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Funny [2011-12-15 13:00:00] What’s funny these days? We’ll spend this hour with two professionals who know. Paul Varghese and Aaron Aryanpur will join us to discuss the current state of comedy, make us laugh and preview their upcoming News Year’s Eve show at Dallas’ Back Door Comedy Club. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patrick Henry [2011-12-15 12:00:00] What does today’s “small government” political movement owe to famed revolutionary orator Patrick Henry? We’ll find out this hour with Thomas S. Kidd, Associate Professor of History at Baylor University and author of the new book “Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bias in Health Care? [2011-12-14 12:00:00] Is health care one of the final frontiers for equality in America? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Augustus A. White III, Professor of Medical Education and Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and author of the new book “Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care” (Harvard University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier [2011-12-14 13:00:00] How does Haute couture influence everyday fashion trends and when does the influence move in reverse? We’ll examine the career and work of designer Jean Paul Gaultier this hour with Kevin Tucker, the Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas Museum of Art and organizer of the DMA’s presentation of The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating Characters that Thrill [2011-12-13 13:00:00] Where do riveting characters come from and what goes on in the minds of the authors who create them? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, whose nineteenth novel featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, “Red Mist” (Putnam Adult, 2011), has just been published. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Stories You Missed in 2011 [2011-12-13 12:00:00] What are the big stories that we haven’t been hearing in the news this year? We’ll talk this hour with Joshua E. Keating, associate editor at Foreign Policy. His piece “The Stories You Missed in 2011: 10 events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2012″ is out now on Foreign Policy.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giving Thanks and Expressing Gratitude [2011-12-12 13:00:00] What are you thankful for this holiday season and how do you express your gratitude to family and friends? You can share your stories as we talk this hour with writer and journalist Nora Firestone, founder of Thanking of You.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans [2011-12-12 12:00:00] What can we learn by listening to the stories and heeding the advice from the older generations of Americans? We’ll find out this hour with gerontologist Karl Pillemer, Ph.D., founder of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging and author of the new book “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans” (Hudson Street Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Guide to Holiday Movies [2011-12-08 13:00:00] What are the hot and not-so-hot holiday movies this season? We’ll get the picks and pans of this year’s crop of films with a panel of our favorite critics this hour – Stephen Becker of KERA’s Art&Seek, Christopher Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cry for the Tiger [2011-12-08 12:00:00] Will the planet’s estimated 4,000 remaining wild tigers survive ongoing habitat loss and poaching? We’ll talk this hour with National Geographic contributor Caroline Alexander. Her piece “A Cry for the Tiger” appears in the December, 2011 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alternative Theories of Everything [2011-12-07 13:00:00] Who really has a claim on the study of the sciences? We’ll explore the non-credentialed, non-formal world of “outsider physicists” this hour with journalist Margaret Wertheim, who has spent 15 years studying this scientific subculture. She writes about it in her new book “Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything” (Walker & Company, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Day of the Soviet Union [2011-12-07 12:00:00] What events actually led to the 1991 dissolution of the U.S.S.R. and how did the bitter relationship between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin contribute to the superpower’s demise? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Conor O’Clery, author of the book “Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union” (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan [2011-12-06 13:00:00] What is life like for most of the people of Afghanistan and how important is the drug trade to the country’s economy? We’ll find out this hour with native Afghan and journalist Fariba Nawa, who recounts her experiences traveling within and reporting on the country in her new book “Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan” (Harper Perennial, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearl Harbor Christmas [2011-12-06 12:00:00] What was the first holiday season of World War II like for Americans? On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack, we’ll revisit the week-long 1941 war-planning sessions between President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the climate of a country thrust into global war. Our guest will be Penn State Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities Stanley Weintraub. His new book is “Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions [2011-12-05 13:00:00] Where did our law-related words and phrases originate and how did they become a common part of our everyday language? We’ll find out this hour with Elizabeth Thornburg, Professor of Law at SMU’s Dedman School of Law and co-author of the new book “Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions” (Yale University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation [2011-12-05 12:00:00] How did one of the most influential nations in history come to be? We’ll look back at the highlights of British history this hour with Guardian columnist and former editor of The Times Simon Jenkins. His new book is “A Short History of England: The Glorious Story of a Rowdy Nation” (PublicAffairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America [2011-12-01 12:00:00] Who fostered imperial dreams for the young United States of America? We’ll explore the life and story of our country’s third vice president this hour with historian David O. Stewart. His new book is “American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America” (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cross-Border Search for Truth [2011-12-01 13:00:00] Is the international adoption system corrupt? What are the risks and who profits from adoption fraud? More importantly, who suffers? We’ll talk this hour with investigative journalist, photographer and Fellow at the Shuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University Erin Siegal. Her new book is “Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth” (Cathexis Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protecting the Oceans [2011-11-30 13:00:00] From the archives – What should we each be doing to help preserve the environment and especially the oceans? In April we talked with adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild, who (along with his crew) crossed the Pacific Ocean last year on a boat made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other fully recyclable materials. His recounts the experience in “Plastiki: Across the Pacific: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans” (Chronicle Books, 201 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Science Will Shape Human Destiny [2011-11-30 12:00:00] From the archives – How will the fields of medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production and astronautics change our lives in the not-too-distant future? Last April we spoke with Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of the new book “Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100″ (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS [2011-11-29 13:00:00] From the archives – Who was Julia Child before she became America’s most famous and beloved television chef? Last spring, we discussed the intrigue of World War II espionage and more with journalist Jennet Conant, whose new book is “A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS” (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels with the State Historian of Texas [2011-11-29 12:00:00] From the archives – What makes Texas History so fascinating? We spent an hour in April with Light Townsend Cummins, Ph.D., the Bryan Chair of American History at Austin College and recent State Historian of Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wind Energy in America Today [2011-11-28 13:00:00] What role is the wind playing in our country’s energy system and what does the future hold for wind turbine generation? We’ll spend this hour with Robert Righter, Research Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and author of “Windfall: Wind Energy in America Today” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Comfort [2011-11-28 12:00:00] Where do you find comfort? We’ll explore that question and the constant human cycle between tranquility and struggle this hour with Father Brett C. Hoover, a member of the Paulist Fathers order and author of the new book “Comfort: An Atlas for the Body and Soul” (Riverhead Trade, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beethoven and the World in 1824 [2011-11-23 13:00:00] What environment spawned one of the greatest orchestral compositions in history? We’ll find out this hour with music historian and New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein Scholar-In-Residence Harvey Sachs. His latest book is “The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824″ (Random House, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest [2011-11-23 12:00:00] Did they really try to climb it just because it was there? We’ll examine the lives and times of some of the most adventurous early 20th Century explorers this hour with Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and author of the new book “Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest” (Knopf, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence [2011-11-22 13:00:00] Everyone’s seen the photos and films from Dallas in November 1963, but what was it like to be part of President Kennedy’s Secret Service team on the day of his tragic assassination? We’ll revisit our conversation with two of those agents, Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, and Lisa McCubbin – the journalist who helps tell their story in the book “The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence” (Gallery Books, Tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thinking, Fast and Slow [2011-11-22 12:00:00] What is known about how the human mind really works? We’ll talk this hour with Daniel Kahneman, one of the only non-economists to win a Nobel Prize in Economics. Currently the Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University, Kahneman has distilled decades of observations and research into his new book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” (Farrar, Stra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life Inside the Madoff Family [2011-11-21 13:00:00] What happens to a family when the father is accused and convicted of a stunning series of betrayals and crimes? We’ll find out this hour with journalist Laurie Sandell, author of the new book “Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family” (Little, Brown and Company, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of African American Politics [2011-11-21 12:00:00] What is the real state of American race relations and African American politics? We’ll talk this hour with Michael C. Dawson, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. His new book is “Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics” (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs [2011-11-17 13:00:00] From the archives – Can ecology, biology, mathematics and physics help us avoid (or at least predict) forthcoming troubles of the worst kind? In April we talked with scientist Len Fisher, Ph.D., author of the new book “Crashes, Crises, and Calamities: How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emotion in the New Workplace [2011-11-17 12:00:00] From the archives – What role do emotions play at work? We talked in April with journalist and former executive vice president and worldwide creative director for Nickelodeon, Anne Kreamer, who tackles the issue in her new book “It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace” (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Riding the Edge of America [2011-11-16 13:00:00] What’s it like along the borders between Canada, the United States and Mexico? We’ll talk this hour with writer Derek Lundy who traveled the length of those borders in 2008. He writes about the experience in his book “Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America” (Vintage Canada, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the New Threat Matrix [2011-11-16 12:00:00] Could the next global war be taking place right beneath your fingertips…right now? We’ll find out this hour with former National Security Agency senior counsel Joel Brenner who assesses the current risks in his new book “America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare” (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Government Subsidies and Our Food Bills [2011-11-15 13:00:00] Do we really know the how and why behind government subsidies? Who do they benefit and why were they created in the first place? We’ll talk this hour with writer Thomas M. Kostigen, author of the new book “The Big Handout: How Government Subsidies and Corporate Welfare Corrupt the World We Live In and Wreak Havoc on Our Food Bills” (Rodale, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Immigrant Advantage [2011-11-15 12:00:00] What can our melting pot nation and culture still stand to gain from immigration? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Claudia Kolker, author of the new book “The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope” (Free Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Van Gogh: The Life [2011-11-14 13:00:00] He’s famous for both his incredible art and his notorious instability, but what was life really like for one of the greatest artists in history? We’ll spend this hour with Pulitzer prize-winning author Steven Naifeh. His new book, co-written with Gregory White Smith is “Van Gogh: The Life” (Random House, 2011). Both Naifeh and Smith will speak this evening at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robotics and Education [2011-11-14 12:00:00] How important will robots be in the future and how is robotics education changing the field? We’ll spend this hour with Nicholas Gans, assistant professor of electrical engineering and Ken Berry, director of the Science and Engineering Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas. The university will hold a robotics competition this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unbecoming British [2011-11-10 12:00:00] Along with its revolutionary political independence, how did the United States of America gain cultural and social differentiation from its former colonial master Great Britain? We’ll talk this hour with Yale University Historian Kariann Akemi Yokota, author of the new book “Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation” (Oxford University Press USA, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beauty and Function in Landscape [2011-11-10 13:00:00] What makes a landscape a beautiful, pleasing and functional space? We’ll spend this hour with landscape architect Peter Walker, FASLA. His firm, PWP Landscape Architecture, has designed countless influential landscape projects around the world including the National 9/11 Memorial in New York and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Walker is in town to participate in the “Longing for Beauty” Conference at the Dallas Institute of Humanities & Cul ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mistress of Kings [2011-11-09 13:00:00] Who was Mary Boleyn and what was her true role in the English and French Courts of the early 16th Century? We’ll find out this hour with historical biographer Alison Weir. Her newest work is “Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings” (Ballantine Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spotting Exceptional Talent [2011-11-09 12:00:00] What’s the best way to evaluate an individual’s skills and talents? We find out this hour with journalist George Anders who spent over two years studying the greatest talent hunters in sports, music, business, medicine, the military, education and philanthropy. His new book is “The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else” (Portfolio, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Students Drop Out of High School [2011-11-08 13:00:00] Just how bad is the drop out rate in America today and what are workable strategies to help keep kids in school? We’ll talk this hour with Russell W. Rumberger, Vice Provost for Education Partnerships at the University of California Office of the President and author of the new book “Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It” (Harvard University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Long Trip Home [2011-11-08 12:00:00] How does one overcome a turbulent childhood and go on to achieve a successful career? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Whitaker, executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide. He writes about his family’s complicated and emotional history in his new book “My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir” (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walking in Space [2011-11-07 13:00:00] From the archives – Ever wonder what it’s like to walk in space? We discussed the experience of space flight, the future of America’s space program and more last April with Astronaut Mike Massimino who made two space walks during STS-109 to repair the Hubble Telescope in 2002 and flew on the final Hubble servicing mission (STS-125) in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Year in a Women's Prison [2011-11-07 12:00:00] From the archives – What can be learned from a year in the Danbury, Connecticut Federal Correctional Institution for Women? In March we talked with communications executive Piper Kerman, who writes about her experience in the new memoir “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison” (Spiegel & Grau, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Dagoberto Gilb [2011-11-03 13:00:00] How does a writer emerge triumphant from a personal crisis? We’ll spend this hour with writer and storyteller Dagoberto Gilb. Gilb, who is also the executive director of Centro Victoria at the University of Houston, Victoria, has just published a new collection of stories called “Before the End, After the Beginning” (Grove Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why the West Rules for Now [2011-11-03 12:00:00] Can we predict the future of civilization by looking deep into the past? We’ll explore the “unified theory of all things geopolitical” this hour with Ian Morris, the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor in Classics and History at Stanford University. His book, “Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future” (Picador, Paperback, 2011), is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Are Not So Smart [2011-11-02 13:00:00] What is the true reality of our existence? Are we living in a dream world? Our guest this hour, journalist and blogger David McRaney, would likely say yes. His new book is “You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself” (Gotham Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Battle against IEDs [2011-11-02 12:00:00] Just how deadly have Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) become and what is being done to combat them? We’ll talk this hour with Harper’s Magazine contributor Andrew Cockburn. His current piece is “Search and Destroy: The Pentagon’s Losing Battle against IEDs”. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals [2011-11-01 13:00:00] What is the life really like for radical Islamic militants and why do they join jihad in the first place? We’ll talk this hour with Ken Ballen, president and founder of Terror Free Tomorrow. His new book is “Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals” (Free Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms [2011-11-01 12:00:00] What can we learn from fungi and what influential and largely unknown roles do they play in our lives? We’ll talk this hour with food writer and journalist Eugenia Bone, whose new book is “Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms” (Rodale Books, 2011) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Following Ezra [2011-10-31 13:00:00] How can parents deal with the challenging and life-changing diagnosis of an autistic child? We’ll talk this hour with one such parent, Tom Fields-Meyer. He writes about his experiences in the new book “Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son” (New American Library, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Pastor's Calling [2011-10-31 12:00:00] Who is leading the struggle for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the church? We’ll spend this hour with Jimmy Creech, author of the book “Adam’s Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays” (Duke, 2011). Creech will speak at Northhaven United Methodist Church on Tuesday, November 1st. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scary Monsters [2011-10-27 13:00:00] What makes for a good monster? We’ll examine how both fantasy and human monsters represent and embody our greatest anxieties with Stephen T. Asma, Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar at Columbia College Chicago. Asma is the author of “On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears” (Oxford University Press, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Powering the Future [2011-10-27 12:00:00] Setting aside the debates about carbon, fossil fuels and global warming, one big question remains, what will humankind do once the oil and coal are all gone? We’ll find out this hour with Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Laureate and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University. Laughlin’s new book is “Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow” (Basic Books, 201 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [2011-10-26 13:00:00] How did the flight of almost six million African-American citizens from the South to northern and western cities change 20th Century America? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, whose masterwork, “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” (Vintage, 2011), is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Chat with Allan Sloan [2011-10-26 12:00:00] You’ll probably recognize his voice from his weekly appearance on the Marketplace Morning Report’s Sloan Sessions. We discuss the state of the economy this hour with Allan Sloan, Senior Editor-at-Large for Fortune Magazine. He’ll be in town next week for the symposium “At Issue: Ethics, Trust & Transparency” presented by SMU’s Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility in collaboration with the Cox School of Busi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture [2011-10-25 13:00:00] How is our always-on, never-out-of touch society affecting school kids and the world they will eventually enter as adults? We’ll spend this hour with Diana Senechal, who will receive the Hiett Prize in Humanities and deliver the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture 2011 Hiett Prize Lecture on Wednesday. Her forthcoming book on the subject is “Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture” (R&L Education, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating a Literary Hell [2011-10-25 12:00:00] What’s it really like in hell? We’ll explore the nether-world of the damned as created by our guest this hour, novelist Chuck Palahniuk whose new book is “Damned” (Doubleday, 2011). His book “Fight Club,” which became a cult-classic motion picture was first published in 1996. Palahniuk will appear at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Remembrance [2011-10-24 13:00:00] How do you measure the impact of a memorial, either public or private? We’ll spend this hour with journalist and novelist Stephen Harrigan who explores this question and more in his new book “Remember Ben Clayton” (Knopf, 2011). Harrigan will speak at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos [2011-10-24 12:00:00] Who blazed the trail that ultimately led to our understanding of the universe and just how dangerous was his work – to his life and career as a Catholic administrator and physician to bishops and dukes? We’ll spend this hour with Dava Sobel, author of “A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos” (Walker & Company, 2011). Sobel will appear at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foods for Homesick Texans [2011-10-20 13:00:00] What foods do you crave when you’re far away from home? Our guest this hour missed the food in Texas so much, she wrote a cookbook to satisfy any