss Jane" on Thursday's Access Utah

Award-winning author Brad Watson is a native of Mississippi who now teaches at the University of Wyoming. In his new novel “Miss Jane,” drawing on the story of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early 20th-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central “uses” for a woman in that time and place—namely, sex and marriage.
7/13/201653 minutes, 46 seconds
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The Passion of Dolssa: Julie Berry on Wednesday's AU

Julie Berry was inspired to write her new historical novel, “The Passion of Dolssa,” while listening to a college lecture she found online about medieval France. Fascinated, Berry began a two-year dive into research on the era, learning about the lives of several medieval female mystics like Clare of Assisi, Marguerite Porete, and Catherine of Siena, women who rejected marriage, almost unheard of at the time, and bucked the authority of the church with their own religious visions. “The Passion of Dolssa” is set during the 13th Century in southern France (the area now known as Provence), in the aftermath of the Albigensian Crusade.
7/12/201653 minutes, 50 seconds
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Cory Doctorow on Technology, Privacy, Intellectual Property on Tuesday's Access Utah

Science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist Cory Doctorow joins us for Tuesday’s AU. In a recent column, Doctorow says that “all the data collected in giant databases today will breach someday, and when it does, it will ruin peoples’ lives. They will have their houses stolen from under them by identity thieves who forge their deeds (this is already happening); they will end up with criminal records because identity thieves will use their personal information to commit crimes (this is already happening); … they will have their devices compromised using passwords and personal data that leaked from old accounts, and the hackers will spy on them through their baby monitors, cars, set-top boxes, and medical implants (this is already happening)...” We’ll talk with Cory Doctorow about technology, privacy, and intellectual property.
7/11/201655 minutes, 51 seconds
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NPR's Kirk Siegler on Monday's AU

NPR reporter Kirk Siegler recently visited UPR while in Logan working on a story for the NPR elections desk. He sat down with Tom Williams for a wide-ranging conversation including discussion of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Mormon problem; the potential designation of a Bear’s Ears National Monument; Seigler’s interview with Cliven Bundy and reporting on the stand-off at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge; how Seigler got started at NPR and his life as a reporter for NPR’s national desk; and parallels between Australia and the American West.
7/10/201654 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting A Conversation On The Sonic Sea And Sound Pollution On Monday's Access Utah

“Oceans are a sonic symphony. Sound is essential to the survival and prosperity of marine life. But man-made ocean noise is threatening this fragile world.” So say the producers of a documentary film, “Sonic Sea,” which takes us beneath the ocean’s surface to uncover the consequences of increased ocean noise pollution, including the mass stranding of whales around the planet, and looks at what can be done to stop it.
7/6/201653 minutes, 51 seconds
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Last Chance Byway: The History Of Nine Mile Canyon On Wednesday's Access Utah

"Nine Mile Canyon's role in the Old West--a story of fur trappers and miners, ranchers and homesteaders, cattle barons and barkeeps, outlaws and bounty hunters Nine Mile Canyon is famous the world over for its prehistoric art images and remnants of ancient Fremont farmers. But it also teems with Old West history that is salted with iconic figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Last Chance Byway lays out this newly told story of human endeavor and folly in a place historians have long ignored. The history of Nine Mile Canyon is not so much a story of those who lived and died there as it is of those whose came with dreams and left broke and disillusioned, although there were exceptions. Sam Gilson, the irascible U.S. marshal and famed polygamist hunter, became wealthy speculating in a hydrocarbon substance bearing his name, Gilsonite, a form of asphalt. The famed African American Buffalo Soldiers constructed a freight road through the canyon that for a time turned the Nine Mile Road into one of the busiest highways in Utah. Others who left their mark include famed outlaw hunter Joe Bush, infamous bounty hunter Jack Watson, the larger-than-life cattle baron Preston Nutter, and Robert Leroy Parker (known to most as Butch Cassidy)"
7/6/201653 minutes, 37 seconds
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Republican Party Resignation On Tuesday's Access Utah

Two leaders in the Cache County Republican Party have resigned from the party over presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. In a letter to members of the Cache County Republican Party Executive Committee, Andy Rasmussen and Jonathan Choate say, "The decision by the Executive Committee to take no public action disavowing our presidential nominee has left us in a difficult position...Donald Trump is directly antithetical to nearly every traditional Republican value...His unapologetic racism, xenophobia, and misogyny disqualify him from consideration as a precinct chair, let alone the presidency.”
7/5/201653 minutes, 29 seconds
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Revisiting Paul Ford's "What Is Coding" on Wednesday's Access Utah

When Bloomberg Businessweek told him it was going to give him the whole magazine to write a single article about computer programming, Paul Ford, a soft-spoken programmer and writer, sat on his couch with a pillow over his head and just let out a long “aaaaaaahhhhh,” like he had just stuck his finger on the ‘A’ key. Ford’s piece started out as a 2,000-, then 4,000-word piece. It grew much longer from there, demanding the efforts of a team of editors, graphic artists and web developers to make it what it is now: An interactive primer that not only teaches how computers process code, but commits code as part of its narrative. This turned into “What Is Code?”
6/29/201653 minutes, 12 seconds
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Revisiting Terry Tempest Williams' "The Hour Of Land" on Thursday's Access Utah

The acclaimed author of “Refuge” and “When Women Were Birds” and many others is one of the most thought provoking and articulate people you’ll meet and an hour with her is unfailingly interesting.
6/28/201654 minutes
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"The Latter Days: A Memoir" on Tuesday's Access Utah

At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the LDS Church-owned department store in the Utah town where she'd grown up. In the process of divorcing the man she had married at seventeen, she was living in her parents' house with her four-year old son, who had already endured two heart surgeries. She had abandoned Mormonism, the faith into which she had been born, and she was having an affair with her son's surgeon, a married man with three children of his own. It was at this fraught moment that she decided to become a writer.
6/27/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Mark Kurlansky and "The Basque History of the World" on Monday's Access Utah

With this episode we inaugurate a new series on AU: Our Favorite Books:
6/27/201653 minutes, 52 seconds
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"The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb" On Thursday's Access Utah

The monthly DOCUTAH@TheELECTRIC series presents a film of particular interest to the four state Southwestern community and the Native American reservations in the area. It tells the story of the haunting consequences of the invention of the atomic bomb and the man who led the development teams. "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer & The Atomic Bomb," will be presented Friday evening, June 24th in St. George Utah.
6/23/201657 minutes, 10 seconds
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Grady Gammage Jr and "The Future of the Suburban City"

There exists a category of American cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centers, and the automobile. The low-density, auto-centric development of suburban cities, which are largely in the arid West, presents challenges for urban sustainability as it is traditionally measured. Yet, some of these cities—Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake, Dallas, Tucson, San Bernardino, and San Diego—continue to be among the fastest growing places in the United States.
6/22/201652 minutes, 51 seconds
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Revisiting "Apocalyptic Anxiety" On Tuesday's Access Utah

In his new book, Apocalyptic Anxiety: Religion, Science, and America’s Obsession with the End of the World” (University Press of Colorado), Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader historical framework, and what we can learn from doomsday predictions of the past.
6/21/201654 minutes, 1 second
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"Evening in Brazil" on Monday's Access Utah

It's an Access Utah tradition. Every year we gather with members of the band Evening in Brazil in UPR's studio C to enjoy some great Bossa Nova and Samba.
6/20/20161 hour, 2 minutes, 16 seconds
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ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape And The Environment On Wednesday's Access Utah

As a part of a new series of events called ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape, and the Environment, presented by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, a Land Writers Panel will be held on June 16 at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Library. This moderated panel of scholars and Utah-based creative writers will explore the relationship between man and nature in the literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
6/15/201654 minutes, 38 seconds
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Listeners React to America's Deadliest Mass Shooting on Tuesday's Access Utah

According to NPR, a gunman opened fire on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida early Sunday morning, killing 49 people and leaving 53 more wounded, in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history before being shot dead by police. The case is being treated as a terrorist investigation.
6/14/201653 minutes, 59 seconds
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Monday's Access Utah

It was a meme before meme was a thing. Pulitzer prize-winning author, Idaho native, and Harvard Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich observed in 1976 in her first scholarly paper (on funeral sermons for women) that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” The comment became a popular slogan appearing on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, websites and blogs. In her book by the same title (2007), Ulrich explains how the phenomenon happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written. The women she writes about range from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who wrote “The Book of the City of Ladies,” to the twentieth century’s Virginia Woolf, author of “A Room of One's Own.” Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did. And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created "second-wave feminism" also created a renaissance in the study of history.
6/13/201653 minutes, 51 seconds
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on Monday's Access Utah

It was a meme before meme was a thing. Pulitzer prize-winning author, Idaho native, and Harvard Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich observed in 1976 in her first scholarly paper (on funeral sermons for women) that “well-behaved women seldom make history.” The comment became a popular slogan appearing on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, websites and blogs. In her book by the same title (2007), Ulrich explains how the phenomenon happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written. The women she writes about range from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who wrote “The Book of the City of Ladies,” to the twentieth century’s Virginia Woolf, author of “A Room of One's Own.” Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did. And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created "second-wave feminism" also created a renaissance in the study of history.
6/13/201653 minutes, 51 seconds
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"Historic Tales Of Utah" On Thursday's Access Utah

Eileen Hallet Stone is out with a second collection from her popular Salt Lake Tribune “Living History” column. In “Historic Tales of Utah” (The History Press), Stone tells many of the stories of Utah: “Big Bill” Haywood, vilified by the New York Times as “the most feared figure in America,” women bruised on the front lines of suffrage battles, Chinese “paper sons and daughters,” heroic Northern Ute firefighters, downtown Salt Lake City’s “Wall Street of the West,” the off-road cyclist known as the “Bedouin of the Desert,” and Utah’s love affair with sweets.
6/9/201653 minutes, 54 seconds
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Sarah Manguso And "Ongoingness: The End Of A Diary" On Wednesday's Access Utah

In "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary" Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. She says she wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened. But she was terrified that she might forget something, she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.
6/8/201652 minutes, 5 seconds
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Sherman Alexie on Tuesday's Access Utah

Sherman Alexie is a major voice in contemporary American literature. He is the author of twenty books including “Reservation Blues” and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” The award-winning, and widely banned, young adult novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” won him the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
6/7/201654 minutes, 14 seconds
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Elizabeth Church and "Atomic Weight of Love" on Monday's Access Utah

For Meridian Wallace—and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s—being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother’s sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn’t expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he’s recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.
6/6/201654 minutes, 19 seconds
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Harry Parker and "Anatomy of a Soldier" on Thursday's Access Utah

Let’s imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who’s leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together in that war zone, sharing a prized bicycle and flying kites before finding themselves estranged once foreign soldiers appear in their countryside. And then there’s the man who trains one of them to fight against the other’s father and all these infidel invaders. Then imagine the family and friends who radiate out from these lives, people on all sides of this conflict where virtually everyone is caught up in the middle of something unthinkable.
6/2/201654 minutes, 2 seconds
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Eric Nuzum and "Giving Up The Ghost" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Eric Nuzum is afraid of the supernatural, and for good reason: As a high school oddball in Canton, Ohio, during the early 1980s, he became convinced that he was being haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress who lived in his parents’ attic. It began as a weird premonition during his dreams, something that his quickly diminishing circle of friends chalked up as a way to get attention. It ended with Nuzum in a mental ward, having apparently destroyed his life before it truly began. The only thing that kept him from the brink: his friendship with a girl named Laura, a classmate who was equal parts devoted friend and enigmatic crush. With the kind of strange connection you can only forge when you’re young, Laura walked Eric back to “normal”—only to become a ghost herself in a tragic twist of fate.
6/1/201656 minutes, 1 second
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"The Mirror Test" By J. Kael Weston On Wednesday's Access Utah

For soldiers who have received a severe wound to the face, there is a moment during their recovery when they must look upon their reconstructed appearance for the first time. This is known as "the mirror test." Utah native J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, he asked himself: When will these wars end? How will they be remembered? And what lessons can we learn from them?
5/25/201653 minutes, 57 seconds
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"Through Her Eyes" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Women capture Utah: They photograph fires, floods, crime scenes, politicians, sports, the arts, the outdoors, families, clergy and countless personal stories. "Through Her Eyes," a photojournalism exhibit at Salt Lake City Library's main branch is sharing Utah's stories as captured through the lenses of 20 of the state's female news photographers. The exhibit, in the Lower Urban Room Gallery, will be on display through June 24.
5/24/201653 minutes, 46 seconds
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"Daredevils" By Shawn Vestal On Monday's Access Utah

At the heart of Shawn Vestal's debut novel "Daredevils," set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-1970s, is fifteen-year-old Loretta, who slips out of her bedroom every evening to meet her so-called gentile boyfriend. Her strict Mormon fundamentalist parents catch her returning one night, and promptly marry her off to Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids.
5/23/201649 minutes, 48 seconds
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"Becoming Wise" By Krista Tippett On Thursday's Access Utah

“I’m a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I’ve learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations.” That’s Krista Tippett, host of “On Being” (heard on UPR Sunday evenings at 6:00) talking about her new book “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living” Tippett has interviewed many of the most profound voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time.
5/19/201654 minutes, 4 seconds
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Margaret Dean And "Leaving Orbit" On Wednesday's Access Utah

In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream seems to have ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. In her new book "Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight" Dean serves as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA.
5/18/201654 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Dirt: A Love Story" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Community farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. Barbara Richardson, editor of the anthology, “Dirt: A Love Story” says the world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt. The anthology brings together essays by scientists, authors, artists, and dirt lovers --admiring the first worm of spring, taking a childhood twirl across a dusty Kansas farm, calculating how soil breathes, or baking mud pies. Essayists build a dirt house, center a marriage around dirt, sink down into marshy heaven, and learn to read dirt's own language. Whether taking a trek to Venezuela to touch the oldest dirt in the world or reveling in the blessings of our own native soils, these essays answer the important question: How do you get down with dirt?
5/17/201653 minutes, 58 seconds
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John Luther Adams And Pulitzer Prize Winning Music On Monday's Access Utah

John Luther Adams is a composer whose life and work are deeply rooted in the natural world. On Monday’s Access Utah, Adams joins Tom Williams to talk about political art versus art, listeners’ interpretations of his works, and composing music for outdoor performance, among other topics. We’ll also hear some of John Luther Adams’ music.
5/16/201630 minutes, 57 seconds
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Justin Hocking's "The Great Floodgates Of The Wonderworld" On Thursday's Access Utah

Justin Hocking, author of the memoir, “The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld,” writes: “Fifteen years ago, I first dove into the immense, dark waters of Melville's masterpiece...I became obsessed with a book about obsession. More so when I discovered some critical work that compared Moby-Dick's narrative trajectory with Carl Jung's concept of the night sea journey—the dark passages that we all embark on, where we find ourselves floating and directionless, frightened and alone. At age thirty, I relocated to New York City. With no job prospects, it was both the boldest and the most senseless move of my life…in the wake of a painful break-up and a traumatic robbery, I soon found myself on my own night sea journey. It was a time during which, to paraphrase Joan Didion, I lost my own life's narrative. Without my own script, I clung to Moby-Dick as a kind of postmodern survival guide.” “Wonderworld,” published by Graywolf Press, also takes us into the worlds of skateboarding and New York surfing culture, and Wednesday night meetings of men striving to overcome addictions.
5/12/201653 minutes, 55 seconds
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Richard Zacks and "Mark Twain" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Richard Zacks’ new book “Chasing the Last Laugh,” chronicles a poignant chapter in Mark Twain’s life—one that began in foolishness and bad choices but culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and ultimate triumph.
5/11/201654 minutes, 23 seconds
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Elizabeth Smart & radKIDS On Tuesday's Access Utah

The abduction of Elizabeth Smart was one of the most followed child abduction cases of our time.She endured a 9-month ordeal after being abducted from her home in the middle of the night in June, 2002, at age fourteen. She has become an advocate for change related to child abduction, recovery programs and national legislation and is founder of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation.
5/10/201653 minutes, 53 seconds
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"Mothers, Tell Your Daughters" On Monday's Access Utah

Today's episode of Access Utah originally aired in October 2015.
5/9/201653 minutes, 18 seconds
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"Peace Officer" Documentary On Thursday's Access Utah

William J. "Dub" Lawrence says "I was elected county sheriff of Davis County in 1974. On the 22nd of September, 2008, the very SWAT team that I founded in the 1970s killed my son-in-law, in my presence, as I defended them to his father, and his mother, and my children, promising them that these men were trained and professional and knew what they were doing."
5/5/201657 minutes, 8 seconds
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David Quammen & Yellowstone National Park on Wednesday's Access Utah

In 2015 the number of visitors to Yellowstone exceeded four million for the first time. David Quammen, writing in the May 2016 edition of National Geographic magazine, asks "Can we hope to preserve, in the midst of modern America, any such remnant of our continent's primordial landscape, any such sample of true wildness-a gloriously inhospitable place, full of predators and prey, in which nature is still allowed to be red in tooth and claw? Can that sort of place be reconciled with human demands and human convenience? Time alone, and our choices, will tell. But if the answer is yes, the answer is Yellowstone."
5/4/201659 minutes, 13 seconds
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Charles Wheelan and "Naked Money" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Consider the $20 bill.
5/3/201653 minutes, 57 seconds
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Caroline Planque's Portraits of the Death Penalty on Monday's Access Utah

French Photographer Caroline Planque was on the USU campus recently to present portraits of, and interviews with, individuals affected by capital punishment in Texas. The Utah legislature recently considered (and did not pass) a bill that would have abolished the death penalty in the state. Planque first became interested in people who are impacted by capital punishment while attending college in Austin.
5/2/201654 minutes, 18 seconds
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"Alice & Oliver" By Charles Bock On Thursday's Access Utah

Charles Bock's daughter was 5 months old when his wife was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. His wife died two and a half years later, just before their daughter's third birthday. Charles Bock has written a new novel that's based on that experience. It’s titled "Alice & Oliver."
4/28/201659 minutes, 58 seconds
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Is Pornography a Public Health Crisis? on Wednesday's Access Utah

The 2016 Utah Legislature passed SCR9 which describes pornography as a public health crisis. The resolution has captured attention of people around the world. There has been some push-back as well.
4/27/20161 hour, 8 minutes
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"Making The White Man's West" On Tuesday's Access Utah

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In his new book "Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West" (University Press of Colorado), Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space.
4/26/201652 minutes, 34 seconds
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"Dark Money" and Jane Mayer on Monday's Access Utah

Jane Mayer, who joins us for the hour today, says that rather than what we might have thought of as a recent popular uprising against “big government” leading to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement, what has really happened is the creation of a network of very wealthy people (led by the Koch brothers) with extreme libertarian views who have bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system.
4/25/201654 minutes, 51 seconds
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The Future of Recreation on Utah's Public Lands: Earth Day on Thursday's Access Utah

We have established an Access Utah tradition: On or near Earth Day each year we invite Utah writer Stephen Trimble and other guests to talk about the earth, the land, and the environment. Here is Trimble’s suggestion for this year: “For our Earth Day program, how about addressing the future of recreation on crowded and imperiled public lands in Utah?
4/21/201649 minutes, 48 seconds
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Institutional Sexual Assault Awareness on Wednesday's Access Utah

According to the Salt Lake Tribune “Brigham Young University students who are victims of sex crimes say they are investigated by the school and sometimes disciplined after reporting their abuse, a consequence that critics say silences victims and emboldens offenders.” Several thousand people have signed an onlinepetition urging BYU not to investigate rape victims for Honor Code violations. BYU says it is studying the connection between its Title IX Office, which investigates sexual assaults, and its Honor Code Office.
4/20/20161 hour, 3 minutes, 40 seconds
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Revisiting Barbara Bradley Hagerty's "Life Reminagined" On Thurday's Access Utah

Barbara Bradley Hagerty joins us to talk about her new book “Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife” She says: “When I was in my early 50s, I became quite convinced I was having a midlife crisis. I was an on-air correspondent for National Public Radio -- with a partly paralyzed vocal cord that left me without a voice for days or weeks at a time and with chronic pain that dominated my every waking hour. I wondered if my career at NPR had reached its peak as I observed the new opportunities going, understandably, to younger journalists."
4/19/201651 minutes, 38 seconds
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Historian H.W. Brands Speaks On The Electoral College

Henry William Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes on American history and politics, and his books include “The Man Who Saved the Union,” “Andrew Jackson,” “The Age of Gold,” and “TR”. Several of his books have been bestsellers; two, “Traitor to His Class” and “The First American,” were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Brands lectures frequently on historical and current events and can be seen and heard on national and international television and radio.
4/18/201619 minutes, 54 seconds
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Ron Chernow's 'Alexander Hamilton' on Monday's Access Utah

On Monday’s Access Utah we’ll talk with biographer Ron Chernow as a part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative. Chernow’s “Alexander Hamilton” is the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton!” We’ll ask Chernow if he thinks the musical faithfully represents Hamilton’s life and ideas, and why it is resonating so powerfully with audiences. Chernow says that Hamilton “was a messenger from a future that we now inhabit.” We’ll ask Chernow what Hamilton has stood for over time and what he stands for now.
4/18/201653 minutes, 53 seconds
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Science Storytelling & Life's Battles On Thursday's Access Utah

Hollie Smith grew up in Tooele, went to Southern Utah University and became a journalist. After a key incident experienced as a reporter, she changed careers. She’s now Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Rhode Island. She gave a presentation recently at Utah State University titled “Journalists as Storytellers: The Media’s Role in Shaping Environmental Attitudes.” We’ll talk about how the media covers climate change.
4/14/201653 minutes, 50 seconds
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"Through the Valley of Shadows" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die--and not always for the better. So says medical researcher and ICU physician Samuel Brown. In his new book “Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human” (Oxford University Press) Dr. Brown uses stories from his clinical practice to outline a new way of thinking about life-threatening illness.
4/13/201653 minutes, 56 seconds
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Revisiting Katharine Coles' "Flight" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Former Utah Poet Laureate and current Professor of English at the University of Utah, Katharine Coles is author of two novels and several volumes of poetry. The latest, published in March by Red Hen Press, is titled “Flight.”
4/12/201653 minutes, 36 seconds
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Karen Jones and "Epiphany In the Wilderness" on Monday's Access Utah

In her new book, “Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West,” historian Karen Jones uses the metaphor of the theater to argue that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual.
4/11/201653 minutes, 58 seconds
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"The Polygamy Question" On Thursday's Access Utah

Plural marriage is the next frontier of North American marriage law and possibly the next civil rights battlefield.
4/8/201653 minutes, 48 seconds
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Matt Lewis On Wednesday's Access Utah

Matt Lewis’ book “Too Dumb to Fail” is an impassioned argument that to stay relevant the Republican Party must look beyond short-term electoral gains and re-commit to historic conservative values. As we navigate the 2016 presidential season, Lewis has an urgent message for fellow conservatives: embrace wisdom, humility, qualifications, and inclusion--or face extinction.
4/6/201654 minutes, 21 seconds
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Utah's Refugees See Increased Community Support On Tuesday's Access Utah

Many are responding to an invitation from the LDS Church to participate in a new effort to help refugees. The church has launched a new website,, and Utah Refugee Center executive director Deb Coffey told the Deseret News that her phone has been ringing off the hook. "I've got people all over the state doing service projects," Coffey said. "My phone is blowing up; my email is blowing up. It is unbelievable what's already happening." We talked about refugees and Utah in December, when Gov. Herbert was the lone Republican governor to say his state would accept Syrian refugees. We’ll talk about refugees again today in the wake of this groundswell of energy on this issue.
4/5/201653 minutes, 27 seconds
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The Kitchen Sisters On Monday's Access Utah

Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva are producers of the duPont-Columbia Award-winning NPR series Hidden Kitchens, and two Peabody Award-winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project, with Jay Allison. They are also the producers of the Hidden World of Girls and the Hidden Kitchens heard on NPR Morning Edition. The series inspired their first book, Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes, and More from NPR's The Kitchen Sisters, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005 and nominated for a James Beard Award for Best Writing on Food.
4/4/201652 minutes, 4 seconds
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U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill On Thursday's Access Utah

During a long and distinguished career with the U.S. State Department, Ambassador Christopher Hill was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy, from the Balkans to North Korea to Iraq. In his memoir, “Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy,” he takes us from one-on-one meetings with Slobodan Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. He draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his extensive experience as a U.S. ambassador.
3/31/201654 minutes, 16 seconds
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"All Better Now: A Memoir" on Wednesday's Access Utah

All her life, Emily felt different from other kids. Between therapist visits, sudden uncontrollable bursts of anger, and unexplained episodes of dizziness, things never felt right. For years, her only escape was through the stories she crafted. It wasn’t until a near-fatal accident when she was twelve years old that Emily and her family discovered the truth: a grapefruit-size brain tumor at the base of her skull. In her new memoir, “All Better Now,” Utah writer Emily Wing Smith chronicles her struggles with both mental and physical disabilities, the devastating accident that may have saved her life, and her way through it all: writing.
3/30/201653 minutes, 56 seconds
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Are We Returning to Debtor's Prisons? On Tuesday's Access Utah

We recently received an email from a listener: “I wanted to suggest a potential topic to explore in an upcoming show. I came across an article in the [Odgen] Standard Examiner the other day about a man getting arrested for an unpaid ambulance bill. He died while in jail."
3/29/201653 minutes, 55 seconds
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Temple Grandin on Monday's Access Utah

Temple Grandin didn’t talk until she was three and a half years old, communicating her frustration instead by screaming, peeping, and humming. In 1950, she was diagnosed with autism and her parents were told she should be institutionalized. Instead, she went on to become professor of animal science at Colorado State University and a world leader in designing humane facilities for livestock. She is a prominent author and activist in the autism field, and her life is the subject of a 2010 HBO movie.
3/28/201654 minutes, 1 second
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Mental Health Issues Facing the Elderly on Thursday's Access Utah

The murder/suicide involving a prominent Cache Valley couple has shocked the community and highlighted issues of suicide, depression, mental illness, and other issues among the elderly. We’re going to talk about these issues on Access Utah today. Tom Williams is joined by Pat Sadoski, with Cache Valley Senior Consulting; and Amy Anderson, with the Sunshine Terrace Foundation. We’ll also hear some recorded comments from commentator Thad Box.
3/24/201653 minutes, 51 seconds
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Teresa Jordan and "The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off)" on Wednesday's Access Utah

In his early 20s, Benjamin Franklin embarked on a “bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection,” intending to master a list of thirteen virtues. He soon gave up on perfection but continued to believe that these attributes, along with a generous heart and a bemused acceptance of human frailty, laid the foundation for both a good life and a workable society.
3/23/201656 minutes, 24 seconds
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Talking Utah's Local Folk Music on Tuesday's Access Utah

UPR is presenting quarterly folk music programs, featuring musicians from around Utah. We hope you joined us for the most recent program Saturday evening. We’ll continue the conversation and music with four musicians: Hal Cannon and Greg Istock from 3hattrio, Cory Castillo, and Todd Wilkinson.
3/22/201654 minutes, 14 seconds
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James Kaplan and "Sinatra: The Chairman" on Monday's Access Utah

In "Frank: The Voice" (2010), James Kaplan told the story of Frank Sinatra's meteoric rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century-infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. Kaplan examined the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra's humble beginning in Hoboken to his fall from grace and Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity.
3/21/20161 hour, 2 seconds
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The Race For President Comes To Utah On Thursday's Access Utah

This campaign season has been extraordinary, and the show is coming to Utah, with caucuses on Tuesday and a Republican presidential debate that was scheduled for Salt Lake City and is now canceled.
3/17/201652 minutes, 46 seconds
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"Mapping Region in Early American Writing" On Tuesday's Access Utah

How did early American writers think about the spaces around them? Today on Access Utah we’re talking about regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—and the roles these regions played in the formation of American communities, both real and imagined.
3/15/201653 minutes, 56 seconds
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"The Three-Year Swim Club" on Monday's Access Utah

In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians.
3/14/201654 minutes, 4 seconds
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"Smarter, Faster, Better" By Charles Duhigg On Thursday's Access Utah

Pulitzer prize winning New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg joins Tom Williams for Access Utah. Duhigg’s book “The Power of Habit” explored the science of habit formation in our lives, companies, and society. His new book “Smarter Faster Better” explores the science of productivity. Duhigg says that in today’s world, it’s more important to manage how you think, rather than what you think. This episode of Access Utah is a part of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative in partnership with Utah Humanities, the Salt Lake Tribune, and KCPW.
3/10/201648 minutes, 49 seconds
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"Always Too Much & Never Enough" By Jasmin Singer On Wednesday's Access Utah

From the extra pounds and unrelenting bullies that left her eating lunch alone in a bathroom stall at school to the low self-esteem that left her both physically and emotionally vulnerable to abuse, Jasmin Singer’s struggle with weight defined her life.
3/9/201653 minutes, 54 seconds
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Revisiting Daylight Savings On Tuesday's Access Utah

Some people love it, some people hate it. Like it or not, on Sunday, daylight saving time (DST) begins in Utah. Tuesday on Access Utah we’re going to revisit an episode from December 2014.
3/8/201656 minutes, 59 seconds
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Will Utah Abolish The Death Penalty? On Monday's Access Utah

Should Utah abolish the death penalty? Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, says yes. His SB 189 has passed the Utah Senate and now goes to the House as we head into the last week of the 2016 Utah Legislature. Gov. Gary Herbert is among those maintaining support for the death penalty.
3/7/201653 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Good Water" By Kevin Holdsworth On Thursday's Access Utah

In essays that combine memoir with biography of place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells - about the people, the “survivors and casualties” of the small, remote town - and is at the heart of his own story.
3/3/201653 minutes, 2 seconds
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"A Mother's Reckoning" By Sue Kleobold On Wednesday's Access Utah

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives. For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s mother, has lived with the grief and shame of that day.
3/2/201659 minutes, 26 seconds
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Psychology & Air Quality On Tuesday's Access Utah

“It’s a sight Utahns are all too familiar with -- gray, smoggy air filled with dangerous particulate matter. Officials say sensitive groups like children and the elderly should be especially cautious during times of inversion. During red air days the air is unhealthy for everyone. We know this. So why do we continue driving to work? Why do we idle our cars, contributing to the problem?”
3/1/201659 minutes, 53 seconds
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Essayist Patrick Madden on Monday's Access Utah

In his new collection of essays “Sublime Physick,” Patrick Madden seeks what is common and ennobling among seemingly disparate, even divisive, subjects, ruminating on midlife, time, family, forgiveness, loss, originality, a Canadian rock band, and more, discerning the ways in which the natural world transcends and joins the realm of ideas (sublime) through the application of a meditative mind.
2/29/201654 minutes, 5 seconds
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Vaccinations In The Utah House On Thursday's Access Utah

Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D-Holladay, is sponsoring HB221, which would preserve parents' rights to exempt their children from immunizations but would require those parents to watch an educational video to receive the exemption.
2/25/201649 minutes, 23 seconds
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Great Old Broads For Wilderness on Wednesday's Access Utah

Great Old Broads for Wilderness began in 1989 on the 25th anniversary of the Wilderness Act by a feisty bunch of lady hikers who wanted to refute Utah Senator Orrin Hatch’s notion that wilderness is inaccessible to elders. About that time, wilderness designation had been proposed for Escalante, and Senator Hatch opposed it, saying, “if for no other reason, we need roads for the aged and infirm.”
2/24/201648 minutes, 7 seconds
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Encore Presentation With Anand Giridharadas On Tuesday's Access Utah

This episode originally aired in July, 2015.
2/23/201651 minutes, 20 seconds
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An Encore Presentation of "Archaeology of Night" on Monday's Access Utah

Nancy Gonlin, Professor of Anthropology at Bellevue College says that “Without electrical lighting to guide the way, our ancestors in the ancient world experienced night very differently than we do today...As light pollution continues to dissipate the darkness for us modern humans—changing, for example, our perception of the stars—the urgency to document the history of human experience from dusk till dawn has never been greater.”
2/22/201650 minutes, 21 seconds
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Legislative Funding For Domestic Violence Protocol On Thursday's Access Utah

West Valley City Police Chief Lee Russo says that for a long time, police officers went to the scene of domestic violence calls and treated them in a "mechanical way." They would ask for the facts — the who, what, and where — and then move on. But, Russo says, that type of investigation wasn't doing much to help the victims and the officers oftentimes failed to recognize that behind a physically abused victim, there was a psychologically abused person, as well. In January, his officers began using the Lethality Assessment Protocol (LAP) program to help connect domestic violence victims to resources that can help them.
2/18/201653 minutes, 18 seconds
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"Emus Loose in Egnar" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Journalist Judy Muller says that at a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, we can take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America.
2/17/201654 minutes
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"Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools" On Tuesday's Access Utah

By the late 1800s, Native American culture was under attack from a variety of sectors. As westward expansion continued, the U.S. government adopted a policy to the eradicate culture, language and spirituality of America’s indigenous people by taking children from their families, isolating them, and forcing them to deny their heritage. The policy of assimilation transported the children to boarding schools for cultural transformation. Everything Native was to be stripped away. The goal was integration into Anglo society. Their language, as their culture, was to be “unspoken.”
2/16/201653 minutes, 40 seconds
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"The Future of Libraries" On Thursday's Access Utah

John Palfrey, founding president of the Digital Public Library of America and a director of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, recently told the Deseret News that he has “been struck by the number of times people tell [him] that they think libraries are less important than they were before, now that we have the Internet and Google. He says he thinks “just the opposite: Libraries are more important, not less important, and both as physical and virtual entities, than they’ve been in the past.” John Palfrey, author of the new book "BiblioTECH: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google," joins Tom Williams to discuss the future of the library on Thursday’s Access Utah.
2/11/201653 minutes, 43 seconds
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Public Lands Initiative on Wednesday's Access Utah

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, “in what they characterized as a sweeping gesture of compromise, Reps. Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz unveiled their plan to resolve decades of deadlock over how eastern Utah's public lands are managed even as environmental and tribal groups declared the proposal "dead on arrival" and a shameless giveaway to oil and gas interests.” The bill “would set aside special landscapes like Cedar Mesa, San Rafael Swell and Labyrinth Canyon, while expediting mineral development in areas deemed less worthy of protection.”
2/10/201648 minutes, 10 seconds
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Comprehensive Sex Education in Utah? On Tuesday's Access Utah

Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City says that the state should allow comprehensive sex education in its schools. Rep. King, who is House Minority Leader, says his HB246 is needed because the rates of sexually transmitted diseases are rising quickly, and youth need more education to protect themselves. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Gayle Ruzicka, President of the Utah Eagle Forum, says that "comprehensive sex education is all about teaching children that it's OK to have sex as long as they use a condom. It just doesn't work."
2/9/201653 minutes, 8 seconds
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Addressing the 'School To Prison Pipeline' on Thursday's Access Utah

A 2014 report titled Finger Paint to Fingerprints: The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Utah from the Public Policy Clinic at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at University of Utah found that discipline handed down to some students was diverting them out of public schools and into the criminal justice system "through a combination of overly harsh zero-tolerance school policies and the increased involvement of law enforcement in schools."
2/4/201653 minutes, 8 seconds
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Naked Nutrition on Wednesday's Access Utah

Amy Choate says that her passion for a plant-based, whole food lifestyle is due to her complete recovery from debilitating depression and illness that occurred during her service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and Annie Miller have a book out called “Naked Nutrition: Whole Foods Revealed” which, they say, is a guide to why we should eat real food, why it matters, and how we can live with health and energy. Amy Choate and Annie MIller join Tom Williams in studio for Wednesday’s Access Utah.
2/3/201653 minutes, 58 seconds
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The Art & Cultural Impact of Political Cartoons on Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s Access Utah we’ll talk about the art and cultural impact of political cartoons with the Salt Lake Tribune’s Pat Bagley, Politico’s Matt Wuerker, and Jen Sorensen, whose comics appear nationally and locally, in the Salt Lake City Weekly.” Wuerker is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bagley is a Pulitzer finalist. Sorensen is winner of several awards including the Herblock Prize. We’ll talk about Charlie Hebdo, Bagley’s cartoon legislators, Sorensen’s Trump girls try-outs cartoon, current events from a cartoonist's perspective, and much else. This episode of Access Utah is a part of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative in partnership with Utah Humanities, the Salt Lake Tribune, and KCPW.
2/2/201654 minutes, 9 seconds
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The Philosophy of Gun Violence on Monday's Access Utah

On Monday's Access Utah we'll conclude our series on Mass Shootings in America with a discussion about guns. President Obama said recently that America is facing a "gun violence epidemic" and that "we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. It doesn't happen in other advanced countries. It's not even close." The president announced that he is implementing several gun control measures by executive action.
2/1/20161 hour, 3 minutes, 6 seconds
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Grant Duwe on Wednesday's Access Utah

Criminologist Grant Duwe told public radio’s Here & Now program in 2013 that mass murder rates and mass public shootings have been on the decline. He said that 0.2 percent of all homicides in the U.S. are mass murders, and of those, 10 percent are mass public killings, such as those in Newtown and Aurora.
1/27/201654 minutes
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Gina Barnett's "Play The Part" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Gina Barnett has coached executives and leaders worldwide from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, small businesses and non-profits. She has been speaker coach for TED Talks for the past five years.
1/26/201653 minutes, 57 seconds
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Live From The Utah State Capitol On Monday's Access Utah

