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    History
    Ernest and Mollie Burkhart married in 1917. Unbeknownst to Mollie, a member of the Osage tribe, the marriage was part of a larger plot to steal her family's oil wealth.
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    In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money

    Apr 17, 2017
    The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — and then members started turning up dead. David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon describes the dark plot against them.
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    'A People's History Of Chicago' Reflects A Spectrum Of Experiences

    Apr 16, 2017
    Poet and author Kevin Coval talks about his new book of poems, A People's History of Chicago. The book tells the stories of the city's marginalized communities.
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    Michael Nesmith (center, foreground) with the other members of The Monkees — Davy Jones (left), Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork (right) — in the late 1960s.
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    Michael Nesmith On 'Infinite Tuesday' And Touring With Hendrix

    Apr 16, 2017
    In his new memoir, the one-time member of The Monkees recalls befriending John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, who opened for the band on a 1967 tour. (That didn't last long.)
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    The Poetic Intimacy Of Administering Anesthesia

    Apr 16, 2017
    An anesthesiologist and poet says her medical work is well-suited to poetry, as patients move in and out of consciousness under the doctor's watch.
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    Stephanie Powell Watts teaches English at Lehigh University.
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    Fitzgerald Didn't Satisfy This Author, So She Wrote Her Own 'Gatsby'-Inspired Novel

    Apr 13, 2017
    Stephanie Powell Watts' No One Is Coming to Save Us isn't quite a retelling of The Great Gatsby; instead, it uses similar themes to tell a story about black characters in a declining furniture town.
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    How Can The Colorado River Continue To Support 36 Million People In 7 States?

    Apr 13, 2017
    New Yorker staff writer David Owen says that convoluted legal agreements and a patchwork of infrastructure determine how water from the Colorado is allocated. His new book is Where The Water Goes.
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    The Salt
    A visitor to the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley, Calif., attends a wine tasting class. Unlike food — which gives us sensory cues like crunchy and hot, as well as tasting, say, salty — with wine, it's all about tiny differences in taste and smel
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    Oaky, With Notes Of BS: Why Wine Tasting Struggles To Get It On The Nose

    Apr 10, 2017
    Unlike food — which gives us sensory cues like crunchy and hot, as well as tasting, say, salty — with wine, it's all about tiny differences in taste and smell. The danger is in getting too poetic.
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    Code Switch
    Throughout his career, Prince played around with constructions of race, gender and sexuality.
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    Prince Contained Multitudes, New Book Confirms

    Apr 09, 2017
    Prince on defining his music: "The only thing I could think of, because I really don't like categories, but the only thing I could think of is inspirational."
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    How Flawed Science Is Undermining Good Medicine

    Apr 06, 2017
    U.S. taxpayers pay $30 billion a year to fund biomedical research aimed at finding better treatments. But competition for scarce funding and tenure may be prompting some scientists to cut corners.
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    The Salt
    Molecules in wine stimulate thousands of taste and odor receptors, sending a flavor signal to the brain that triggers massive cognitive computation involving pattern recognition, memory, value judgment, emotion and, of course, pleasure.
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    The Taste Of Wine Isn't All In Your Head, But Your Brain Sure Helps

    Apr 03, 2017
    Savoring the flavor of wine activates more gray matter than solving a complex math problem, according to neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd. His new book, Neurenology, explores your brain on wine.
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    Historian Dennis McBride Chronicles Gay And Lesbian History In Nevada

    Apr 04, 2017

    Historian Dennis McBride writes in his new book about Nevada’s reputation as “tolerant of activities the rest of the nation shunned.” However, over the decades - in the area of gay and lesbian righ

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    During World War II, Even Filmmakers Reported For Duty

    Mar 31, 2017
    Mark Harris says the military worked with Hollywood directors to create movies about the war. His book, Five Came Back, is the basis for a new Netflix docu-series. Originally broadcast March 3, 2014.
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    Technology

    Inside DARPA, The Pentagon Agency Whose Technology Has 'Changed the World'

    Mar 28, 2017
    Journalist Sharon Weinberger discusses the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, which develops innovative scientific technologies for the military. Her new book is The Imagineers of War.
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    Education
    Tressie McMillan Cottom has a Ph.D. in sociology and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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    How For-Profit Colleges Sell 'Risky Education' To The Most Vulnerable

    Mar 27, 2017
    Tressie McMillan Cottom worked in enrollment at two for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. Her new book is Lower Ed.
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    Kevin Breel: What Can Depression Teach Us About Comedy?