appetite. We’ll spend this hour with Lisa Fain, certified barbeque judge and author of “The Homesick Texan Cookbook” (Hyperion, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics [2011-10-20 12:00:00] Just how long have Texans been important in national politics? We’ll spend this hour with journalist and author Kathryn J. McGarr, who profiles the influential career of one 1970s Texas power broker in her new book “The Whole Damn Deal: Robert Strauss and the Art of Politics” (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Short History of Private Life [2011-10-19 13:00:00]Are you taking your house for granted? According to our guest this hour, writer Bill Bryson, you probably are. He reveals the unknown history behind the modern household conveniences we’ve all come to depend upon in his book “At Home: A Short History of Private Life” (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reinventing Diversity [2011-10-19 12:00:00] What is really needed to achieve the long-awaited goal of true diversity in the workplace and other organizations? We’ll talk this hour with Howard J. Ross, author of the new book “Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Stories of Jonestown [2011-10-18 13:00:00] What really happened at Jonestown on November 18, 1978? We’ll find out this hour with writer Julia Scheeres who tells the stories of the victims of the terrible tragedy in her new book “A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown” (Free Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life and Death in Karachi [2011-10-18 12:00:00] How does the rise of one megacity reflect the changes and challenges faced by many countries around the world? We’ll spend this hour with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, who investigated the largest city in Pakistan for his new book “Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi” (The Penguin Press, 2011). Steve Inskeep will be in town to address a joint program with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth, The Dallas Assembly and KERA this Frida ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Better Managing Your Time [2011-10-17 13:00:00] How do you manage your time? Are you able to get it all done? We’ll discuss strategies for accomplishing the most important things on your to-do list this hour with Peter Bregman, author of the new book “18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done” (Business Plus, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels in Siberia [2011-10-17 12:00:00] What’s it really like in Siberia and what role has the region played in history? We’ll talk this hour with prolific writer and frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Ian Frazier. His new book is “Travels in Siberia” (Picador, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abigail and John Adams [2011-10-13 13:00:00] What was family life like for the founders of our country? Pulitzer Prize winning author and Mount Holyoke College Ford Foundation Professor of History Joseph J. Ellis pulls back the curtain in his book “First Family: Abigail and John Adams” (Vintage, 2011). He’ll join us for the hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case for Boredom [2011-10-13 12:00:00] Is boredom an important part of human existence? If so, why is it almost universally accepted that being bored is a bad thing? We’ll talk this hour with Peter Toohey, Professor of Classics at the University of Calgary, who argues for the great benefits of being bored in his new book “Boredom: A Lively History” (Yale, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joy, Humor, Laughter and the Spiritual Life [2011-10-12 13:00:00] Is religion supposed to be serious business all the time? Not according to our guest this hour. We’ll talk with Reverend James Martin, SJ, a Jesuit Priest and author of the new book “Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life” (HarperOne, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Energy and the Future [2011-10-12 12:00:00] Why does the global energy system work the way it does and what will it take to meet our energy needs in the future? We’ll find out this hour with Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates and author of the new book “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World” (The Penguin Press, 2011). Yergin will speak to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth on Monday, October 24th. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Telling a Story [2011-10-11 12:00:00] What is required to retell ancient history in fictional form? We’ll spend this hour with writer Alice Hoffman, whose new book “The Dovekeepers” (Scribner, 2011) is based on the true events of the Roman siege of Masada. She’ll appear at Arts & Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Longer and Better [2011-10-11 13:00:00] Would you want to live to be one hundred years old? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Laura L. Carstensen, founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and author of “A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security” (PublicAffairs, Paperback, 2011). Dr. Carstensen will speak at the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity in collaboration with the UTD Center for Values this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real Wild West [2011-10-10 13:00:00] From the archives - Where do we get our image of the Wild West and just how accurate are the stories of cold-blooded outlaws and the lawmen sworn to bring them to justice? Earlier this year we talked with writer and Southwest Studies expert Mark Lee Gardner, author of “To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett” (Harper Paperbacks, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef [2011-10-10 12:00:00] From the archives - What does it take to become a successful chef? We talked with Gabrielle Hamilton, author and chef/owner of New York City’s Prune restaurant. Her new memoir is “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef” (Random House) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs [2011-10-06 13:00:00] What will it take for Mexico to regain control of its lawless border regions and begin to stop the flow of illicit drugs? We’ll spend this hour with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a fellow in the Foreign Policy Program and a member of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. She is also the author of “Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs” (Brookings Institution Press, 2009). Felbab-Brown will speak at the Dallas Institute ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving the World with Economics? [2011-10-06 12:00:00] You may be already driving less, recycling and using your own grocery bags, but what bigger-picture actions will it take to save our planet? We’ll find out this hour with Gernot Wagner, economist at the Environmental Defense Fund and author of the new book “But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World” (Hill and Wang, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Madison [2011-10-05 13:00:00] How did a “Father of the Constitution” also play a pivotal role in creating the American system of politics? We’ll talk this hour with National Review senior editor and eminent biographer Richard Brookhiser. His new book is “James Madison” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the American Car [2011-10-05 12:00:00] Will the Big Three American auto makers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, manage to emerge from the economic downturn intact? And what will the future hold for Detroit? We’ll talk this hour with veteran business and automotive reporter and New York Times Detroit bureau chief Bill Vlasic. His new book is “Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America’s Big Three Auto Makers–GM, Ford, and Chrysler” (William Morrow, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Hal Holbrook [2011-10-04 13:00:00] What is required for an actor to successfully transform themselves into a character, over and over again? We’ll spend this hour with Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook, who will speak at Highland Park United Methodist Church this evening. His new memoir is “Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration [2011-10-04 12:00:00] Is the American justice system failing juvenile offenders? We’ll talk this hour with Bart Lubow, director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group at the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Foundation’s