Join us for a live broadcast of Access Utah from the State Capitol on Monday for the opening day of the 2016 Utah Legislature. We'll talk about the issues likely to be addressed in the legislature this year. Our guests will include Governor Gary Herbert, House Majority Leader, Rep. Jim Dunnigan, R-Taylorsville; House Minority Leader, Rep Brian King, D-Salt Lake City; Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Ralph Okerlund; R-Monroe; and Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City.
1/25/201659 minutes, 4 seconds
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2016 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday's Access Utah

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival opens in Park City on Thursday. UPR's Sundance Correspondent Steve Smith is in Park City and will join Tom Williams on Thursday's Access Utah to set the scene and tell us about the films he's excited about. Then we'll talk with two filmmakers whose films are showing at Sundance.
1/21/201659 minutes, 28 seconds
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Jim Steenburgh and the “Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Lee Benson of the Deseret News recently wrote a nice profile of Jim Steenburgh, author of “Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth.” And with fresh powder on the ground, we thought this a great time to revisit our conversation from November 2014.
1/20/201654 minutes, 8 seconds
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"Blood Oil" On Tuesday's Access Utah

For a generation, some of the money we’ve spent at the gas station and the mall has gone to empower the authoritarians and the armed groups that have given us our worst foreign-born crises. How can we get ourselves out of business with hostile petrocrats and the violent extremists?
1/19/201653 minutes, 34 seconds
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"Learning To Fly" On Thursday's Access Utah

Moab resident Steph Davis is a superstar in the climbing community. But when her husband made a controversial climb of Delicate Arch, the media fallout and the toll on her marriage left her without a partner, a career, a source of income...or a purpose. Accompanied by her beloved dog, Fletch, she set off in search of a new identity and discovered skydiving.
1/14/201653 minutes, 24 seconds
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Robert Ratcliffe & Kim Heacox on Wednesday's Access Utah

The National Park Service turns 100 on August 25, 2016 and today we’re kicking off a series of programs focusing on America’s national parks.
1/13/201655 minutes, 55 seconds
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Revisiting "Driving America" On Tuesday's Access Utah

“Cars, for Americans, more than anything else represent freedom.” So says Matt Hardigree, executive director of Jalopnik.com, who is featured in National Geographic Channel’s documentary film, “Driving America.” The film examines how car culture has changed the way we live, work, travel and socialize; and looks into the future, including potential game changers like Tesla’s electric cars.
1/12/201653 minutes, 56 seconds
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"The Logan Notebooks" on Monday's Access Utah

My guest for the hour today is poet Rebecca Lindenberg. Clouds, mountains, flowering trees. Difficult things. Things lost by being photographed. Things that have lost their power. Things found in a rural grocery store. These are some of the lists, poems, prose poems, and lyric anecdotes compiled in “The Logan Notebooks,” a remix and a reimagining of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, a collection of intimate and imaginative observations about place—a real place, an interior landscape—and identity, at the intersection of the human with the world, and the language we have (and do not yet have) for perceiving it.
1/11/201655 minutes, 27 seconds
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"Epiphany In The Wilderness" On Thursday's Access Utah

In her new book, “Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West,” historian Karen Jones uses the metaphor of the theater to argue that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual.
1/7/201653 minutes, 52 seconds
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New Year's Resolutions on Wednesday's Access Utah

According to recent studies, 50% of us set New Year's resolutions and 78% of us fail to keep them. But there's something compelling in the idea of a new you in the new year. Should we set New Year's resolutions? How do we keep them past, say, February? We'll ask you what you do and what successes or failures you've had.
1/6/201653 minutes, 57 seconds
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"Bridging the Distance" on Tuesday's Access Utah

“The West was once seen as a beacon of opportunity, and it is still a place where many ways of life can flourish. But it is also a region that leaves some people isolated both culturally and geographically.” That’s David Kennedy, from his foreword to a collection of essays titled “Bridging the Distance: Common Issues of the Rural West.”
1/5/201656 minutes, 30 seconds
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"Could America Elect a Mentally Ill President?" on Monday's Access Utah

Alex Thompson, writing in Politico Magazine, says “Political taboos, campaign dealbreakers and electoral glass ceilings are crumbling. Members of Congress are openly gay and bisexual, there’s a black man in the White House, and a woman may be next. Voters have accepted all sorts of behavioral warts and missteps in their political candidates, too. DUIs? A mistake of their youth. Draft dodgers? There’s a long list. Womanizers? A much longer list. Illegal drugs? In just a few short elections, we’ve gone from a president who “didn’t inhale” to one who openly admits using cocaine in his youth.
1/4/201654 minutes
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Access Utah Holiday Special 2015

Join us for the Access Utah Holiday Special 2015. We’ll hear music for the season performed by the Lightwood Duo (Mike Christiansen on guitar and Eric Nelson on clarinet). We’ll also hear readings for the season by the author of The Christmas Chronicles, playwright Tim Slover.
12/17/201559 minutes, 49 seconds
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UPR's 2015 Book List on Wednesday's Access Utah

Periodically we join together as a UPR community to share what we're reading. On Wednesday's Access Utah we're doing it again, but with a twist: We want your list of the best books of 2015.
12/16/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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The Media & Mass Shootings on Tuesday's Access Utah

On Today’s Access Utah we continue our series on Mass Shootings in America by asking how the media should respond. Our guests include Tom Teves, whose son Alex was killed in the mass shooting in Aurora Colorado. Teves is a founder of No Notoriety a campaign that urges news outlets to limit how much they use a gunman’s name and photograph. Tom Teves says the hope is to curb shootings by denying many perpetrators what they want: fame.
12/15/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting "Part Wild" On Monday's Access Utah

Writer Ceiridwen Terrill writes about how, at a particularly sad and frightening time in her life, a wolf dog was the kind of companion she was searching for. In her book, "Part Wild: Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs," she talks about an animal who's heart is divided between the woman she loves, and the desire to roam free. In the end, Terrill realized she must confront the reality of taming a half-wild animal. We spoke with Ceirdwen Terrill in 2012, and today on the program we revisit that conversation.
12/14/201548 minutes, 13 seconds
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"What is Happening to the English Language?" On Thursday's Access Utah

Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year for 2015 isn't a word at all; it's an emoji, one of those little faces that you see all over on social media. And I'm hearing extreme glottal stops (as in "the new football coach at USC is Clay Helhhh-uhhn (Helton)" and "strength" pronounced as "shtrength." It's enough to drive a language purist to distraction.
12/10/201550 minutes, 9 seconds
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An Open Forum on Mass Shootings on Wednesday's Access Utah

In response to the San Bernardino shootings, President Obama said, "We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world."
12/9/201559 minutes, 56 seconds
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"Return to Oakpine" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Ron Carlson’s latest novel, “Return to Oakpine,” is a tender and nostalgic portrait of western American life. In it, Carlson tells the story of four middle-aged friends who once played in a band while growing up together in small-town Wyoming. One of them, Jimmy Brand, left for New York City and became an admired novelist. Thirty years later in 1999, he’s returned to die. Craig Ralston and Frank Gunderson never left Oakpine; Mason Kirby, a Denver lawyer, is back on family business. Jimmy’s arrival sends the other men’s dreams and expectations, realized and deferred, whirling to the surface. And now that they are reunited, getting the band back together might be the most essential thing they ever do.
12/8/201554 minutes, 18 seconds
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Should Utah accept Syrian refugees? on Thursday's Access Utah

Should Utah accept refugees from Syria? That’s the question we’ll address on Thursday’s Access Utah. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's members of Congress want to stop Syrian refugees from entering the country until new security checks are implemented, a process that could take years. Senator Orrin Hatch says “It's irresponsible, particularly after [the Paris] attacks, to reduce this issue to one of mere compassion."
12/4/20151 hour, 47 seconds
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"Dream House on Golan Drive" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour today is Utah author David G. Pace whose debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive is published by Signature Books. It is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other.He is eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims God has revealed to her that she is to live with Riley’s family.
12/2/201553 minutes, 43 seconds
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Mahan Esfahani on Tuesday's Access Utah

When NPR’s Robert Siegel suggested that the harpsichord is viewed as old and not enormously popular, Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani responded: “I think these things would only matter to Americans. As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject the idea that the harpsichord is old and I reject the idea that something old is therefore not good or not popular. Lots of things are old. Lots of traditions are old. I like it because it's beautiful.”
12/2/201548 minutes, 57 seconds
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"True Heroes" and Recovery on Monday's Access Utah

Photographer Jonathan Diaz says “I have always been fascinated by the power and poignancy of a child’s imagination. Children are not afraid to dream big: they believe anything is possible. They are innocent. With this innocence comes dreams and honest aspirations that, from the view of an outsider, might seem impossible. However, through the eyes of a child, such dreams are absolutely obtainable.” Diaz is creator and photographer of Anything Can Be and a book “True Heroes” which features the dreams of 21 children are or were fighting cancer. Each child is featured in a professional photo shoot depicting his or her dreams. And 21 authors (including such best-selling writers as Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie, and Jennifer a. Neilsen) were commissioned to write a story, featuring one of the children as hero.
12/1/201553 minutes, 39 seconds
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Holiday Stress & Humor on Wednesday's Access Utah

The holiday season is a time for celebration and family togetherness. It’s supposed to bring us joy. But Christine Moll, chair and professor of counseling and human services at Canisius College and a mental health counselor, says that for many the holidays are a time of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and dysfunction. On Wednesday’s AU, as we head into the holiday season, we’ll ask you what you do to make the season joyful. And how do you de-stress during the holidays? We’ll get advice from Christine Moll and Marriage and Family Therapist and Rage Against The Minivan blogger, Kristen Howerton. We’ll also turn to writers Sarah Cottrell and Michael Levin for humorous takes on holiday stress.
11/25/201553 minutes, 58 seconds
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"Frank: The Chairman" On Tuesday's Acccess Utah

In "Frank: The Voice" (2010), James Kaplan told the story of Frank Sinatra's meteoric rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of live performance and screen. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century-infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. Kaplan examined the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra's humble beginning in Hoboken to his fall from grace and Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity.
11/24/201551 minutes, 29 seconds
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"Alone on the Wall" By Alex Honnold on Monday's Access Utah

Alex Honnold exploded onto the climbing scene in 2008 after a free solo of Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park. Now one of the most famous adventurers in the world, he climbs without a rope, without a partner, and without any gear to attach himself to the wall.
11/23/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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The "Red Zone" of Campus Sexual Assault on Thursday's Access Utah

Brenda Tracy, writing for Sports Illustrated says "At first I couldn't say the following words without getting a lump in my throat and tears welling in my eyes. Today these jarring words roll off my tongue. 'I was gang raped.' I start a lot of speaking engagements with that sentence. You think you get nervous talking in front of a crowd? Try sharing intimate details of the worst event in your life with complete strangers. ... My gang rape happened 17 years ago, and statistically nothing has changed. How do we improve the numbers? How do we prevent my story from happening again?"
11/23/201559 minutes, 46 seconds
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Revisiting Writer & Explorer Gretel Ehrlich on Wednesday's Access Utah

Writer and explorer Gretel Ehrlich is author of 13 books, including "The Solace of Open Spaces." She has written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, Orion, and other publications. Her recent writing has covered everything from her experience being struck by lightning, to essays about how climate change has been affecting the Arctic communities in Greenland that she has been visiting for the last 16 years. Writing in Harper's Magazine she notes that "the ways in which these Greenlanders get their food are not much different than they were a thousand years ago, but in recent years Arctic scientists have labeled Greenland's seasonal sea ice 'a rotten ice regime.' Instead of nine months of good ice, there are only two or three. Where the ice in spring was once routinely six to ten feet thick, in 2004 the thickness was only seven inches even when the temperature was -30 degrees Fahrenheit. 'It is breaking up from beneath,' one hunter explained, 'because of the wind and stormy waters. We never had that before.
11/18/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Cyber and Power Grid Security on Tuesday's Access Utah

Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. In his New York Times bestselling book “Lights Out,” longtime Nightline host Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. Koppel reports that, the federal government, while well prepared for natural disasters, has no plan for the aftermath of an attack on the power grid. In the absence of a government plan, some individuals and communities have taken matters into their own hands. Among the nation’s estimated three million “preppers,” Koppel introduces us to one whose doomsday retreat includes a newly excavated three-acre lake, stocked with fish, and a Wyoming homesteader so self-sufficient that he crafted the thousands of adobe bricks in his house by hand. Koppel also reports on the unrivaled disaster preparedness of the Mormon church, with its enormous storehouses, high-tech dairies, orchards, and proprietary trucking company – the fruits of a long tradition of anticipating the worst. But how,Koppel asks, will ordinary civilians survive? Ted…
11/17/201554 minutes, 43 seconds
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Students Demand Tuition Reform on Monday's Access Utah

The amount of student debt across the country adds up to almost 1.3 trillion dollars. As a comparison, that is almost how much US currency is in circulation today. Last Thursday students across the country gathered on college campuses for the Million Student March, calling for free tuition at public universities, cancellation of all student debt, and implementation of a $15 minimum hourly wage for university employees.
11/16/201553 minutes, 39 seconds
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LDS Policy For Children Of Same-Sex Couples On Thursday's Access Utah

Last week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released an updated handbook for lay leaders of Mormon congregations mandating church discipline for same-sex couples who marry and prohibiting their children from receiving baby blessings or being baptized until they reach age 18. Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said the new policies are designed to protect children from conflict, not to limit the opportunities for children in the church. According to the Deseret News, protesters in Salt Lake City on Sunday said the new policy perpetuates inequities and called on the church to reverse course.
11/12/20151 hour, 24 seconds
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National Geographic's Climate Change Issue

In some polls, about 25 percent of Americans deny climate change is happening at all. Others know they should care, but want to be spared the details and believe they can’t do anything to affect the outcome anyway. Dennis Dimick, National Geographic magazine's Executive Editor, Environment, says, “These are the people that National Geographic thought about every day in putting together November’s...magazine...devoted to exploring climate change and timed to coincide with the global climate conference in Paris.” The special Climate Change edition is organized into three categories: How do we know it’s happening? How to fix it? and How to Live With It?
11/11/201554 minutes, 2 seconds
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Winston Groom and "The Generals" on Tuesday's Access Utah

In his new book “The Generals” historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victory in World War II. These three remarkable men-of-arms who rose from the gruesome hell of the First World War to become the finest generals of their generation during World War II redefined America's ideas of military leadership and brought forth a new generation of American soldier. Their efforts revealed to the world the grit and determination that would become synonymous with America in the post-war years.
11/10/201554 minutes, 7 seconds
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"Howl: Of Woman and Wolf" On Monday's Access Utah

Commemorating twenty years since the wolf’s return to the American West, Howl explores passions and controversies surrounding nature’s most fascinating predator. Susan Imhoff Bird travels the West, journeying from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah, through Yellowstone and Montana. Along the way, she interviews ranchers and park personnel, wolf watchers, biologists, and families, uncovering a range of emotions—from admiration and reverence to vitriol and anxiety—toward wolves and all that they have come to signify.
11/9/201553 minutes, 39 seconds
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Straw Bale Housing on Thursday's Access Utah

Emily Niehaus says she “founded Community Rebuilds to address an affordable housing need in my rural community with the larger goal of shifting the existing construction paradigm to have a lighter impact...It began as a simple idea to replace old, dilapidated housing (like singlewide trailers built prior to 1976) with homes that cost less to build and less to heat and cool for working families. The premise is to use volunteers to offset the cost of construction, utilize federal financing to offer participants a low interest rate and a reasonable payment plan, and build with sustainable materials that are dirt-cheap…literally build affordable, energy-efficient homes out of straw, sand, clay, and wood.”
11/5/201553 minutes, 50 seconds
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Election Day Recap on Wednesday's Access Utah

In this off year election, turnout was predictably low in many areas, some areas saw a spike, but still many important were addressed. Jackie Biskupski appears to have unseated Ralph Becker for Mayor in Salt Lake City, Proposition 1 went down to defeat in the vast majority of counties, albeit narrowly in some cases. On the national scene, Ohio voters have rejected a marijuana legalization measure, Houston voters appealed an anti-discrimination ordinance and Kentucky seems to be following its neighbors in trending Republican. Today on the program we speak with Deseret News Commentator Frank Pignanelli and Michael Lyons, Associate Professor of Political Science at Utah State University.
11/4/201553 minutes, 17 seconds
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Butlers in 2015 on Tuesday's Access Utah

CBS reports that the demand for butlers is on the rise, possibly because of Downton Abbey. Steven Ferry, Chairman of the International Institute of Modern Butlers, and a butler himself, says that butling can be an interesting, fulfilling and lucrative career. On Tuesday’s Access Utah, we’ll hear stories from Steven Ferry and UPR Commentator Richard Ratliff, who is special assistant to the Dean of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. Dr. Ratliff is professor of accounting Emeritus at USU and a trained butler. We’ll also hear how butling has been portrayed in the popular media. We’ll hear clips from Jeeves and Wooster, Gosford Park, Remains of the Day, Monk, The Andy Griffith Show, Upstairs, Downstairs, and, of course, Downton Abbey.
11/3/201553 minutes, 44 seconds
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Writing Obituaries On Monday's Access Utah

This broadcast of Access Utah originally aired in May of 2015.
11/2/201559 minutes, 44 seconds
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Sherman Alexie on Thursday's Access Utah

Sherman Alexie is a major voice in contemporary American literature. He is the author of twenty books including Reservation Blues and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The award-winning, and widely banned, young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian won him the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
10/29/201554 minutes, 2 seconds
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"Putting the Supernatural in its Place" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Just exactly where do we find the supernatural in the contemporary world? It's both pervasive--everywhere--and specific--a particular somewhere. Otherworldly traditions and stories still spread through oral narration. They pervade mass media and the digital world and often form the stuff of hypermodern folklore--the stew of folk, popular, consumer, and digital culture that constitutes much of contemporary life. People also imbue specific places--from the local haunted house or cemetery to whole towns or cities--with supernatural manifestations or significance.
10/28/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting Craig Johnson, Author of the Walt Longmire Series, on Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we’ll revisit a conversation with Wyoming-based writer Craig Johnson. Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the Netflix original drama. Craig Johnson has received many awards for his books. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five.
10/27/201554 minutes, 5 seconds
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"The Three-Year Swim Club" By Julie Checkoway on Monday's Access Utah

In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians.
10/26/201552 minutes, 18 seconds
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Revisiting an Hour with Sheldon Harnick on Access Utah Thursday

Legendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!) visited Logan for events with the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theater during their 2013 season. While he was in town, he sat down with Tom Williams for an Access Utah conversation.
10/22/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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"Facets Of This Desert" On Wednesday's Access Utah

How does the place we live inform our art? With its valleys and peaks, sagebrush and streams, the Great Basin inspires creative expression in forms as varied as its landscape. Join four distinguished artists—a filmmaker, a photographer, a novelist, and a poet—in a panel discussion about the unique inspiration discovered in the Great Basin.
10/21/201555 minutes, 52 seconds
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"Mothers, Tell Your Daughters" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Named by the Guardian as one of our top ten writers of rural noir, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a keen observer of life and trouble in rural America, and her working-class protagonists can be at once vulnerable, wise, cruel, and funny. The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters must negotiate a sexually charged atmosphere as they love, honor, and betray one another against the backdrop of all the men in their world. Such richly fraught mother-daughter relationships can be lifelines, anchors, or they can sink a woman like a stone.
10/20/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Sarah Alisabeth Fox on Monday's Access Utah

Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear Westis an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.
10/20/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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Karen Armstrong's "Fields Of Blood" On Access Utah

Karen Armstrong, in her book “Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence” writes that: “In the West the idea that religion is inherently violent is now taken for granted and seems self-evident. As one who speaks on religion, I constantly hear how cruel and aggressive it has been, a view that, eerily, is expressed the same way almost every time: ‘Religion has been the cause of all the major wars in history.’” Armstrong asserts that: “The problem lies not in the multifaceted activity that we call ‘religion’ but in the violence embedded in our human nature and the nature of the state…”
10/16/201549 minutes, 28 seconds
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"This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!" on Thursday's Access Utah

With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet’s past.
10/15/201555 minutes, 29 seconds
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Faith-based Diplomacy On Tuesday's Access Utah

Dr. Douglas Johnston is a scholar, diplomat, peacemaker, and the youngest officer in the Navy to qualify for command of a nuclear submarine. He is founder and president of the Washington DC based International Center for Religion and Diplomacy.
10/13/201551 minutes, 8 seconds
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Cultural Appropriation on Monday's Access Utah

Administrators at Copper Hills High School are getting a lesson in cultural sensitivity after a Disney-themed homecoming parade last week resulted in accusations of disrespect for American Indian history.In addition to little mermaids, Caribbean pirates, and beauties and beasts, Thursday's parade included a "Pocahontas" float complete with a tepee and cheerleaders dressed as American Indians as portrayed in the animated film.The next night, during the school's homecoming football game, members of the Copper Hills American Indian Student Association collected more than 190 signatures on a petition calling for cultural awareness and tolerance.
10/12/201550 minutes, 9 seconds
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"Dirt: A Love Story" on Thursday's Access Utah

Community farms. Mud spas. Mineral paints. Nematodes. The world is waking up to the beauty and mystery of dirt. This anthology celebrates the Earth's generous crust, bringing together essays by award-winning scientists, authors, artists, and dirt lovers to tell dirt's exuberant tales.
10/8/201554 minutes
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Food With Mark Bittman On Wednesday's Access Utah

Today on the program we're discussing food, starting with the latest food movement here in the U.S., food trucks. Serving food from mobile kitchens has turned into a 800 million dollar industry, as the National Geographic recently reported, citing various economic perks of food trucks rather than brick and mortar restaurants.
10/7/201549 minutes, 13 seconds
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A Conversation about Water on Tuesday's Access Utah

As part of Utah State University's Year of Water, Access Utah arranged a conversation about all-things water.
10/6/201553 minutes, 43 seconds
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Rita Moreno On Monday's Access Utah

Rita Moreno is one of few people to hold the awards "Grand Slam" -- Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony. In her twenties, after her Oscar win for "West Side Story," she didn't work in Hollywood again for seven years, because she refused stereotyped roles. She's see as a trailblazer. And she's having, at 83, a well-deserved very good year.
10/5/201550 minutes, 48 seconds
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Helen Whitney on Thursday's Access Utah

Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney says “forgiveness is elusive, mysterious, primal...an idea and an ache that is rooted in existential concerns.” PBS describes her film Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate this way: It “provides an intimate look into the spontaneous outpouring of forgiveness: from the Amish families for the 2006 shooting of their children in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
10/1/201553 minutes, 50 seconds
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David Quammen On Wednesday's Access Utah

Writer David Quammen's working life bounces back and forth between topics such as grizzly bear conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, close to home, and the study of lethal viruses that emerge from bats and chimpanzees and rodents in places like the Congo. Quammen will present on Yellowstone National Park, the first national park in the world, at this year's Shift Festival in Jackson Wyoming. He joins us on Access Utah today.
10/1/201553 minutes, 55 seconds
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James Balog on Tuesday's Access Utah

In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk.
9/29/201554 minutes, 7 seconds
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"Ethics Of Suicide" On Monday's Access Utah

“Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life?” These are questions posed and addressed in a new book published by Oxford University Press with the full digital version hosted online by the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. The book’s editor is Margaret Pabst Battin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. Her comprehensive historical sourcebook, “The Ethics of Suicide: HIstorical Sources,” will be presented at an event on Monday, October 5th - 12:00 - 2:00 pm at the J. Willard Marriot Library, Gould Auditorium, level 1.
9/28/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Quincy Newell: Arrington Mormon History Lecture on Thursday's Access Utah

The 21st Annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture will take place in the Logan Tabernacle, 50 N. Main Street, on Thursday, September 24, at 7 p.m. The title is "Narrating Jane: Telling the Story of an Early African American Mormon Woman." Jane Elizabeth Manning James was among the early African American converts to Mormonism. After joining the church in the early 1840s, James remained a faithful member until her death in Salt Lake City in 1908. Although she was well-known among church members during her lifetime, James was largely forgotten after her death. The lecture will be presented by Quincy D. Newell, a specialist in the religious history of the American West. After more than a decade on the Religious Studies faculty at the University of Wyoming, she now teaches in the Religious Studies department at Hamilton College. Newell is currently writing a biography of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, which will be published by Oxford University Press.
9/24/201553 minutes, 26 seconds
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Luma Mufleh & The Fugee Family On Wednesday's Access Utah

This is an encore presentation of "Access Utah."
9/23/201552 minutes, 56 seconds
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"How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Born in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West Show Indian he travelled in Europe with his family, and saw his sons become silversmiths, painters, and consultants on Indian Lore. In 1928, in a life-culminating experience, he recited his version of the origin myth of Acoma Pueblo to Smithsonian Institution scholars.
9/22/201554 minutes, 3 seconds
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"Satellites In The High Country" On Monday's Access Utah

“In New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, 106 Mexican gray wolves may be some of the most monitored wildlife on the planet. Collared, microchipped, and transported by helicopter ... once a symbol of the wild, these wolves have come to illustrate the demise of wilderness in this Human Age. ... And yet, the howl of an unregistered wolf—half of a rogue pair—splits the night. If you know where to look, you'll find that much remains untamed, and even today, wildness can remain a touchstone for our relationship with the rest of nature.” That’s journalist and adventurer Jason Mark writing in his new book “Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man.” He says that wildness is wily as a coyote: you have to be willing to track it to understand the least thing about it. Today on the program Jason Mark joins us for the hour.
9/21/201553 minutes, 48 seconds
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Clean Air Consortium on Thursday's Access Utah

The Cache Clean Air Consortium, in co-sponsorship with Breathe Utah, is a workshop that facilitates community partnerships that result in actionable strategies to improve air quality in the Cache Valley region of northern Utah.
9/17/201555 minutes, 7 seconds
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Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann on Wednesday's Access Utah

Hyperpartisanship is as old as American democracy. But now, acrimony is not confined to a moment; it’s a permanent state of affairs and has seeped into every part of the political process. So say political scientists Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. When their book “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism” was published a few years ago, it stirred up considerable controversy and altered the debate about why America’s government has become so dysfunctional. Now, at the end of the Summer of Trump, we’ll check back in with Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann. We’ll talk about political extremism and polarization, another possible government shutdown, Utah’s caucus and convention system, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on Arizona’s redistricting commission, Australia’s carrot and stick approach to increasing voter turnout, and much more.
9/16/201554 minutes, 3 seconds
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Lenore Skenazy and Julie Lythcott Haims on Tuesday's Access Utah

Parenting techniques continue to fuel online debate: do we protect our children? Prepare them? Research suggests our communities are increasingly safer than ever before, but the average citizen assumes otherwise - how do we navigate ourselves through these colliding perspectives and realities? Furthermore, how can we both protect and prepare our children, and do we need a self-identifying label to declare our techniques as parents? Tuesday on Access Utah we invite author Julie Lythcott Haims ("How to Raise an Adult") and Lenore Skenazy ("Free Range Kids") to discuss our options and to review varying perspectives on how to parent present-day.
9/15/201554 minutes, 46 seconds
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"Breaking Night" By Liz Murray On Monday's Access Utah

Today's broadcast of "Access Utah" originally aired in 2011.
9/14/201555 minutes, 24 seconds
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"Selma: The Bridge To The Ballot" On Thursday's Access Utah

Dixie State University and the DOCUTAH International Documentary Film Festival offers three screenings of "Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot," the true story of the forgotten heroes in the fight for voting rights — the courageous students and teachers of Selma, Alabama, who stood up against injustice despite facing intimidation, arrests and violence. 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act which was a direct product of this movement. By organizing and marching bravely, these "ordinary heroes" achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era. The film is narrated by Oscar winning actress Octavia Spencer and includes music from Mavis Staples, Ry Cooder, The Roots and Blind Boys of Alabama. It has been submitted for consideration for an Academy Award. Today on the program we speak with the director and producer of the film, Bill Brummel.
9/10/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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What Are You Reading? On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s been several months since we got together as a community and compiled a UPR book list. Public radio listeners are famous as avid readers. We want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or on your device right now? Fellow listeners may not know about it and may love it.
9/9/201553 minutes, 50 seconds
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Helen Thayer's Life Achievements On Tuesday's Access Utah

Today's Broadcast of "Access Utah" is an encore presentation from 2012.
9/8/201558 minutes, 12 seconds
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"The Perfect Language" On Monday's Access Utah

Today's broadcast of "Access Utah" is an encore presentation from April 2015.
9/8/201552 minutes, 47 seconds
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Revisiting "Barefoot Heart" On Thursday's Access Utah

“My whole childhood, I never had a bed.” That’s how Elva Trevino Hart opens her memoir “Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child.”
9/3/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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"Ways to the West" on Wednesday's Access Utah

In his new book “Ways to the West” (Utah State University Press) Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation. Combining personal travel narrative, historical research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle.
9/2/201554 minutes, 13 seconds
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Discussing Utah's Wildfires On Tuesday's Access Utah

“In our region fire is to dry forests as rain is to rainforests; both are important in the life of a forest to provide clean water, climate stabilization, hunting and fishing, outdoor recreation and wildlife habitat. A fire does not destroy a forest; rather, it simply resets nature’s clock as it has been doing for millennia,” said Chad Hanson, Director and Ecologist with the John Muir Project, Earth Island Institute, and co-editor of “The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix”
9/1/201554 minutes, 3 seconds
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How ISIS Recruits Westerners On Monday's Access Utah

On Monday's Access Utah we discuss the recruitment of western peoples by ISIS, the extremist militant group terrorizing Iraq and Syria. The group, utilizing social media, has managed to lure thousands of young adults from the United States, Canada and Europe to join their efforts in the Middle East. On the program today we speak with Christianne Bourdreau, a Canadian mother whose works to prevent the ISIS' recruitment follows the death of her son, Damian Clairmont, who died in Syria after relocating and fighting for the Islamic State. Christian Bourdreau now works with the Mothers For Life network, which aims to build support for mothers who have experienced Jihadist radicalization. Joining us for the hour is also Dr. Anne Speckhard, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine and of Security Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr. Speckhard talks about the discourse and ideology of terrorism recruitment, which she details in her new book "Bride of ISIS."
8/31/201551 minutes, 51 seconds
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The life of Joe Hill on Thursday's Access Utah

Joe Hill was a Swedish immigrant, a songwriter, a worker and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies. He was a prolific songwriter for his union, which contributed to the IWW’s growth in the early 20th century AS a singing union. While working in Utah, he was accused of a double homicide, which he likely did not commit. Despite an international campaign to save him, which included the Swedish ambassador, Helen Keller and President Wilson, he was executed for those murders. The State of Utah easily condemned Joe Hill and his union as troublemakers.
8/27/201559 minutes, 55 seconds
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"Good and Cheap" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Author Leanne Brown moved to New York from Canada to earn a master’s degree in food studies at New York University. Facing the reality that 46 million Americans have to survive on only $4/day, her focus soon became food insecurity, and more specifically the question: how well can someone really eat on $4 a day? That’s the amount provided through the U.S. government’s food stamp program. To determine the answer, she took to her kitchen, developing resourceful recipes made of whole, unprocessed foods that promote the joy of cooking and that show just how delicious and inspiring a “cheap” meal can be when cooked at home.
8/26/201554 minutes, 9 seconds
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"The Awkward State of Utah" on Tuesdays Access Utah

During its sometimes awkward years of adolescence and maturation, Utah was gradually incorporated into the American political, social, and economic mainstream. Urban and industrial influences supplanted agrarian traditions, displacing people socially, draining the countryside of population, and galvanizing a critical crisis in values and self-identification. National corporations and mass labor movements took root in the state as commerce expanded. Involvement in world events such as the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Great Depression further set the stage for entry into the modern, globalized world as Utahns immersed themselves in national politics and became part of the democratic, corporate culture of twentieth-century America.
8/25/201554 minutes
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Planned Parenthood Association of Utah on Monday's Access Utah

As Holly Isaac sees it, Planned Parenthood saved her life.
8/25/20151 hour, 14 seconds
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"The Ethics Police?" on Thursday's Access Utah

Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants. To what degree then should government regulate science, and how? The horrors of Nazi concentration camp experiments and the egregious Tuskegee syphilis study led the US government, in 1974, to establish Research Ethics Committees, known as Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to oversee research on humans. The US now has over 4,000 IRBs, which examine yearly tens of billions of dollars of research -- all studies on people involving diseases, from cancer to autism, and behavior. Yet ethical violations persist.
8/20/201554 minutes, 5 seconds
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"On Fly-Fishing the Northern Rockies" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Anyone would be hard-pressed to find a pastime more emblematic of the western spirit than fly-fishing. Liberating, poetic, wild, soothing and inspiring, it pushes the boundaries of the mind. In essays ranging from introspective to ironic, angler authors Chadd VanZanten and Russ Beck distill the purest truths of fly-fishing into essential, often humorous rules of thumb. With kernels like "always tell the truth sometimes" and "all the fish are underwater," wade into the blue ribbon waters of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah to reflect metaphysically on these lines of practical wisdom.
8/19/201554 minutes, 7 seconds
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"The Emerald Mile" On Tuesday's Access Utah

In the spring of 1983, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. Worried federal officials desperately scrambled to avoid a worst-case scenario: one of the most dramatic dam failures in history. In the midst of this crisis, a trio of river guides secretly launched a small, hand-built wooden boat, a dory named the Emerald Mile, into the Colorado just below the dam’s base. The captain of the dory, Kenton Grua, aimed to use the flood as a hydraulic slingshot that would hurl him and two companions through 277 miles of some of the most ferocious white water in North America and, if everything went as planned, catapult the Emerald Mile into legend as the fastest boat ever propelled through the heart of the Grand Canyon.
8/18/201553 minutes, 42 seconds
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Rediscovering National Parks On Monday's Access Utah

Journalist, advocate, and teacher, Michael frome has spent decades engaged with conversation and America’s national parks. From this experience and knowledge he understands what challenges remain and what momentum must be recovered to revitalize and preserve these special places. Part memoir, part history, and part broadside against those who would diminish our natural heritage, Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir bears witness through reflection and rumination to the grandeur of our parks, to the need for a renewed sense of appreciation, and to individual responsibility for their care.
8/17/201553 minutes, 48 seconds
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"A Bicycle Built For Two Billion" On Thursday's Access Utah

Jamie Bianchini needed a lift. A big one. After a series of spectacular business flops drove him into bankruptcy and the love of his life kissed him goodbye, Bianchini knew he needed a world of help. But instead of seeking assistance from a counselor or support group, he sought comfort where he’d always found it…on his bicycle. As his world hit rock bottom, Bianchini hatched a crazy plan that just might make everything right. His life lacked purpose, passion, and connection with his fellow man. So Bianchini decided to go for a bicycle ride…around the world…on a tandem…solo…inviting everyone he met to join him for a spin. “A Bicycle Built for Two Billion” is the story of an audacious optimist who tried to change the world – while hoping the world would change him – one rider at a time.
8/13/201554 minutes
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"Play the Part" by Gina Barnett on Wednesday's Access Utah

Gina Barnett has coached C-suite executives and leaders worldwide from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, small businesses and non-profits. She has been speaker coach for TED TAlks for the past five years. In her new book, “Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success, Barnett is distinguished from other communication experts with her understanding of embodiment: how the body affects our thoughts and emotions and, in turn, how we engage and are perceived.
8/12/201553 minutes, 30 seconds
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25 Years Of The ADA On Tuesday's Acess Utah

On March 12, 1990, activists with disabilities pulled themselves up the 83 stone steps at the Capitol Building to demand equal rights. “The Capitol Crawl” symbolized the barriers confronting people with disabilities and helped propel the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The bill passed on July 26, 1990.
8/12/201553 minutes, 59 seconds
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UPR Reinvigorated On Monday's Access Utah

Today, August 10th, marks the debut of many new programs on Utah Public Radio. Bringing more news, talk and culture to the station, we sit down with Utah Public Radio Station Manager Peg Arnold, to discuss the programming changes, and the exciting new content you can now find on UPR.
8/12/201559 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting A Conversation With Janis Ian On Thursday's Access Utah

Thursday on Access Utah we revisit a conversation from March of 2011 with singer-songwriter Janis Ian. Her song “Society’s Child” about an interracial romance placed her right at the flash point of the racial tensions of the sixties. She writes in her autobiography about at least one experience performing the song: “I was having a hit record. I was singing for people who wanted me dead. I was fifteen years old.” Janis Ian’s songs including “At Seventeen” still resonate with audiences. We’ll talk with her about her autobiography, Society’s Child, her love of science fiction, and her current work. Janis Ian on Thursday's Access Utah.
8/6/201553 minutes, 58 seconds
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Challenges Of Marketing Climate Change On Wednesday's Access Utah

I’ve had conversations with scientists that go like this: I say: “A significant percentage of Americans/Utahns don’t believe in human-caused climate change.” They say: “But they should, the science is overwhelming.” “But they don’t, and if effective political action is going to happen, they’ll need to be convinced.” “Well they should.” “But they don’t.” “But they should.” And etc. While it’s not scientists’ primary job to convince non-believers, I sense frustration on the part of those who see climate change as a significant problem. On Wednesday’s AU we talk with two marketing expert about how to effectively sell climate change, or reframe the discussion. How should we talk about climate change and sustainability?
8/6/201552 minutes, 54 seconds
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"The Never Open Desert Diner" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Tuesday's interview with James Anderson is an encore presentation.
8/6/201553 minutes, 38 seconds
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A Sex Positive Conversation On Monday's Access Utah