    Mar 24, 2017
    The image of the "sad clown" can seem like a cliche. But for Kevin Breel, it's very real. He describes how he struggled with depression while performing as a stand-up comedian.
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    Shots - Health News
    Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and media critic, wrote <em>Flags of our Fathers</em>, which was adapted into a film by Clint Eastwood.
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    Father Of 2 Sons With Schizophrenia Talks Of His Struggle To Save Them

    Mar 20, 2017
    "There is no greater ... feeling of helplessness than to watch two beloved sons deteriorate before [your] eyes," says Ron Powers. His new book is No One Cares About Crazy People.
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    The Salt
    Anyone who has read or seen <em></em>Victor Hugo's masterpiece knows the plot of <em>Les Miserables</em> turns on the theft of a simple loaf of bread. There was no sharper barometer of economic status in 19th-century France than bread.
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    Let Them Eat Bread: The Theft That Helped Inspire 'Les Miserables'

    Mar 20, 2017
    Anyone who has read or seen Victor Hugo's masterpiece knows the plot turns on the theft of a simple loaf of bread. There was no sharper barometer of economic status in 19th-century France than bread.
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    Monkey See
    Writer Neil Gaiman attends a screening of <em>Coraline</em> during the Entertainment Weekly CapeTown Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre on May 5, 2013.
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    Pop Culture Happy Hour: Memes, Fads And A Chat With Neil Gaiman

    Mar 17, 2017
    This week, we bring you two segments with comedian Guy Branum from our fall tour, and our friend Petra Mayer chats with author Neil Gaiman about Norse mythology.
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    All Tech Considered
    Adam Alter's previous book is<em> Drunk Tank Pink.</em>
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    'Irresistible' By Design: It's No Accident You Can't Stop Looking At The Screen

    Mar 13, 2017
    Technology is designed to be addictive, offering gratification that's similar to that of drug abuse or gambling. Author Adam Alter says a new frontier could soon provide another escape from reality.
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    The Salt
    A caricature of a French lemonade merchant, after Henry William Bunbury, 1771.
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    How Lemonade Helped Paris Fend Off Plague And Other Surprising 'Food Fights'

    Mar 12, 2017
    Tom Nealon's new book searches through patchy historical records to trace subjects like how chocolate helped lead to war in the Caribbean, or the role a grain fungus played in the Crusades.
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    Shots - Health News
    German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a speech in October 1944. Author Norman Ohler says that Hitler's abuse of drugs increased "significantly" from the fall of 1941 until the winter of 1944.
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    Author Says Hitler Was 'Blitzed' On Cocaine And Opiates During The War

    Mar 07, 2017
    Author Norman Ohler says that Adolf Hitler's drug abuse increased "significantly" from the fall of 1941 until winter of 1944: "Hitler needed those highs to substitute [for] his natural charisma."
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    The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books
    Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar served three tours in Afghanistan. She now lives in Austin, Texas, and works as an executive coach and consultant.
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    A Purple Heart Warrior Takes Aim At Military Inequality In 'Shoot Like A Girl'

    Mar 02, 2017
    Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar is part of a lawsuit that argues excluding women from combat is unconstitutional. She says the lawsuit isn't about women's rights – it's about military effectiveness.
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    Economy
    Tyler Cowen argues, in his new book <em>The Complacent Class</em>, that Americans are in a period of stagnation because we are doing less and less of what made us successful in the past: embracing change, moving to different parts of the country, and ass
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    America's 'Complacent Class': How Self-Segregation Is Leading To Stagnation

    Mar 02, 2017
    Economist and author Tyler Cowen worries that Americans' desire to keep changing has gone away. "The forward march of progress," he says, "is not the main story today."
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    Mental Health

    'River On Fire' Explores Genius, Madness And The Poetry Of Robert Lowell

    Feb 28, 2017
    Kay Redfield Jamison's new book describes how Lowell's manic-depressive illness influenced his life and work. "His manias tended to lead him into writing a fresh kind of poetry," she says.
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    Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom
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    To This Scholar, For-Profit Colleges Are 'Lower Ed'

    Feb 28, 2017
    Tressie McMillan Cottom delves into the hopes and dreams of students outside the traditional college path.

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