new report on the effectiveness of the system becomes public today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside the Teenage Brain [2011-10-03 13:00:00] What makes teenagers so moody, impulsive and maddening to adults and especially their parents? We’ll find out this hour with National Geographic contributor David Dobbs. His piece on teen development, “Beautiful Brains,” appears in the October issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Newspaper Biz [2011-10-03 12:00:00] What’s it really like behind the scenes at one of the world’s leading newspapers? We’ll get the story this hour with former Wall Street Journal publisher and Dow Jones CEO Warren Phillips. He tells the story of his career and the American newspaper business in his new book “Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal” (McGraw-Hill, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President [2011-09-29 13:00:00] How did the 1881 assassination of President James A. Garfield change politics, medical practices and the legal system forever? We’ll talk this hour with Candice Millard, author of the new book “Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President” (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Digital World War [2011-09-29 12:00:00] Who’s trying to take over your computer and how might it affect national security? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Bowden who investigates the Conficker worm and its possible threats in his new book “Worm: The First Digital World War” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emerging Hip Hop Identity [2011-09-28 13:00:00] Could hip hop change the world? We’ll find out this hour with Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at City University of New York. Fernandes follows the development of an emerging hip hop identity among the world’s marginalized youth in her new book “Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation” (Verso, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics [2011-09-28 12:00:00] How do some political leaders manage to hang on to power for decades, winning election after election in so-called democratic countries around the world? We’ll talk this hour with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University and co-author of the new book “The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics” (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The War Next Door [2011-09-27 13:00:00] What is life really like for residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico? We’ll explore the lives of people trapped in one of the most violent and dangerous cities in the world this hour with photojournalist Dominic Bracco, who has extensively covered the situation there. His exhibit “The War Next Door: Narco-Violence and the U.S. Mexico Border” is on view at the University of Texas at Arlington through December 15. Dominic Bracco will also speak at UTA this w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Retirement Woes [2011-09-27 12:00:00] What is behind the steady decline in health benefits and retirement pensions for American workers? We’ll talk this hour with Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Ellen E. Schultz who has been covering the issue for over a decade. Her new book on the subject is “Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers” (Portfolio, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ayn Rand and American Politics [2011-09-26 13:00:00] Why is the Objectivist philosophy developed by writer Ayn Rand still an influence on American conservative politics? Well talk this hour with University of Virginia historian Jennifer Burns. Her new book is “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” (Oxford University Press, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Willpower [2011-09-26 12:00:00] Just how strong is your willpower? According to our guest this hour, we all spend about four hours a day simply resisting temptation, so it pays to know. We’ll talk with Roy F. Baumeister who heads the social psychology program at Florida State University. Baumeister is also the co-author of the new book “Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength” (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women, War and Peace [2011-09-22 13:00:00] Long the primary targets in post-Cold War conflicts, women are beginning to play important roles in the brokering of lasting peace and as leaders in post-conflict societies. We’ll explore those roles this hour with Abigail E. Disney, executive producer of the new 5-part PBS series, “Women, War & Peace.” The series premiers on Tuesday, October 11th and Disney will speak to the Embrey Human Rights Program at SMU this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marketing and Manipulation [2011-09-22 12:00:00] Do your kids ever beg for a certain brand-name cereal or are you ever tempted to buy a book, just because it’s on the bestseller list? We’ll find out why marketing techniques work this hour with Martin Lindstrom, author of the new book “Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy” (Crown Business, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change, Science and Democracy [2011-09-21 13:00:00] What has the politicization of science done to discussions of important issues like climate change and biotechnology? We’ll spend this hour with Mark Brown, Associate Professor of Government at California State University in Sacramento and author of “Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation” (The MIT Press, 2009). Brown will deliver the lecture “Is Climate Change Good for Democracy?” at the UTD Center for Values in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artists in China [2011-09-21 12:00:00] The recent high-profile detainment and release of artist Ai Weiwei brought the Chinese art scene into the world’s eye. What is the current status of Weiwei and other artists in China? We’ll spend this hour with Nasher Sculpture Center Director Jeremy Strick and Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York. They’ll deliver the talk “China: Artists Behind the Wall” this evening at the Nasher. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Families and Resilience [2011-09-20 13:00:00] How can parents teach children to navigate the adverse circumstances of life’s unforeseen events? We’ll examine how to foster resilience among children and families at risk this hour with Margaret Owen, Director of the Center for Children and Families at UT-Dallas, and Marion Underwood, Ashbel Smith Professor at UTD’s School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The Center for Children and Families Annual Forum will be held this Thursday on the campus of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Architecture and Design [2011-09-20 12:00:00] How is Dallas doing when it comes to functional, sustainable and aesthetically inspiring architectural design and what is the role of the consumer in fostering smart design choices? We’ll spend this hour with architect Steven Ehrlich, and learn about his remarkable career in architecture. Ehrlich is lead juror for this year’s AIA Dallas Design Awards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Science of Siblings [2011-09-19 13:00:00] How important is the bond between siblings? We’ll talk this hour with science writer and Time magazine senior editor Jeffrey Kluger. He examines recent research and evidence that sibling relationships might be more important than previously thought in his new book “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us” (Riverhead Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Man Who Couldn't Eat [2011-09-19 12:00:00] How would you cope with the medical inability to eat? It’s a question our guest this hour, food writer Jon Reiner, had to answer as a result of his debilitating battle with Crohn’s disease. We’ll talk with him about the experience and his new memoir “The Man Who Couldn’t Eat” (Gallery Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Declining Brazilian Birthrate [2011-09-15 13:00:00] What’s sparking the Brazilian feminist movement and an increase in smaller and often more affluent families in the country? We’ll talk this hour with National Geographic Magazine contributor Cynthia Gorney, whose story “Birth of a New Brazil” is part of the magazine’s yearlong SEVEN BILLION series on global population. The piece appears in the September issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Negotiation [2011-09-15 