Today's broadcast of AU is an Encore presentation which originally aired earlier this year.
8/3/201553 minutes, 40 seconds
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"The Future Of Transportation" On Thursday's Access Utah

“This summer Congress finds itself once again driving full-speed toward the ‘highway cliff,’ the moment when our transportation law expires and Washington suddenly can't meet its promises to help states build highways, fix their bridges, and keep the nation's cars and trucks moving.”
7/30/201553 minutes, 59 seconds
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Encore Of "Old Blues Road" On Wednesday's Access Utah

In 2005, historian James Whiteside bought a Harley Davidson Heritage Softail, christened it “Old Blue,” and set off on a series of motorcycle adventures. Over six years he traveled more than 15,000 miles. In his new book “Old Blue’s Road” Whiteside recounts his travels to the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, Dodge City, Santa Fe, Wounded Knee, and many other places and considers the ongoing struggle between Indian and mainstream American culture, the meaning of community, the sustainability of the West's hydraulic society, the creation of the national parks system, the Mormon experience in Utah, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and more. Whiteside reflects on the processes of change that made the American West what it is today and the complex ways in which the West's past and present come together.
7/30/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting Our Conversation With Christian Pfeiffer On Tuesday's Access Utah

Should Spanking Children Be Forbidden in the U.S.? Renowned criminologist Christian Pfeiffer from University of Hannover, Germany recently presented the European experience as a of the USU Provost’s Series on Instructional Excellence, and he joined us for AU. We’ll revisit that conversation today.
7/28/201553 minutes, 43 seconds
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The Perceptions Of Homelessness On Monday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s AU we’ll look at the problem of homelessness with author Elaine Taylor, who writes in her new book "Karma Deception and a Pair of Red Ferraris" of how she came to find her self dedicated to helping the homeless. Previously Taylor wrote on her blog, “the best of my life is behind me. I’m entering the period of throat wattles and colonoscopies every five years … and uselessness. Irrelevance.”
7/27/201553 minutes, 43 seconds
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"The Mapmakers Of New Zion" On Thursday's Access Utah

From their earliest days on the American frontier through their growth into a worldwide church, the spatially expansive Mormons made maps to help them create idealized communities, migrate to and colonize large parts of the American West, visualize the stories in their sacred texts, and spread their message internationally through a well-organized missionary system. This book identifies many Mormon mapmakers who played an important but heretofore unsung role in charting the course of Latter-day Saint history. For Mormons, maps had and continue to have both practical and spiritual significance. In addition to using maps to help build their new Zion and to explore the Intermountain West, Latter-day Saint mapmakers used them to depict locations and events described in the Book of Mormon.
7/23/201553 minutes, 54 seconds
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"Beyond Words: What Animals Think And Feel" On Wednesday's Access Utah

“Many scientists say it’s impossible to study thought and emotion in non-humans. Animals, they say, don’t communicate their inner turmoil through spoken word, which is why any attempt to understand their psyche is typically sneered at as ‘anthropomorphism’ (transferring your own experiences and emotions onto the animals you study) and deemed ‘unscientific,’” writes Becca Cudmore on www.audobon.org.Marine Biologist Carl Safina says that scientists who watch wild animals realize the absurdity of not addressing an animal’s inner life. In his new book “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel” he takes us inside the lives and minds of animals, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion.
7/22/201552 minutes, 48 seconds
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UPR Visits Vernal & The Uintah Basin On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday's Access Utah we're airing interviews conducted in Vernal, while the Utah Public Radio team visited the Utah StoryCorps Booth. Vernal, and much of the Uintah Basin, are a community very much tied to oil and gas development, so we talk about the issues the area faces as their economy depends on oil industry. We speak with Vernal City Council member JoAnn Cowan, Vernal City Manager Ken Bassett about the future of Vernal and the Uintah Basin. Then later in the program we hear from Danielle Anderson, from StoryCorps.
7/22/201559 minutes, 52 seconds
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"The Cherry Harvest" On Monday's Access Utah

In Lucy Sana's newest novel, "The Cherry Harvest," she outlines a memorable coming-of-age story which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community. In the novel, the war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce, the protagonist Charlotte, struggles to keep her family well fed. When their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby camp to pick the fruit.
7/22/201554 minutes
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How Population Affects Long-term Relationships on Friday's Access Utah

So what do men really want when it comes to choosing a mate? Apparently the answer to that question is complex and part of it comes down to population size. A recent study conducted by anthropologists provides clues to why and when men will seek long-term relationships. Today on the program Sheri Quinn talks to Ryan Schacht, anthropologist at the University of Utah and co-author of the study, who breaks down sexual stereotypes.
7/17/201553 minutes, 39 seconds
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Arist Paul Vanouse On Thursday's Access Utah

This broadcast of "Access Utah" is an encore presentation. Our interview with Paul Vanouse originally aired in April, 2015 on Utah Public Radio.
7/16/201553 minutes, 33 seconds
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Faith & Climate Change On Wednesday's Access Utah

This broadcast of "Access Utah" is an encore presentation. Our interview with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe originally aired in March, 2015 on Utah Public Radio.
7/16/201553 minutes, 29 seconds
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Using Cabs To Cure Hunger On Tuesday's Access Utah

We waste 2.8 trillion pounds of food every year, worldwide. Meanwhile, 805 million people don’t have enough to eat. There is no one simple solution, but Dr. Eric Handler, Orange County Public Health Officer, is trying something new–Using Yellow Cabs deliver the food. Dr. HAndler proposes using cabs to connect the dots between gathering extra food, identifying those in need, getting it to them, making it easy for food service folks to participate. He’s the co-chair of the Waste Not OC Coalition (WNOC), which he hopes can serve as a model elsewhere. He was recently featured in National Geographic’s “The Plate,” where he discussed his work with using cabs to help the hungry. Later in the program we speak with Matt Whitaker, Director of the Cache Valley Food Pantry.
7/16/201553 minutes, 26 seconds
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Veternarian Gary Weitzman On Monday's Access Utah

Today's broadcast of "Access Utah" was an encore presentation. Our interview with Dr. Gary Weitzman originally aired in March, 2015 on Utah Public Radio.
7/16/201553 minutes, 13 seconds
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"An 1860 English Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet" On Thursday's Access Utah

In 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, "reduce their dialect to a written language," and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of the traditional Latin alphabet. While the Deseret alphabet faded out of use in just over twenty years, the manuscript penned by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in the archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints-a mystery document having no title, author, or date. Computational linguist Kenneth Beesley and Dirk Elzinga, an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University, have now traced the manuscript's origin to those missionaries of 1859 and decoded its Hopi-English vocabulary written in the short-lived Deseret alphabet. Their new book, "An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet" (from University of Utah Press) is a fascinating mix of linguistics, Mormon history, and Native American studies.
7/9/201553 minutes, 16 seconds
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Encore of "Telsa: A Portrait With Masks" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla produced hundreds of inventions and ideas which have changed our lives in profound ways, ranging from alternating current to wireless communication to remote control. Tesla's AC defeated Thomas Edison's DC, but Edison is celebrated in America and Tesla is relatively unknown. Where he is remembered, Tesla is known as the man who invented the twentieth century, but also as an early archetype of the mad scientist.
7/9/201554 minutes, 2 seconds
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"Disruptive Power in the Digital Age" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. In "Disruptive Power: The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age," Taylor Owen asks: How does the rise of hackers, digital humanitarians, cyber activism, automated violence and citizen journalists change the way we understand and act in the world? Are digital diplomacy and cyberwar the future of statecraft, or a sign of the crisis of the state? What new institutions will be needed to moderate emerging power structures and ensure accountability and the rule of law?
7/7/201553 minutes, 40 seconds
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"The Verging Cities" On Monday's Access Utah

From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas.
7/7/201553 minutes, 35 seconds
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"The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas" On Thursday's Access Utah

“The True American” tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren’t so lucky, dying at once.
7/2/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Charleston, Racism & Black Lives On Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday’s AU, we’ll be talking again about Race in America. We’ll be responding, of course, to the killing of nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as the killing of Walter Scott in North Charleston. These deaths are, tragically, just the latest in a series of recent killings of African Americans.
7/1/201553 minutes, 14 seconds
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Cars Of The Future On Tuesday's Access Utah

Michael Nees, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Lafayette College, writing in theconversation.com, says that "self-driving cars are expected to revolutionize the automobile industry. Rapid advances have led to working prototypes faster than most people expected. The anticipated benefits of this emerging technology include safer, faster and more eco-friendly transportation. But, says Nees, we shouldn't ignore the human element of automated driving. Self-driving cars will still need people. He says "we can draw insights from aviation, as many elements of piloting planes already have been taken over by computers."
6/30/201553 minutes, 49 seconds
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SCOTUS Same-Sex Marriage Ruling On Monday's Access Utah

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in landmark case, Obergefell v. Hodges, that Same-Sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states. Today on the program we get your reaction, as well as the opinion of Utah's only openly gay politician, Senator James Dabakis, D-Salt Lake City, and Gay rights activist Derek Kitchen, who was the namesake of the Kitchen v Herbert Case that led to the strike down of Utah's Amendment 3, allowing for same-sex marriage in Utah back in 2013. Later in the program we here from Lynn Wardle, Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law at Brigham Young University and Clifford Rosky, Professor of Law at University of Utah.
6/29/20151 hour, 1 minute, 15 seconds
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Access Utah Special: SCOTUS Rules ACA Subsidies Legal

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, and President Obama says the ACA is "here to stay." What's next for health care in Utah? What does this mean for you? We'll open the phone lines, email and Twitter for your comment or question and we'll look at possible expansion of Medicaid in Utah and related issues on a special edition of Access Utah. Joining us from the Utah Health Policy Project are Medicaid Policy Analyst RyLee Curtis and Randall Serr, Director of Take Care Utah. Also Joining the program are state Senators Brian Shiozawa and Luz Escamilla, along with State Representative Ed Redd.
6/26/201556 minutes, 3 seconds
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Revisiting "The Modern Mercenary" On Thursday's Access Utah

It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor DynCorp International. Throughout the world, similar scenarios are playing out daily. The United States can no longer go to war without contractors. Yet we don't know much about the industry's structure, its operations, or where it's heading. Even the U.S. government-the entity that actually pays them-knows relatively little.
6/25/201553 minutes, 36 seconds
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Doing Good in our Communities on Wednesday's Access Utah

There are many needs in our communities, and there are dedicated individuals and nonprofits working to meet those needs. They sometimes don’t get the recognition they deserve, and you may want to help somehow but don’t know where and how. On Wednesday’s AU we’re opening the phone lines, email and Twitter and giving you the opportunity to spotlight a nonprofit or individual doing good in your community.
6/24/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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"Robotics, Assitive Technology, Education" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Ken Valyear, Lecturer in cognitive neuroscience at Bangor University, writes in the Conversation that “Erik Sorto, 34, has been paralysed from the neck down for the past 13 years. However, thanks to a ground-breaking clinical trial [conducted by scientists at Caltech and USC], he has been able to smoothly drink a bottle of beer using a robotic arm controlled with his mind. He is the first patient to have had a neural prosthetic device implanted in a region of the brain thought to control intentions.” On Tuesday’s AU Ken Valyear will join us from Wales to discuss the latest in robotics and neuroscience.
6/23/201553 minutes, 48 seconds
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Jury Trials in Palau & Family History in Cambodia on Monday's Access Utah

Logan attorney Herm Olsen recently spent several weeks in the South Pacific island nation of Palau, helping the legal community there to make a transition to the jury trial system. Palau uses the American judicial system, but until recently they didn't allow for jury trials. Olsen reports to the Logan Herald Journal that "The Palauans were somewhat skeptical about a jury system, They said, 'Why do we need one? We have a judge.' One Palauan said 'I don't want to judge anybody. I don't want to make any decisions about guilt or innocence.'" An upcoming murder trial involving three defendants spurred the chief justice of the Palau Supreme Court to seek help. We'll also talk about the jury system in the U.S. and the ongoing meaning of the Magna Carta.
6/22/201553 minutes, 58 seconds
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Conversation With a Mau Mau General On Friday's Access Utah

The Mau Mau Rebellion was a military conflict that took place from 1950 to 1962 in British Kenya. The Mau Mau failed to capture widespread public support partly due to the British policy of divide, conquer and rule. The movement remained divided despite attempts to unify its many arms . Today on the program author Laura Lee discusses one man's history as a Mau Mau General and how he broke through the rebel stereotypes throughout his life. She spend over 1,000 hours transcribing his words to write the book "The Boy is Gone, Conversations with a Mau Mau General."
6/19/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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UPR Welcomes Back StoryCorps on Thursday's Access Utah

Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 50,000 interviews with over 100,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to their weekly broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition. StoryCorps’ mission is “to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives.”
6/18/201559 minutes, 23 seconds
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Revisiting "Confessions of a Comma Queen" On Tuesday's Access

Our guest on Tuesday's AU is Mary Norris, who has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department. She's out with a new book "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" in which she addresses some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage―comma faults, danglers, "who" vs. "whom," "that" vs. "which," compound words, gender-neutral language―and explains how to handle them.
6/16/201553 minutes, 44 seconds
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Revisiting a Conversation with Ander Monson on Monday's Access Utah

Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases, but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers.
6/15/201553 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Biggest And Baddest" Wildlife On Friday's Access Utah

Biologist Niall McCann has made capturing the world's most dangerous creatures his part-time career, the rest of time he is at school working on his PhD focused on the much less threatening animal, the tapir.
6/12/201553 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Mating For Life" Documentary on Thursday's Access Utah

Sandhill Cranes are some of the best-known, and loved, birds in the United States. Their tall stature and echoing calls combined with their close association with agricultural fields makes them easy to locate and instantly recognizable. But there is far more to cranes than meets the eye. These magnificent birds have been part of the North American landscape for more than 9 million years. They have also inspired a documentary film "Mating for Life," which focuses on a personal pilgrimage by the filmmaker, Cindy Stillwell, to witness the annual spring migration of the Sandhill cranes. She sees in the birds a metaphor for human transformation. "Mating for Life" is a meditation on nature and art, and poses important questions about our need for both connection and solitude.
6/11/201554 minutes, 38 seconds
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David McCullough's "The Wright Brothers" On Wednesday's Access Utah

David McCullough, widely-acclaimed as a master of the art of narrative history, joins us for Wednesday’s AU to talk about his latest book, “The Wright Brothers.” McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for “Truman” and “John Adams,” and twice received the National Book Award, for “The Path Between the Seas” and “Mornings on Horseback.” His other, widely- praised, books include “1776,” “Brave Companions,” “The Johnstown Flood,” “The Great Bridge,” and “The Greater Journey.” He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award. David McCullough is also featured as narrator in many documentary films, such as Ken Burns’ Civil War series.
6/10/201559 minutes, 25 seconds
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"A Splash of Kindness" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Utah author John Starley Allen joins us for the hour today. His latest book (from Cedar Fort Press) is "A Splash of Kindness: The Ripple Effect of Compassion, Courage & Character." Allen says that the little things you do make a big difference and small acts of goodness have a ripple effect and eventually change the world. He'll tell true stories of positive change, including stories of Romanian orphans; the great athlete Jesse Owens; and Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television.
6/9/201554 minutes, 5 seconds
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Preserving Nature in the Human Age on Monday's Access Utah

Arizona State University Professors Ben Minteer and Stephen Pyne say that from John Muir to David Brower, from the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the Endangered Species Act, environmentalism in America has always had close to its core a preservationist ideal. Generations have been inspired by its ethos—to encircle nature with our protection, to keep it apart, pristine, walled against the march of human development. But Minteer and Pyne say we have to face the facts. Accelerating climate change, rapid urbanization, agricultural and industrial devastation, metastasizing fire regimes, and other quickening anthropogenic forces all attest to the same truth: the earth is now spinning through the age of humans.
6/9/201553 minutes, 54 seconds
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T-Rex Autopsies, Autism & Venomous Snakes on Friday's Access Utah

For the first time scientists have dissected, from skin to blood and bones, a life-like Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur. The massive creature was one of the fiercest carnivores in the history of the planet. On Friday's AU, Sheri Quinn talks with the paleontologist leading the T. rex Autopsy, which is featured on the National Geographic Channel Sunday night.Then, Science Questions explores new studies on autism presented at the International Meeting on Autism Research held in Salt Lake City in May.
6/5/201548 minutes, 34 seconds
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Training Utah's Police On Thursday's Access Utah

Ferguson, Cleveland, Baltimore...Utah. Officer-involved shootings and incidents continue to happen and to concern us, and Utah has not been immune to these issues. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the first three homicides of 2015 were officer-involved shootings, and the Deseret News reports that so far this year police in Utah have shot and killed four people and wounded at least one. The Utah Legislature is conducting meetings (expected to continue through the summer) on police training, focusing on use of force and interactions with the mentally ill. Today on AU, we’re joined by state Senator Jim Dabakis, Marina Lowe, ACLU Utah Legislative & Policy Counsel, and Salt Lake City Deputy Chief of Police, Krista Dunn.
6/4/201550 minutes, 58 seconds
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"Democracy In The Dark" on Wednesday's Access Utah

In the wake of the recent expiration of key provisions of the Patriot Act, our guest for the hour on Wednesday's AU is Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., former Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate's Church Committee on Intelligence, and author of the new book: "Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy" (The New Press) which explores key questions such as: how much secrecy does good governance require?
6/3/201553 minutes, 54 seconds
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Unplugging from Technology on Tuesday's Access Utah

According to the Deseret News National Edition: "In the spring of 2009, California-based writer Sharael Kolberg did the math and estimated that she spent four months of her year using some form of entertainment technology - whether watching TV or surfing the Internet. So Kolberg, 44, proposed a bold plan to her husband, a marketing executive, and their 5-year-old daughter: rid their home of all technology, from TV and phones to the Internet and digital cameras, for one full year. The result is Kolberg's newly released book, 'A Year Unplugged: A Family's Life Without Technology,' 'We went back to the '80s, basically. I got out my record player and typewriter, we used the phone book and paper maps,' Kolberg said. 'It enhanced our relationships with our friends and family. Technology takes that away from us.'"
6/2/201553 minutes, 34 seconds
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Revisiting Water & Air Concerns in Fiction on Thursday's Access Utah

While the wealthy stay wet in lush high-rise cities, the poor are forced to pay $6.00-plus for a gallon of water, and struggle to find ways north through militarized state lines. That's the frighteningly-plausible future depicted in Paolo Bacigalupi's new novel "The Water Knife."
6/1/201553 minutes, 54 seconds
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Revisiting Shame On Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday's AU we revisit our conversation with Jennifer Jacquet, author of "Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool."Robert Sapolsky (author of Monkeyluv) says: "In the age of Anthony Weiner and Miley Cyrus, shame seems an antiquated concept-a quaint tool of conformity-obsessed collectivist societies, replete with scarlet letters and loss of face ..." Jacquet says that in recent years, we as consumers have sought to assuage our guilt about flawed social and environmental practices and policies by, for example, buying organic foods or fair-trade products. Unless nearly everyone participates, however, the impact of individual consumer consciousness is ineffective.
5/28/201553 minutes, 6 seconds
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Denice Turner's "Worthy" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Former Cache Valley resident Denice Turner has released a new book. “Worthy” is a memoir of loss and the search for acceptance. Raised in a Mormon household, she strives to find her place in the Church, and longs to be worthy of her mother’s love. When her mother dies in a suspicious house fire, Turner is forced to face the stories she has inherited. Contemplating the price of worthiness, she grapples with the mystery of her mother’s death, seeking to understand her mother’s battle with chronic pain.
5/27/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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"Microfarming For Profit" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Dave DeWitt is one of the world’s foremost authorities on chile peppers and spicy foods. He is a food historian and an associate professor in the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University, and co-producer of the National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show. He is author of more than fifty books, mostly on chile peppers and fiery foods, but also including novels, food histories, and a travel guide.
5/26/201553 minutes, 41 seconds
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"At All Costs" On Monday's Access Utah

“At All Costs” details the life of Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger, a Pennsylvania native who was among 12 U.S. airmen killed March 11, 1968, when a North Vietnamese Army special forces team scaled a 3,000-foot cliff and attacked their secret radar camp.
5/26/20151 hour, 4 minutes, 33 seconds
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Investigating Sustainable Meat On Friday's Access Utah

Welcome to Access Utah. The new book "Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat" will make you think twice about eating bacon. Author Barry Estabrook investigates the pork industry from the big factory farms to the small heritage pig farms, where pigs are raised on pastures instead of slaughterhouses. He reveals the intelligence of pigs through stories about pigs using computers and he writes about their emotional side as well.
5/22/201554 minutes
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National Geographic's "Driving America" On Thursday's Access Utah

"Cars, for Americans, more than anything else represent freedom." So says Matt Hardigree, executive director of Jalopnik.com, who is featured in National Geographic Channel's new documentary film, "Driving America," which premieres on Memorial Day. The film examines how car culture has changed the way we live, work, travel and socialize; and looks into the future, including potential game changers like Tesla's electric cars.
5/21/201553 minutes, 55 seconds
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"Altered Genes, Twisted Truth" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Access Utah is presenting a periodic series of conversations on the hotly-debated topic of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs.) Our last such program, a few months ago, presented the case for GMOs. Wednesday on AU, public interest attorney Steven Druker will present a vigorous case against GMOs. Mr. Druker initiated a lawsuit that, according to him, forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods.
5/20/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Writing Obituaries On Tuesday's Access Utah

How do you sum up a life? What do you include and what do you leave out? Heather Lende, author of the new book "Find the Good," is the obituary writer for the Chilkat Valley News in a beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska. She says "we are all writing our own obituary every day by how we live." Shanan Ballam, who teaches Creative Writing at Utah State University, wrote her brother Dylan's obituary. She felt that the obituary was not enough--it left too much unsaid. So she's been writing "addendum" poems, to "more fully characterize, celebrate, and mourn [her] brother."
5/19/201556 minutes, 56 seconds
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"Leaving Orbit" By Margaret Lazarus Dean on Monday's Access Utah

In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream seems to have ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era.
5/18/201555 minutes, 5 seconds
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Experiencing The Coast Guard On Friday's Access Utah

The Coast Guard aviation community consists of approximately 800 pilots. They’re some of the best pilots in the world. Today Sheri Quinn talks to helicopter pilot Rick Hipes who served two decades in the Coast Guard, where he rescued people in the seas and mountains, and on the ground in cities. He also helped capture one of the world's most notorious drug traffickers.
5/15/201523 minutes, 46 seconds
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"The Electric Edge Of Academe" On Thursday's Access Utah

In 1891, Lucien L. Nunn, working with Nicola Tesla and George Westinghouse, Jr., pioneered the world’s first commercial production of high-tension alternating current (AC) for long-distance transmission—something Thomas Edison deemed dangerous and irresponsible. After creating the Telluride Power Company, Nunn constructed the state-of-the-art Olmsted Power Plant in Provo Canyon and the Ontario Power Works at Niagara Falls. To support this new technology, he developed an imaginative model of industrial training that became so compelling that he ultimately abandoned his entrepreneurial career to devote his wealth and talents to experimenting with a new model of liberal education. In 1917, Nunn founded Deep Springs College in eastern California. The school remains one of the most daring, progressive, and selective institutions of higher learning in America.
5/14/201554 minutes, 2 seconds
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"Joe Hill's Last Will" On Wendesday's Access Utah

Joe Hill, labor icon and songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, was executed by a Utah firing squad in November, 1915, after being convicted of two murders in a controversial trial. To commemorate the centenary of Hill's death, Folk musician and labor activist John McCutcheon is releasing a new album "Joe Hill's Last Will" which grew out of a one-man play of the same name written by activist and musician Si Kahn.
5/13/201553 minutes, 23 seconds
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Revisiting Tiny Living On Tuesday's Access Utah

In a time of excess for many, some are living with less. A lot less! Tiny living has become increasingly popular in the past few years and today on Access Utah we'll talk about this thirst for simplicity, how it's changing the lives of those who live this way, how it's affecting the environment around them, and if Tiny Houses could be in the future for more of us. Our guests include Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller, Co-Directors of TINY, a documentary on Tiny living; Jeffrey White of the Sarah House Project and MicroHouse Utah; and Macy Miller, who lives in a tiny space of her own in Boise, Idaho.
5/12/201553 minutes, 21 seconds
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"The True Cost" On Monday's Access Utah

The producers of the new documentary film "The True Cost" note that there has been a 500% increase in clothing consumption in the past two decades, and that the U.S. has gone from producing more than 90% of its clothing in the 1960s to just three percent today. They say that the price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.
5/11/201552 minutes, 37 seconds
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Women Powered Farms on Friday's Access Utah

Welcome to Access Utah. Small farmers are increasingly women these days. They are currently raking in roughly 13 billion dollars in produce every year. Today on the program, Sheri Quinn talks to Audrey Levatino, a female farmer, who left her teaching job to start a small sustainable farm selling cut flowers, pretty much all by herself. She is the author of "Woman Powered Farm."
5/8/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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Mariachi Music, History and Culture on Thursday's Access Utah

We'll dive into some great Mariachi music and learn its history on Thursday's AU. We'll talk about how Mariachi music conveys Mexican culture, in Mexico and around the world, and we'll hear music performed by Lila Downs, Selena, and Vicente and Alejandro Fernandez, among others.
5/7/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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Revisiting "Homesickness" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity: It's what children feel at summer camp. But in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die. Such images don't fit with our national mythology, which celebrates the restless individualism of immigrants who supposedly left home and never looked back.
5/6/201554 minutes, 3 seconds
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Refugee Voices on Tuesday's Access Utah

A joint initiative of Utah State University and the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress will conduct a field-school project, beginning next week, for a field project called Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley. Designed to collect the stories and life experiences of refugees, the project will seek voices from Karen, Burmese, Eritrean, and other refugee communities in Cache Valley, Utah. We'll talk about the project and hear stories of refugees who've settled in Utah on Tuesday's Access Utah.
5/5/201554 minutes, 5 seconds
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"The Feeling Brain" On Monday's Access Utah

What does it mean to feel? The study of emotions has emerged as a central topic in the new discipline of affective neuroscience. In their new book, "The Feeling Brain," Elizabeth Johnston and Leah Olson trace how work in this rapidly expanding field speaks to fundamental questions: What is the function of emotions? What is the role of the body in emotions? What are "feelings," and how do they relate to emotions? Why are emotions so difficult to control? Is there an emotional brain?
5/4/201553 minutes, 39 seconds
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"One Good Life" By Jill Nystul On Thursday's Access Utah

Before launching her popular blog, "One Good Thing by Jillee," Heber City resident Jill Nystul was a newscaster battling a long list of demons. Suffering from postpartum anxiety and struggling to care for her four children, including a young son with celiac disease and diabetes, Nystul turned to food and alcohol for comfort. Her alcohol consumption eventually spiraled into an addiction that nearly cost her her family. Finally, after a yearlong marital separation and a hard look at herself in rehab, she realized that she needed to turn her life around. She began simply: blogging about one good thing each day.
4/30/201553 minutes, 46 seconds
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"Braha" On Wednesday's Access Utah

In the eighteenth century, Catherine the Great enticed German farmers to settle in Russia. The German communities remained distinct from the Russians linguistically and culturally. Julie Mangano is descended from such German settlers in Russia, as is the modern-day protagonist, Linden St. Clair, of her new novel “Braha.” The contemporary side of the novel revolves around Linden trying to uncover the truth behind the death of her beloved grandfather, Franklin, a wealthy rancher in rural Somerville, California. The second story comes from the memoirs of Linden’s great-great grandmother, Leena Lagerlöf, née Weiss, an ethnic German born in Russia, who fled in the last days of the czars. Both tales speak of lost loves and of truths dangerous and hidden.
4/29/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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Income Inequality On Tuesday's Access Utah

Recently, tens of thousands of workers protested across the U.S. demanding a $15.00 per hour national minimum wage. Many say that even working full time or more they can't provide for their families. We'll examine income inequality on Tuesday's AU.
4/28/201554 minutes, 59 seconds
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What Are You Reading? On Monday's Access Utah

UPR listeners are curious about everything. We're always wanting to learn something fascinating. That's why we're avid readers. Periodically we come together on Access Utah to build a UPR Book List, and we're going to do it again on Monday. So we're asking: What are you reading? We're looking for everything from fiction, non-fiction, and classic literature to young adult and children's books. It might even be a textbook or manual that you can recommend. You can email your list to us right now at upraccess@gmail.com.
4/27/201553 minutes, 43 seconds
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Revisiting "Requiem For The Living" On Thursday's Access Utah

After nine years of keeping his prostate cancer at bay, the drugs were no longer working. The doctors told him his time was nearly up. So Jeff Metcalf dove deep into writing, tasking himself with writing one essay each week for a year. His book "Requiem for the Living" features the best of the resulting fifty-two essays by an author who continues to defy his medical prognosis. The essays form a memoir of sorts, recounting good times and critical moments from Metcalf's life. He doesn't describe a life defined by cancer but writes to discover what his life has been, who he has become, and what he has learned along the way.
4/23/201553 minutes, 40 seconds
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Celebrating Earth Day On Wednesday's Access Utah

It's an Earth Day tradition on Access Utah: we invite Utah writers to reflect on the environment. This year, Stephen Trimble, whose books include "Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America," says he's been thinking about climate change and the moral responsibility of the writer to speak up for our relationship with each other and with the earth.
4/22/201554 minutes
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DNA Science & Art With Paul Vanouse On Tuesday's Access Utah

Speaking to Neural magazine, artist Paul Vanouse said "I think in the next couple years there will be lots more scientific research that undermines DNA determinism. For instance, theorist Hanna Landecker...describe[s] varied large-scale "Relational Biology" research projects that examine things such as epigenetics, stem-cell differentiation, bidirectional signaling, etc. - things that I think may dethrone the reductive idea that DNA is the dictator of all things and may loosen the metaphor of life as code." Paul Vanouse is visiting USU as a part of the ARTsySTEM project. Tuesday on Access Utah we'll discuss Race and DNA, the CSI Effect, the Human Genome Project, and related topics.
4/21/201553 minutes, 55 seconds
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"All The Wild That Remains" on Monday's Access Utah

Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, in his book “All The Wild That Remains,” nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these remarkable men from Stegner's birthplace in Saskatchewan to the site of Abbey's pilgrimages to Arches National Park in Utah, interweaving their stories and asking how they speak to the issues that confront the West today.
4/20/201553 minutes, 48 seconds
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"Literary Industries" on Friday's Access Utah

A bookseller in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft rose to define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, titled "Literary Industries." Today on the program Sheri Quinn talks to his great great granddaugher Kim Bancroft. She edited all 800 pages in the modern abridged edition of "Literary Industries: Chasing the Vanishing West."
4/17/201528 minutes, 30 seconds
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Should Spanking Children Be Forbidden? We'll Discuss on Thursday's Access Utah

Should Spanking Children Be Forbidden in the U.S.? Renowned criminologist Christian Pfeiffer from University of Hannover, Germany will present the European experience on Thursday, as a part of the USU Provost's Series on Instructional Excellence, and will join us for Thursday's AU.Dr. Pfeiffer's research interests include the role of religion and child rearing practices in the production of violence; the role of media in the lives of children and in the perception of crime and criminal policy; media consumption and violence; the implications of corporal punishment in politics; and extrajudicial dispute resolution.
4/16/201547 minutes, 33 seconds
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Talking About Sex On Wednesday's Access Utah

In her song "Flawless," the singer Beyonce samples Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are." On Wednesday's AU we'll ask: Can the message of female empowerment co-exist with a sexualized image? Do advertising messages of companies like Carl's Jr. and Sports Illustrated promote the objectification of women? If so, how should those messages be corrected? How should we frame the topic of sex in the media, in the classroom, in the family, in society?
4/15/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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"The Never-Open Desert Diner" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Ben Jones, is a single, 38-year-old truck driver on the verge of losing his small trucking company. Ben's route takes him back and forth across one of the most desolate and beautiful regions of the Utah desert where he meets a mysterious cellist and the embittered owner of a small diner. That's the plot, in brief, of James Anderson's debut novel, "The Never-Open Desert Diner."
4/14/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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"Where Roads Will Never Reach" On Monday's Access Utah

In 2014 the citizens of Idaho and Montana celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act – the law that secured protection for eight million acres of wild forests and mountains in these two states. In his new book (from University of Utah Press) “Where Roads Will Never Reach” environmental historian Frederick Swanson tells the story of how, decades before the Wilderness Act, ordinary citizens halted the federal government’s resource development juggernaut of the 1950s and 1960s, safeguarding some of the last strongholds of grizzly bear, mountain goat, elk, trout, salmon and steelhead. Swanson says that from Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return to Montana's Scapegoat and Great Bear, the wilderness areas of the Northern Rockies serve as a record of lasting public concern and as a model for citizens working to protect today's threatened landscapes.
4/13/201554 minutes, 52 seconds
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The Family Acceptance Project on Thursday's Access Utah

What happens to a Mormon family in California when their teenage son tells them he's gay? How does the family navigate questions of faith and acceptance? The film "Families Are Forever" produced by the Family Acceptance Project and screened recently at Utah State University, tells the story of Tom and Wendy Montgomery and their five children, focusing on their son, Jordan. Participating in USU's Research Week, Wendy Montgomery joined Dr. Caitlin Ryan of San Francisco State University to discuss the Family Acceptance Project - a research, intervention, education and policy project founded by Dr. Ryan to help diverse families support their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) children. The Family Acceptance Project seeks to prevent health risks like suicide and homelessness and to promote well-being in the context of families, cultures and faith communities.
4/9/201553 minutes, 50 seconds
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"The Lost World of the Old Ones" on Wednesday's Access Utah

In 2005, David Roberts and two of his mountaineering friends caught sight of what appeared to be a granary beneath an overhanging cliff a thousand feet above a Utah ranch. After rappelling down the cliff, Roberts and his companions discovered a settlement--and a mystery. This enormous granary was large enough to hold fifty-seven bushels of corn, weighing a ton and a half. Yet Roberts and his friends--some of the most experienced climbers in the world--had enormous difficulty reaching the site. In fact, they were the first people to reach the remote site in more than seven hundred years. How could the ancient natives have managed to lug so much grain up this sheer cliff, especially considering there is no conclusive evidence that they possessed rope technology? For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans occupied the Four Corners region. Just before 1300 AD, they abandoned their homeland in a migration that remains one of prehistory's greatest puzzles. Northern and southern neighbors of the Ancestral Puebloans, the Fremont and Mogollon likewise flourished for millennia before migrating or disappearing. Fortunately, the Old Ones, as some of their present-day descendants call them, left behind awe-inspiring ruins, dazzling rock art, and sophisticated artifacts ranging from painted pots to woven baskets.
4/8/201554 minutes
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The Perfect Language on Tuesday's Access Utah

USU Philosophy Professor Charlie Huenemann, writing for 3quarksdaily.com says that "we all seek to capture the world with a net of language. Yet it is in the nature of nets to capture some things and let others slip away, and that goes for languages too...What is left unsaid speaks volumes. We might resign ourselves to this fact - the inescapable limits of what's sayable - but in fact a great many minds have sought to construct the perfect language."
4/7/201553 minutes, 42 seconds
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"Ongoingness: The End of a Diary" on Monday's Access Utah

In "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary" Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. She says she wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened. But she was terrified that she might forget something, she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. "Ongoingness" is a spare, meditative work standing in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary. In this collection of essays, Manguso confronts issues of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
4/6/201554 minutes, 50 seconds
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Examining Religious Excommunication on Thursday's Access Utah

The recent excommunications of prominent members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got us wondering about the practice of excommunication, and related practices like shunning and ostracizing. Does excommunication have different meanings across various religions and cultures? Why are some individuals cut off and others not? How should religious institutions respond to unorthodox opinions and beliefs among their members?
4/2/201553 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Old Blues Road" On Wednesday's Access Utah

In 2005, historian James Whiteside bought a Harley Davidson Heritage Softail, christened it "Old Blue," and set off on a series of motorcycle adventures. Over six years he traveled more than 15,000 miles. In his new book "Old Blue's Road" Whiteside recounts his travels to the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, Dodge City, Santa Fe, Wounded Knee, and many other places and considers the ongoing struggle between Indian and mainstream American culture, the meaning of community, the sustainability of the West's hydraulic society, the creation of the national parks system, the Mormon experience in Utah, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and more. Whiteside reflects on the processes of change that made the American West what it is today and the complex ways in which the West's past and present come together.
4/1/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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Food Justice And Sustainability On Tuesday's Access Utah

LaDonna Redmond became a food justice advocate after her son developed food allergies and she found that the healthy food she wanted to feed him wasn't available in her Chicago neighborhood. She says that fair and equal access to healthy foods affects the health and well-being of the community and that food justice is tied to social justice, to issues of violence, poverty, and immigration. She advocates for dismantling the "food industrial complex" and returning to the "tables of our ancestors" to make our own food.
3/31/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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"Letter To A Future Lover" On Monday's Access Utah

Readers of physical books leave traces: marginalia, slips of paper, fingerprints, highlighting, inscriptions. All books have histories, and libraries are not just collections of books and databases, but a medium of long-distance communication with other writers and readers."Letter to a Future Lover" is a collection several dozen brief pieces written by Ander Monson in response to library ephemera-with "library" defined broadly, ranging from university institutions to friends' shelves, from a seed library to a KGB prison library-and addressed to readers past, present, and future.
3/30/201553 minutes, 20 seconds
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Food Fear On Thursday's Access Utah

