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President Barack Obama addresses joint session of Congress in 2009.
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May 21, 2013
Once upon a time in a second term, a president used his power to go after journalists in Hartford. I could be talking about President Obama's justice department seizing AP phone records, including some from AP's Hartford office. But I could also be talking Thomas Jefferson in 1806. Sick of Fe... read more
"Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now" by Douglas Rushkoff.
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May 17, 2013
As our gadgets move into the future, we’re moving into the past. That email you just received? It was written seconds, minutes or hours ago. The tweets you’re catching up on? That’s old news by the time you read it. This radio show? Even if you're listening "live," you're not really listening the... read more
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May 16, 2013
Today: The way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control. Why are people named... read more
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May 13, 2013
  Listen to this quote: "I have just ... paid a depressing visit to an electronic computer which can write sonnets if fed with the right materi... read more
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May 10, 2013
The four Cs: Cupcakes, Candy bars, Cookies… and sugar Comas! The Food Schmooze gang tries cupcakes from Mr. D’s in Wallingford, CT. Our candy corre... read more
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May 10, 2013
Based on Pépin’s 1978 and 1979 archetypal works La Méthode and La Technique, Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques has become a cookbook classic in i... read more
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May 10, 2013
The Book Show gang joins Faith live with recommendations in all categories. And we’ll take your calls! What’re you reading? What’ve you recently re... read more
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May 10, 2013
Seventeen days after a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, a woman was pulled alive from the rubble. But more than 1,000 people have been conf... read more
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May 6, 2013
For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying,... read more
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May 3, 2013
Tomorrow, is the final Connecticut Forum of the season. It’s called Funny, Smart People and it’s being moderated by our very own Colin McEnroe. The... read more
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May 3, 2013
  Advocates for mental health have been expressing concern about the conversation in American following the Newtown shootings.  While we still... read more
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May 3, 2013
It has been widely reported -- but not heavily discussed -- that Charles and David Koch are the leading suitors to buy the eight newspapers belongi... read more
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May 2, 2013
  Good news for bearded men published in the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry  found that beards block 90 to 95 percent of UV rays, reduc... read more
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Apr 30, 2013
Libraries might be changing faster than just about any other part of public life. These civic institutions were known for more than a century for t... read more
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Apr 30, 2013
We all know love matters, but today, positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson joins Faith to show us just how much. Even more than happiness an... read more
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Apr 29, 2013
What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamenta... read more
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Apr 26, 2013
We'll get you in the mood to explore our state with the author of Insiders' Guide to Connecticut, the best state guide on the market. It's pure ple... read more
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Apr 24, 2013
The Monkees were the first group to exhibit all or most of the qualities we now associate with the term "boy band." They were assembled through aud... read more
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Apr 24, 2013
  In 2010, the Pew Center on the States reported that a majority of states didn’t have enough available cash to pay for the pensions of their p... read more
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Apr 23, 2013
Two possible meaningful personal stories. One. I love going to farmer's markets, and one of the many things I'm apt to buy is the so-called sal... read more
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