12:00:00] Just how important are good negotiation skills? We’ll find out this hour and discuss the impact of successful and unsuccessful interactions with negotiation expert and Wharton Business School professor Stuart Diamond. His recent book on the subject is “Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World” (Crown Business, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inside National Health Reform [2011-09-14 13:00:00] What will the new health care law, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, really mean for Americans in the future? We’ll talk this hour with John E. McDonough, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and former advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy. His new guide to the landmark legislative effort is called “Inside National Health Reform” (University of California Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A School Food Revolution [2011-09-14 12:00:00] What can parents do to help schools provide healthy lunches for students and to foster healthy food attitudes in the minds of their kids? We’ll talk this hour with producer and director Amy Kalafa, who’s new book is “Lunch Wars: How to Start a School Food Revolution and Win the Battle for Our Children’s Health” (Tarcher Penguin, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics [2011-09-13 13:00:00] How did the American film industry influence 20th Century politics and how is that influence continuing today? We’ll talk this hour with film historian Steven J. Ross, author of the new book “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics” (Oxford University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Food and Restaurant Scene [2011-09-13 12:00:00] What’s new on the Dallas restaurant scene these days and what are your favorite new places to eat? We’ll talk this hour with Dallas Morning News restaurant critic and dining editor Leslie Brenner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Following Mother Teresa [2011-09-12 13:00:00] What prompts a person to commit their life to charity and service and how can common human emotions get in the way of that devotion? We’ll find out this hour with Mary Johnson who served for twenty years as a sister in the Missionaries of Charity. Her new book is “An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service, and an Authentic Life” (Spiegel & Grau, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enduring Six Years of Captivity [2011-09-12 12:00:00] How would you survive six years held captive by a guerrilla army, constantly on the move and never knowing if you’ll be released? We’ll talk this hour with Ingrid Betancourt who writes about her experiences in the memoir “Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle” (Penguin, Paperback, 2011). The book is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeing Things with Tony Cragg [2011-09-08 13:00:00] ?How is an artist’s view of the world represented by their work and what is necessary to make the leap to the physical form of an artwork? We’ll spend this hour with award-winning, internationally-acclaimed artist Tony Cragg. His exhibit “Tony Cragg: Seeing Things” opens this weekend at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fight Against Malaria [2011-09-08 12:00:00] According to the World Health Organization, it infects 250 million people and kills a million of them every year. Can anything be done to stop Malaria? This hour we’ll learn about the program of one philanthropist that’s getting results with Alex Perry, Africa bureau chief for Time Magazine. His new book is “Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time” (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truth and Photography [2011-09-07 13:00:00] Is photojournalism a medium of truth or a tool of the propagandist? It all depends on who you ask and who’s shooting the photos. We’ll examine the evidence this hour with Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris. His new book is “Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography” (The Penguin Press, 2011). His most recent film is called “Tabloid.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wonderful World of Fonts [2011-09-07 12:00:00] What’s your favorite font? We’ll explore the history of fonts, learn how typefaces get designed and find out why we have so many font choices this hour with writer Simon Garfield. His new book is “Just My Type: A Book About Fonts” (Gotham, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rescuing Michael Vick's Dogs [2011-09-06 13:00:00] What happened to the 47 pit bulls who survived NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s cruelty? We’ll find out this hour with Jim Gorant, senior editor at Sports Illustrated and author of the book “The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick’s Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption” (Gotham Books, Paperback, 2011). The book is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Legacies of 9/11 [2011-09-06 12:00:00] Where were you on 9/11 and what is the legacy of the tragic terrorist attacks of that day? We’ll spend this hour with Chip Pitts, Stanford Law School lecturer and former chair of Amnesty International USA and Seyom Brown, the John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security in the Department of Political Science at SMU, and Director of Studies at the Tower Center for Political Studies. They’ll both participate in a Pres ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Inside and Outside the American Dream [2011-09-01 13:00:00] How can the children of immigrants find and identify a heritage of their own? We’ll examine the story of one such child and how it reflects the lives of many this hour with Mary Romero, Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. Her new book is “The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream” (NYU Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rights of Victims [2011-09-01 12:00:00] Who gives a voice to the victims of violent crime? We’ll talk this hour with Jeff Dion, Director of the National Crime Victim Bar Association about what still needs to be done to guarantee that victims see justice in the criminal law system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Marcia Gay Harden [2011-08-31 12:00:00] From the archives – What goes into the development of a character and how does an actor prepare to play that character? We spent an hour in February with Academy Award-winning actor Marcia Gay Harden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Life of Pronouns [2011-08-31 13:00:00] What can be gleaned about a person by the words they choose in conversations, emails and text messages? We’ll find out this hour with James W. Pennebaker, Regents Centennial Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas. His new book is “The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us” (Bloomsbury Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming a Writer [2011-08-30 13:00:00] What makes someone a writer and how do those experiences give birth to that writer’s voice? We’ll talk this hour with prolific Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, who currently directs the Chinua Achebe Center for African Writers and Artists at Bard College. He details his childhood and early literary career in the new memoir “One Day I Will Write About This Place” (Graywolf Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Teaching [2011-08-30 12:00:00] Where is the art of teaching headed in America today? We’ll check in this hour with Garret Keizer who reflects on his return to the classroom after a fourteen-year hiatus in his Harper’s Magazine essay “Getting Schooled: The Re-Education of an American Teacher.” The piece appears in the September issue of the magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam [2011-08-29 13:00:00] Where do the world’s great religions meet, clash and shape the future of humankind? We’ll talk this hour with Eliza Griswold, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of “The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam” (Picador, paperback, 2011) which is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Explanations That Transform the World [2011-08-29 12:00:00] How important is our understanding of the world and universe we inhabit, and how does our understanding change over time? We’ll talk this hour with David Deutsch, Fellow of the Royal Society and professor of physics at Oxford University. His new book is “The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World” (Viking, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda [2011-08-25 13:00:00] The killing of Osama bin Laden was big news and rightly so, but what counterterrorism tactics and strategies lead up to the successful raid last May and other victories in the global “war on terror”? We’ll find out this hour with Thom Shanker, a Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times and co-author of the new book “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda” (Times Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perry and Presidential Politics [2011-08-25 12:00:00] The 2012 presidential campaign is well underway and a Texan is once again in the running. We’ll discuss the Perry campaign and the race for the White House this hour with Bob Ray Sanders of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and William McKenzie of The Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Feeling the Pinch [2011-08-24 13:00:00] Has the recession had a negative impact on your life? According to our guest this hour, you’re not alone. We’ll discuss the current and future economic fallout with Atlantic journalist Don Peck, whose new book is “Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It” (Crown, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surviving a War Zone [2011-08-24 12:00:00] What does it take to report the news or provide humanitarian relief in places like Libya and Afghanistan? We’ll find out this hour with Al Jazeera journalist Rosie Garthwaite, who shares her own advice and that of many fellow journalists and operators in her new book “How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone: The Essential Survival Guide for Dangerous Places” (Bloomsbury USA, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Media and the Law [2011-08-23 13:00:00] How is the rise of social media affecting and changing the practice of law? We’ll spend this hour with Dallas attorney and writer John G. Browning whose recent book is “The Lawyer’s Guide to Social Networking: Understanding Social Media’s Impact on the Law” (Aspatore Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Historical Preservation in Dallas [2011-08-23 12:00:00] What is the state of historical preservation in Dallas and how important is the past in a city that likes to be known for looking to the future? We’ll spend this hour with Katherine Seale, Executive Director of Preservation Dallas and Mark Doty, Senior Planner for the City of Dallas. They’ll both participate in a panel discussion this evening at the Dallas Center for Architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women for Women [2011-08-22 13:00:00] ????From the archives – What do women in developing and war-torn countries face as they try to build independent and better lives for their families and themselves? In February we talked with Zainab Salbi, former member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle and founder and president of Women for Women International. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revisiting the Origins of Al-Qaeda [2011-08-22 12:00:00] What does the killing of Osama bin Laden mean for al-Qaeda? We’ll revisit the roots of the terrorist movement this hour with Lawrence Wright, whose book “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11″ (Vintage, Paperback, 2011) has been republished with a new afterward to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragic attacks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Economic Reality? [2011-08-18 13:00:00] As the global economy continues to sputter, is there still a chance of recovery or has an economic paradigm shift occurred, creating a new normal? We’ll talk this hour with Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg, whose latest book is “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” (New Society Publishers, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website College and Partying [2011-08-18 12:00:00] What are your favorite memories from college – the classes, the stimulating environment or the parties? We’ll talk this hour with University of Ohio sociologist Thomas Vander Ven, whose new book is “Getting Wasted: Why College Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard” (NYU Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Renewal Through Loss [2011-08-17 13:00:00] How should we deal with the prolonged terminal illness of a family member or friend? Our guest this hour might argue that there are a few silver linings to a “long goodbye.” We’ll talk this hour with Barbara Okun, Ph.D, professor of counseling at Northeastern University and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. She’s the co-author of the new book “Saying Goodbye: How Families Can Find Renewal Through Loss” (Berkley, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Evolution of Ideas [2011-08-17 12:00:00] What allows some ideas to survive, while others are forgotten? We’ll find out this hour with writer and filmmaker Jonnie Hughes, who toured the Midwestern United States in an effort to study the natural history of ideas. His resulting book is “On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)” (Free Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Middle East Changed [2011-08-16 13:00:00] How did the U.S. become so dependent on Saudi Arabia, both for its allegiance in the Middle East and its oil? We’ll look back this hour with historian and journalist Andrew Scott Cooper, whose new book is “The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East” (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Brief Period of Madness [2011-08-16 12:00:00] What would you do if you lost two years worth of memories? We’ll talk this hour with Vanity Fair contributing editor Ned Zeman who writes about his battles with mood disorders and the results of his Electroconvulsive Therapy in the new book “The Rules of the Tunnel: A Brief Period of Madness” (Gotham Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping with a Parent's Mental Illness [2011-08-15 13:00:00] How does a parent’s ongoing mental illness affect a child’s life, even far into adulthood? We’ll talk this hour with artist and author Mira Bartók, who writes about her experiences with her mother Norma in “The Memory Palace: A Memoir” (Free Press, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do [2011-08-15 12:00:00] Could human behavior actually be less random and more predictable than we think? We’ll talk this hour with Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University’s Center for Complex Network Research, Albert-László Barabási, author of “Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do” (Plume Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World [2011-08-11 13:00:00] Who first determined the true shape of the planet and how was it done? We’ll talk this hour with science writer Larrie D. Ferreiro, who tells the story of the early 18th Century Geodesic Mission in his new book “Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Education Today and Tomorrow [2011-08-11 12:00:00] What is most important in the early and on-going education of a child? We’ll spend this hour with André Roberfroid, President of Association Montessori Internationale and former UNICEF Deputy Executive Director for Program and Strategic Planning. He’s in town for the Educateurs sans Frontieres Third International Assembly, which ended today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Future in Afghanistan [2011-08-10 13:00:00] With the 2011 “fighting season” well underway in Afghanistan, what is the state of the war there and what is the future outlook for U.S. involvement? We’ll spend this hour with former State Department official Matthew Hoh, who resigned his position in 2009 in protest of U.S. strategy in the country. Now director of The Afghanistan Study Group, Hoh will address the Dallas Peace Center tomorrow evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mystery of a Mother's Suicide [2011-08-10 12:00:00] How does someone cope with the loss of a parent and how does a parent’s suicide reverberate through a child’s life? We’ll talk this hour with Harvard Medical School assistant professor of psychiatry, Dr. Nancy Rappaport, who examines her own family history in the book “In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide” (Basic Books, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mystery of a Mother's Suicide [2011-08-10 12:00:00] How does someone cope with the loss of a parent and how does a parent’s suicide reverberate through