Nancy McHugh, professor of philosophy at Wittenberg University in Ohio, says the fear of bacteria, hormones, and antibiotics is rampant in our society. She is interested in the ways we go about making knowledge and ignorance about food and its relationship to health and argues that these practices have led to a new food movement, "clean eating," which in turn has generated a new eating disorder, orthorexia, or righteous eating.
3/26/201550 minutes, 25 seconds
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Mormonism's Future On Wednesday's Access Utah

Sociologist and Mormon scholar Armand Mauss says that as a relatively new religious movement, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has followed a developmental trajectory similar to many other such movements. In the next few years, however, as the church enters its third century it is likely to face many new and unprecedented challenges. Mauss will consider how the church and its members might cope with these challenges, including the definition of gender in church life, and navigating issues of faith vs. doubt, in a lecture, “Mormonism’s Third Century: Coping with the Contingencies,” sponsored by USU’s Religious Studies Program this afternoon at 4:00 in Old Main 121 on the Utah State University campus.
3/26/201555 minutes, 25 seconds
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"Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Kara Richardson Whitely knew she could reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. She had done it once before. But she failed in a second attempt, struggled with food addiction and looked for ways to cope with feelings of failure and shame. Her weight shot to more than 300 pounds. Deep in her personal gorge, Whitely decided the only way out was up. She resolved to climb the mountain again-and this time, she would reach the summit. And she would do it without waiting for her plus-sized status to disappear. "Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds" is the story of her ascent from the depths of self-doubt to the top of the world.
3/24/201550 minutes, 22 seconds
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"Tesla: A Portrait With Masks" On Monday's Access Utah

Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla produced hundreds of inventions and ideas which have changed our lives in profound ways, ranging from alternating current to wireless communication to remote control. Tesla's AC defeated Thomas Edison's DC, but Edison is celebrated in America and Tesla is largely unknown. Where he is remembered, Tesla is known as the man who invented the twentieth century, but also as an early archetype of the mad scientist.
3/23/201550 minutes, 47 seconds
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ARTsySTEM, Integrating Art With Science On Access Utah

"The Arts and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math) fields share a necessity for undertaking imaginative inquiry of what we perceive as truth and beauty...So many attempts to integrate art and science simply involve creating art at the end of a scientific breakthrough. With ARTsySTEM, we're merging the disciplines at the very inception of the process." That's USU Assistant Professor of Art Mark Lee Koven, who along with USU Ecology Center Director Nancy Huntly, is spearheading the ARTsySTEM project at Utah State University.
3/19/201548 minutes, 23 seconds
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Race And Justice On Wednesday's Access Utah

Last July 4 on an outing to Long Island, when shots were fired in the vicinity, ProPublica reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones says that "between the four adults [in the group] we hold six degrees. Three of us are journalists. And not one of us ... thought to call the police. We had not even considered it. We also are all black. And without realizing it, in that moment, each of us had made a set of calculations, an instantaneous weighing of the pros and cons." In "A Letter From Black America," (recently published by ProPublica and Politico Magazine) Hannah-Jones says "to a very real extent, you have grown up in a different country than I have."
3/18/201553 minutes, 58 seconds
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"The West Without Water" On Tuesday's Access Utah

B. Lynn Ingram is Professor of Earth and Planetary Science and Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of "The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow." She'll join us for Tuesday's AU to answer such questions as: What is "normal" climate in the West and how do we know what's normal? What do we learn from megafloods and megadroughts during the past 2,000 years, including most disastrous flood in the history of California and the West, which occurred in 1861-62? Why is climate so variable in the West? What does the past tell us about tomorrow?
3/17/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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"The Brain That Changes Itself" On Monday's Access Utah

"The brain can change itself. It is a plastic, living organ that can actually change its own structure and function, even into old age. Arguably the most important breakthrough in neuroscience since scientists first sketched out the brain's basic anatomy, this revolutionary discovery, called neuroplasticity, promises to overthrow the centuries-old notion that the brain is fixed and unchanging." So says psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD.
3/16/20151 hour, 4 minutes, 26 seconds
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2015 Legislature Ends On Friday's Access Utah

The 2015 session of the Utah Legislature reached the end of its constitutionally-mandated 45 days Thursday night. This year’s highlights included debates over Medicaid expansion, prison relocation, pay raises for teachers and state employees, the gas tax, anti-discrimination protections for the LGBT community, religious freedom guarantees, the right to die, Utah’s caucus and convention system, medical marijuana, cock fighting and seat belts, among other issues.
3/13/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Death With Dignity On Wednesday's Access Utah

HB 391, the “Utah Death with Dignity Act,” would allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill persons, under certain circumstances. Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, D-Salt Lake City says she sponsored the bill in response to the recent plight of Brittany Maynard, a California woman with a terminal brain tumor who moved to Oregon (which has had such a law in place since 1994) so she could die on her own terms. A poll by www.utahpolicy.com shows that 63% of Utahns support such legislation. On Wednesday’s AU we’ll ask you what you think.
3/11/20151 hour, 12 minutes, 51 seconds
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How to Speak Cat and Dog on Tuesday's Access Utah

We love our dogs and cats, but their behavior can be baffling. (Maybe they have the same thoughts about us!) On Tuesday's AU, our guest is veterinarian Gary Weitzman, President and CEO of the San Diego Humane Society and SPCA, and author of "How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language" (published by National Geographic.). Dr. Weitzman is also author of "How to Speak Dog," and "Everything Dogs." We'll answer your dog and cat questions, and talk about the San Diego Humane Society's current effort called "Getting to Zero:" a comprehensive plan to save the life of every healthy and treatable animal in San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition shelters.
3/10/201554 minutes, 34 seconds
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Faith, Climate and Science on Monday's Access Utah

Climate change has been a hard sell among some communities of faith. Katharine Hayhoe is a Climate Scientist and an Evangelical Christian. She has spent years trying to convince other Christians that climate change is real. She told NPR that "the people we trust, the people we respect, the people whose values we share, in the conservative community, in the Christian community, those people are telling us, many of them, that this isn't a real problem - that it's a hoax. Even worse, that you can't be a Christian and think that climate change is real. You can't be a conservative and agree with the science." Hayhoe says that caring about climate change is one of the most Christian things you can do.
3/10/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Sustainability And Security On Thursday's Access Utah

The Pentagon has said that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. U.S. intelligence and security leaders predict that resource scarcity will be our next big threat. The World Wildlife Fund's new initiative "In Pursuit of Prosperity" seeks to make sustainability a core component of U.S. foreign policy.WWF says that scarcities in one country can spill over into relations with neighboring countries as governments try to access natural resources-such as timber, water and energy-through legal and illegal means. Tensions among neighbors, ranging from the US.-Mexico border to India and Pakistan, are on the rise. California, America's fruit and food basket, is currently experiencing one of the most severe droughts in over a century. The result is higher food prices and declining water stocks.
3/5/201553 minutes, 57 seconds
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Revisiting Our Conversation With Nick Rosen On Wendesday's Access Utah

The grid is everywhere, sending power to the light switch on the wall and water to the faucet in the kitchen. But is it essential? Must we depend on it and the corporate and government infrastructure behind it? Wednesday’s AU we’ll revisit our conversation, from August, with Nick Rosen, who has traveled the United States, spending time with all kinds of individuals and families striving to live their lives free from dependence on municipal power and amenities, and free from dependence on the government and its far-reaching tentacles.
3/4/201553 minutes, 33 seconds
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Return Of The Firing Squad on Tuesday's Access Utah

The firing squad, discontinued in Utah in 2004, would return as a method of execution under a bill (HB11) which has passed Utah's House of Representatives. The sponsor, Rep. Paul Ray R-Clearfield, says (according to the Associated Press) that "a team of trained marksmen is faster and more humane than the drawn-out deaths that have occurred in botched lethal injections." NPR reports that manufacturers of the drugs used in lethal injection executions, under increasing pressure from critics of the practice, have ceased making the toxic chemicals. James Clark writing on Amnesty International USA's "Human Rights Now" blog says this bill makes Utah appear willing to do just about anything to continue executions.
3/3/201553 minutes, 13 seconds
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Human Wildlife Conflicts on Monday's Access Utah

As wildlife populations increase, so does the potential for human-wildlife conflicts, which can be seen in in economic losses, regulatory conflicts, and sometimes, physical encounters. Terry Messmer, Director of the Berryman Institute at USU, says that wildlife managers may need to change their traditional emphasis from sustaining or increasing wildlife populations to mitigating conflicts. On Monday's AU we'll talk about potential effects of listing the Sage-grouse as an endangered species and of delisting the wolf. We'll also consider the phenomenon of urban deer and the management of wild horses and burros. We'll ask you what you think about these issues and we'd also like to know if you've had an encounter with, say, a mountain lion or a bear. Joining the discussion today is Terry Messmer and Michael Wolfe, Emeritus professor of Wildlife Ecology and Management at Utah State University.
3/2/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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Shifting Utah's Criminal Justice System on Thursday's Access Utah

State Department of Corrections Executive Director Rollin Cook said Utah's "tough on crime approach" has been costly and has led to mass incarceration, overcrowded prisons and unacceptable recidivism rates. Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns, said his criminal justice reform bill (HB 348) will result in an "epic shift" in how the state treats offenders.
2/26/201553 minutes, 38 seconds
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An "Evening In Brazil" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Every year about this time "Evening in Brazil" presents concerts in Salt Lake City and Logan; this year's concerts are on Thursday and Friday. And each year, we gather members of the musical group in UPR's studio C to enjoy some great Bossa Nova and Samba on Access Utah. Linda Ferreira Linford, Christopher Neale, Mike Christiansen & Eric Nelson will join us for Wednesday's AU and we hope you will too, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
2/25/20151 hour, 16 seconds
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Revisiting "The Roosevelts" on Tuesday's Access Utah

This is an Encore Presentation of Access Utah,which originally aired in September 2014.
2/24/201554 minutes, 57 seconds
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Utah Health Care on Monday's Access Utah

The Deseret News reports that opposing bills on Medicaid expansion have passed a state Senate committee. Sen. Allen Christensen says that his SB 153 would cover Utahns who earn up to 100% of the federal poverty level and who are medically frail. He says his plan would leave money available for other needy groups. Sen. Brian Shiozawa’ SB 164 would implement many elements of Governor Herbert’s Healthy Utah plan, which would help provide coverage for those who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level. Sen. Shiozawa says that Sen. Christensen’s plan would not return enough Utah tax dollars from the federal government to the state.
2/23/201554 minutes, 13 seconds
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Cost Of Oil on Friday's Access Utah

Oil prices across the nation have dropped dramatically over the past few months. Economists have described the money that consumers are saving as a kind of tax break, but not everyone is seeing green. In a series of reports this month titled “The Costs of Oil,” UPR reporters Elaine Taylor, Justin Prather and Evan Hall have looked into how falling prices are affecting places like eastern Utah, where oil is a major industry.
2/20/201555 minutes, 3 seconds
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Amity Shlaes' "Coolidge" on Thursday's Access Utah

Amity Shlaes is author of four New York Times bestsellers, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression; The Forgotten Man: Graphic, an illustrated version of the same book drawn by Paul Rivoche; Coolidge, a biography of the thirtieth president; and The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americas Crazy. Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation.
2/19/201553 minutes, 22 seconds
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"Is Shame Necessary?" By Jennifer Jacquet on Wednesday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour on Wednesday's Access Utah is Jennifer Jacquet, author of the new book "Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool." Robert Sapolsky (author of Monkeyluv) says: "In the age of Anthony Weiner and Miley Cyrus, shame seems an antiquated concept-a quaint tool of conformity-obsessed collectivist societies, replete with scarlet letters and loss of face ..." Jacquet says that in recent years, we as consumers have sought to assuage our guilt about flawed social and environmental practices and policies by, for example, buying organic foods or fair-trade products. Unless nearly everyone participates, however, the impact of individual consumer consciousness is ineffective.
2/18/201553 minutes, 56 seconds
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Should Utah Take Over Public Lands? Access Utah Explores

Some say that federal control of public lands in Utah has resulted in stunted economic development, an imbalance in access, and increased fire danger in national forests. A new study from the University of Utah Law School’s Wallace Stegner Center argues that a Utah takeover of 31 million acres of public lands could lead to less public access and less public involvement in land-use decisions. Utah Assistant Attorney General Tony Rampton, Director of Public Lands Litigation, is our guest in the first half of Wednesday’s AU. House Minority Leader, Rep. Brian King D-Salt Lake City will join us in the second half of the program.
2/13/20151 hour, 12 minutes, 25 seconds
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The Life and Times of Charles Manson on Tuesday's Access Utah

Today we revisit a conversation from August, 2014 with Jeff Guinn, author of "Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson" says he wanted to answer two questions with the book: "Why does Manson's name still resonate with us, all these years after those famous murders? And what happened in his life to make him the way he turned out?" Guinn says that in answering those questions "it was really like a trip across American history because Manson represents so many aspects of American society." More than 40 years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
2/10/201553 minutes, 27 seconds
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Luisa Igloria's Poems on Monday's Access Utah

Luisa A. Igloria is winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English, named for Logan Utah native May Swenson, one of America's most vital and provocative twentieth-century poets. Igloria's collection "Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser" is published by Utah State University Press. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, Igloria is Professor of Creative Writing and English, and Director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University. Since November 20, 2010 she has written a poem every day.
2/9/201554 minutes, 32 seconds
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Air Quality and American Culture on Friday's Access Utah

Cache Valley air quality has been getting a lot of attention the last several years. A few days a year, usually in the wintertime, the air pollution in Logan is worse than most other U.S. cities. On Friday's AU, Sheri Quinn talks to Utah State University environmental engineer Dr. Randy Martin about his current research on the major air pollution culprit, PM2.5
2/6/201520 minutes, 59 seconds
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Janice Brooks' "Traveling Shoes," on Thursday's Access Utah

Professional speaker, storyteller and writer Janice Brooks will join Tom Williams for the hour on Thursday's AU Brooks is performing her one-woman show "Traveling Shoes"Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the Caine Performance Hall on the USU campus in Logan. "Traveling Shoes" depicts eight women of American history: Sojourner Truth, Barbara Jordan, Harriet Tubman, Shirley Chisholm, Buffalo Soldier Cathay Williams, Rosa Parks, Biddy Mason, and Jane Manning. The show is presented by UPR and is part of the USU Provost's Series on Instructional Excellence in celebration of Black History Month.
2/5/201552 minutes, 11 seconds
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"Dataclysm" and the Personal Ethics of Clicking on Wednesday's Access Utah

Seventy percent of the country uses Facebook each month-50 percent of Americans under 35 check it first thing every morning. By 2015, people will have tweeted more words than in every book ever printed. A third of all marriages in the United States now begin online-meaning one in three children in the class of 2032 will have been facilitated by an algorithm. Social media has become essential to the fabric of our society.
2/4/201554 minutes, 12 seconds
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Men's Roles in a Changing Society on Tuesday's Access Utah

In the 1960s, Mormon housewife Helen Andelin countered the second wave feminist movement by preaching family values and urging women not to have careers, but to become good wives, mothers, and homemakers instead. Andelin, who sparked a large movement herself, taught that a woman's true happiness could only be realized if she admired, cared for, and obeyed her husband. In December, many listeners joined our Access Utah conversation with Julie Neuffer prompted by her book "Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement" It was clear from that discussion that many women are thinking through their roles in today's shifting environment.
2/3/201554 minutes
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Anti-Discrimination & Religous Freedom on Monday's Access Utah

This week high-ranking officials from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held a news conference to address of religious freedom, and discrimination against the LGBT community.On Monday's AU we'll look at legislation being proposed this year regarding these issues. We'll hear from Governor Gary Herbert, Senator Stephen Urquhart and Representative Jacob Anderegg.
2/2/20151 hour, 1 minute, 58 seconds
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Love, Sex and Secrets from War on Friday's Access Utah

According to University of Utah anthropologist Ryan Shot, men want commitment when women are scarce. In his new study published in the Royal Society Open Science Journal, he challenges the sexual stereotype that women want commitment and men want commitment only sometimes. His study of the Makushi in Guyana shows mate choice is much more complex. He found men are more likely to seek long-term relationships when women are in short supply.
1/30/201553 minutes
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Inside The Sundance Film Festival on Thursday's Access Utah

On today's Access Utah, we're taking a look inside the Sundance Film Festival, the largest film screening in the United States. Known for it's glamor and celebrity, the festival is also a strong supporter for the arts and the untold stories they feature.
1/29/201553 minutes, 14 seconds
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The History of Feeling "Homesick" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Homesickness today is dismissed as a sign of immaturity: It's what children feel at summer camp. But in the nineteenth century it was recognized as a powerful emotion. When gold miners in California heard the tune "Home, Sweet Home," they sobbed. When Civil War soldiers became homesick, army doctors sent them home, lest they die.
1/28/201553 minutes, 55 seconds
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"The Modern Mercenary" with Sean McFate on Tuesday's Access Utah

It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without anyone knowing that the United States was involved. The United States was, of course, involved, but only through McFate's employer, the military contractor DynCorp International. Throughout the world, similar scenarios are playing out daily. The United States can no longer go to war without contractors. Yet we don't know much about the industry's structure, its operations, or where it's heading. Even the U.S. government-the entity that actually pays them-knows relatively little.
1/27/201554 minutes, 20 seconds
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2015 Legislature: Live at the Utah Capitol Building on Monday's Access Utah

On the opening day of the 2015 Utah Legislature, we’re live at the State Capitol.
1/27/201559 minutes, 52 seconds
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Proposed Ban of Wood Burning on Friday's Access Utah

Utah State environmental officials are proposing a seasonal wood burning ban in seven Utah Counties, in an effort to reduce particle polution during Utah’s winter inversions. If implemented, the proposal could become the strictest wood burning ban in the country. Residents in the affected counties (Cache, Box Elder, Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber) have all been invited to attend public meetings held by the Utah Division of Air Quality, to offer input on how the proposed ban can affect their winters and impact the health of Utah's citizens.
1/23/201553 minutes, 28 seconds
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Revisiting "The Human Age" with Diane Ackerman on Thursday's Access Utah

In her latest book “The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us” Diane Ackerman writes that “our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.”
1/22/201549 minutes, 32 seconds
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Paul Holton's "Collateral Kindness" on Wednesday's Access Utah

As a loving father, Paul Holton found it hard to reconcile his innate goodwill with his role as an interrogator for the Army National Guard. Until one day, deep in Iraqi territory, surrounded by the horrors of war, he realized how he could make a small but significant difference in the lives of the children all around him.
1/21/201553 minutes, 52 seconds
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Revisiting the "Polygamist Wives Writing Club" with Paula Kelly Harline

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, however--the heyday of Mormon polygamy--as many as three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives.
1/20/201553 minutes, 54 seconds
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Ecology & the Great Salt Lake on Friday's Access Utah

The Great Salt Lake is so big, it is visible from outer space. This so-called "Dead Sea" is a Utah gem and is teeming with life. It hosts millions of migratory shore birds, hordes of aquatic insects, algae and of course brine shrimp.
1/16/201548 minutes, 20 seconds
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"The Rosie Effect" By Graeme Simsion on Thursday's Access Utah

For Don Tillman--a brilliant, if socially awkward, genetics professor--order is a way of life. Methods, schedules, and data are his language. Until recently, Don had never had a second date.
1/15/201550 minutes, 15 seconds
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Deep Down Dark: Listener And Reader Responses To The Morning Edition Book Club On Access Utah

Mining is part of Utah’s history and culture, and mining resources and safety are key themes in the West. The Morning Edition Book Club has selected for January: Hector Tobar’s “Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free.” The book address faith, safety, economics, technology and the survival of humanity under difficult circumstances. Utah Public Radio is beginning a UPR Chapter of the Morning Edition Book Club. We invite you to join us in reading and discussing each month’s book at www.upr.org
1/14/201553 minutes, 43 seconds
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Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me! Panelist Paula Poundstone Joins Access Utah

Stand-up comedian and “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me” panelist Paula Poundstone will be performing in Logan on Saturday.
1/13/201549 minutes, 25 seconds
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The State And Ethics Of Ebola On Access Utah Monday

The latest World Health Organization weekly data showed the epidemic has killed 8,235 of the 20,747 infected people worldwide. Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia contain the vast majority of cases.
1/12/201553 minutes, 51 seconds
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Understanding Plants And Global Change With Dr. Hope Jahren On Access Utah Friday

On Access Utah today we have Dr. Hope Jahren, Professor of Geobiology at University of Hawaii Manoa.
1/9/201553 minutes, 47 seconds
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A Kennecott Story On Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday’s AU Charles Hawley will join us from Alaska to talk about Kennecott and the history of mining.
1/8/201553 minutes, 51 seconds
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"Fives And Twenty-Fives", A Story Of The Iraq War, On Access Utah Monday

In the words of Michael Pitre:
1/5/201553 minutes, 53 seconds
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Holiday Music And Readings On Thursday's Access Utah Special

For our Access Utah Holiday Special, we bring back guitarist and Utah State University Professor Emeritus of Music Mike Christiansen, and University of Utah Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and playwright Tim Slover, to bring you great holiday guitar music and holiday readings on today's program. For more information on Mike Christiansen and Tim Slover, please visit their websites. From the Utah Public Radio family, we hope your holidays are filled with great music and stories, and we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
12/18/201459 minutes, 47 seconds
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Doing Good In Our Communities On Access Utah Thursday

During this holiday time of year, charitable giving seems to come to the forefront. But there is a lot of good being done in our communities throughout the year. We hope to encourage this good by spotlighting several non-profit groups on Wednesday’s AU.
12/17/201453 minutes, 40 seconds
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Growing Smaller: Tiny Living on Tuesday's Access Utah

In a time of excess for many, some are living with less. A lot less! Tiny living has become increasingly popular in the past few years and today on Access Utah we’ll talk about this thirst for simplicity, how it’s changing the lives of those who live this way, how it’s affecting the environment around them, and if Tiny Houses could be in the future for more of us.
12/16/201452 minutes, 46 seconds
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The Year Of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off) On Monday's Access Utah

In his early 20s, Benjamin Franklin embarked on a “bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection,” intending to master a list of thirteen virtues. He soon gave up on perfection but continued to believe that these attributes, along with a generous heart and a bemused acceptance of human frailty, laid the foundation for both a good life and a workable society.
12/15/201453 minutes, 16 seconds
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Dinosaurs And Autism On Friday's Access Utah

Paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter is the museum director of the Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of several books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main research interests are armored dinosaurs as well as the Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah. He joins us on Friday’s Access Utah.
12/12/201426 minutes, 19 seconds
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Autism With Temple Grandin On Science Questions Friday

Temple Grandin is noted for autism and for her groundbreaking work on many of the nation's slaughterhouses - making them more humane. She is Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and has authored numerous books and papers on autism and agriculture. On Science Questions, she discusses the latest brain research on autism.
12/12/201427 minutes, 29 seconds
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Effects Of President Obama's Executive Immigration Action In Utah On Access Utah Thursday

Last month President Obama issued executive orders on immigration that will impact nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Those who have been in the United States for at least the past five years, with no criminal history, and in many cases with familial relationships to American citizens, will no longer face deportation from the United States.
12/11/201453 minutes, 38 seconds
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Blanding's Brown Lawns On Access Utah Wednesday

UPR Reporter Melissa Allison’s recent story is headlined “Brown Lawns Popular in Blanding.”
12/10/201447 minutes, 47 seconds
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A National Park Mystery On Tuesday's Access Utah

When his new step-daughter is kidnapped during a visit to the Grand Canyon, archeologist Chuck Bender faces up to his secret past and his unfamiliar family-man role as he confronts every parent's worst nightmare--a missing child. In Tony Hillerman fashion, “Canyon Sacrifice,” a new novel by Scott Graham, (Torrey House Press) explores the rugged western landscape, the mysterious past of the ancient Anasazi Indians, and the modern Southwest's ongoing cultural fissures. “Canyon Sacrifice” is the first book in a National Park Mystery Series.
12/9/20141 hour, 27 seconds
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Part 2: Corporations In The Political Arena On Monday's Access Utah

Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court says they are, at least for some purposes. Monday, in part two of our series, we’ll look at the impact of the U. S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling which allowed corporations and unions to spend freely in political campaigns. We’ll also examine the subsequent Move To Amend effort which seeks to overturn that ruling.
12/8/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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The Fascinating Womanhood Movement On Friday's Access Utah

In 1961, Helen Andelin, housewife and mother of eight, languished in a lackluster, twenty-year-old marriage. A religious woman (Mormon) she fasted and prayed for help. As she studied a set of women's advice booklets from the 1920s, Andelin had an epiphany that not only changed her life but also affected the lives of millions of American women. She applied the principles from the booklets and found that her disinterested husband became loving and attentive. He bought her gifts and hurried home from work to be with her.
12/5/201459 minutes, 50 seconds
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Should Public Lands Be Controlled By Utah Or Federal Government? On Access Utah Thursday

A new 800-page study released by the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office argues that Utah could afford the management costs that would come with acquiring the more than 30 million acres of public lands now controlled by the federal government. (Elaine Taylor UPR)
12/4/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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How Will Utah "Seize The Daylight" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and the United States fought an energy crisis with it.
12/3/20140
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What Are Your Winter Reads? On Tuesday's Access Utah

We know that UPR listeners are avid readers. We’ve had a lot of fun on past episodes of AU, putting together UPR Book Lists, and it’s time to do it again. What are you reading? You may have discovered a must-read book that we’d all enjoy. We’re looking for everything from fiction, non-fiction, and classic literature to young adult and children’s books. It might even be a textbook or manual that you recommend.
12/2/20140
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A Day Of Listening On Wednesday's Access Utah

StoryCorps promotes the day after Thanksgiving as a National Day of Listening, saying that listening, sharing and recording stories of family members and friends is the least expensive but most meaningful gift you can give this holiday season. Access Utah has promoted this concept for a few years now, and Wednesday we’ll continue the tradition. We’ll invite you to share your story.
11/26/20140
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The Affordable Care Act In Utah On Tuesday's Access Utah

We’ve had some time now to see how the Affordable Care Act is working. On Tuesday’s AU we’ll ask you what your experience has been and what you think about the ACA going forward. The Utah Health Policy Project’s annual policy conference coming up on December 2nd is titled “Is It Working? Taking the Pulse on Health Reform in Utah.” The conference will tackle several questions: Which states are succeeding? What’s different about the 2015 marketplaces? What should Utah do to cover the Medicaid expansion coverage gap?
11/25/20140
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Part 1: How The Corporation Came To Be On Access Utah Monday

Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court says they are, at least for some purposes. NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports that in the past four years, the high court has dramatically expanded corporate rights. It ruled that corporations have the right to spend money in candidate elections, and that some for-profit corporations may, on religious grounds, refuse to comply with a federal mandate to cover birth control in their employee health plans.
11/24/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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Escaping Teen Homelessness On Access Utah Friday

One in 30 children in U.S. are homeless according to new report by national center of family homelessness released this week. Today on the program author Walter Biondi joins host Sheri Quinn to discuss what its like being a homeless teen in America and how he was able to go from a street kid to a U.S. Interpol Chief and author.
11/21/20140
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"The Story Of My Heart" With Brooke And Terry Tempest Williams On Access Utah Wednesday

Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams came across a copy of British nature writer Richard Jefferies’ autobiography “The Story of My Heart” in a small Maine bookstore. The beautiful volume intrigued them and inspired a journey: they traveled to England in order to learn more about the 19th-century nature essayist, to wander the countryside which so inspired and captivated him.
11/19/201453 minutes, 53 seconds
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Net Neutrality On Access Utah Tuesday

President Obama is demanding that the FCC reclassify the Internet as a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. He wants rules to ensure “that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online."
11/18/201455 minutes, 1 second
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Author Of "Requiem For The Living: A Memoir" Jeff Metcalf On Monday's Access Utah

After nine years of keeping his prostate cancer at bay, the drugs were no longer working. The doctors told him his time was nearly up. So Jeff Metcalf dove deep into writing, tasking himself with writing one essay each week for a year. His new book “Requiem for the Living” contains the best of the resulting fifty-two essays by an author who continues to defy his medical prognosis. The essays form a memoir of sorts, recounting good times and critical moments from Metcalf’s life.
11/17/201453 minutes, 38 seconds
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NPR Science Correspondant, Joe Palca, On Access Utah Friday

NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca set out to become a college professor and ended up on the radio. He’s in Logan for several events for UPR and USU and he’s Tom Williams’ guest for the hour on Friday’s AU. They’ll talk about the art of reporting on science and the fascinating stories he has covered, including a story from Utah about the dangers of household sponges.
11/14/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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Managing The Greater Sage-Grouse On Thursday's Access Utah

The Greater Sage-Grouse is an iconic symbol of the American West. They thrive in healthy sagebrush ecosystems in prime grazing land. Their population numbers are declining in states across the west. Utah has a population of roughly 20,000 Greater Sage-Grouse and efforts are currently underway to work with private land owners to help protect the bird and preserve the environments they inhabit. An international forum about wildlife management of the Greater Sage-Grouse is taking place in Salt Lake City today and Friday.
11/13/201437 minutes, 32 seconds
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"Secrets Of The Greatest Snow On Earth" Author Jim SteenBurgh On Access Utah Wednesday

Jim Steenburgh says that for many who come to our state, powder is more than snow. It is a way of life.
11/12/201453 minutes, 40 seconds
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Negotiating The Right To Farm On Access Utah Monday

What happens when newcomers from the suburbs move into farm country? Or when small-scale backyard farmers in cities or suburbs want to continue or begin operations against neighborhood opposition? Sometimes conflicts ensue. How should these be handled?
11/10/201453 minutes, 53 seconds
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Smithsonian Artifacts On Friday's Access Utah

The Smithsonian Institution houses a vast collection of artifacts from across the nation and around the world. What can all of these items tell us about American culture and history? Friday on Access Utah, Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture at the Smithsonian, joins Sheri Quinn for a discussion about the stories they reveal. At 9:30 Science Questions explores marijuana policy through the lens of a theologian.
11/7/201438 minutes, 52 seconds
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Election Recap Panel On Access Utah Wednesday

Today we recap the mid-term elections which saw control of the U. S. Senate return to the Republicans and a Republican clean sweep in Utah’s congressional races. One constitutional amendment passed in Utah and two were defeated. Several state school board incumbents were defeated.
11/5/201417 minutes, 19 seconds
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"Let Me Clear My Throat" Author, Elena Passarello, On Tuesday's Access Utah

From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Elena Passarello, in Let Me Clear My Throat dissects the whys and hows of popular voices. There are murders of punk rock crows, impressionists, and rebel yells; Howard Dean's "BYAH!" and Marlon Brando's "Stella!" and a stock film yawp that has made cameos in movies from A Star is Born to Spaceballs. The voice is thought's incarnating instrument and Elena Passarello's essays are a deconstruction of the ways the sounds we make both express and shape who we are—the annotated soundtrack of us giving voice to ourselves.
11/4/201454 minutes, 33 seconds
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Outlawing Genocidal Denial On Access Utah Monday

In “Outlawing Genocide Denial: The Dilemmas of Official Historical Truth” (University of Utah Press) historian and political scientist Guenter Lewy scrutinizes the practice of criminalizing the expression of unpopular, even odious historical interpretations, exemplified by genocide denial. Holocaust denial can be viewed as another form of hatred against the Jews and preventing it can be understood as a form of warding off hate speech. Germany has made it a crime punishable by law. Other European countries have similar laws.
11/3/201450 minutes, 21 seconds
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Feeding The World With USU Provost Noelle Cockett On Access Utah Friday

A piece of the 21st century pie--people everywhere are clamoring for their own life-sustaining morsel. But water, pesticide, distribution, and financial issues seem to conspire against assuring a hungry world there will be enough to eat. Noelle Cockett, executive vice president and provost for Utah State University, has long been researching answers to the question of how to feed 21st century populations. Dr. Cockett brought her expertise to Utah State University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Tanner Talks when she kicked off the 2013-15 lecture series last month with a look into the future of food production. Her talk was titled: “Feast or Famine: Feeding a Hungry World in the 21st Century.”
10/31/201453 minutes, 50 seconds
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Spooky Stories And Folklore On Thursday's Access Utah

A while back on Access Utah, Glen in the Uintah Basin shared this story: “I used to haul crude oil from oil wells. We have an area in central Duchesne County called the Koch Field. It was originally operated by the infamous Koch brothers' business and developed in the 1970s and early 80s. The Koch field is very remote and quite rugged. Many oilfield workers claimed to have seen a ‘headless horseman.’ I first heard about this when I was dispatched to a load out in the field probably in 1999. Legend has it that the local Natives beheaded a party of Spanish prospectors and this headless horseman is one of them. Many of my former crude haulers refuse to go into the Koch Field at night.”
10/30/201453 minutes, 50 seconds
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Balancing Work And Life On Access Utah Wednesday

In this age of smartphones, work doesn’t necessarily end when you leave the office. For many there is an expectation that you should be available after hours. Germany is considering legislation that would ban employers from contacting workers after office hours. Labor Minister Andrea Nahles says "there is an undeniable relationship between constant availability and the increase of mental illness."
10/29/201453 minutes, 48 seconds
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"Broken Heart Land", Story Of Critical Issues Of LGBT Community On Tuesday's Access Utah

On an early autumn afternoon, gay teen Zack Harrington killed himself with a gunshot to the head at his parent’s ranch in Norman, Oklahoma. One week earlier, Zack allegedly attended a local city council meeting in support of a proposal for LGBTQ History Month. When the floor opened up for public comment, some community members made controversial statements equating being gay with the spread of diseases such as HIV and AIDS.
10/28/201452 minutes, 23 seconds
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The Future Of Utah's Water Supply On Monday's Access Utah

Hal Crimmel, Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor of English at Weber State University, is editor of a new book "Desert Water: The Future of Utah's Water Resources" (University of Utah Press) which brings together the results of scientific research and the voices of environmental humanists, social scientists, and policy advocates to provide a broad perspective on Utah water issues.
10/27/201453 minutes, 54 seconds
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Bad Air On Access Utah And Nuclear Testing On Science Questions Friday

Logan has some of the worst air in the nation several days many years. On Friday’s AU, USU Professor of Toxicology, Roger Coulombe, talks to host Sheri Quinn about Cache Valley air and what is being done to help clean it up so we can all breathe a little easier.
10/24/201422 minutes, 2 seconds
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The Future Of Snow And Skiing On Thursday's Access Utah

In 2012, two skiers from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, noticed that snow was disappearing from the western U.S. and wondered how long it would be before it affected the mountains in their backyard. They called Porter Fox, a longtime Powder magazine editor and writer, and asked if he was interested in writing a book about climate change and snow.
10/23/201453 minutes, 52 seconds
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Undercover Child Slavery Rescue On Access Utah Wednesday

Dallas Hyland, a photojournalist and resident of St. George, recently traveled to Colombia with a privately-funded organization, Operation Underground Railroad, to execute what they called Clear Hope; a mission they say proved to be the biggest child trafficking rescue operation in history.
10/22/201448 minutes, 58 seconds
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Clash Of Amendments: Feminism, Free Speech, And Gun Control On Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s been THE topic of conversation at Utah State University for several days now as well as making the pages of the New York Times and the airwaves of NPR: After learning that USU was legally forbidden from restricting firearms at a Wednesday lecture over which she received a death threat, nationally-known feminist writer and video game critic, Anita Sarkeesian, canceled her appearance. (SLTrib) She says she won’t appear at a Utah school until guns are barred from the state’s campuses.
10/21/201449 minutes, 15 seconds
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"The Ancient History Of Oil" And "Youth Addiction Recovery" On Friday's Access Utah

Friday on Access Utah host Sheri Quinn revisits her conversation with former oil executive and geologist Marc Deshowitz about the unique geology of southern Utah parks and the ancient history of oil in the area.
10/17/201419 minutes, 13 seconds
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Flirting With French On Thursday's Access Utah

William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There’s one small problem: he doesn’t speak the language. In “Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart” Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back?
10/16/201449 minutes, 23 seconds
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"The Glass Cage: Automation And Us" Author Nicholas Carr On Wednesday's Access Utah

Technological advances seem to be accelerating. Every day we hear of something new: self-driving cars, wearable computers, factory robots, digitized medicine… Continuing advances in computers and automation can reduce workloads, increase productivity, and even imbue life with a sense of wonder. But Nicholas Carr, in his new book, “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us,” says there are hidden costs in granting software dominion over our work and leisure. Even as these programs bring ease to our lives, he says, they are stealing something essential from us.
10/15/201456 minutes, 1 second
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Lt. General Honore on Thursday's Access Utah

Russell Honore came to national attention when, as a U.S. Army Lt. General, he was assigned to lead the Department of Defense’s Joint Task-Force Katrina. The hurricane hit on Monday, August 29, 2005, and he was put in charge of overseeing the federal emergency response on Tuesday at 10:00 p.m. By the time he arrived on Wednesday morning thousands of people were stranded on roof tops and in attics and more than 16,000 people were at the Superdome along with a similar number at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, according to Honore.
10/9/201453 minutes, 48 seconds
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"The Human Age" Author Diane Ackerman On Wednesday's Access Utah

In her new book “The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us” Diane Ackerman writes that “our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.”
10/8/201449 minutes, 32 seconds
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Same-Sex Marriage Ruling In Utah On Tuesday's Access Utah

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear same-sex marriage appeals from Utah and four other states, letting stand lower court rulings that allow gays and lesbians to marry. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted the hold it had placed on same-sex marriages in Utah and four other states.
10/7/201453 minutes, 41 seconds
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SLC Police Chief Chris Burbank On Monday's Access Utah

On Monday’s AU we’ll spend the hour with Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. We’ll talk about events in Ferguson, Missouri, including issues of race and police militarization. We’ll also talk about recent shootings in Utah, police body cameras, and community policing, among other issues.
10/6/201414 minutes, 14 seconds
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"Brigham Young And The Utah War" With Ronald W. Walker On Access Utah Thursday

How do men and women shape history? Do human values have a role in the writing of history? At a time when the so-called New Mormon history appears to be running its course, it may be time to rethink our approaches. So says Ronald W. Walker, professional historian and BYU Professor of History, Emeritus.
10/2/201453 minutes, 40 seconds
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"Live More With Less" On Wednesday's Access Utah

The new Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance (MESA) says that “it is no longer sufficient to merely protest ‘supply side’ assaults on the environment such as coal-fired power plants, fracking, tar sands & oil shale, etc. … The other half of the problem is the demand for dirty energy. MESA, along with many of Utah’s faith communities and universities, is organizing the “Live More with Less” Conference to be held in the Utah Valley University Science Auditorium on October 3, from 1:30 to 6:30 pm. to “challenge society’s assumption that ‘prosperity’ relies upon an economy based on endless growth and consumption."
10/1/20147 minutes, 12 seconds
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The Realities And Remedies Of Homelessness On Tuesday's Access Utah

On Tuesday’s AU we’ll look at the problem of homelessness through the eyes of Florida middle school teacher (and Navy veteran) Tom Rebman. He recently spent a month living as though he were homeless to raise awareness for a food bank and to inspire the kids he worked with. He told the Deseret News that this experience was the hardest thing he’s ever done and that he couldn’t have predicted the extent of the realities of living on the street, including sleepless nights, hunger and constant fear.
9/30/201445 minutes, 6 seconds
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Reggie Shaw's Story Told By Matt Richtel In "A Deadly Wandering" on Friday's Access Utah

On the last day of summer in 2006, a Utah college student named Reggie Shaw killed two rocket scientists while texting and driving in Cache Valley. In his new book, “A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention” Pulitzer prize winning New York Times reporter, Matt Richtel, follows Shaw through the tragedy, his denial of its cause, the police investigation, the state’s groundbreaking prosecution (at the time there was little precedent to guide the court), and ultimately Shaw’s improbable admission of guilt, and his redemption.
9/26/201454 minutes, 6 seconds
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"The Bosnia List" Author, Kenan Trebincevic, On Access Utah Thursday

At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47 - screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" His only crime: he was Muslim.
9/25/201453 minutes
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Author Of "All The Light We Cannot See", Anthony Doerr, On Wednesday's Access Utah

Anthony Doerr is author of the New York Times bestseller “All the Light We Cannot See,” about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
9/24/201453 minutes, 47 seconds
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People's Climate March On Tuesday's Access Utah

More than 300,000 people marched through the streets of New York City on Sunday in what organizers called the largest climate-change demonstration in history (USA Today.)
9/23/201414 minutes, 35 seconds
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Discussing The Most Current Air Quality Research On Access Utah

We tend to talk about Air Quality in the winter when inversions are trapping us in especially bad air. But this is a serious ongoing problem. So, on Monday’s AU, we’ll ask: What does the latest research tell us about our air pollution problem? And what are our current plans to ameliorate the problem?
9/22/201453 minutes, 20 seconds
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Up Close And Personal With Ebola On Access Utah

Former Cache Valley resident, Ann Norman, is Chairman of the Board for Shine On Sierra Leone, a non-profit organization which builds and rebuilds schools in Sierra Leone. She has been appointed to the Presidential Task Force there, and is involved in the education campaign for people in rural areas in Sierra Leone to combat Ebola.
9/18/201415 minutes, 18 seconds
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Utah State University Ecology Seminar on Access Utah and Running Off Addiction on Science Questions

First the Utah State University Ecology Center is hosting a seminar series this year. The first speaker is ecologist Jeremy Fox from the University of Calgary, Canada. Fox addresses fundamental questions in population, community, and evolutionary ecology. He will present his final talk tonight at 6 titled: Causes and Consequence of Spatially Synchronized Population Dynamics. That it is at 6pm at the Ecology Center on the USU campus.
9/17/201449 minutes, 37 seconds
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Doug Peacock: Military Veterans And The Healing Wilderness On Access Utah

Doug Peacock served in Vietnam as a Green Beret medic, and came home an emotional and spiritual wreck. After the war, he crawled into the mountains and found that solitude in wilderness was exactly what he needed to confront the demons of Vietnam. And he credits grizzly bears with restoring his soul.
9/16/201450 minutes, 35 seconds
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The Personal Life of "Messiah" Composer George Frederic Handel on AU

During his lifetime, George Frideric Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself is a bit of a mystery.
9/15/201454 minutes, 11 seconds
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Doris Kearns Goodwin Revisits Access Utah For "Roosevelts" Documentary

Pulitzer-prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin returns to AU on Friday. She is author of several books including “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,“ “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt - The Home Front in World War II” and “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.”
9/12/201453 minutes, 49 seconds
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"Dataclysm" And The Ethics Of Clicking On Access Utah

Seventy percent of the country uses Facebook each month—50 percent of Americans under 35 check it first thing every morning. By 2015, people will have tweeted more words than in every book ever printed. A third of all marriages in the United States now begin online—meaning one in three children in the class of 2032 will have been facilitated by an algorithm. Social media has become essential to the fabric of our society. We know that companies and the government are using our data, sometimes in ways we’re uncomfortable with.
9/11/201447 minutes, 13 seconds
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#CutTheCarls: Sexual Objectification In Advertising On Access Utah Wednesday

Two Utah sisters are pushing back against a Carl’s Jr. advertising campaign they say objectifies women. The ads feature bikini-clad women eating the fast-food chain’s burgers in a seductive manner. Lindsay and Lexie Kite hold doctorate degrees from the University of Utah and run a nonprofit called Beauty Redefined, focusing on issues surrounding women’s body image and media influence. Their social media campaign uses the hashtags: “#CutTheCarls” and “#MoreThanMeat” They are asking consumers to boycott Carl’s Jr. in order to involve the company in conversation about sexual objectification in advertising. Carl’s Jr. has said the ads, which began in 2005, are aimed at catching the attention of young, hungry boys (ages 18 - 35). The company said it respects the contribution of women to society.
9/10/201420 minutes, 2 seconds
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Canyonlands 50th Stirs Debate on Preservation or Industrialization

On September 12, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation creating Canyonlands National Park: “...in order to preserve an area...possessing superlative scenic, scientific, and archeologic features for the inspiration, benefit and use of the public…”
9/4/201452 minutes, 7 seconds
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Geek Sublime: Computers And Coding On Access Utah Wednesday

Vikram Chandra says that even though “computing has transformed our lives...the processes and cultures which produce software remain largely opaque, alien, unknown. He says “whenever I tell one of my fellow authors that I supported myself through the writing of my first novel by working as a programmer and a computer consultant, I evoke a response that mixes bemusement, bafflement, and a touch of awe, as if I’d just said that I could levitate...Many programmers, on the other hand regard themselves as artists.”
9/3/201453 minutes, 31 seconds
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Eboo Patel And Interfaith Action On Wednesday's Access Utah

Eboo Patel founded the Interfaith Youth Core to counter the growing problem of religious intolerance and violence at home and abroad. IFYC trains students to bridge the faith-divide through interfaith cooperation. Patel says that “interfaith interactions can be a bomb of destruction, a barrier of division, a bubble of isolation, or a bridge of cooperation.” He says that he’s inspired to build a bridge of cooperation by his faith as a Muslim, his Indian heritage, and his American citizenship.
8/27/201417 minutes, 14 seconds
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Living Off The Grid On Access Utah Monday

The grid is everywhere, sending power to the light switch on the wall and water to the faucet in the kitchen. But is it essential? Must we depend on it and the corporate and government infrastructure behind it? My guest on Monday’s AU is Nick Rosen, who has traveled the United States, spending time with all kinds of individuals and families striving to live their lives free from dependence on municipal power and amenities, and free from dependence on the government and its far-reaching tentacles.
8/25/201453 minutes, 17 seconds
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Frankenstein: A Commentary On Humanity And Nature On Friday's Access Utah

Frankenstein brings to mind Boris Karloff’s character in the 1931 film, or monster masks worn for Halloween. The book, however, surprises those who think they know the story. It’s a thought-provoking tale examining education, knowledge, and society. Goodreads says “Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature? In our age, filled with news of organ donation, genetic engineering, and bio-terrorism, these questions are more relevant than ever.”
8/22/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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Suicide And Hope: Moving From Darkness To Light On Access Utah Tuesday

Robin Williams’ apparent suicide has us not only remembering his life and talent but trying to come to terms with the reality of suicide. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, "Suicide claims more than 38,000 lives each year in the United States alone, with someone dying by suicide every 13.7 minutes. A suicide attempt is made every minute of every day, resulting in nearly one million attempts made annually." Utah author and suicide prevention advocate Wendy Parmley knows this reality all too well. Her new book “Hope after Suicide: One Woman's Journey from Darkness to Light,” details her journey following the suicide death of her mother nearly 40 years ago. She was 12-years-old at the time, the oldest of five children, and her mother was just 31. For years, Ms. Parmley locked away the pain of her mother's death. But after a disabling bike accident in September 2011 that left her unable to return to her nursing career, she began to write her mother's story--and her own healing journey began.
8/19/201453 minutes, 52 seconds
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The Legend Of Old Ephraim On Monday's Access Utah

The legendary conflict between sheepherder Frank Clark and Old Ephraim the giant bear is one of the most widely-told stories in the Logan area. Old Ephraim was a very large grizzly who roamed the Cache National Forest from about 1911 until his death on August 22, 1923. Old Ephraim stories are still told. We’re going to talk about local legends on Monday’s AU. Our guests include Daniel Bishop, The Storyteller; and Daniel Davis, Photograph Curator at the USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections. We want to hear your Old Ephraim story. Maybe you can tell us about the Bear Lake Monster. Tune in Monday and share with us a legend from your hometown or family.
8/18/201451 minutes, 42 seconds
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The Life and Times of Charles Manson on Thursday's AU

Jeff Guinn, author of “Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson” (now out in paperback) says he wanted to answer two questions with the book: “Why does Manson’s name still resonate with us, all these years after those famous murders? And what happened in his life to make him the way he turned out?” Guinn says that in answering those questions “it was really like a trip across American history because Manson represents so many aspects of American society.” More than 40 years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant actress Sharon Tate. It was the culmination of a criminal career that Guinn traces back to Manson’s childhood. Guinn interviewed Manson’s sister and cousin, neither of whom had ever previously cooperated with an author. Childhood friends, cellmates, and some members of the Manson family provided new information about Manson’s life. Guinn made discoveries about the night of the Tate murders, answering unresolved questions, such as why one person near the scene of the crime was spared. “Manson” puts the killer in the context of the turbulent late sixties, an era of race riots and street protests when authority in all its forms was under siege.
8/14/201449 minutes, 20 seconds
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Fractured Fairytales on Wednesday's AU

Fairy tales have endured as a part of our culture since at least the days of the Brothers Grimm, and they’re still going strong on television, movies and books today. What do fairy tales mean? What do they reflect in our shared concerns? And what does the continuing trend toward fractured and reinvented fairy tales say about us? We’ll talk about this with Lynne McNeill, an instructor and director of online development for the folklore program at Utah State University and co-founder of and faculty advisor for the USU Folklore Society; and Utah author RaShelle Workman, who writes reinvented fairy tales. Her books include “A Beauty So Beastly,” in which she imagines what would happen if the beauty was also the beast. And her “Blood and Snow” series is a retelling of Snow White with a vampire twist.
8/13/201453 minutes, 53 seconds
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Grizzlies on My Mind on Tuesday's AU

At 22, Michael Leach’s dream of becoming a Yellowstone ranger came true. It wasn’t long before he’d earned the nickname “Rev” for his powerful Yellowstone “sermons.” In Grizzlies on My Mind: Essays of Adventure, Love, and Heartache from Yellowstone Country,” Leach shares his love for Yellowstone—its landscapes and wildlife, especially its iconic bison and grizzlies—as he tells stories of human lives lost, efforts to save a black bear cub, a famous wolf who helped Leach through some dark personal days, the unique and often humorous Yellowstone “culture,” backpacking trips that nearly ended in disaster, and Leach’s spiritual journey with his Assiniboine-Gros Ventre “brother.”
8/12/201453 minutes, 50 seconds
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A Personal History of the Classroom on Wednesday's AU

Lewis Buzbee was a self-proclaimed “average student,” one whose parents did not go to college. After the death of his father he began to spiral downward, but was saved from failing high school by attentive teachers-teachers who had ample resources thanks to a well-funded California school system. But now, schools have been devastated by funding cuts, and Buzbee wonders in his new book “Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom,” if it’s still possible to save at-risk students when “the public will to fund public education remains pallid, timid, hypocritical.” Searching for solutions, Buzbee looks to the origins of kindergarten, muses on the architecture of schools, and organizing principles and objects of the classroom like the blackboard and the desk, to discover what those spaces and objects tell students about the importance of learning. Buzbee offers insight not only as a student but also as a teacher and a father, contrasting his daughter’s experiences with his own. And, in the book’s epilogue, he offers a seven-point “immodest proposal” to save our schools.
8/6/201454 minutes, 31 seconds
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Designing America on Access Utah Monday

Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture, made public parks an essential part of American life and forever changed our relationship with public open spaces. He was co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite commission, leader of the campaign to protect Niagara Falls, designer of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, site planner for the Great White City of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, planner of Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” of green space, and of park systems in many other cities.
7/14/201455 minutes, 18 seconds
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Going Beyond Nature Versus Nurture Debate On Thursday's Access Utah

If scientists supposedly now agree it’s not nature versus nurture; but the interaction of nature and nurture, why does the debate still go on? James Tabery, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Utah says it’s because those scientists aren’t just arguing about data and results. They’re engaged in a fundamentally philosophical debate about what “the interaction of nature and nurture” actually means. He says that “from disputes in the 1930s regarding eugenic sterilizations, to controversies in the 1970s about the gap in IQ scores for black and white Americans, to the contemporary debate about the causes of depression—this frustratingly persistent debate keeps emerging, even as the cast and context of each iteration of that debate changes from decade to decade.”
7/10/201450 minutes, 28 seconds
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"Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canal" on Wednesday's Access Utah

In “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal,” Mary Roach explores the much-maligned but vital tube from mouth to rear that turns food into the nutrients that keep us alive. She introduces us to scientists who tackle questions no one else thinks to ask. Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? Can wine tasters really tell a $10 bottle from a $100 bottle? Why do Americans eat, on average, no more than thirty different foods on a regular basis? “Gulp” is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies. We meet a “disgust” researcher, a saliva expert, and one of medicine’s oddest couples: Alexis St. Martin, a French Canadian trapper with a hole gut-shot in his stomach, and William Beaumont, the army surgeon who achieved fame by placing food inside St. Martin to see what happened. We revisit our conversation with Mary Roach on Wednesday’s AU.
7/9/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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Hard Twisted on Tuesday's Access Utah

In May of 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his 13 year-old daughter are befriended by a Texas drifter newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter Lucile begins a one-year ordeal that culminates in four Utah killings and Palmer’s notorious Greenville, Texas “skeleton murder” trial of 1935.
7/8/201453 minutes, 55 seconds
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Lily Havey On Life In And After An Internment Camp on Monday's Access Utah

Lily Nakai and her family lived in southern California, where sometimes she and a friend dreamt of climbing the Hollywood sign that lit the night. At 10, believing that her family was simply going on a “camping trip,” she found herself living in a tar-papered barracks, nightly gazing out instead at a searchlight. She wondered if anything would ever be normal again.
7/7/201453 minutes, 52 seconds
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Nicholas Basbanes & The Two-Thousand Year History Of Paper On Thursday's Access Utah

Nicholas Basbanes is author of a trilogy on all things book-related including “A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books,” In his latest, “On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History,” he considers everything from paper’s invention in China two thousand years ago, which revolutionized human civilization, to its crucial role in the unfolding of historical events, political scandals, and sensational trials: from the American Revolution to the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
7/3/201453 minutes, 45 seconds
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The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld on Wednesday's Access Utah

Justin Hocking, author of a new memoir, “The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld,” writes: “Fifteen years ago, I first dove into the immense, dark waters of Melville's masterpiece...I became obsessed with a book about obsession.
7/2/201455 minutes, 26 seconds
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The Most Trusted Man in America on Tuesday's Access Utah

For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines of World War II, and later, in the emerging medium of television, as a host of numerous documentary programs and as anchor of the CBS Evening News, from 1961 until his retirement in 1981.
7/1/201453 minutes, 57 seconds
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Utah's Latino History on Monday's Access Utah

Armando Solórzano, Director of Chicano Studies at the University of Utah, says that years of neglect and omission from historical records have taken their toll on the historical consciousness of Latinos in Utah. For a long time, many people, including a large percentage of the Latino community, believed that the presence of Latinos or their ancestors in the state was merely a twentieth-century phenomenon.
6/30/201454 minutes, 50 seconds
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The Fight for Indian Rights Comes to Utah on Thursday's Access Utah

Sometime next year, a federal judge will decide whether Native Americans are still being shut out of political power in San Juan County, where now more than 52 percent of residents are Navajo or Ute tribal members. At issue will be the Navajo Nation’s claim that voting districts in the county have been gerrymandered to assure a permanent white majority in local elections.
6/26/201453 minutes, 43 seconds
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Human Trafficking on Wednesday's Access Utah

Andrea Powell and Stephanie Henry join us Wednesday on Access Utah to discuss their work in helping victims of human trafficking. We’ll also share comments on human trafficking in Utah from our Public Insight Network. You can respond right now at www.upr.org. Click “Become a Source.”
6/25/201454 minutes, 58 seconds
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Paul Holton's "Collateral Kindness" on Tuesday's Access Utah

As a loving father, Paul Holton found it hard to reconcile his innate goodwill with his role as an interrogator for the Army National Guard. Until one day, deep in Iraqi territory, surrounded by the horrors of war, he realized how he could make a small but significant difference in the lives of the children all around him.
6/24/201452 minutes, 48 seconds
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Revisiting Ed's Kociela's "It Rocked!" on Monday's Access Utah

Author Ed Kociela has a knack for taking his readers behind closed doors and now walks you backstage to hang out with some of the biggest stars in rock 'n' roll history in "It Rocked! Recollections of a reclusive rock critic.
6/23/201450 minutes, 37 seconds
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On Thursday's Access Utah: Mormons Facing Excommunication

Two members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were recently notified that they potentially faced disciplinary councils which could result in excommunication from the church for apostasy. Kate Kelly is a human rights lawyer who founded Ordain Women, a group seeking access to the LDS church’s all-male priesthood.
6/19/201455 minutes, 6 seconds
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Days of 47 Parade on Wednesday's Access Utah

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that organizers of the Days of ’47 Parade have responded to the Salt Lake City Council, saying they will not reconsider a request by Mormons Building Bridges to participate. Parade organizers said they feared the entry would be too controversial for an event that honors Utah statehood as well as the Mormon pioneers.
6/18/201453 minutes, 55 seconds
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"Stars go Blue" on Tuesday's Access Utah

We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura Pritchett’s debut collection, and now in in her novel Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
6/17/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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"Year of No Sugar” On Monday's Access Utah

In her memoir ”Year of No Sugar,” Eve Schaub recounts her family’s attempt to eliminate sugar from their lives. We’ll talk with Eve Schaub on Monday’s AU and we’re going to talk about your attempts (successful or not) to change your eating habits, whatever your goal is.
6/16/201457 minutes, 43 seconds
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The Bergdahl Exchange and National Security on Thursday's Access Utah

U. S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was recently freed in Afghanistan in exchange for five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo. Some say that the United States should not negotiate with extremists and that this deal places American troops under increased danger, to say nothing of the harm the freed inmates could possibly do.
6/12/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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"Empathy Exams" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor, paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about one another? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other?
6/11/201453 minutes, 58 seconds
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Cycling Concerns on Tuesday's Access Utah

Recently, The League of American Bicyclists ranked Utah as the 8th most bike friendly state in the U.S., rising from the number 14 spot last year. With an increase in bike promotion, bike-related fundraising and commuting and an overall growth in bike culture across the state, biking advocates and anxious drivers alike are speaking up.
6/10/201453 minutes, 46 seconds
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Evolution and Genetic Tools on Friday's Access Utah

Utah State University biologist Zachariah Gompert asks questions about evolution that have been eluding scientists for decades and he and colleagues are using the flood of new genetic tools to find clues to one of their main questions - is evolution predictable and repeatable? Sheri Quinn talks to Professor Gompert about his study recently published in the journal Science.
6/6/201424 minutes, 1 second
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EPA's New Carbon Rules on Thursday's Access Utah

This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released proposed regulations which would cut carbon pollution from future and existing power plants. Since coal accounts for about 70 percent of Utah’s power generation (twice the national average) our state may be disproportionately affected.
6/5/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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Life In Oil And Gas Boom Towns On Wednesday's Access Utah

The oil and gas industry has increased by 40 percent in the past seven years across the United States, leading to dramatic growth some areas. Duchesne County, for example, is the second fastest growing county in the U.S. compared to counties of similar size.
6/4/201454 minutes, 15 seconds
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USU Studies Minorities in Business on Tuesday's Access Utah

Last year, USU professors Alison Cook and Christy Glass tested the glass cliff phenomenon—the idea that women are more likely to get promoted to leadership positions when a firm is struggling, placing them in a precarious position from the start. The glass cliff is back in the news with the recent firing of Jill Abramson as executive editor of the New York Times. Cook and Glass found that merit alone doesn’t give women and minorities the key to the executive suite and that the composition of the board of directors can affect whether or not they succeed. Their analysis confirmed that the glass cliff theory also applies to minorities, a phenomenon they dubbed “the savior effect.”
6/3/201453 minutes, 54 seconds
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"The Polygamous Wives Writing Club" on Monday's Access Utah

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, however--the heyday of Mormon polygamy--as many as three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives.
6/2/201453 minutes, 53 seconds
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"The Predator Paradox" on Thursday's Access Utah

Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common—even for people living in non-rural areas. Farmers anxious to protect their sheep from wolves aren’t the only ones concerned: suburbanites and city dwellers are also having more unwanted run-ins with mammalian predators.
5/29/201450 minutes, 3 seconds
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Open Internet? On Wednesday's Access Utah

“The principle of net neutrality guarantees a level playing field in which Internet users do not have to pay Internet service providers more for better access to online content, and content generators do not have to pay additional fees to ensure users can access their websites or apps. In other words all Internet traffic should be treated equally.” (Leticia Miranda, The Nation).
5/28/201453 minutes, 58 seconds
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"Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family" On Tuesday's Access Utah

There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that is no longer the case, due to divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. Most Americans fail to identify the root factor driving the changes: economic inequality that is remaking the American family along class lines.
5/27/201454 minutes, 7 seconds
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Salt Lake Tribune In Danger? We'll Discuss On Thursday's Access Utah

Concerned community members say that because of a new joint operating agreement between the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, the Tribune is in danger.
5/22/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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Veteran's Stories on Wednesday's Access Utah

With Memorial Day approaching, we’ll honor our military veterans on Wednesday’s Access Utah. Mark Lee Greenblatt, author of “VALOR: Unsung Heroes from Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front,” will join us along with Sergeant Buck Doyle, a Utah resident who is featured in the book. We'll also speak with WWII veteran Edgar Harrell who will recount his experiences in the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the sharks, hypothermia and the struggle to survive one of the U.S. Navy's greatest catastrophes at sea. Edgar Harrell is author of “Out of the Depths.” Then Terry Schow, former Utah Director of Veterans Affairs will discuss how changes in health care are affecting those who fought for our country.
5/21/201452 minutes, 47 seconds
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"Scaling Wind," Documentary on Energy on Tuesday's Access Utah

A new documentary from Greentech Films, “Scaling Wind,” looks at people championing the proposal of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2008 report, “20 Percent Wind Energy by 2030,” the film profiles people working to overcome the challenges facing achievement of the 20% vision, including the need to modernize and expand the power grid and smarten the nation’s energy policy for a stable market.
5/20/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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"Wrecks of Human Ambition" on Monday's Access Utah

The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America. Europeans and Americans over time have mostly avoided, disdained, or ignored it. Wrecks of Human Ambition illustrates how this landscape undercut notions and expectations of good, productive land held by the first explorers, settlers, and travelers who visited it. Even today, its aridity and sandy soils prevent widespread agricultural exploitation, and its cliffs, canyons, and rivers thwart quick travel in and through the landscape.
5/19/201454 minutes, 7 seconds
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"The Montana Vigilantes, 1863-1870" on Thursday's Access Utah

Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.
5/15/201454 minutes, 18 seconds
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"Drilling Down" on Wednesday's Access Utah

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth.
5/15/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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"I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like" On Tuesday's Access Utah

For years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, and dozens of others. He's become not only a new-century Dylan but a modern-day Will Rogers, an everyman whose intelligence, self-deprecation, experience, and sense of humor make him a uniquely American character.
5/13/201439 minutes, 22 seconds
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Mormon History, Settlement And Observation On Monday's Access Utah

The Mormon village was originally conceived as a place removed from the rest of the world, a place where the Saints could live strong faith-based identity. Although common in Europe, the pattern that Mormons used of residential villages with outlying farms was unusual in the American West. The first studies of these villages were by travelers who lived among the Mormons and wrote about their experiences. By linking these early accounts to the move of more formal academic studies of the twentieth century, “Saints Observed” provides the most complete look at Mormon community life.
5/12/201454 minutes, 3 seconds
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"The World's Strongest Librarian" on Thursday's Access Utah

Josh Hanagarne couldn't be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn't officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old and onstage in a school Thanksgiving play when he first began exhibiting symptoms.
5/8/201453 minutes, 57 seconds
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Homesteading the Modern West on Wednesday's Access Utah

This program originally aired in July of 2013.
5/7/201453 minutes, 44 seconds
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Pet Health and Questions on Tuesday's Access Utah

We want to hear about your dog, cat, rabbit, armadillo, or any other animal you love. Post a picture, comment or question on our page for Dr. James Israelsen, with Mountain View Veterinary Health Center.
5/6/201454 minutes, 14 seconds
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"9,000 Miles of Fatherhood" on Monday's Access Utah

Seven moves in seven years as a pre-teen cursed Kirk Millson with a pathologically low tolerance for routine. After terrorizing his wife, Alison, with several near-death wilderness experiences, he toughened up his young children on a steady diet of desert excursions until their luck changed and his career intervened.
5/5/201454 minutes, 7 seconds
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"The Bully Pulpit" on Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday’s AU we revisit our conversation with Doris Kearns Goodwin:
5/1/201452 minutes, 41 seconds
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Feeding the World on Wednesday's Access Utah

If the trends of population growth and richer diets continue, experts say that by 2050 we will need to double the amount of crops we grow. Jonathan Foley, author of “Food: Feeding Nine Billion” in the May edition of National Geographic is director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota.
4/30/201454 minutes, 5 seconds
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"Farm: A Multi-Modal Reader" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Go back a few generations and odds are that your family lived and worked on a farm. We’re going to go back to our roots with USU professors Joyce Kinkead, Evelyn Funda, and Lynne McNeill, authors of “Farm: A Multi-Modal Reader,” which explores what farms, farming, and farmers mean to us as a culture.
4/29/201454 minutes, 11 seconds
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Revisiting "Truth & Conviction," on Monday's Access Utah

Today's Access Utah is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired April 29, 2013.
4/28/20141 hour, 24 seconds
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On The Road With Access Utah Friday

Friday on Access Utah we’ll hear from some of the 16 Moab students who showed up recently for the town’s first “Rock Camp.” Then from the UPR series “My Address Is…” we’ll meet Don Baldwin, who grew up in Salt Lake City but decided as a young man that he wanted to be a dairy farmer; and the Landau family, who live in the city and bike to work and hike from home.
4/25/201452 minutes, 43 seconds
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"Tibet: An Unfinished Story" on Thursday's Access Utah

In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote of a high plateau in a mountainous region where there were gold-digging ants. This launched the myth of Tibet as a place of beauty, riches and peace. University of Cambridge Professors, Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper, were invited to visit Tibet in 1997 as guests of the Chinese government.
4/24/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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"Hidden History of Utah" on Wednesday's Access Utah

This is program originally broadcast on December 10, 2013.
4/23/201452 minutes, 53 seconds
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Earth Day With Utah Writers On Tuesday's Access Utah

We’re going to gather Utah writers to reflect on the environment for Earth Day 2014. Where are we with regard to the environment and the land we love? What progress has been made? What are the most pressing current problems?
4/22/201457 minutes, 14 seconds
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"Common Ground on Hostile Turf" on Monday's Utah

In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spent the past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable.
4/21/201454 minutes, 47 seconds
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Paul Rusesabagina Discusses Rwandan Genocide On Access Utah Thursday

Twenty years ago, beginning on April 6 1994, more than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda in a horrific genocide that spanned 100 days. Genocide continues to be a tragic global issue. Paul Rusesabagina, whose autobiography “AN ORDINARY MAN,” inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” will join us from Brussels Belgium.
4/17/201453 minutes, 44 seconds
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Genetic Testing on Wednesday's Access Utah

The $1,000 genome has long been considered a milestone—the price at which sequencing can finally go mainstream. Companies such as 23andMe provide inexpensive consumer tests that examine about half a million points of a person’s DNA sequence. But until now investigating all 3 billion base pairs that make up a human’s genome cost $10,000 or more.
4/16/201453 minutes, 36 seconds
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Recreation, Oil & Gas on Tuesday's Access Utah

“How about doing a story about the tar sands in Grand County & the Book Cliffs Highway? Seems like the state is thinking that Grand County is the new sacrifice zone for energy development.” That’s from UPR listener Kiley Miller.
4/15/201453 minutes, 43 seconds
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"Gulp: Adventures of the Alimentary Canal" on Monday's Access Utah

In “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal,” Mary Roach explores the much-maligned but vital tube from mouth to rear that turns food into the nutrients that keep us alive. She introduces us to scientists who tackle questions no one else thinks to ask.
4/14/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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Folksongs of Northern Utah & Eastern Idaho on Friday's AU

Noted musicians/musicologists Hal Cannon and Gary Eller are searching eastern Idaho and northern Utah for songs written before the radio era (before 1923) about the early people, places and events of the region. Such songs provide unique glimpses of the early culture of the region.
4/11/201453 minutes, 25 seconds
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Utah's Higher Education on Thursday's Access Utah

On Thursday’s AU we’ll explore issues in higher education with Utah State University President Stan Albrecht. We’ll also be talking to Southern Utah University President Scott Wyatt.
4/10/201453 minutes, 36 seconds
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Revisiting Ogden's 25th Street on Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday’s AU we revisit a popular episode from a few months back: Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden—known in its first century as a “gambling hell” and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row—by the street’s gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street’s decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists.
4/9/201453 minutes, 26 seconds
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"Waiting for Mamu" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Imagine, at five years old, you are sentenced to prison for 13 years. You have no access to your family or friends, to an education, to the outside world or to society. In some places, if a parent is sentenced to prison and they lack a guardian for their child, the child is imprisoned with the parent. Many of these children go to prison at a young age and are released to the world at age 18, with no life skills or support system, knowing nothing of the world but what they experienced in a jail cell.
4/8/201455 minutes, 8 seconds
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"American Families of Faith Project" on Monday's Access Utah

A large body of social science research has found a number of correlations between religious belief and practice and a range of aspects of marriage and family life (e.g., marital happiness, stability, parent-child cohesion, positive youth outcomes). What is much less known are the processes at work in this area.
4/7/201453 minutes, 42 seconds
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"Radiant or Ravaged" Images of Water on Thursday's Access Utah

We’ll merge science and art on Thursday’s AU. The Bear River Watershed Council has organized a photo exhibit called “Radiant or Ravaged.”
4/3/201453 minutes, 54 seconds
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Should We Amend the Antiquities Act? On Wednesday's Access Utah

Under the 1906 Antiquities Act, U.S. Presidents have the power to unilaterally create National Monuments. President Obama used this power in March to add 1,665 acres to the California Coastal National Monument.
4/2/20141 hour, 2 minutes, 11 seconds
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BASE Jumping On Tuesday's Access Utah

Three BASE jumpers have been killed in the last two months in Utah. BASE jumping, (BASE stands for “Building, Antenna, Span, Earth,”) The sport grew out of skydiving (some skydivers feel that BASE jumping gives their sport a bad image.) BASE jumping has started to gain a more mainstream following in the last fifteen years.
4/1/201454 minutes, 1 second
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Utah Farmers Call for Immigration Reform on Monday's Access Utah

We’ve been talking to various groups with a stake in the immigration debate and Monday on AU, Utah farmers will have their say.
3/31/201453 minutes, 57 seconds
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Conservation Writer Emma Marris On Friday's Access Utah

It is Natural Resources Week at Utah State University and the theme is "Go Wild, It's All Around you." Nature writer Emma Marris was a featured speaker during this week's celebration and she joins us today on the program to talk about the latest wave in conservation and her new book, The Rambunctious Garden, that is changing and challenging our traditional views of conservation.
3/28/201421 minutes, 40 seconds
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Climate Change on Thursday's Access Utah

According to Reuters, a 29-page draft by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will warn that “Global warming will disrupt food supplies, slow world economic growth and may already be causing irreversible damage to nature” and “will also outline many ways to adapt to rising temperatures, more heatwaves, floods and rising seas.”
3/27/201451 minutes, 35 seconds
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What are you Reading? On Wednesday's Access Utah

It’s time again to build a UPR reading list. We want to know what you’re reading, whether it’s fiction, non-fiction, classic literature, young adult or children’s books.
3/26/201459 seconds
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Can Coal Ever be Clean? Tuesday's Access Utah

Michelle Nijhuis writes in the April edition of National Geographic (“Can Coal Ever Be Clean?”) that “During the next two decades several hundred million people worldwide will get electricity for the first time, and if current trends continue, most will use power produced by coal...Coal, to use the economists’ euphemism, is fraught with “externalities”—the heavy costs it imposes on society.
3/25/201450 minutes, 35 seconds
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Searching for Your Roots on Monday's Access Utah

Are you interested in learning your genealogy and researching your family's history? Have you already traced your lineage back hundreds of years? Or are you just beginning?
3/24/201450 minutes, 50 seconds
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Vegan Lifestyle on Thursday's Access Utah

Are you Vegan? Vegetarian? Meat-eater? We’d love to hear from you on Thursday’s AU. We’re going to examine the vegan diet and lifestyle.
3/20/201451 minutes, 32 seconds
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Revisiting "Boleto" on Wednesday's Access Utah

On Wednesday’s AU we revisit a conversation from December: Alyson Hagy’s novel "Boleto," explores the themes of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out. The protagonist Will Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself.
3/19/201454 minutes, 47 seconds
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"Wild Rides and Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes" on Tuesday's Access Utah

Two Utah Valley University professors who describe themselves as similar to hosts Click and Clack from NPR’s "Car Talk," set out to repeatedly bike the Great Western Trail, observing and writing about its variations with every season. The accounts of their adventures, however, refuse to be limited to flora and fauna.
3/18/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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The Return of the Undead on Monday's Access Utah

A couple of years ago we took a fascinating look at zombies with Kyle Bishop, author of “American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture.” Bishop says that zombie movies reflect our cultural anxieties.
3/17/201453 minutes, 53 seconds
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Legislative Summary on Access Utah Friday

The 2014 Utah legislature closes Thursday night. Medicaid expansion, air quality, education, the budget...these are just some of the topics we’ll talk about on Friday’s AU.
3/13/201420 minutes, 43 seconds
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Living Wages And Poverty On Access Utah Tuesday

Rep. Lynn Hemingway’s (D- Salt Lake City) “Living Wage” bill (HB 73) would raise the minimum wage in Utah from $7.25/hour to $10.25/hour. According the Poverty in America Living Wage Calculator, a living wage for a Utah family with two adults and two children is $18.54/hour. That same family would need to earn $10.60/hour to hit the poverty line. President Obama is pushing for a higher federal minimum wage, saying that "nobody who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty."
3/11/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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Former Biker Helps Veterans Overcome Disabilities: Access Utah Monday

Tim Medvetz is a former member of the Hells Angels and host of the National Geographic Wild series “Going Wild.” After a horrible motorcycle accident and still not fully recovered from his extensive injuries (he was not expected to walk again) he decided to fly to Nepal, live with Sherpas, and summit Mt. Everest. He eventually created The Heroes Project, with the mission of taking veterans who suffered catastrophic injuries on climbs to the world’s seven tallest summits. Medvetz’ goal for these climbs is to mirror the mental, physical and emotional challenges it takes to overcome losing limbs in battle.
3/10/201453 minutes, 50 seconds
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Fire History of Utah's Great Basin on Friday's Access Utah

Today on the program we explore the connection between fire, prehistory, and biodiversity with researchers in Nevada who reviewed anecdotal and anthropological data on the historical uses of fire in the Great Basin. Their literature review revealed how lessons learned from the uses of fire hundreds and thousands of years ago can improve modern land management practices.
3/7/201454 minutes, 11 seconds
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Federal Funding for Medicaid Expansion On Thursday's Access Utah

Should Utah take federal money and expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act? Governor Herbert is pushing for expansion using $258 million in federal dollars.
3/6/201453 minutes, 59 seconds
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The Legacy of Ed Abbey on Wednesday's Access Utah

Wednesday on AU we remember Ed Abbey, author of “The Monkey Wrench Gang” and “Desert Solitaire,” and consider his legacy. What is Abbey's relevance today? What is the status of the environmental movement today?
3/5/201453 minutes, 49 seconds
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The Science of Air Quality on Tuesday's Access Utah

A while back, UPR listener Derek Butcher emailed us saying that he’s pleased that “UPR has devoted a fair amount of airtime to discussions of Utah's air quality...which is great because it's an important issue that affects all of us."
3/4/201453 minutes, 49 seconds
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Beat Poetry on Monday's Access Utah

On Monday’s Access Utah we’ll not only talk about key writers of the Beat Generation--such as Allen Ginsburg, Philip Whalen, and Kenneth Rexroth, but we’ll hear their voices as well. John Suiter, author of “Poets on the Peaks,” a book about Beat poets and their experiences as fire lookouts in the Northwest during the 1950s, discovered some historic photographs and audio tapes during his research.
3/3/201453 minutes, 37 seconds
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Utah's Contribution to Outer Space on Friday's Access Utah

NASA and a team of four aerospace companies are ready for two missions that will propel humans into outer space. The space shuttle launch and Orion rocket are ready for launch towards deep space starting in early fall this year.
2/28/201453 minutes, 45 seconds
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Talking Water with TEDxUSU Experts on Thursday's Access Utah

Living in the second-driest state in the U.S. most of us are closely attuned to water issues, especially as we face changes to our climate. Three experts at USU recently chose water as the topic of their TEDxUSU talks.
2/27/20140
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Count My Vote on Wednesday's Access Utah

What’s the best way to involve people in the political process? Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is in favor of the Count My Vote initiative, which would mandate a change to direct primaries to determine party nominees. He says that the current caucus and convention system excludes many people and rarely reflects how rank-and-file party members feel.
2/26/201454 minutes
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"Evening in Brazil" on Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s a tradition that every year about this time “Evening in Brazil” presents a concert or two in northern Utah. And each year, we gather group members in UPR’s studio C to enjoy some great Bossa Nova and Samba on Access Utah. Linda Ferreira Linford, Christopher Neale, Eric Nelson and Mike Christiansen will join us with their music on Tuesday. We hope you will too, beginning at 9:00 a.m.
2/25/20140
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Digital Security on Monday's Access Utah

We’re putting more and more of our lives in the cloud. More and more our transactions are electronic. Which is convenient and fast. But is it safe? How secure is all that stuff in the cloud or moving around electronically, like your credit card information or your bank records?
2/24/201453 minutes, 55 seconds
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"How to Love an Addict" on Friday's Access Utah

Today on the program author Teresa Small from the Shoshone-Bannock tribe in Southeastern Idaho joins us to talk about her book "How To Love An Addict." It is a detailed personal account of her experience coping with a meth addicted son. Rather than write another tragic story, she says she chose to instead write her story as a "how to manual" for anyone wanting to change the situation they are in with an addict.
2/21/201453 minutes, 51 seconds
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"How to Knock a Bravebird from her Perch" on Thursday's Access Utah

After two years of marriage, a gnawing feeling leads Belinda "Pecan" Morrow to suspect that getting married before the conclusion of her senior year in high school and after her father's sudden death--was a huge mistake. She packs up her few belongings and her baby girl and attempts to leave her husband, Ricky Morrow, an up-and-coming boxing sensation from Mississippi.
2/20/20140
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Oil and Water in Moab on Wednesday's Access Utah

Moab is debating whether city tap water should be used for oil and gas drilling. Jon Kovash recently reported on this issue for UPR: “Moab has seen a drilling boom in the last two years, and many more wells are planned.
2/19/201453 minutes, 55 seconds
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"It Rocked!" by Ed Kociela on Tuesday's Access Utah

Author Ed Kociela has a knack for taking his readers behind closed doors and now walks you backstage to hang out with some of the biggest stars in rock 'n' roll history in "It Rocked! (Recollections of a reclusive rock critic).
2/18/20140
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"Sugar Love" on Monday's Access Utah

Monday on Access Utah we feature an encore presentation of a program first aired in July 2013:
2/18/20140
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Sage Grouse Controversy on Friday's Access Utah

One of the most talked about species in Utah these days is the Greater Sage Grouse. This native, chicken-like bird, is at the forefront of controversy due to its unique mating ritual and its dwindling numbers in the west. As a result of its disappearance, the federal government is considering listing it is an endangered species, the state of Utah would like to avoid this and protect the bird on its own terms. Today on the program Sheri Quinn talks to USU Sage Grouse expert Dr. Terry Mesmer about the plight of this controversial bird.
2/14/201453 minutes, 1 second
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Revisiting Scott Hammond's "Lessons of the Lost" on Thursday's Access Utah

Scott Hammond and his golden retriever, Dusty, are volunteer search and rescue workers with Rocky Mountain Rescue Dogs. In his new book, “Lessons of the Lost: Finding Hope and Resilience in Work, Life, and the Wilderness,” Hammond says that wilderness can be unforgiving and dangerous, yet fill our souls with awe and wonder and that the wilderness is a classroom where we learn to survive, thrive and sometimes die.
2/13/20140
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GMOs, the Argument and the Environment on Wednesday's Access Utah

Tamar Haspel, writing for the Washington Post, vividly describes the debate over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs,) “It’s not just genetic modification. We’re arguing about organics, honeybees, factory livestock, fishery depletion, aquaculture, yields, antibiotics, monocrops and chemicals. Some of these can be as polarizing as the most difficult social issues; there’s as deep a schism in the food community as there is in Congress.
2/12/201452 minutes, 58 seconds
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Health Care 101 on Tuesday's Access Utah

The Utah Health Policy Project has been presenting “Health Care 101” events to show how the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is being implementing in Utah. Utah residents have until March 31st to enroll in new private insurance on healthcare.gov.
2/11/20140
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Dry Farming with Gary Paul Nabhan on Monday's Access Utah

Gary Paul Nabhan is a nature writer, food and farming activist, and proponent of conserving the links between biodiversity and cultural diversity. He has been honored as a pioneer in the local food movement and seed saving community by Utne Reader, Mother Earth News, New York Times, Bioneers and Time magazine. As the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona Southwest Center, he works with students, faculty and non-profits to build a more just, nutritious, sustainable and climate-resilient foodshed spanning the U.S./Mexico border.
2/10/20140
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Brad Gregory's "The Unintended Reformation" on Friday's Access Utah

In his book, “The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society,” Notre Dame History Professor Brad Gregory shows how the unsolved doctrinal disagreements and religious and political conflicts of 16th- and 17th-century Europe continue to influence American political, social, intellectual, and economic life today. He asks what propelled the West into a trajectory of pluralism, polarization and consumerism, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past. Brad Gregory, a USU alumnus, returns to Logan to give a presentation in the Tanner Talks series from the USU College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The talk is Friday at noon in USU Library room 101.
2/7/20140
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Effects of Air Quality on Thursday's Access Utah

On today's Encore presentation of Access Utah, Sheri Quinn meets with Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, a group of over 300 medical doctors, last year declared an air-pollution public health emergency on Capitol Hill. The problem has been so bad that it drew a crowd of about 5,000 citizens to the State Capitol in late January, now regarded as the largest air-pollution-specific protest in U.S. history. Today, Dr. Roger Coulombe, professor of Toxicology at Utah State University, talks to Sheri Quinn about the side effects of bad in Cache Valley.
2/6/201420 minutes, 58 seconds
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P.J. O'Rourke on Wednesday's Access Utah

Political satirist and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” panelist, P.J. O’Rourke, trains his eye on his own generation in his new book, “THE BABY BOOM: How It Got That Way…And It Wasn’t My Fault…And I’ll Never Do It Again.” O’Rourke writes, “Yes, we’re spoiled rotten. We’re self-absorbed. And it seems like we’ll never shut up. But the boomers made a better world for everyone else. You’re welcome.” P.J. O'Rourke’s books include “Don’t Vote,” “Parliament of Whores,” “Give War a Chance,” “Eat the Rich,” “The CEO of the Sofa,” “Peace Kills” and “On the Wealth of Nation.”
2/5/20140
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Immigration Reform on Tuesday's Access Utah

U. S. House Republican Leaders recently outlined principles they believe should be followed in any overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws. This has raised hopes that immigration reform might move forward in Congress. What you think: Path to citizenship? Increased border security? What’s needed most? Or should this issue not be a priority? Do you have a personal experience or concern regarding immigration? We’ll be talking to members of the group: Bibles Badges and Business for Immigration Reform, Pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Steve Klemz and Immigration Attorney Timothy Wheelwright.
2/4/201453 minutes, 38 seconds
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Michael Pollan's "Cooked" on Monday's Access Utah

This is an encore presentation of Access Utah, originally broadcast in May 2013.
2/3/20140
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Experimental Economics on Thursday's Access Utah

Dr. Vernon L. Smith was teaching at Purdue in 1955 when he decided to test out an approach he hoped would help his students better understand how the marketplace functions. He conducted a classroom experiment that had half his students selling fictitious goods to the other students who were acting as buyers. That led to his research in experimental economics which eventually won him the Nobel Prize in 2002.
1/30/20140
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"Patchwork Reality" with Pauline Hansen on Wednesday's Access Utah

For the first fourteen years of their marriage, Utah residents Curtis and Pauline Hansen had it all--laughter, babies, vacations, and ball games--but the nine years that follow define their future, and it all begins with a dream. Curtis believes his dream to be direct revelation that they will receive a very large sum of money, but to receive it, they must play and win what is revealed to Curtis as The Game, a test to prove their faithfulness to each other.
1/29/201453 minutes, 45 seconds
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"Clean Air, No Excuses," on Tuesday's Access Utah

The title of a recent rally at the State Capitol aptly describes the feelings of many Utahns: “Clean Air, No Excuses.” We’re going to open the phones and email to you on Tuesday’s AU to tell us what your experience has been with this bad air. And: how do we solve the problem? What to do in the meantime? We’ll also be talking with rally organizer, Carl Ingwell; and with members of the newly-formed Clean Air Caucus of the Utah Legislature. We’ll talk with Representatives Ed Redd and Patrice Arent.
1/28/201455 minutes, 1 second
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Opening Day at the Legislature on Monday's Access Utah

On the opening day of the 2014 Utah Legislature we’re at the State Capitol. We’ll speak with Utah Governor Gary Herbert; Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund; Senate Minority Leader Gene Davis; House Majority Leader Brad Dee; and House Assistant Minority Whip Rebecca Chavez-Houck. We’ll discuss air quality, education, the economy, Medicaid expansion, the budget and more.
1/28/201459 minutes, 58 seconds
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Kepler Space Mission On Friday's Access Utah

Welcome to Access Utah. The Utah State University Science Unwrapped series this winter and spring focuses on "SuperPower Scientists." Today on the program, Sheri Quinn talks to tonight's featured speaker astro-physicist Lucianne Walkowicz about NASA's Kepler Mission and the search for planets.
1/24/201452 minutes, 56 seconds
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Eva Kor, Holocaust Survivor, on Thursday's Access Utah

Monday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day; so designated because January 27, 1945 was the day that the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by Soviet troops. We’ll mark the occasion on Thursday by revisiting a conversation with Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor and victim of Dr. Josef Mengele’s medical experiments on twins at Auschwitz. Mengele was given the name “Angel of Death,” because of his position as a SS physician in charge of selecting which new prisoners of the camp would be killed or selected for forced labor. Kor and her sister launched a search for other twins who survived Mengele’s experiments and located 122 individual survivors.
1/23/201459 minutes, 45 seconds
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M.B. McLatchey's "The Lame God" on Wednesday's Access Utah

M. B. McLatchey is recipient of the May Swenson Poetry Award for “The Lame God,” a collection of powerful poems on a very sensitive subject: the kidnap and murder of a young girl. Using the art of poetry she gives voice to a suffering—and a love—that might otherwise go unheard. Philip Brady says of this collection, “in magisterial cadences, this powerful poetic sequence gives voice to the unspeakable and transposes profound grief into immortal song. McLatchey's poems are talismans and spells--not against loss but against forgetting.
1/22/201450 minutes, 6 seconds
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Jared Farmer Trees in Paradise on Tuesday's Access Utah

Jared Farmer’s new book is “Trees in Paradise: A California History.” We’ll also talk about Utah history, and Farmer will offer his list of iconic Utah trees as well. California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It's the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and civic reformers began to "improve" the bare, brown countryside, planting millions of trees to create groves, wooded suburbs, and landscaped cities. They imported the blue-green eucalypts whose tangy fragrance was thought to cure malaria. They built the lucrative "Orange Empire" on the sweet juice and thick skin of the Washington navel, an industrial fruit. They lined their streets with graceful palms to announce that they were not in the Midwest anymore.
1/21/20140
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An American Family in Iran on Wednesday's Access Utah

In 2011, with U.S.–Iran relations at a thirty-year low, Iranian-American writer Hooman Majd decided to take his blonde, blue-eyed Midwestern wife Karri and his infant son Khash from their Brooklyn neighborhood to spend a year in the land of his birth. “The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay” traces their domestic adventures and tracks the political drama of a terrible year for Iran's government. The Green Movement had been crushed, but the regime was on edge, anxious lest democratic protests resurge. International sanctions were dragging down the economy while talk of war with the West grew. Hooman Majd was there for all of it. It was to be a year of discovery for Majd, too, who had only lived in Iran as a child.
1/15/201453 minutes, 56 seconds
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Latter-day Lore on Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s all there in “Latter-day Lore: Mormon Folklore Studies” (from University of Utah Press) -- The Three Nephites, The Beehive, Creative Date Invitations, BYU Coed Jokes, The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries, The Apocalypse, and more. “Latter-day Lore” explores society, symbols, and landscape of regional culture; formative customs and traditions; the sacred and the supernatural; pioneers, heroes, and the historical imagination; humor; and the international contexts of Mormon folklore.
1/14/20140
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Plants Evolve For Colder Temperatures: Evolution On Access Utah

Utah State University ecologist Daniel McGlinn was part of a research team that created the largest evolutionary "time-tree" of plants. This tree is helping scientists understand how plants evolved to tolerate frigid winter temperatures. Today on the program Sheri Quinn talks to McGlinn about the project and his field of study macro-ecology.
1/10/201453 minutes, 43 seconds
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The Gay Marriage Debate On Access Utah Thursday

It’s been an eventful few weeks: First, a federal judge struck down Utah’s laws against gay marriage, including Constitutional Amendment 3, which defined marriage as only between a man and a woman. More than a thousand gay and lesbian couples were married across the state. Then, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay as the ruling was appealed to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now Governor Herbert has announced that Utah will not recognize marriages performed during that window.
1/10/20140
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Citizens Climate Lobby on Wednesday's Access Utah

A group called the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) says that In light of Utah’s growing air quality concerns and the real and potential effects of climate instability, the time to act is now. The purposes of Citizens Climate Lobby are: 1) to create the political will for a stable climate; and 2) to empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power They engage in non-partisan lobbying for a gradually increasing tax on carbon-based fuels with all revenues returned as a dividend to households, as a way to drive our economy away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy.
1/8/20140
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Doris Kearns Goodwin On Tuesday's Access Utah

“The gap between rich and poor has never been wider . . . legislative stalemate paralyzes the country . . . corporations resist federal regulations . . . spectacular mergers produce giant companies . . . the influence of money in politics deepens . . . bombs explode in crowded streets . . . small wars proliferate far from our shores . . . a dizzying array of inventions speeds the pace of daily life.” Headlines like these were characteristic of America’s Progressive era, that tumultuous time in the early 1900s when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air.
1/7/201454 minutes
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Folklore With USU's Lynne McNeill On Monday's Access Utah

Why is it so hard to define folklore? Lynne McNeill, in her new book from USU Press “Folklore Rules,” says “...well you try to explain what a creation myth, a jump-rope rhyme, a Fourth of July BBQ, & some bathroom graffiti have in common and you’ll find it’s not a terribly easy task either.”
1/6/201454 minutes, 2 seconds
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Holiday Music And Storytelling On Friday's Access Utah Special

For our Access Utah Holiday Special, we feature guitarist and USU professor emeritus Mike Christiansen, and story teller Daniel Bishop to bring you great holiday guitar music and holiday stories on today's program. You can listen to more music and stories by Mike Christiansen and Daniel Bishop on their webistes. From the Utah Public Radio family, we hope your holidays are filled with great music and stories, and we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
12/20/20131 hour, 54 seconds
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Prison Plants And Teen Recovery Schools On Thursday's Access Utah

Two Cache Valley women are giving Utah prisoners a new chance behind the bars using dried plants. Today on the program, producers Sheri Quinn and Elaine Taylor explore the "plants in jail" program started by Sara Lamb and Mary Barkworth, where inmates prepare plant material for the Utah State University herbarium.
12/20/201354 minutes, 38 seconds
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Sustainability: "Walking the Talk," On Wednesday's Access Utah

“Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” We’re going to apply this oft-quoted quip to sustainability on Access Utah. Many of us believe that universal and individual changes are needed to ensure a sustainable & healthy life for us all.
12/18/201354 minutes, 5 seconds
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Polygamy On Tuesday's Access Utah

In the wake of a federal judge’s ruling effectively de-criminalizing polygamy in Utah, we’ll talk with Jonathan Turley, the attorney representing the Kody Brown family, which brought the lawsuit. We’ll also talk with a former member of the FLDS community.
12/17/20130
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"Five Old Men of Yellowstone" on Monday's Access Utah

Yellowstone has undergone a number of transitions in the 140 years since its national park designation in 1872. The period from the late 1930s through the early 1970s marked one of the most significant as the Park Service shifted focus from public recreation to interpretation and education.
12/16/20130
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Exploring Mars On Friday's Access Utah

The Dutch company Mars One Foundation announced this week they have received more than 20,000 applications from aspiring astronauts who are willing to travel to mars on a one-way ticket. Friday on Access Utah, Sheri Quinn talks to aerospace engineer Walter Holemans, who joins her from Washington DC to talk about why he thinks they should stay on earth. Mr. Holemans also sums up the major accomplishments of the aerospace industry in 2013.
12/13/20130
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Attorney General Special Nominations On Thursday's Access Utah

The Utah Republican Party will hold a special State Central Committee meeting on Saturday to nominate three individuals from among seven Attorney General candidates. Governor Herbert is expected to choose the next AG from this group. State Republican Party Chairman James Evans has organized a committee to verify that each candidate meets the requirements to serve as Attorney General and does not have any blatant conflicts of interest. The Republicans were also holding a candidate debate Wednesday evening. The Utah Democratic Party says there are major conflicts of interest and ethical questions surrounding the candidates being considered by the Republican Party.
12/12/20130
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"SLAPPED!" on Wednesday's Access Utah

“SLAPPED!” is a new novel based of the true story of a strategic lawsuit against public participation (S.L.A.P.P.) in Utah. Two headstrong conservative Mormon housewives, bent on preserving open space near Utah's Jordan River for their children and coming generations, speak out publicly against a multimillion-dollar commercial project that they believe would encroach on the river and destroy wildlife habitat.
12/10/20130
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"Hidden History Of Utah" On Tuesday's Access Utah

Utah has been the focal point for many brave settlers yearning for a new way of life. While Utah's Mormon legacy is well documented, there are lesser-known stories that contribute to the state's history. In “Hidden History of Utah,” public historian, author and history columnist Eileen Hallet Stone looks into the state's forgotten past and presents a revelatory collection of tales culled from her Salt Lake Tribune "Living History" column.
12/10/201354 minutes
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Alyson Hagy's "Boleto" on Monday's Access Utah

Alyson Hagy’s latest novel "Boleto," explores the themes of men and horses, the American West, and the dream of a ticket out. The protagonist Will Testerman is a young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself. Money is tight at the family ranch, where he's living again after a disastrous end to his job on the Texas show-horse circuit.
12/9/20130
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Snakes and their Bad Reputation on Friday's Access Utah

USU graduate student Andrew Durso thinks snakes get a bad wrap and is working hard to change their bad reputation with his online blog titled “Life is short but snakes are long.” He has garnered an online following including editors of the magazine “Scientific American.” This Monday, Dec. 9, he is co-hosting a Blog Carnival in recognition of the year of the snake. Sheri Quinn talks to Durso about his reptile research and online success.
12/6/20130
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Craig Anderson and U.S. A.I.D on Thursday's Access Utah

Craig Anderson, a resident of St. George Utah and native of Cache Valley, had a long career with the United States Agency for International Development as an agricultural specialist.
12/6/20130
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Graeme Simsion's "The Rosie Project" On Wednesday's Access Utah

Meet Don Tillman, hero of Graeme Simsion’s new novel “The Rosie Project.” Don Tillman is a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Rosie Jarman is all these things.
12/4/201353 minutes, 46 seconds
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Marriage 101 For Men On Tuesday's Access Utah

Sherri Mills has been a hairdresser for more than forty-five years. She has had her own salon long enough to see life happen before her very eyes. She has listened to real-life problems and followed real-life outcomes—successes and failures—and through several generations, longer and more extensively than marriage counselors can.
12/3/20130
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Ogden's "25th Street Confidential" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Generations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden—known in its first century as a “gambling hell” and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row—by the street’s gaudy reputation. Present-day Ogden embraces the afterglow of 25th Street’s decadence and successfully promotes it to tourists. In the same preservationist spirit as Denver’s Larimer Square, today’s 25th Street is home to art galleries, fine dining, live theater, street festivals, mixed-use condominiums, and the Utah State Railroad Museum.
11/27/20130
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Fingerstyle Guitar With Adam Miller On Tuesday's Access Utah

Australian fingerstyle guitarist Adam Miller included Logan among his stops on a recent American tour. He stopped by the UPR studios to talk about finding just the right sound in a guitar; to describe his travels--including to Afghanistan to play for the troops there; and, of course, to play us a few songs, including “Carpal Tunnel Blues,” (Miller has battled the malady,) and a tune written during his wedding speech. Logan-based guitar maker, Ryan Thorell, joins in the conversation to describe his craft.
11/26/20130
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The Power Of Listening On Monday's Access Utah

StoryCorps promotes the day after Thanksgiving as a National Day of Listening, calling listening the least expensive but most meaningful gift you can give this holiday season.
11/25/20130
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Remembering President John F. Kennedy on Thursday's Access Utah

Many of us remember where we were the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Friday will mark the 50th anniversary of that tragic event. We’re going to open up the phone lines to you on Thursday’s Access Utah from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. to express your memories, thoughts and feelings.
11/21/20130
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"The Story of the Human Body" on Wednesday's Access Utah

In “The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease,” Daniel E. Lieberman—chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University — explains how the human body evolved over millions of years and shows how the increasing disparity between the adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world has led to a paradox: we are living longer but are increasingly prone to chronic disease.
11/20/20130
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Return of the Wolves on Tuesday's Access Utah

It’s been almost 20 years since wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park and parts of Idaho and placed on the endangered species list. At the time, advocates said wolves were a vital link in the natural ecosystem. Worried about the effect of wolves on their livelihoods, ranchers and hunters protested the reintroduction, some even filing lawsuits.
11/19/20130
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Natural and Human History of the Colorado River on Monday's Access Utah

If the Colorado River stopped flowing, the water in its reservoirs might hold out for three or four years, but then it would be necessary to abandon most of southern California and Arizona, and much of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. For the entire American Southwest the Colorado is the river of life, which makes it all the more tragic and ironic that by the time it approaches its final destination, it has been reduced to a shadow upon the sand.
11/18/20130
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The Food Safety Modernization Act on Friday's Access Utah

The Food Safety Modernization Act is the first major update of federal food safety laws since 1938. FSMA gives the FDA new abilities to prevent food safety problems, detect and respond to food safety issues, and improve the safety of imported foods. The act is geared to help prevent the outbreaks of food-borne illnesses that are on the rise-- though seldom traced back to small local producers.
11/15/20130
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Nobel Prize Recipient Lars Peter Hansen and NPR's David Folkenflik on Thursday's Access Utah

Utah State University alumnus Lars Peter Hansen is one of three Americans recently named as a recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics. Professor Hansen, a Cache Valley native who now teaches at the University of Chicago, will share his feelings on winning the Nobel Prize and discuss his research. He will also discuss the recent housing bubble, and government regulation of markets.
11/14/20130
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Jared Diamond on Wednesday's Access Utah

Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Guns, Germs and Steel,” “Collapse,” and other books, joins Tom Williams to discuss his latest: “The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?” which is now out in paperback.
11/13/201353 minutes, 55 seconds
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Demise of Local Newspapers on Tuesday's Access Utah

A series of Tanner Talks continues at USU on Wednesday with a panel discussion called “Community and the Demise of Local Newspapers.” Media veterans will offer their insights, concerns, warnings and prognostications as local newspapers struggle and community news evolves. Organizer and Assistant Professor in the USU Department of Journalism and Communication Matthew LaPlante, quoted in USU Today, said “I love newspapers. That’s where I come from but we have to start opening up people to the idea that, yes, there are things that we are losing as local newspapers decline. But this also gives us an opportunity to redefine the ways we communicate in our communities.”
11/12/20130
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Veteran Integration on Monday's Access Utah

On Veterans Day we consider the problems of returning military veterans and how we can help.Joining us are Matthew LaPlante, USU Assistant Professor of Journalism, and U. S. Navy veteran, who covered veterans issues for the Salt Lake Tribune for 7 years; former Executive Director at the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs, and U. S. Army veteran, Terry Schow; Public Affairs Officer for the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and veteran, Jill Atwood; and former US Army Captain Stacy Bare, Director of Sierra Club Outdoors Mission, an initiative to reconnect Americans, veterans in particular, to the outdoors and to use nature to facilitate reintegration.
11/11/20130
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Farm Action on Friday's Access Utah

The Food and Drug Administration is accepting public comments for the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act, through November 15, 2013. In its current form the rule, if passed, could cost farmers thousands of dollars every week or month. Farmers will have to comply with new regulations such as mandatory weekly water testing and treatment, wildlife monitoring and rigorous manure and composting standards. It threatens the subsistence of small, local farms with small profits, at a time when they are on the rise across the U.S. In her continuing series called Farm Action, Sheri Quinn profiles a California sustainable farm in the Making. It is an agricultural recipe for growing your own farm from scratch.
11/8/20130
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The Second Cooler on Thursday's Access Utah

During the period of October 1, 2000 to April 30, 2013 the remains of 2,541 migrants who had crossed the U.S./Mexico border illegally, were recovered from Cochise, Pima and Yuma counties in Arizona, according to the AZ Daily Star Recovered Human Remains Project. In order to store the bodies, Pima County installed a second morgue refrigerator. They call it the Second Cooler.
11/7/20130
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Nicholas Basbanes on Wednesday's Access Utah

Nicholas Basbanes, author of a trilogy on all things book-related including “A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books,” is out with a new book: “On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History,” in which he considers everything from paper’s invention in China two thousand years ago, which revolutionized human civilization, to its crucial role in the unfolding of historical events, political scandals, and sensational trials: from the American Revolution to the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
11/6/201353 minutes, 41 seconds
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Jacob Dorman's "Chosen People" on Tuesday's Access Utah

In 1991, riots began in New York City after a white Hasidic Jew struck two black children while driving in Crown Heights, killing one of them. A rumor started that emergency responders rushed to help the Jewish men in the car, but not the children. When the news spread, anti-Semitic violence left one Jewish man dead — despite the fact that the he wasn’t involved in the crash. Jacob Dorman, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Kansas, says that these events upset the narrative about the two communities as allies in the civil rights movement.
11/5/20130
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Rich Cohen's "Monsters: the 1985 Chicago Bears," on Monday's Access Utah

For millions of fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team. They were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts dancing and pounding their way to victory. This was the first NFL team to really cross over, to become pop stars. Their ascent marks the beginning of the modern game.
11/4/20130
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The Colorado River on Friday's Access Utah

Today on Access Utah, Jack Schmidt, professor in Utah State University’s Department of Watershed Sciences and head of the U.S. Geological Survey's Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, has long studied the Colorado River. He's among the team of scientists that designed a series of controlled releases of water from Glen Canyon Dam, starting in 1996, in an effort to restore habitats altered by the use of dams.
11/1/201354 minutes, 1 second
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Lisa Morton and Halloween on Thursday's Access Utah

Amazon.com says about Lisa Morton’s “Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween:” “Every year, children and adults alike take to the streets dressed as witches, demons, animals, celebrities, and more. They carve pumpkins and play pranks, and the braver ones watch scary movies and go on ghost tours. There are parades, fireworks displays, cornfield mazes, and haunted houses—and, most important, copious amounts of bite-sized candy.
10/31/20130
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Concussions and Brain Injury on Wednesday's Access Utah

Less than three years after he retired, legendary quarterback Brett Favre has become one of the most high profile players to acknowledge he has experienced health problems stemming from repeated concussions in the NFL. KUED and the Brain Injury Alliance of Utah are hosting a screening and panel discussion of the Frontline documentary “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis.” The screening will take place at the Salt Lake City Library, 210 East 400 South, Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm.
10/29/20130
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Stephen Jimenez discusses Matthew Shepard on Tuesday's Access Utah

In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student in Wyoming was brutally beaten by two men and died from his injuries. His story became synonymous with anti-gay hate crimes. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard’s murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on.
10/29/20130
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Ricardo Salvador on Monday's Access Utah

Ricardo Salvador is the senior scientist and director of the Food & Environment Program at Union of Concerned Scientists. Salvador works with citizens, scientists, economists, and politicians to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainable practices. His work is driven by the belief that the current food production system disproportionately benefits some large agribusiness firms and contributes to rises in preventable diseases like hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Salvador recently visited Utah State University to present his lecture titled “Democracy Interrupted: Constructing a food utopia on top of crumbling foundations.” He talks with Tom Williams about the responsibilities and the reality of America's food industry, declining cardiovascular health and how his family's history is significant of his health today.
10/28/20130
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Science Questions Explores India's Toilet Problem

Science Questions profiles India's largest public toilet system that has saved the "Untouchables" from a lifetime of cleaning up human waste. Later, we hear about the amazing ability of what are called Cemetery Trees.
10/25/20130
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Cache Valley's Sustainability on Friday's Access Utah

On today's Access Utah Sheri Quinn discusses population growth and climate change eco-cities are on the rise across the world. Cities that are committed to producing renewable energy-renewable resources and removing carbon waste. Cache Valley resident and long-time sustainability living activist Jim Goodwin joins us to talk about the challenges Cache Valley faces as the valley grows and seeks cleaner energy alternatives.
10/25/20130
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Dr. Albert Raboteau on Thursday's Access Utah

The USU Religious Studies Program & USU History Department are sponsoring a symposium: Black Religious Experience in American History at USU on Oct 24-25. Speakers include Albert Raboteau, Emeritus Professor of Religion at Princeton, the foremost expert on the religion of the American slaves prior to Lincoln's emancipation.
10/24/20130
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Scott Hammond's "Lessons of the Lost" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Scott Hammond and his golden retriever, Dusty, are volunteer search and rescue workers with Rocky Mountain Rescue Dogs. In his new book, “Lessons of the Lost: Finding Hope and Resilience in Work, Life, and the Wilderness,” Hammond says that wilderness can be unforgiving and dangerous, yet fill our souls with awe and wonder and that the wilderness is a classroom where we learn to survive, thrive and sometimes die.
10/22/20130
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Renegade Naturalist Doug Peacock on Tuesday's Access Utah

For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late Pleistocene and driving the beasts of the Ice Age toward extinction. In this new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail?
10/22/20130
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Chuck Greaves' "Hard Twisted" on Monday's Access Utah

In May of 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his 13 year-old daughter are befriended by a Texas drifter newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter Lucile begins a one-year ordeal that culminates in four Utah killings and Palmer’s notorious Greenville, Texas “skeleton murder” trial of 1935.Chuck Greaves’ historical novel ”Hard Twisted” tells the true story of Lucile“Lottie” Garrett.
10/21/20130
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Dr. Zorba Pastor Live from Logan on Thursday's Access Utah

This morning we’re at Logan Regional Hospital. My guest for the hour is Dr. Zorba Paster from Zorba Paster On Your Health. Our live broadcast is kicking off several events featuring Zorba Paster in Logan and Moab. I’ll ask him to take us behind the scenes of his show. We’ll talk about how to live a long, sweet life. We’ll also talk about health literacy and food.
10/18/20130
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5 Myths about Nuclear Weapons on Wednesday's Access Utah

Most of us think there’s nothing new to say about nuclear weapons. Yes, they’re horrible, possibly immoral, and definitely dangerous, but they feel necessary. If force is the final arbiter between nations, and nuclear bombs are the most powerful weapons, then we’re basically stuck with them. In his new book, “Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons.,” Ward Wilson says that much of what we believe about nuclear weapons is based on emotion and exaggeration.
10/16/20130
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Edward Schumacher-Matos on Tuesday's Access Utah

Edward Schumacher-Matos is the Ombudsman for NPR, dealing with issues of ethics, fairness and accuracy, media and society, and language. He joins Tom Williams to talk about some of the issues he has addressed recently: the patriotism of NPR and its sponsor Al Jazeera; questions of bias in NPR coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian divide; and whether NPR should use the term “Obamacare.” He will also talk about immigration, the fragmentation of media, the future of newspapers, the goals of NPR News, and relationships between NPR and its member stations.
10/15/20130
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Health and Air Pollution on Friday's Access Utah

Cache Valley has some of the worst air in the nation a few days out of the year, typically in the winter time. Even short-term exposure to air pollution can cause long-term health effects according to studies conducted at Utah State University. Today on the program, Utah State University toxicologist Dr. Roger Coloumbe joins us to discuss the Cache Valley air pollution studies and how it impacts our health.
10/11/201322 minutes, 5 seconds
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Shutdown Pains Utah on Thursday's Access Utah

It's been estimated that nearly 40,000 Utahns have been furloughed because of the government shutdown, programs like the Women’s Infant Care (WIC) are struggling to provide their services to mothers and their children, all six of Utah’s National Parks are closed, leaving surrounding businesses and towns fearful.
10/11/20130
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Extension Sustainability Summit on Wednesday's Access Utah

From October 2 to October 3, Park City hosted the Extension Sustainability Summit. The event brought in extension educators on sustainability from all across the nation, to discuss what major environmental sustainability programs are currently being delivered through Cooperative Extension and began talking about future goals.
10/8/201357 minutes, 25 seconds
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Aspen's Roots on Tuesday's Access Utah

What is it about the aspen tree that captures our imagination? The pleasant sound and sight of quaking leaves? Maybe aspen trees remind us of favorite mountain retreats? Perhaps it’s the fact that many aspen “groves” are really a single organism, sharing a massive root system. One such aspen, Pando, is one of the world’s oldest living organisms and lives in Fishlake National Forest in Utah. School children from Monroe have proposed that the aspen be named Utah’s state tree. Today on Access Utah we’ll explore all things aspen, from the scientific to the metaphorical.
10/8/20130
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Religous Pluralism with Dr. Marcella Hall on Monday's Access Utah

Dr. Marcella Runell Hall is a social justice scholar and author specializing in Diversity Education/Training, Spirituality/Religion, Race/Ethnicity, Hip-Hop Education, Social Justice and Critical Pedagogy.
10/7/201351 minutes, 36 seconds
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"Underground" on Thursday's Access Utah

“Underground,” a new play by award-winning Utah playwright (and University of Utah Law Professor,) Debora Threedy, will have its World Premiere in Southern Utah, October 3-5 in the Kayenta Outdoor Theatre in Ivins. “Underground” addresses an especially important topic for many Utahns: the moral and spiritual dilemma of excavating Ancient Native American ancestral grounds and selling the excavated artifacts for financial gain. A similar scenario occurred a few years ago in Blanding, where many local residents were indicted for selling stolen Native American artifacts on the black market.
10/3/20130
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World Reading Day on Wednesday's Access Utah

Wednesday is World Reading Day. It’s one day, held once a year, where people of all ages are encouraged to turn off the TV, log off the net, put away the video games & ignore all the other myriad distractions of modern life and enjoy the simple pleasure of reading a book instead.
10/1/20130
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Performing Arts for Prisoners on Tuesday's Access Utah

21 years ago in St. Louis, six correctional centers and juvenile detention centers began a program featuring incarcerated adults and children called Prison Performing Arts. Hardened criminals performing classic plays have provided fascinating insights into theater and life. As “This American Life” said of the Prison Performing Arts’ production of Hamlet in a St Louis penitentiary, “It’s a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers, living out the consequences.”
10/1/20130
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Republic of Nature on Monday's Access Utah

In his book, “The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States,” Mark Fiegere-frames the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Among the historical moments he revisits under this new framework: a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty.
9/27/201354 minutes, 1 second
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Amy Larkin talks Environmental Debt on Thursday's Access Utah

For decades, politicians and business leaders have told us that today’s challenge is growing the economy, and that environmental protection can be left to future generations. Amy Larkin, in her book “Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy,” says that in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with Hurricane Sandy, wildfires across the West, and groundwater contamination from drilling, it’s clear that yesterday’s carefree attitude about the environment has morphed into a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. She argues that the costs of global warming, extreme weather, pollution and other forms of “environmental debt” are wreaking havoc on the economy.
9/25/20130
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Comedy of War: David Abram's Fobbit on Thursday's Access Utah

Based on David Abrams’ own experiences serving in Iraq and the diary he kept there, his new novel, “Fobbit,” takes us into the chaotic world of Baghdad’s Forward Operating Base Triumph. The Forward Operating Base, or FOB, is like the back-office of the battlefield—where the grunts eat and sleep between missions, and where a lot of Army employees have what looks suspiciously like an office job. The FOB contains all the comforts of home, including Starbucks and Burger King, but there’s also the unfortunate possibility that a mortar might hit you while you’re drinking your Frappucino. A lot of what goes on at the FOB doesn’t exactly fit the image of war that the army and the government feed us:
9/24/20130
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Pet Health and Happiness on Tuesday's Access Utah

There has been a lot of debate recently about how to get the right health care for you and your family, but what about one of the most important members of the family, your pet? Dr. Melinda Hillegass from Mountain View Veterinary Health Center in Logan will answer your pet health & care questions. We’re also inviting you to share a picture and message about your pet on our Utah Public Radio Facebook page. We’ll share your message during the program and invite listeners to view your picture on Facebook.
9/23/20130
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Grandmother Power Explored Around The Globe on Monday's Access Utah

Photojournalist Paola Gianturco says that an unheralded grandmothers' movement is changing the world & that insurgent grandmothers are using their power to fight for a better future for grandchildren everywhere. Her book, “Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon” features 120 activist grandmothers in 15 countries on five continents. Grandmothers in Canada, Swaziland, and South Africa are collaborating to care for AIDS orphans. Grandmothers in Senegal have convinced communities to abandon female genital mutilation. Grandmothers in India are becoming solar engineers to bring light to their villages while those in Peru, Thailand, and Laos are sustaining weaving traditions.
9/20/20130
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"Faith & Doubt as Partners in Mormon History" with Gregory Prince on Thursday's Access Utah

In the inaugural Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, Arrington himself was the speaker. His topic: “Faith and Intellect as Partners in Mormon History.” Joining us today is the 2013 lecturer, Dr. Gregory Prince, who adapts Arrington’s title, calling his lecture “Faith and Doubt as Partners in Mormon History.” A scientist by profession, Prince is also a published historian of Mormonism.
9/18/201353 minutes, 49 seconds
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Ivan Doig's New Book 'Sweet Thunder' on Wednesday's Access Utah

Ivan Doig, acclaimed author of “This House of Sky” & “English Creek” is out with a new book, “Sweet Thunder,” the third novel in a trilogy of tales following the life of wordslinger Morris Morgan. With the backdrop of a conflicted America during the roaring Twenties, Morrie finds himself back in the brawling city of Butte in the middle of a conflict between miners and the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
9/18/20130
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Innovative Methods of Education on Tuesday's Access Utah

Education reform is a hot topic right now from congress to communities across the country. On today’s show we will be discussing new solutions and ways of thinking about education with three guests who are at the forefront of education research.
9/17/20130
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Quench Your Thirst With Salt on Monday's Access Utah

Nicole Walker, writing about her new book “Quench Your Thirst With Salt,” says that “Utah is a strange place, especially Salt Lake City. A dominant culture encloses the valley in a kind of protective and paternalistic bubble. A sharp and active subculture attempts to pop that bubble...My father tried to single-handedly subvert the dominant, abstinent, culture by drinking a lot. With every drink, he banged his head against the Mormon granite. With every drink, he hurt his head, never making a crack in that granite. Sometimes the mountains win.
9/14/20130
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Encore Presentation of Mother George on Thursday

Today we revisit one of the most popular programs from our archives. Mother George was a black midwife who practiced her art in a small southeastern Idaho town for 40 years. When she died around 1919, the women dressing her for burial discovered that she was man.
9/11/20130
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Provo's First Pride Parade on Wednesday's Access Utah

Saturday, September, 21, will mark a historic moment for members of the LGBT community in Utah: the first Provo Pride Festival is planned for that day. Utah has held an annual, 3 day long, pride festival in Salt Lake City since 1983. Utah Pride started quite small but has grown to include national headliners and recent attendance has reached to well over 20,000 people.
9/11/20130
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Three Mormon Towns Explored by Ansel Adams and Dorthea Lange on Tuesday's Access Utah

Dorthea Lange and Ansel Adams are two of the most well-known photographers of the 20th century. Lange humanized American's struggle for economic and social justice through her documentary photography, while Adams' landscapes spurred environmental protection of the wild places of the American West. These two household names had already defined Western portraiture and landscape when Adams and Lange undertook a joint venture to document the changing ways of life in three Mormon towns (St. George, Toquerville, & Gunlock.)
9/10/20131 hour
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The Guerrilla Girls, Exposing Sexism and Fighting Corruption on Monday's Access Utah

In the spring of 1985 the Museum of Modern Art held an international exhibition of the year's most significant artists. Out of 169 artists showcased, only 13 were women. Infuriated, a group of women found themselves protesting the museum and created The Guerrilla Girls.
9/9/20130
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Cache Valley's Air Quality on Friday's Access Utah

Several days a year Cache Valley’s air quality is worse than the air in big cities such as Beijing, China. Today on the program Utah State University environmental engineer Randy Martin, joins us to talk about what’s causing the pollution in cache valley and the State strategies to clean it up so everyone can breathe easy.
9/6/20130
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A Frontier Life on Thursday's Access Utah

Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In a new biography “A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary” Todd Compton disentangles many of the myths and controversies surrounding Hamblin and presents a portrait of a true pioneer who lived life at the geographical, cultural, and spiritual boundaries of his era.
9/4/20130
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Creating Self in an Infectious World on Wednesday's Access Utah

“Self” has many definitions. Science has demonstrated that 90 percent of the cells in our bodies are bacteria—we are in many respects more non-self than self. In “Lousy Sex: Creating Self in an Infectious World” Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending scientific essay with deeply personal narrative, he uses microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I? Through stories about the sex lives of wood lice, the biological advantages of eating dirt, the question of immortality, the relationship between syphilis and the musical genius of Beethoven, he creates another way, a chimeric way, of seeing ourselves.
9/3/20130
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Senator Osmond on Education on Tuesday's Access Utah

Last week, in part one of our three-part series on K-12 education, we talked about State Senator Aaron Osmond’s proposal to end compulsory education in Utah. Today, in part two of the series, we talk to Senator Osmond himself. He says that parents, not schools, are ultimately responsible for their children’s education.
9/3/20130
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The Rise of the Warrior Cop on Thursday's Access Utah

Today’s armored-up policemen are a far cry from the constables of early America. The unrest of the 1960s brought about the invention of the SWAT unit—which in turn led to the debut of military tactics in the ranks of police officers. According to investigative journalist Radley Balko, Nixon’s War on Drugs, Reagan’s War on Poverty, Clinton’s COPS program, the post–9/11 security state under Bush and Obama: by degrees, each of these innovations expanded and empowered police forces, always at the expense of civil liberties.
8/28/20130
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March on Washington 50 Years Later on Wednesday's Access Utah

On August 28, 1963, thousands marched on Washington in support of civil rights. The assembled crowd of more than 250,000 heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On Access Utah (on the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom) we ask: has the dream articulated by Dr. King been realized? What progress has been made? What remains to be done? What is your dream? How are we progressing towards it? What does this anniversary mean to you?
8/27/20130
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End Compulsory Education in Utah? Tuesday's Access Utah

State Senator Aaron Osmond recently argued that teachers are being forced to become surrogate parents, expected to do everything from behavioral counseling to providing adequate nutrition, to teaching sex education and that some parents act as if the responsibility to educate, and even care for their child, is primarily the responsibility of the public school system. He is proposing that we end compulsory education in Utah. We’ll get reaction from Lily Eskelsen Garcia, former Utah teacher and current National Education Association Vice President.
8/26/201353 minutes, 53 seconds
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An Encore Hour With Terry Tempest Williams: Monday’s Access Utah

Terry Tempest Williams’ mother told her, “I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone.”
8/23/201355 minutes, 10 seconds
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind on Friday's Access Utah

Enchanted by electricity as a boy, William Kamkwamba wanted to study science in Malawi's top boarding schools. But in 2002, his country was stricken with a famine that devastated his family's farm and left his parents destitute. Unable to pay the eighty-dollar-a-year tuition for his education, William was forced to drop out and help his family forage for food as thousands across the country starved and died. But William refused to let go of his dreams. He embarked on a daring plan to bring his family a set of luxuries that only two percent of Malawians could afford--electricity and running water.
8/22/20130
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The Viper on the Hearth on Wednesday's Access Utah

When it was published in 1997, The Wall Street Journal called Terryl Givens' “The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy” "one of the five best books on Mormonism." Now, in the wake of a tidal wave of Mormon-inspired artistic, literary, and political activity--ranging from the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon, to the HBO series Big Love, to the political campaign of Mitt Romney--Givens has updated the book to address the continuing presence and reception of the Mormon image in contemporary culture. “The Viper on the Hearth” shows how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in such fictional genres as mysteries, westerns, and popular romances.
8/20/20130
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Do You Have Enough Money to Retire? Tuesdays Access Utah

According to a study from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 28 percent of Americans have no confidence they will have enough money to retire comfortably -- the highest figure in the study's 23-year history. 41 percent do say they are at least somewhat confident. How confident are you? Until recently most of our attention has focused on accumulating assets for retirement; now as baby boomers retire, there is a lot more emphasis on managing money IN retirement to make it last. How much do you need for your retirement? Can you rely on the stock market to safely leverage your savings? How will recent changes in health care and other laws affect your retirement? What if you are self-employed or relying on a pension?
8/19/201354 minutes, 13 seconds
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Rock Climber and Sky Diver, Steph Davis, on Friday's Access Utah

Moab resident Steph Davis is a superstar in the climbing community. But when her husband made a controversial climb of Delicate Arch, the media fallout and the toll on her marriage left her without a partner or an income. Accompanied by her beloved dog, Fletch, she set off in search of a new identity and discovered sky diving. Though falling out of an airplane is antithetical to a climber’s control, she discovered new hope and joy in letting go.
8/19/20130
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Cronkite Biography on Thursday's Access Utah

For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines of World War II, and later, in the emerging medium of television, as a host of numerous documentary programs and as anchor of the CBS Evening News, from 1962 until his retirement in 1981.
8/19/20130
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Challenges and Revelations of Autism from Utah Film maker on Wednesday's Access Utah

A mother talks about the gap between when her son is seen as "normal," and when he's seen as "not normal." She's talking about his invisible disability - a disability which at first glance isn't readily apparent, and includes intellectual impairments such as autism. Given the misperceptions and mistaken judgments people with invisible disabilities frequently encounter, a film, “Invisible Disabilities:
8/19/20130
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Genetically Modified Foods on Monday's Access Utah

Are GMOs or Genetically Modified Organisms beneficial or dangerous to global health? Are GMOs critical to sustainability or a danger to the environment? Should companies have the right to patent seeds? Can GMOs co-exist with organic farming? We’ll seek answers to your GMO questions from Jennifer Reeve, USU Associate Professor of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture; David Hole, USU Professor of Plant Breeding/Genetics; and Amelia Smith Rinehart, U of U Associate Professor of Law. You can join the discussion by email or on our Utah Public Radio Facebook page.
8/16/201353 minutes, 4 seconds
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Air Quality & Climate Change from Vernal on Tuesday's Access Utah

Eastern Utah’s Uintah Basin has seen sharp increase in economic development in recent years with oil and gas extraction leading the way. Uintah County has grown by 29% in the last decade. With this growth has come an increasing air quality problem. A coalition of public health and conservation groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency last year, saying the agency is failing to protect the Uintah Basin from high levels of air pollution. Can industry and cars coexist with good air? Do we face a choice between jobs and a healthy environment? And what about climate change? Is oil and gas extraction in eastern Utah contributing to climate change? What can and should be done?
8/12/201353 minutes, 6 seconds
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Restorative Justice on Monday's Access Utah

Young people in the United States are entering the youth justice system in shocking numbers, and many seem to come out worse than when they went in. More than half of incarcerated kids are likely to re-commit crimes after being released. Some wonder whether exposure to the system itself could be perpetuating a life of crime. On the other side of the world, a New Zealand youth court has incorporated restorative principles of justice adapted from Maori culture, bringing victims and offenders together to resolve disputes. In Maori history, a crime put the community out of balance. Traditional Maori justice seeks to restore that balance. Focusing on rehabilitation more than punishment, New Zealand has seen great success and set a precedent for youth justice around the world.
8/10/201351 minutes, 10 seconds
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Utah Rural Summit on Friday's Access Utah

For two days each year in August, county, municipal and state leaders and other stake holders gather in Cedar City for the Utah Rural Summit. They come from throughout Utah to explore issues that impact rural life, to hear from experts the latest information pertaining to rural life, and to discuss policies necessary to maintain and expand the political, cultural and economic relevance of rural communities. UPR's Southern Utah Correspondent Chris Holmes reports from the summit on its second day.
8/9/20130
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A Farm Daughter's Lament on Wednesday's Access Utah

Thomas Jefferson called farmers “the chosen people of God” and claimed that they were inherently virtuous, the best citizens for the new republic. Evelyn Funda, author of “Weeds: A Farm Daughter’s Lament,” says that “the American imagination has endowed farming with profound and enduring symbolic significance. ...no other occupation —with perhaps the exception of motherhood—so fully spans the imaginative range of human experience or is so profoundly invested with symbolic significance in our culture, even by those who have never worked or lived on a farm.” In Jefferson’s day, 90 percent of the population worked on family farms. Today, in a world dominated by agribusiness, less than 1 percent of Americans claim farm-related occupations. What was lost along the way is something that Funda experienced firsthand when, in 2001, her parents sold the last parcel of the farm they had worked since they married in 1957.
8/6/201353 minutes, 49 seconds
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Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer's on Tuesday's Access Utah

Has Alzheimer’s Disease has touched your family? There are 50,000 Utahns affected by Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Utah has the nation’s highest growth rate of AD (127%). There are more than 5 million cases of AD in the US today and by 2050, that number is expected to nearly triple to 13.8 million and care costs will reach over $1.2 trillion. There is no known cure and the impact on afflicted individuals and their families is devastating. The AD process may begin decades before diagnosis. But Maria Norton, USU Associate Professor of Family Consumer and Human Development, says that while there are some factors we are born with (e.g. genes) that can't be modified, there are a host of factors that have been shown to affect our risk for Alzheimer’s that ARE modifiable, and if we can encourage individuals, families and communities to adopt healthy lifestyle habits, we may be able to make a "course correction" to avoid or at least delay AD as individuals, and as a society.
8/5/20130
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Sugar, History & Obesity on Thursday's Access Utah

Rich Cohen writes in National Geographic magazine's August cover story titled “Sugar Love (a not so sweet story)” that sugar was the oil of its day. The more you tasted, the more you wanted. In 1700 the average Englishman consumed 4 pounds a year. By 1900 he was up to 100 pounds a year. Today the average American consumes 77 pounds of added sugar annually, or more than 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day. As lands with oil and gas are greatly sought after today so it was with lands for sugarcane that needed tropical, rain-drenched fields to flourish. In school they call it the age of exploration, the search for territories and islands that would send Europeans all around the world. In reality, it was a hunt for fields where sugarcane would prosper.
7/31/20130
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Trekking for Continental Wildways on Wednesday's Access Utah

Chip Ward writes in The Nation: “At this very moment, [TrekWest adventurer John] Davis is walking, biking, paddling and horseback riding 6,000 miles through a chain of mountain ranges that stretches like a spine across North America from the Sierra Madres of Mexico through the Rockies of the American West up into Canada. He started this winter in the Sonoran desert we share with our southern neighbor and has been heading northward for months. He will cross many of our most treasured national parks like Yellowstone and Grand Canyon, the ones that tourists love, but his trek is no sightseeing adventure. Davis and his Trek West partners along the route are advocating for what they call 'landscape connectivity' on a continental scale.”
7/30/201353 minutes, 17 seconds
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Himalayan Cataract Project on Tuesday's Access Utah

Ophthalmologists Dr. Geoffrey Tabin (based in Salt Lake City) and Dr. Sanduk Ruit have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to blind people in some of the most isolated, impoverished reaches of developing countries in the Himalayas and Sub-Saharan Africa. Drs. Ruit and Tabin founded the Himalayan Cataract Project (HCP) in 1995. Geoffrey Tabin was a high-achieving Harvard Medical School student from the suburbs of Chicago who was also an accomplished mountain climber; he was the fourth person to reach the famed Seven Summits, the tallest peak on each continent. It was through high-altitude climbing that he first came to witness the dramatic effects of cataract surgery on blind villagers. Dr. Tabin joins Tom Williams for the hour on Tuesday’s Access Utah.
7/29/201353 minutes, 58 seconds
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Sheldon Harnick on Monday's Access Utah

Legendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!) is in Logan for events with the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theater. He is Tom Williams' guest for the hour on Access Utah. Monday 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.
7/28/20130
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Part Wild on Thursday's Access Utah

Ceiridwen Terrill writes about how, at a particularly sad and frightening time in her life, a wolf dog was the kind of companion she was searching for. In her book, "Part Wild: Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs," she talks about an animal whose heart is divided between the woman she loves, and the desire to roam free. In the end, Terrill realizes she must confront the reality of taming a half-wild animal. We revisit a conversation from December 2012.
7/25/20130
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The Life of Brigham Young on Wednesday's Access Utah

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the U.S. and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than 50 women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God.
7/23/20130
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Utah's "Ag Gag" Law on Tuesday's Access Utah

Animal welfare activists filed a lawsuit Monday, challenging Utah’s “Ag Gag” law. We'll revisit a debate from May when, in the first test in the nation of an “Ag Gag” law, a Utah woman was charged for using her cell phone to film a slaughterhouse. Charges against Amy Meyer were subsequently dropped. Under Utah’s law (H.B. 187) passed in 2012, it is illegal to film an agricultural operation while trespassing or entering the premises on false pretenses. What do you think? Do surreptitious whistle blowers at farms and slaughterhouses provide a needed service or are they public nuisances? Do you think Utah’s “Ag Gag” law is a necessary protection or an infringement on citizens’ rights?
7/22/20130
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The Utah Bucket List on Monday's Access Utah

What’s on your Utah bucket list? What adventure have you always wanted to do? What activities have you crossed off your Utah Bucket List and can suggest to us? We’d love to share your list with others. We’d also love to share your photos. You can share your list & photos on our Utah Public Radio Facebook page and call 1-800-826-1495 Monday 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. A film, “The Utah Bucket List,” premieres August 1 on KUED and is hosted by Salt Lake Tribune outdoor writer Brett Prettyman and produced by KUED’s Nancy Green. Prettyman has featured several of the adventures on the list in a series of articles in the Tribune.
7/19/20130
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Unrest in Egypt on Thursday's Access Utah

According to a BBC report from July 16, “a new interim Egyptian government has been sworn in, with army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the ousting of Mohammed Morsi, becoming deputy PM as well as defence minister. ... The swearing in followed another night of violence between security forces and Morsi supporters that left seven dead. A spokesman for Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood called the interim government ‘illegitimate’. Mr Morsi was ousted on 3 July in what many have said was a military coup.The army said it was fulfilling the demands of the people after mass anti-Morsi protests.”
7/17/20130
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Your Reaction to Zimmerman Acquital on Wednesday's Access Utah

Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman was recently acquitted of all charges in the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. More than 150 people marched in protest of the verdict in Salt Lake City. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, some of the protesters said that the trial’s outcome will increase racial profiling and open the door for “trigger-happy” vigilantes. We’re going to open up Wednesday’s Access Utah to you to talk about this case.
7/16/20130
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The End of Night on Tuesday's Access Utah

Paul Bogard, author of the new book, “The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light,” spent his childhood summers in a cabin on a lake in northern Minnesota, where shooting stars cut across swaths of countless stars, the Milky Way reflected off the lake, and the woods were so dark he couldn’t see his hands in front of his face. In our modern world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experience true darkness. Eight out of ten Americans born today won’t ever live where they can see the Milky Way.
7/15/20130
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The Interfaith Amigos on Monday's Access Utah

Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman -- known as the Interfaith Amigos --are co-authors of “Getting to the Heart of Interfaith:The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Pastor, a Rabbi & a Sheikh.” Known for their unique blend of spiritual wisdom and humor, they openly address the usual taboos of interfaith dialogue — the “awkward” parts of each tradition — in order to create a more authentic conversation -- a conversation about the real issues that make interfaith dialogue and cooperation difficult.
7/15/201352 minutes, 28 seconds
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The Emerald Mile on Thursday's Access Utah

We continue a series of conversations with authors whose books are featured on our UPR Book List. Today: Kevin Fedarko talks about his new book, “The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon.” Here’s how the publisher, Simon & Schuster, describes the book: “In the spring of 1983, a massive snowmelt sent runoff racing down the Colorado River toward the Glen Canyon Dam. Worried federal officials desperately scrambled to avoid a worst-case scenario: one of the most dramatic dam failures in history. In the midst of this crisis, a trio of river guides secretly launched a small, hand-built wooden boat, a dory named the Emerald Mile, into the Colorado just below the dam’s base and rocketed toward the dark chasm downstream, where the torrents of water released by the dam engineers had created a rock-walled maelstrom so powerful it shifted giant boulders and created bizarre hydraulic features never previously seen.
7/10/20130
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Filmmaker Helen Whitney on Wednesday's Access Utah

Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney says “forgiveness is elusive, mysterious, primal...an idea and an ache that is rooted in existential concerns.” PBS describes her film Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate this way: It “provides an intimate look into the spontaneous outpouring of forgiveness: from the Amish families for the 2006 shooting of their children in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania; the struggle of '60s radicals to cope with the serious consequences of their violent acts of protest;
7/9/20130
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Population Rebuttal on Tuesday's Access Utah

Physicist and climate change & sustainability educator, Dr. Robert Davies responded to Monday's Access Utah (about the new book: "What to Expect When No One's Expecting") by saying that the author, Jonathan Last, “was throwing out one piece of misinformation after another, contradicted by the data, utterly unchallenged." Robert Davies asked for rebuttal time, and we're happy to continue our discussion on population and the environment on Tuesday’s Access Utah. We received comments from Peter, and from Dell in Minneapolis which we'll share and discuss as well.
7/8/20130
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Overpopulation or Underpopulation? Monday's Access Utah

For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else. In his new book “What to Expect When No One’s Expecting” Weekly Standard senior writer Jonathan Last says it’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, he says, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies.
7/6/20130
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Seven Summers on Wednesday's Access Utah

Today we begin a series of conversations with authors featured on our UPR Booklist. Julia Corbett's new book, "Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West" (University of Utah Press) is the story of a naturalist-turned-professor (Corbett) who flees city life each summer with her pets and power tools to pursue her lifelong dream: building a cabin in the Wyoming woods. With little money and even less experience, she learns that creating a sanctuary on her mountain meadow requires ample doses of faith, patience, and luck. The task also involves a gradual and sometimes painful acquisition of flexibility and humility in the midst of great determination and naive enthusiasm.
7/2/20130
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What Are You Watching? Monday's Access Utah

Last week our UPR community compiled an impressive book list. Now, we want to know what movies & television shows you’re watching. What’s in your Netflix queue right now? Is there a movie or show that has had a big impact on you? Which shows and movies are you looking forward to seeing? Maybe you’d like to tell us a personal story connected to a favorite movie. We’d love to hear about movies and shows in any and all genres. What’s on your all-time top ten list?
6/28/201354 minutes
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Gay Marriage at the U. S. Supreme Court on Thursday's Access Utah

The U. S. Supreme Court has struck down a key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, declaring that same-sex couples who are legally married deserve equal rights to benefits under federal law. The court also has sent California’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, back to the appellate court. What do you think of these rulings? Did the Supreme Court get it right? What does this mean for Utah? For you? What comes next? Are you in favor of gay marriage? Why or why not?
6/26/20130
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What Are You Reading? Monday's Access Utah

As we head into summer we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand right now? Is there a book that has had a big impact on you? What are you looking forward to reading? Perhaps you’d like to tell us a personal story connected to a favorite book. We’d love to hear about books in the adult, young adult & children’s categories. One suggestion or many are welcome. Post your list on the Utah Public Radio Facebook page, email us or use the comments section below.
6/21/201355 minutes
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Tell Us About Your Pet on Thursday's Access Utah

Pictured is the Bringhurst family's new addition, Poseidon. His next project is loose-leash walking training. A recent survey shows that pet ownership is at its highest level in two decades. We're going to talk about your pet on Access Utah. We'll have a Petsmart Utah area pet trainer Marc Ellis with us to answer your questions. Post a picture of your pet on the Utah Public Radio Facebook page along with a brief message bragging about him/her and we'll share your message on Thursday's Access Utah. Or your can post a message in the comments section below.
6/19/20130
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Showdown in the Sonoran Desert on Wednesday's Access Utah

The immigration debate has raised some of the most difficult questions our nation has ever faced. How can we preserve the integrity of sovereign borders while also respecting the dignity of human beings? How should a border be humanely and effectively maintained? To understand the experience of those directly impacted by the immigration crisis, Ananda Rose traveled to the Sonoran Desert - a border region where the remains of 2,000 migrants have been recovered over the past 10 years. There she interviewed Minutemen, Border Patrol agents, Catholic nuns, humanitarian aid workers, ranchers
6/18/20130
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Maximilian Werner

On Tuesday we will have Maximilian Werner, author of "Evolved, Chronicles of a Pleistocene Mind."
6/17/20130
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Victor S. Navasky Author of the Art of Controversy on Access Utah Monday

Victor S. Navasky former editor and publisher of The Nation, and at The New York Times Magazine is on Access Utah.
6/17/20130
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The Genesis of Mormon Polygamy on Thursday's Access Utah

Yesterday on Access Utah we talked with members of a modern-day polygamous community. Today, in part two of our series, we’ll learn how polygamy began in America. When Joseph Smith began to reveal and teach the doctrine of plural marriage in 1841, even stalwart church members like Brigham Young were shocked and confused. In her new book, “Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy--The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830-1853” (USU Press) historian Merina Smith considers the ideological, historical, and psychological elements of the process and captures the emotional and cultural detail of this exciting and volatile period in Mormon history.
6/12/20130
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Centennial Park Polygamous Community on Wednesday's Access Utah

In Utah we often have occasion to talk about polygamy. But it is rarer to be able to talk with people who practice it. Wednesday we'll talk with members of the Centennial Park community near the Arizona/Utah border. They are being featured on National Geographic Channel’s Polygamy USA series and recently recorded their stories when UPR hosted StoryCorps in St. George.
6/11/20130
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Your Working Life on Tuesday's Access Utah

CEO Marissa Mayer’s recent decision to require Yahoo! workers to come to headquarters for work has provoked a vigorous discussion about telecommuting. On the other end of the spectrum, some suggest that in today’s world, employees shouldn’t have set hours just clear goals. And no matter what else may change, we’ll likely always have to deal with office politics. How is your workplace changing? Is telecommuting working for you? What are your company's rules? Are you able to manage a good work/life balance?
6/10/201355 minutes
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Utah Attorney General Under Investigation on Monday's Access Utah

Utah Attorney General John Swallow is the subject of a federal and state investigation into a series of allegations, including that he helped broker deals to assist a businessman suspected of fraud and that he promised protection to potential campaign donors to his predecessor, Mark Shurtleff. House Democrats are calling for his impeachment and point to the case in renewing their call for ethics reform. Some Republicans are calling for Swallow accept paid leave or resign, and at least one, Rep. Spencer Cox, says the House should consider impeachment. The Attorney General insists that he broke no laws and says he has no plans to quit.
6/7/201354 minutes, 54 seconds
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When Hollywood Came to Utah on Thursday's Access Utah

More than 800 movies have been filmed in Utah since filmmaking began in the state in the 1920s with the Parry brothers near Cedar City. Utah has played host to all manner of moves from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Planet of the Apes, Footloose, and Thelma & Louise. Through the years millions of dollars have been poured into the economy. As one Utah rancher said, Hollywood moviemakers "don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but money." And with changes in landscapes, movies are the only places to see how some Utah areas used to look.
6/5/20130
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Ken Jennings on Wednesday's Access Utah

Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings has been a guest on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! but last week he appeared as a panelist. Wednesday we’ll revisit an Access Utah conversation with Ken Jennings from January. His latest book is “Because I Said So! - The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, & Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids.” Many of these myths and warnings are culture-specific. We’ll talk about the Korean “Fan Death” tale, which Jennings first encountered growing up in Seoul.
6/4/20130
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Genetic Testing: Do You Want to Know? Tuesday's Access Utah

Angelina Jolie’s recent announcement that she’d received a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of cancer, highlights a series of decisions we all may be facing in this age of genetic testing: Do I want to know? Whom should I tell? What should I do with the information? Should I take a chance on passing on genetic problems? What about privacy and insurance? Dr. Robert Klitzman addresses these concerns in his book, Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing.
6/3/20130
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The Evolution & Future of the National Park Idea on Monday's Access Utah

When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal "to conserve unimpaired" seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter, author of a new book, To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea, argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection and scientific discovery to tourism and commercial development. He says that parks must be managed more effectively to meet increasing demands in the face of climate, environmental, and demographic changes. Keiter argues that parks cannot be treated as special islands, but must be managed as the critical cores of larger ecosystems.
6/1/20130
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Mormons March in Pride Parade on Thursday's Access Utah

Last year, in a surprising development, more than 300 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints marched in the Utah Pride Parade. The group Mormons Building Bridges predicts that with Mormons for Equality also involved, church members will turn out in record numbers to march in this year’s parade on Sunday. Are you planning to march in the parade this year? What do you think of those who are? What does it mean that some Mormons are marching again?
5/29/201354 minutes, 46 seconds
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Bikes & Cars on Wednesday's Access Utah

As National Bike Month comes to a close, we’re talking bicycling on Wednesday’s Access Utah. Is biking a legitimate form of everyday transportation? Should more of us park our cars in favor of our bicycles? Could you get by without owning a car? Is your community bike-friendly? How can you stay safe while cycling? How can we better accommodate each other as drivers and bikers?
5/28/20130
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Parenting in an Online World on Tuesday's Access Utah

Parenting in an online world is our topic for the hour on Tuesday’s Access Utah. We’ll be talking with tech-savvy Utah parents Jonathan & Loralee Choate and Dr. Jim Taylor, author of several books, including Raising Generation Tech: Prepare Your Children for a Media-fueled World.
5/28/20130
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Snake Valley Water on Thursday's Access Utah

Calling it “one of the most difficult calls he’s had to make,” Governor Herbert has rejected a deal that would have shared rights to water beneath Snake Valley with Nevada. The Southern Nevada Water Authority says that Las Vegas needs Nevada’s share of the water and wants to pipe it south. Local citizens fear that the export of water could damage Snake Valley’s environment and economy.
5/23/20130
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Michael Pollan on Access Utah Monday

In his new book, "Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation," Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and earth—to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. "Cooked" becomes an investigation of how cooking involves us in a web of social and ecological relationships: with plants and animals, the soil, farmers, our history and culture, and, of course, the people our cooking nourishes. Cooking, above all, connects us.
5/22/20130
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Speaking with Doctors on Access Utah Tuesday

Almost 20 billion times each year, a person walks into a doctor's office and becomes a patient. Dr. Kevin Jones says that physicians can’t tell you what they don’t know. They can tell you when they don’t know, but they might not. Dr. Jones, in his book "What Doctors Cannot Tell You: Clarity, Confidence, and Uncertainty in Medicine," explores the uncertainty that pervades medicine.
5/22/20130
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Chicago's Holocaust Survivors home on Access Utah Wednesday

Over the years, the Selfhelp Home in Chicago has brought together more than 1,000 refugees and Holocaust survivors under one roof. A new documentary film, "Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home", features the stories of the eventual residents of Selfhelp, who spent the war years surviving by any means necessary – fleeing to the Jewish ghetto of Shanghai, hiding in the French countryside, taken in by English families as part of the Kindertransport, or as prisoners in Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
5/21/20130
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Epigenetics, Our Parents and Our Future

The once quiet field of epigenetics is now making big waves in the biological sciences. Laboratories across the world are filling up with researchers studying the human epi-genome. It literally means above the genome. On the program, producer Sheri Quinn explores this paradigm shift in biology with German scientist Wolf Riek, recognized as a world leader in the field of epi-genetics.
5/17/20130
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Meat eaters, vegetarians and vegans discuss their eating habits Thursday on Access Utah

A few months ago we explored the culture of hunting with Stephen Rinella author of “Meat Eater.” He asserts, as does Michael Pollan who wrote “The Omnivore’s Dilemma & Cooked,” that Americans are losing their connection with the way their food finds its way to their tables. Hunting, Rinella argues, is intimately connected with our humanity; and assuming responsibility for acquiring the meat that we eat, rather than entrusting it to proxy executioners, processors, packagers and distributors, is one of the most respectful and exhilarating things a meat eater can do. Thursday we explored this idea from the other direction, talking about vegetarian and vegan culture with a panel of vegetarians & vegans and a former vegetarian.
5/16/20130
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Marc Mauer and Sabrina Jones address US incarceration Wednesday on Access Utah

The United States’ rate of incarceration is the highest in the world. Why and how did this happen? Marc Mauer’s “Race to Incarcerate,” first published in 1999, has become an important text for understanding the growth of the US prison system and a canonical work for those active in the US criminal justice reform movement. Now Sabrina Jones, a member of the World War 3 Illustrated collective and an author of politically engaged comics, has collaborated with Mauer to adapt and update the original book into a comics narrative designed to reach new audiences.
5/15/20130
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Afghanistan and the Conservation Corps on Access Utah

Aired: 5/10/13 We hear about the war in Afghanistan from the perspective of one of the nation's leading industrialists there until the 1980s. Author Nasser Shansab joins us to talk about his experience growing up in Afghanistan within one of the nation's most prominent families and how his forced exile influenced his unique role in the u.s us government.
5/15/20130
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Prairie dogs protected under the Endangered Species Act Tuesday on Access Utah

The Utah Prairie Dog Recovery Implementation Program (UPDRIP) has two goals: “Recover the Utah prairie dog so that it no longer requires protection under the Endangered Species Act; and allow for existing land uses and continued growth and development within the historic range of the Utah prairie dog.” Some in the area want the process to move faster.
5/14/20130
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Legendary Cronkite legacy documented by Douglas Brinkley Monday on Access Utah

For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as "the most trusted man in America." Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines of World War II, and later, in the emerging medium of television, as a host of numerous documentary programs and as anchor of the CBS Evening News, from 1962 until his retirement in 1981.
5/13/20130
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Ag gag bill's first defendant on Access Utah Wednesday

In the first test in the nation of an “Ag Gag” law, a Utah woman was recently charged for using her cell phone to film a slaughterhouse. Charges against Amy Meyer were subsequently dropped. Under Utah’s law (H.B. 187) passed in 2012, it is illegal to film an agricultural operation while trespassing or entering the premises on false pretenses. Meyer says that she became an animal rights activist and vegan after learning about the conditions in factory farms and that people deserve to know where their food is coming from. Supporters of the law say that these secret recordings do nothing to help the public and that if a person suspects wrongdoing at an agricultural operation the proper step is to contact law enforcement.
5/8/20130
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Drug cartels from Mexico threaten democracy in the US on Access Utah Tuesday

On Tuesday’s Access Utah we’ll revisit a conversation from January with journalist Ioan Grillo, who has written about Mexican narcotraffickers for the past decade, even interviewing members of the cartels and their death squads. He says that “El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains.”
5/7/20130
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The Summer Reading List on Access Utah Monday

As we head towards summer, we’re talking books on Monday’s Access Utah. What are you reading now? What’s on your summer reading list? We look forward to your suggestions for children, young adults and adults. Our guests will include Margaret Brennan Neville from The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Andy Nettell from Back of Beyond Books in Moab and Catherine Weller from Weller Book Works in Salt Lake City. They’ll talk about their current favorites and books being published soon that they’re excited about.
5/6/201354 minutes, 55 seconds
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Boy Scouts Gay Scout Policy on Access Utah Thursday

The Boy Scouts of America is proposing a compromise. They are prepared to allow gay youths to join, while continuing to bar gay leaders. BSA is preparing to vote on the proposal later this month. The plan has received the backing of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, BSA’s top sponsoring organization.
5/1/20130
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A Sustainability Discussion on Access Utah Wednesday

Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions, will make the business case for sustainability on Wednesday’s Access Utah. Trained as a sociologist and lawyer, Lovins is a professor of sustainable business management at Bainbridge Graduate Institute, Bard College, and Denver University. She gave the keynote address at the recent Intermountain Sustainability Summit in Ogden.
5/1/20130
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Nazis, Mormons and the Third Reich on Access Utah Tuesday

In the late 1940s Helmuth Hubener, a Mormon teenager, decided to leave Hitler’s Youth and confront the Nazi regime and his church leaders. Eventually, he was excommunicated from his church and became one of the youngest opponents of the Third Reich to be executed. We’ll examine the conflict of conscience occasioned among Mormons by the extreme circumstances of the Third Reich; and consider the question articulated by German novelist Gunther Grass: Why did [Hubener] know and I didn’t know?
4/29/20130
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Michael Moss, Author of "Salt Sugar Fat" on Access Utah Monday

One in three adults in the U. S., and one in five children, is clinically obese. In his new book “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us” Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moss argues that many of the big companies in the processed food industry are at least partly to blame.
4/29/20130
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Our Water Supply and the Great Salt Lake on Access Utah Friday

A clean and abundant water supply is the most pressing issue facing our society today. Joining Sheri Quinn on the program is Utah State University water quality expert Nancy Mesner. She works with state agencies to ensure our watersheds remain healthy into the future.
4/29/20130
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Arthur Brooks and His Book "The Road to Freedom" on Access Utah Thursday

Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, argues in his new book “The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise” that the American traditions of entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility have been weakened in recent years by an explosion in the size of government and a move towards redistributing wealth rather than rewarding merit. He argues that free enterprise requires a moral defense based on the ideals of earned success, equality of opportunity, charity, and basic fairness.
4/24/20130
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Maximillian Werner, Author of "Gravity Hill," on Access Utah Wednesday

“The sound of parenthood is the sigh.” So writes Maximilian Werner in his new memoir “Gravity Hill” which is about growing up, getting older, looking back, and wondering what lies ahead—a process that becomes all the more complicated and intense when parenting is involved. Werner narrates his struggle growing up in suburban Utah as a non-Mormon and what it took for him, his siblings, and his friends to feel like they belonged. Bonding in separation, they indulged in each other, in natural and urban landscapes, and sometimes in the destructive behaviors that are the native resort of outsiders including promiscuous and occasionally violent sexual behavior—and for some, paths to death and suicide.
4/23/20130
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A Discussion on Environmental Solutions on Access Utah Tuesday

You spoke and UPR listened. Tuesday on Access Utah Jennifer Pemberton will be here to present some of your questions and comments on how air pollution has affected your health. If you haven’t told us your story, phone lines will be open for you. You can also share your story with us at our online form. In the second half: after a particularly bad winter, we’ll ask: what’s next in our search for solutions?
4/23/201346 minutes, 14 seconds
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Environmental Reflection for Earth Day on Access Utah Monday

Amy Irvine McHarg, author of “Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land” and Stephen Trimble, author of “Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America” and other books will join Tom Williams for Access Utah on Earth Day 2013 to reflect on environmental issues and read from their works.
4/22/20130
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Author of "Running Random Road" and Robotics on Access Utah Friday

On the program, Sheri Quinn talks to author Caleb Daniloff about his new book called "Running Ransom Road," a vivid account of his 18-month-long experience running marathons in the cities he wrecked havoc in as an alcoholic. With each marathon, he confronted the past and paved his road to redemption.
4/19/20130
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StoryCorps' founder David Isay on Access Utah Thursday

StoryCorps founder David Isay joins Tom Williams for Thursday’s Access Utah on the first day of registration for a free recording session in the StoryCorps booth during StoryCorps’ upcoming stay in St. George. David Isay is editor of several books from StoryCorps including “Listening Is an Act of Love.” He’ll talk about the power of listening and the importance of each life story. StoryCorps’ mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
4/17/201353 minutes, 34 seconds
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Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) on Access Utah Wednesday

Are GMOs or Genetically Modified Organisms beneficial or dangerous to global health? Are GMOs critical to sustainability or a danger to the environment? Should companies have the right to patent seeds? Can GMOs co-exist with organic farming? We’ll seek answers to your GMO questions from Jennifer Reeve, USU Associate Professor of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture; David Hole, USU Professor of Plant Breeding/Genetics; and Amelia Smith Rinehart, U of U Associate Professor of Law.
4/16/20130
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Reforming Immigration on Tuesday's Access Utah

The U. S. Senate appears to be moving towards a compromise on immigration. We’ll ask you where you stand. Do you support the principles in the Utah Compact? Do you prefer an Arizona-style solution? Should any plan lean towards border security and enforcement or a path to citizenship for those now here illegally? Should Utah implement its currently-delayed guest worker law? What does a good solution to the immigration problem look like?
4/16/20130
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Gun Control, Reducing Violence and HB 76 on Access Utah Monday

Should Governor Herbert’s veto of HB 76 be overridden? HB 76 would loosen restrictions on the use of concealed weapons. Should national background checks be expanded? How do we reduce gun violence? We’ll look for your response to these questions on Monday’s Access Utah. Our guests are Sen. Allen Christensen R-North Ogden, Senate sponsor of HB 76, Rep. Brian King D-Salt Lake City; Maryann Martindale, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Better Utah; and Clark Aposhian, Chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council.
4/12/20130
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"The Shrinking Jungle" on Friday's Access Utah

Today on the program we hear from former state archeologists Kevin Jones about his new book "The Shrinking Jungle." In his book, he takes us on a journey with the Ache of Paraguay, one of the last hunter-gatherer groups to come into contact with the western world. His story is a fictional tale based on experience with the Ache' and their efforts to save the gradually diminishing rainforest.
4/12/20130
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Becoming More Environmental Friendly on Thursday's Access Utah

Many of us believe in sustainability. But do we walk the talk? We’ll ask you what you’re doing in your daily life to promote sustainability, to personally be part of a green solution to our environmental problems. What changes have you made? What solutions have you found that you‘d like to share with us?
4/10/20130
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Military Sexual Assault Lawsuit on Access Utah Wednesday

According to NPR, the Defense Department estimates there are about 19,000 sexual assaults in the military per year, but according to Pentagon statistics, only a small fraction of these cases go to court-martial. Last fall, nineteen current and former members of the U. S. military filed a lawsuit alleging that they were sexually assaulted while serving. They claim that even though reform has been promised for years, the military doesn’t seriously investigate or punish sexual predators.
4/10/201352 minutes, 34 seconds
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Celebrating May Swenson's 100th Birthday on Access Utah Tuesday

Poet, playwright and Logan native May Swenson would have been 100 this year and USU scholars have organized a centennial celebration, including readings by A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor and former Utah Poet Laureate, and current University of Utah English Professor, Katherine Coles, on April 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Morgan Theater of the USU Chase Fine Arts Center. (The reading is free but seating vouchers are required and are available through the USU Caine College of the Arts Box Office in the Chase Fine Arts Center, room 139-B.)
4/8/201352 minutes, 11 seconds
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The Vernal Oil Boom and Space Exploration on Access Utah Friday

Today on the program Sheri Quinn talks to author David Gessner about his latest article "How Vernal Utah Grew to Love Big Oil" in the March 2013 issue of One Earth magazine.
4/6/20130
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Eva Kor, Holocaust Survivor, on Access Utah Monday

Eva Kor is a Holocaust survivor and victim of Dr. Josef Mengele’s medical experiments on twins at Auschwitz. Mengele was given the name “Angel of Death,” because of his position as a SS physician in charge of selecting which new prisoners of the camp would be killed or selected for forced labor. Kor and her sister launched a search for other twins who survived Mengele’s experiments and located 122 individual survivors. She founded C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust museum in Indiana.
4/6/201357 minutes, 12 seconds
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Rock Climber and Sky Diver, Steph Davis, on Thursday's Access Utah

Moab resident Steph Davis is a superstar in the climbing community. But when her husband made a controversial climb of Delicate Arch, the media fallout and the toll on her marriage left her without a partner or an income. Accompanied by her beloved dog, Fletch, she set off in search of a new identity and discovered sky diving. Though falling out of an airplane is antithetical to a climber’s control, she discovered new hope and joy in letting go.
4/4/20130
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"Sweatshops in Paradise -- A True Story of Slavery in Modern America" on Access Utah Wendesday

When nine Vietnamese women arrived at Virginia Sudbury’s law office in Pago Pago, American Samoa she wasn’t sure she would take the case. She ended up as lead plaintiff attorney in precedent-setting case which drew international attention to issues of involuntary servitude and human trafficking in far-flung U. S. territories. Virginia Sudbury now lives in Utah, and is author of a new book: “Sweatshops in Paradise—A True Story of Slavery in Modern America.”
4/2/201348 minutes, 36 seconds
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USU President Stan Albrecht and Others Address Higher-Education Issues on Tuesday's Access Utah

We’ll address issues in Higher Education on Tuesday’s Access Utah. How did Utah’s colleges and universities fare at the Utah legislature? How best to plan for the change in age requirements for LDS missionaries? What does the future of higher education look like? Will we see more online classes, video conferencing and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs?) Will these new methods of teaching and learning displace traditional face-to-face classrooms? Should they?
4/1/20130
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The Colorado River and the Glen Canyon Dam on Access Utah Friday

Jack Schmidt, professor in Utah State University's department of watershed sciences and head of the US Geological Survey's Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, has long studied the Colorado River. He's among the team of scientists that designed a series of controlled releases of water from Glen Canyon Dam in an effort to restore habitats altered by the use of dams.
3/31/201347 minutes, 51 seconds
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A Rebuttal of Nuclear Power on Monday's Access Utah

Mark Lynas, author of “The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans” joined us for the hour on Wednesday. He says we need to embrace Nuclear Power and Genetically Modified Organisms as parts of any successful portfolio of solutions to Climate Change. Many fellow environmentalists disagree.
3/29/20130
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Climate Change and Nuclear Power on Access Utah Wednesday

Mark Lynas is the author of a number of books, including The God Species, and is Tom Williams guest for the hour. We discuss Lynas' idea that we must master human technology, like nuclear power, to save the world from ourselves.
3/28/20130
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Hydraulic Fracking on Access Utah Thursday

When USA Today invited their readers to send in questions about fracking for Duke University professor Robert Jackson, readers responded with such questions as: “What happens to the chemicals that are left behind after the fracking process? What is the risk to well water? It’s my understanding that fracking uses massive amounts of water? Does fracking cause earthquakes?”
3/28/201350 minutes, 10 seconds
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"Men, Women & Violence: Everyone Matters" An SUU Conference Preview on Monday's Access Utah

According to www.domesticviolencestatistics.org every 9 seconds in the U. S. a woman is assaulted or beaten; domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women—more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined; and nearly 1 in 5 teenage girls who have been in a relationship said a boyfriend threatened violence or self-harm if presented with a breakup.
3/25/20130
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The Government's Role in your Health on Access Utah Tuesday

What should government’s role be in promoting our health? New York City’s mandated downsizing of sodas was recently blocked by judge. In Utah, HCR2, which urges the state to address obesity, overwhelmingly passed the 2013 legislature. Some governments are adding fatty foods and violent video games to the traditional list of goods, like tobacco and alcohol, subject to “sin taxes.”
3/25/20130
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Governor Herbert and a Legislature Wrap-Up Program on Access Utah Thursday

Governor Gary Herbert will join us on Thursday’s Access Utah. We’ll ask him about Medicaid expansion, guns, the possible prison move, air quality, the economy, and anything else you’d like us to talk about. We’ll also ask the governor if there are any bills he may veto. Later in the program Sen. Todd Weiler R-Woods Cross joins us to talk about his proposal that we look at changing Attorney General from an elected to an appointed office. Finally, we’ll get a Democratic reaction to the recently-concluded legislative session from Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck D-Salt Lake City.
3/20/20130
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Dysfunction, Disputes and the Need for Political Change on Access Utah Wednesday

The book by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein: “It’s Even Worse than It Looks--How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism” caused quite a stir when it was published last year. Mann and Ornstein said that the dysfunction in our government is the result of a mismatch between increasingly parliamentary-style parties and our constitutional separation of powers. They pinned more of the blame for increasing polarization on Republicans. Their proposed solutions were provocative as well, including mandatory attendance at the polls, changing the political culture through restoring public shame, and restoration of full disclosure to campaign financing.
3/19/20130
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Holocaust Scholar, Emil Kerenji, on Monday's Access Utah

Our guest for the hour today is Emil Kerenji, an applied research scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
3/18/20130
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Zombies Attack on Thursday's Access Utah

We’ve recently experienced a zombie renaissance and Southern Utah University Assistant Professor Kyle Bishop has a book out called: “American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture.” He says that zombie movies reflect our cultural anxieties. Indeed, such movies have addressed the violence of the Vietnam War, fears of mass annihilation during the Cold War, and anxieties related to 9/11.
3/14/20130
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Legislature Open Forum on Wednesday's Access Utah

On the next-to-last day of the 2013 Utah Legislature, we’ll ask you which issues you’re focused on: Liquor Laws? Guns? Medicaid Expansion? The Budget? Social Services? State’s Rights? Education? Is there a bill you hope passes? Maybe there’s a bill you hope dies in the home stretch?
3/13/20130
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Gun Ownership Responsibility on Access Utah Tuesday

BYU is out with a poll on Utahns’ attitudes toward guns and Utah Parents Against Gun Violence recently delivered a letter to Governor Herbert urging him to veto a bill which would loosen concealed carry restrictions.
3/12/20130
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Cellist Amit Peled on Monday's Access Utah

Amit Peled was raised on an Israeli kibbutz listening to cassette tapes of the great Spanish cellist Pablo Casals. He went on to become a prominent cellist in his own right and was recently selected to play Pablo Casals’ cello.
3/11/20130
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Christine Geery and her book "A Heart Full of Hope" on Access Utah Friday

During the first half of Access Utah, Sheri Quinn talks with author Christine Geery about her first book, "A Heart Full of Hope." In the book, she tells the stories of what she calls her "ordinary life." Each story reveals the extraordinary experiences many of us can relate to but oftentimes overlook.
3/8/20130
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Utah and its Health Care System on Thursday's Access Utah

How do we control health care costs, reduce the numbers of uninsured Utahns, ensure high quality health care, and provide for a sound economy? Governor Herbert and Utah legislators are grappling with those questions and deciding how to implement the Affordable Care Act and whether to expand Medicaid.
3/7/20130
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Gay Marriage Debate on Wednesday's Access Utah

The U. S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments later this month on a challenge to California’s Proposition 8, narrowly approved by voters in 2008. The amendment to the state’s constitution states that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The Utah Pride Center and 26 other groups recently filed a brief with court urging the justices to declare that gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry. Last month the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along with other churches and groups filed a brief supporting traditional marriage.
3/6/20130
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Bullying in Utah on Access Utah Tuesday

The recent suicide of Utah junior high school student, David Phan, has focused attention on bullying. Other recent teen suicides have prompted action at the Utah legislature.
3/4/20130
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A Preview to the Bear River Basin Forum on Access Utah Monday

We’ll try to find a good balance among many competing uses of our limited water supply on Monday’s Access Utah. We’ll preview the Bear River Basin Forum, sponsored by the Bear River Watershed Council.
3/1/20130
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The Upcoming Sequester on Thursday's Access Utah

The federal budget sequester, which was supposed to be a poison pill that would motivate Democrats and Republicans to come up with a compromise, may go into effect on Friday. Thursday we’ll examine possible effects on Utah’s budget and economy.
2/28/20130
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An "Evening in Brazil" on Wednesday's Access Utah

Wednesday we’ll take a break from current affairs and politics for an Access Utah tradition: a program of great Bossa Nova and Samba music from the USU Performance Hall. We’ll preview the annual “Evening in Brazil” event, which happens on Friday at the Riverwoods Conference Center in Logan.
2/27/20130
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Hope and Inspiration for Better Air Quality on Access Utah Tuesday

Many Utahns are getting frustrated with what they see as slow and ineffective progress toward solving our air pollution problem.
2/26/201354 minutes, 8 seconds
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"Makers: Voices of Utah Women" on Monday's Access Utah

"Makers: Voices of Utah Women" is a new documentary which premieres February 26 on KUED. According to the producers, the film “tells the story of the women’s movement in Utah through the firsthand accounts of leaders and activists who fought to alter the social fabric of the state. It was a time when women were learning to speak up and speak out. A time when women had different visions of what equality meant. A time when the voices of Utah women would finally be heard.”
2/23/20130
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Changes in Utah's Outdated Mental Health System on Friday's Access Utah

Host Sheri Quinn presents a one-hour special report about the history of Utah's mental health system called "The State of the Utah's Health." Changes have taken place over the last couple of years to overhaul what mental health industry experts call an outdated system that does not work and is currently in crisis.
2/22/20130
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Beauty Redefined Founders Challenge Cultural Beauty Ideals on Access Utah Thursday

University of Utah doctoral students and twin sisters, Lindsay and Lexie Kite, run a non-profit organization called Beauty Redefined which offers sticky notes supporters can paste on mirrors in restrooms and dressing rooms with messages like: “Your reflection does not define your worth.” Now they’re taking on Sports Illustrated, urging people to paste the sticky notes on the annual swimsuit issue. The Kite sisters say that our ideas about beauty need to be redefined. We’ll talk with them in the first half of Access Utah on Thursday.
2/21/20130
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Government's Role in Air Quality Regulation on Access Utah Wednesday

On previous episodes of Access Utah, we’ve tapped into grassroots frustration directed at government for perceived lack of effective action on Air Pollution. Many of you are asking: why isn’t more being done? Wednesday on the program we’ll give you the chance to express your concerns directly to legislators and government officials. We’ll ask our guests and you: what should government do to improve Air Quality?
2/20/201350 minutes, 7 seconds
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Narrowing the Political Divide on Access Utah Tuesday

Tuesday on Access Utah we’ll attempt to narrow the political divide, hoping to model behavior we’d like to see in elected officials in our increasingly polarized society. We’ll follow up on a program we did a few months ago with politicians and commentators. This time we’re appealing directly to you. We’ll ask you to explore the weaknesses of your political beliefs, as well as the strengths of the other side. How we can listen to and understand each other more in our political discourse, and how do we get out of our silos and join with each other in solving our problems? Leading the discussion will be Cache Valley residents Jonathan and Loralee Choate. They have to reach across the aisle at home: he leans libertarian and she’s more liberal. We’ll also hear from our politically-plugged-in Access Utah producers, USU students Dani Hayes and Adison Pace.
2/18/201352 minutes, 44 seconds
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Author Matt Richtell Talks About His New Book "The Cloud" on Friday's Access Utah

On today's Access Utah, Sheri Quinn talks to New York Times technology reporter Matt Richtell about his new novel,"The Cloud." In his book, Ricktell weaves today's cutting edge technology into a suspenseful story about the addictive power of technology that keeps you gripped to the last page. In the second half, Science Questions explores the effects of climate change from new climate data and how changes in national energy plans can benefit the economy.
2/15/20130
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The Beast in the Garden on Access Utah Thursday

When mountain lions began appearing in Boulder Colorado, residents cheered the news. But as the lions feasted on pets and began to endanger humans, political battles began—until tragedy brought town together. David Baron’s "The Beast in the Garden" is (according to goodreads.com) “a book about the future of our nation, where suburban sprawl and wildlife-protection laws are pushing people and wild animals into uncomfortable, sometimes deadly proximity."
2/13/20130
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Business Ethics Within the Pharmaceutical Industry on Wednesday's Access Utah

Conan Grames is a Utah native, lawyer, and lobbyist, who has held top positions in the pharmaceutical industry. He is a former general counsel for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) the trade organization that represents the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. Grames says he “was always proud to be part of the pharmaceutical industry in its efforts to save lives.” Others point out problems they see with Big Pharma: excessive lobbying power, inadequate distribution of life-saving drugs, and promotion of a medical culture too dependent on drugs instead of preventive medicine. We’ll talk about these issues as well as relief efforts in Japan. When the earthquake and tsunami hit in 2011, Conan Grames was working as area director of public affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He became heavily involved in coordinating relief efforts.
2/12/20130
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Current Climate Change Debate on Tuesday's Access Utah

HB 77, sponsored by Rep. Kraig Powell R-Heber City, was defeated in committee last week. The bill would have defined climate change as a human-caused phenomenon. We’ll debate climate change on Tuesday’s Access Utah. We invite to to continue the discussion via email at upraccess@gmail.com, on Twitter @utahpublicradio and at www.upr.org.
2/12/20130
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Air Quality -- A Grassroots Look on Monday's Access Utah

Air quality is today's topic on the program. We'll be taking a grassroots angle on the anger and protest regarding this issue. Utah has been known for having the worst air in the nation, and many Utahns are taking matters into their own hands.
2/12/201353 minutes, 11 seconds
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Betsy Schow, Author of "Finished Being Fat" on Thursday's Access Utah

Utah author Betsy Schow writes: “I was fat. Huge. Ginormous. Not because of the number embroidered on the tag of my jeans, but because it consumed a large part of my thoughts and day. It very nearly destroyed my marriage. So much of my life revolved around gaining weight, losing weight … Obesity is an epidemic, but so is this unquenchable drive to be better, thinner, than the woman standing next to us. Even if that woman is just me, looking back from the mirror.”
2/7/20130
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Utahn's Water Rights and IT Conference on Tuesday's Access Utah

In today’s program we discuss The Cloud, Mobile Computing, security issues and the problems and opportunities of our increasingly interconnected digital world. We’ll preview the Information Technology Conference sponsored by the Utah State University Huntsman School of Business Partners in Business. The conference held Wednesday on USU campus and focuses on Mobile and Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Network Security. We’ll talk with Steven John, Strategic Chief Information Officer for Workday, and Kimberley Jones, Founder and CEO of Verite.
2/5/20130
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Boy Scout Ban on Gays on Access Utah Wednesday

The Boy Scouts of America will soon vote on a proposal which would reverse its policy against participation in the program by openly gay leaders and scouts. The new policy would allow the sponsors of specific troops to make the decision. The Great Salt Lake Council is urging the national BSA organization not to reverse its policy and to continue the discussion. We discuss the issue on Wednesday’s Access Utah with a mother of 2 Eagle Scouts, Doree Burt; USU student and Eagle Scout, Kelton Wells, and scouter, Robert Starling.
2/5/20130
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Avalanche Safety and a Survivor's Story on Monday's Access Utah

On Monday's program we discuss avalanches in Utah. We hear the story of with two avalanche survivors. Elisabeth Malloy Adam Morrey were recently out in the Mill Creek Canyon area where they were hit by a 700-foot avalanche. Malloy was completely buried where Morrey was only partially. He was able to extricate himself and rescue Malloy. They talk about how they managed to survived. We also talk about safety, preparation and "what to do if" with Toby Weed of the Utah Avalanche Center.
2/4/20130
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Author Eric Nuzum Shares His Ghost Stories on Thursday's Access Utah

On Access Utah we explore ghosts, hauntings and love. Author and NPR executive producer Eric Nuzum faced his own fears. In his book, “Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship 80’s Rock a Lost Scrap of Paper and What it Means to be Haunted” Nuzum talks of his history being haunted and how he found peace in facing the supernatural.
1/31/20130
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The Interfaith Amigos on Wednesday's Access Utah

Joining us from Seattle, The Interfaith Amigos consists of Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman. Known for their wisdom and humor while talking about religion, these men have worked together to try and make sense of the confusion that often accompanies interfaith dialog. They are the authors of two books "Getting to the Heart of Interfaith" and "Religion Gone Astray: What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith." During the program, we'll be focusing on the second book.
1/29/201352 minutes, 12 seconds
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Award-Winning Filmmaker Helen Whitney on Tuesday's Access Utah

Helen Whitney is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, known for telling the stories of religion and people. Her films have aired on PBS, HBO, ABC and NBC. She has been filmmaking for 42 years. She will be giving a series of lectures on the campus of Utah State University during the week of Jan. 28 - Jan. 31. The lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. each night in the Performance Hall. She will be discussing many of her films including The Mormons and Forgiveness; A Time to Love and a Time to Hate.
1/29/20130
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Opening of the Legislature with Governor Gary Herbert on Monday's Access Utah

Broadcasting from the Utah State Capitol, it is the first day of the legislature open. Joining us on the first half of the program is Governor Gary Herbert. He discusses various topics that are on the agenda for this year’s legislature including budget priorities, healthcare reform, ethics reform, the Outdoor Recreation Plan, immigration and gun control. On the second half, state senators Ralph Okerlund and Gene Davis join us to continue the discussion of what to expect for this years legislature.
1/29/20130
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Fiddler Mark O'Connor and the New Outdoor Recreation Vision for Utah on Thursday's Access Utah

He’s a multi-Grammy winning musician and composer and is the only person who has won the National Fiddle Championship, National Guitar Flatpicking Championship and the World Mandolin Championship. Mark O’Connor is a celebrated violinist and fiddler player, with styles ranging from classical to American folk. He joins us on Access Utah to talk about his talent, his history and his determination. He’ll be performing at the Caine College of the Arts Grand Gala at Utah State University Friday, Jan. 25. For more information, click here.
1/23/20130
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Miners Strike: Killing for Coal on Tuesday's Access Utah

One spring morning in 1914 members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family and state militia in Colorado. When the dust settled, 19 men, women and children from the miners' families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least 30 men and destroyed 6 mines and laid waste to two company towns. We revisit a discussion with Thomas Andrews, author of his book "Killing for Coal" and recounts this 1914 massacre and the great coal field war. He situates it not only in labor history but in the environment. As fossil fuels and especially coal shaped the west, and continue to do so.
1/23/20130
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Coyote Controversy on Friday's Science Questions

Coyotes are the most abundant predator in America. Today we talk about the controversial K9 and it’s perseverance in the West and question the force of human kind and nature.
1/23/201345 minutes, 14 seconds
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Urban Myths and Legends on Access Utah Wednesday

Our guest for the hour on Wednesday is Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings, who will be in Salt Lake City on January 30, for an appearance at The King’s English Bookshop. He’s out with a new book: "Because I Said So: The truth behind the myths, tales, and warnings every generation passes down to its kids." Many of these myths and warnings are culture-specific. We’ll talk about the Korean “Fan Death” tale, which Jennings first encountered growing up in Seoul. Ken Jennings also grew up as map nerd, and we’ll talk about his previous book: Maphead, in which he travels the nation meeting others of his tribe--map librarians, publishers, "roadgeeks," pint-sized National Geographic Bee prodigies, and the computer geniuses behind Google Maps and other geo-technologies. Jennings says that technology and geographic illiteracy are increasingly insulating us from the lay of the land around us, and we are going to need mapheads more than ever.
1/23/20130
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Ioan Grillo discusses book "El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency" on Thursday's Access Utah

Tom Williams’ guest for the hour on Thursday is journalist Ioan Grillo, who has written about Mexican narcotraffickers for the past decade, even interviewing members of the cartels and their death squads. He says that “El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains.” Grillo believes these cartels “have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation’s democracy and spirals into the United States.”
1/17/201349 minutes, 10 seconds
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Journalism and Advocacy on Access Utah Wednesday

In 2008, a group of armed Hindu extremists attacked and burned a village of Christians in Odisha state in India, seeking to forcefully reintegrate the villagers into the caste system left behind by their Christian beliefs. The survivors fled into the jungle to escape. National Geographic photojournalist Lynn Johnson and human rights advocate Jen Saffron have organized the Koraput Survivors Project and will give a lecture entitled “Building Bridges: When Journalism and Advocacy Meet” as a part of the Morris Media and Society Lecture series on Wednesday at USU.
1/16/20130
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Air Quality in Utah – What Can Be Done?

Our air quality problem is visible above the inversion line and is physically noticeable when passing below. Utah’s air at times has been rated the worst in the nation. Our questions are: What can be done? What should be done? What can regular citizens do? What should the government do? During the first half of the show, Bo Call, manager of the Air Monitoring Center for Utah Division of Air Quality and Gerry Carpenter, a representative for Utah Transit Authority will join us. During the second half we discuss possible solutions with Stephanie Tomlin, program director for Aggie Blue Bikes and the USU Student Sustainability Office; Cherise Udell, founder of Utah Moms for Clean Air; and Jean Lown, Utah State University Professor of Family Consumer Human Development.
1/15/201352 minutes, 55 seconds
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Dixie Name Controversy and License Plate Scanners on Access Utah

In the first half of the program we discuss the controversy over the name Dixie State College. Some say the name Dixie holds negative connotations of slavery and the Confederacy. Others say that the southern Utah area has always been known as Dixie, and that the name hearkens back to the settling of the area by Mormon Pioneers. We talk with former president of Dixie State College, Doug Alder and UPR Southern Utah correspondent Chris Holmes.
1/11/20130
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Humanity Intertwined with Hunting on Access Utah Tuesday

Steven Rinella, author of "Meat Eater—Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter," says that hunting is intimately connected with our humanity and that assuming responsibility for the meat that we eat, rather than entrusting it to proxy executioners, processors, packagers, and distributors is one of the most respectful and exhilarating things a meat eater can do. In his book, Rinella examines such themes as the vanishing frontier, the ethics of killing, and the loss of Americans’ connection with the way their food makes its way to their tables. We’ll talk about these topics with Stephen Rinella and hear some of his hunting stories as well some of the history of hunting in America on Tuesday’s AU.
1/8/20130
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Technological Help and Poetry on Access Utah Monday

You got that great new gadget for the holidays, perhaps it's already broken or you need a lot of advice on how to work it. We're going to give you some help on the first half of the program. Jonathan Choate with SD7 Technologies, our computer expert is in with some advice. Whatever technology problem you have. We'll also be talking cool new gadgets with Jonathan, including a new wearable video camera, and how best to store your media, including photos, in the cloud or out of it.
1/7/20130
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Holiday Celebration on Access Utah Thursday

On today's Access Utah we celebrate the holidays with music and poetry. Utah State University music professor Mike Christiansen, plays the guitar live in our studio. University of Utah theater professor Tim Slover, author of the book and radio series, "The Christmas Chronicles: The Legend of Santa Claus," reads excerpts of poetry.
12/13/20120
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The World of Wolf-dogs on Access Utah Wednesday

Writer Ceiridwen Terrill writes about how, at a particularly sad and frightening time in her life, a wolf dog was the kind of companion she was searching for. In her book, "Part Wild: Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs," she talks about an animal who's heart is divided between the woman she loves, and the desire to roam free. In the end, Terrill realized she must confront the reality of taming a half-wild animal.
12/12/201253 minutes, 20 seconds
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Reparative Therapy Controversy on Access Utah Tuesday

Proponents of reparative or conversion therapy say it can help people transition away from unwanted homosexuality, while opponents believe the therapy is not only harmful, but flawed in its premise.
12/11/201253 minutes, 40 seconds
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Showdown in the Sonoran Desert Author Ananda Rose on AU Monday

The immigration debate has raised some of the most difficult questions our nation has ever faced. How can we preserve the integrity of sovereign borders while also respecting the dignity of human begins? How should a border be humanely and effectively maintained? To understand the experience of those directly impacted by the immigration crisis, Ananda Rose traveled to the Sonoran Desert -- a border region where the remains of 2,000 migrants have been recovered over the past 10 years. There she interviewed minute men, border patrol agents, catholic nuns, humanitarian aid workers, ranchers and many others. The result is a new book Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy. Ananda Rose is Tom Williams' guest for the whole hour on Access Utah Monday.
12/10/20120
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A World Without Fish on Access Utah Friday

Major scientific studies conducted by a team of international scientists, warn there will be no virtually no fish or seafood from the ocean by the middle of the century. Only 50 years left for sea fish. Mark Kurlansky, prominent author of numerous non fiction books and articles, well-known for his bestseller COD: the fish that changed the world, has a new book out now for children and adults, called "A World Without Fish."
12/7/20120
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The United Nations and Disabilities on Access Utah Thursday

How much weight does international treaty have on our lives? Today we specifically talk about the U.N. convention and the rights for persons with disabilities. That was defeated in the senate recently; Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says this is an expression of American leadership throughout the world, and will help disabled veterans. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) expressed the views of some, saying those who homeschool their children, and send their children to private or religious schools would be harmed by this law.
12/6/20120
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Sex Trafficking in Utah on Access Utah Wednesday

"I didn't know about sex trafficking until I was in the middle of it. I found out that they actually had chosen me."
12/5/20120
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Brigham Young's Life on Access Utah Tuesday

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York who's impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. he trudged around the US and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than 50 women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God.
12/4/201253 minutes, 35 seconds
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Bullying on Access Utah Monday

Bullying is receiving a lot of attention right now, which seems an opportune time to discuss it on Access Utah. According to The Bully Project's website, 13 million kids will be bullied this year, and 3 million will be absent from school, because of it. Some kids may take their lives.
12/3/20120
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Drug Cartels and the Eocene on Access Utah Friday

Today on Access Utah, Sheri Quinn talks with writer Patrick Radden Keefe. With the drug-related violence in Mexico thriving, understanding how the drug industry operates is crucial to combatting it. Keith investigated the business side of the blooming illegal drug trade and in June 2012 his report, Cocaine Inc. was published in the New York Times Magazine.
12/3/20120
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Unions and Twinkies on Access Utah Thursday

We've been hearing about the death of Twinkies. The closure of the company Hostess has the public fearing the treats such as Twinkies and Ho-Hos, and has shined a spotlight on unions.
11/29/20120
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Loosening Liquor Laws on Access Utah

Utah's laws underwent extensive reform a few years ago, and now Sen. John Valentine is creating a bill that would create a "master license" for hotels, which would free up licenses currently required for the restaurants, catering services and bars inside the hotels.
11/28/20120
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Invisible Disabilities Movie Brings Discussion to the Public on Access Utah

One mother talks about the gap between when her son is seen as "normal", and when he's seen as "not normal." She's talking about his invisible disability - a disability which at first glance isn't readily apparent, and includes intellectual impairments such as autism and other disorders.
11/26/20120
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Illegal Immigration on Access Utah Tuesday

We're talking immigration on Access Utah, specifically illegal immigration. There are an estimated 110,000 illegal immigrants in Utah according to the Pew Center, and more may arrive. The Republican Party's stance on immigration seems to be softening after the election, although not in Utah. Some legislators are suggest pushing back the controversial guest worker act.
11/20/20120
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Dinosaurs and Paleontology on Access Utah Friday

Today on the program Sheri Quinn talks to paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Carpenter about recent advances in the study of dinosaurs and why Utah is one of the best places on earth to study them.
11/16/201253 minutes, 59 seconds
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Living in the Cloud on Access Utah

With the expansion of mobile computing, we are all more or less living in the "cloud."
11/13/20120
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Amazon's Uncontacted People on Access Utah Monday

We meet photojournalist Scott Wallace, who wrote "The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes." It's the story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted tribes in the world.
11/13/20120
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Bioprospecting on Access Utah Friday

Utah is the only state in the U.S. to enact a law that requires someone who is engaged in bioprospecting to notify the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands before removing certain microorganisms, plants, or fungi from state lands. Bioprospecting is the search for and collection of biological material, usually microbes, that could prove either economically useful or in environmental protection efforts. For example if extreme algae in the Great Salt Lake can make a biofuel without impacting the ecosystem it can be harnessed in the laboratory. Since research may turn those algae into a profitable fuel, the law leaves the groundwork for Utah to benefit from profits made off the research.
11/9/20120
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The Morning After: a Post-Election Discussion on AU Wednesday

We turn the focus now to you, listeners and voters. Maybe you want to share who you voted for and why? What issue were you focused on this election season? Maybe you ran for office or worked for a candidate? Did your experience last night make you more or less hopeful about the democratic process?
11/7/20120
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Energy and the Environment and Black Holes on Access Utah Friday

The environmental impact of energy development across the west was the theme at the Restoring the West conference at Utah State University this week. Today on the program, Sheri Quinn talks to a conservation ecologist about the effects of the largest gas field in the U.S. on the endemic pronghorn population that winters on these gas fields in western Wyoming.
11/2/201253 minutes, 49 seconds
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Miners Strike: Killing for Coal on Access Utah Thursday

One spring morning in 1914 members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family and state militia in Colorado. When the dust settled, 19 men, women and children from the miners' families lay dead. The strikers had killed at least 30 men and destroyed 6 mines and laid waste to two company towns.
11/1/20120
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Water in the West on Access Utah Wednesday

On Access Utah the topic is water, specifically the Colorado River and the documentary Watershed. The producers call the Colorado River the most "damned, dibbed and diverted river in the world." It is struggling to support 30 million people, and population is expected to explode.
11/1/20120
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Amendment A and District 3 Debate on Access Utah Tuesday

Debating constitutional amendment a in the first half of the program today, continuing our Vote Utah series. The amendment proposes the Utah constitution be amended to require a portion of the revenue from all state severance taxes, to be deposited in the state trust fund, beginning in 2016.
10/30/201257 minutes, 48 seconds
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Restoring the West Conference on Access Utah Monday

On Access Utah we preview the Restoring the West conference happening Tuesday and Wednesday on the Utah State University campus. The conference will focus on balancing energy development and biodiversity. There's a boom in energy development in many areas of the west, and Tom Williams asks our guests if there is a balance to be found on Access Utah this hour.
10/29/20120
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Sound and Stars on Access Utah Friday

The amazing recordist Chris Watson, from Britain, takes us on a sound journey to Antarctica, where he encounters some of the rarest sounds on Earth.
10/26/201258 minutes, 45 seconds
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2nd Congressional Debate on Access Utah Thursday

Today on Access Utah is a rebroadcast of Wednesday night's House 2nd Congressional District debate on the Southern Utah University campus, in conjunction with the Michael O. Leavitt Center for Politics and Public Service. UPR Southern Utah Correspondent Chris Holmes moderates with Eric Kirby, Director of the Leavitt Center.
10/25/201259 minutes, 57 seconds
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Einstein's Center of Time on Access Utah Thursday

Einstein's Dream was first published in 1994, has been translated into 30 languages and has been the basis for more than two dozen independent theatrical and musical productions. Author Alan Lightman worked with producers Paul Stancato and Brian Rhinehart to create a musical piece that followed the strains of the book.
8/23/201253 minutes, 7 seconds
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Live Jazz on Access Utah Wednesday

Wednesday on AU, we’ll kick off a new periodic series featuring Utah musicians. Live from the stage of the USU Performance Hall we’ll introduce you to singer-songwriter Liz Woolley, who plays the piano and mandolin and moves comfortably between Jazz, Bluegrass and Classical genres. Liz Woolley and her band join Tom Williams for a little conversation and a lot of music on-stage at the USU Performance Hall on Wednesday’s AU.
8/22/20120