a child’s life? We’ll talk this hour with Harvard Medical School assistant professor of psychiatry, Dr. Nancy Rappaport, who examines her own family history in the book “In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide” (Basic Books, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Language Is [2011-08-09 13:00:00] What makes a language genuine and how is the accelerating rate of linguistic change affecting the ongoing debate over how we communicate? We’ll talk this hour with renowned linguist, author and educator John McWhorter whose new book is “What Language Is: And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be” (Gotham Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Biography of Cancer [2011-08-09 12:00:00] What can we learn about cancer from studying the history of the disease? We’ll find out this hour with Dr. Siddartha Mukherjee. Mukherjee is assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. His book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” (Scribner, paperback, 2011), won the 2011 Pulizer Prize in Nonfiction and is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Smart Materials to Nanotechnology [2011-08-04 13:00:00] How will nanotechnology change our lives in the future and what exciting advances are happening in the field of materials development today? We’ll spend this hour with Yale University Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ainissa, G. Ramirez, Ph.D., who’ll deliver the lecture “Strange Stuff: From Smart Materials to Nanotechnology” at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capital City of the Future? [2011-08-04 12:00:00] Did the 2008 Beijing Olympics burnish China’s global image in the way the country hoped? We’ll explore the capital city and discuss it’s place in the new global culture and economy this hour with journalist Tom Scocca, whose new book is “Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future” (Riverhead Nooks, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Smart Materials to Nanotechnology [2011-08-04 13:00:00] How will nanotechnology change our lives in the future and what exciting advances are happening in the field of materials development today? We’ll spend this hour with Yale University Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ainissa, G. Ramirez, Ph.D., who’ll deliver the lecture “Strange Stuff: From Smart Materials to Nanotechnology” at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capital City of the Future? [2011-08-04 12:00:00] Did the 2008 Beijing Olympics burnish China’s global image in the way the country hoped? We’ll explore the capital city and discuss it’s place in the new global culture and economy this hour with journalist Tom Scocca, whose new book is “Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future” (Riverhead Nooks, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Smart Materials to Nanotechnology [2011-08-04 13:00:00] How will nanotechnology change our lives in the future and what exciting advances are happening in the field of materials development today? We’ll spend this hour with Yale University Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ainissa, G. Ramirez, Ph.D., who’ll deliver the lecture “Strange Stuff: From Smart Materials to Nanotechnology” at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capital City of the Future? [2011-08-04 12:00:00] Did the 2008 Beijing Olympics burnish China’s global image in the way the country hoped? We’ll explore the capital city and discuss it’s place in the new global culture and economy this hour with journalist Tom Scocca, whose new book is “Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future” (Riverhead Nooks, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Humiliation [2011-08-03 13:00:00] As we reflect on one political scandal after another hitting the news, and any number of other now-public shameful episodes in the lives of celebrities and once-respected public figures, we’ll spend this hour with poet, author and City University of New York professor Wayne Koestenbaum. His new book – an installment in the Picador BIG IDEAS//small books series – is called “Humiliation” (Picador, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists [2011-08-03 12:00:00] How do art thieves get in, get out and get away with their crimes? We’ll talk this hour with Boston Herald investigative reporter Tom Mashberg. He’s the co-author of “Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Lives of the Brain [2011-08-02 13:00:00] What is your brain really doing when you think it’s busy being you? We’ll find out this hour with David Eagleman who directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law at Baylor College of Medicine. His new book is “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain” (Pantheon, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Heroic Age of Antarctic Science [2011-08-02 12:00:00] How did the first generation of Antarctic explorers pioneer the field of research and discovery on the continent? We’ll find out this hour with Pulitzer Prize winning historian and Pepperdine professor Edward J. Larson, author of “An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science” (Yale University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Kids Unstuck [2011-08-01 13:00:00] What’s the best way to revitalize classrooms and challenge and inspire students to be successful? We’ll spend this hour with educator Ron Clark whose new book is “The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck–101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers” (Touchstone, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Trouble with Pakistan [2011-08-01 12:00:00] What will it take for Pakistan to achieve the kind of stability that many other nations enjoy? We’ll take a look inside the troubled country this hour with Pamela Constable, foreign correspondent and former deputy foreign editor at The Washington Post. Her new book is “Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself” (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Current Crisis for Girls [2011-07-28 12:00:00] Young people certainly face many challenges these days, but what are the special issues faced by girls and young women as they come of age in the 21st Century? We’ll talk this hour with family physician and psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax. His new book is “Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stolen Moon Rocks from NASA? [2011-07-28 13:00:00] Who is Thad Roberts and how did he manage to steal a six-hundred-pound safe full of moon rocks from NASA? Perhaps more importantly, why did he do it? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling author Ben Mezrich who tells the story in his new book “Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History” (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Current Crisis for Girls [2011-07-28 12:00:00] Young people certainly face many challenges these days, but what are the special issues faced by girls and young women as they come of age in the 21st Century? We’ll talk this hour with family physician and psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax. His new book is “Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wonders of the Universe [2011-07-27 13:00:00] What’s really out there and where can we find the answers to the most perplexing questions about ourselves and the space-time continuum we inhabit? We’ll talk this hour with rock-star turned physicist Brian Cox whose “Wonders of the Universe” series premieres tonight on Discovery’s Science Channel. He’s also just published a companion book to the series under the Harper Design imprint. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robot or Human? [2011-07-27 12:00:00] How will we interact with robots in the future? We’ll learn about some of the groundbreaking robotics that’s being done right now with National Geographic Magazine photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg who shot photographs for the current story “Us. And them.” More photos are in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine, on newsstands now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coping with Media Overload [2011-07-26 13:00:00] Can the ubiquity of all-the-time, everywhere media coverage be avoided and how can we regain control of our media diet? We’ll talk this hour with Emerson College Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Thomas Cooper. His latest book is “Fast Media, Media Fast: How to Clear Your Mind and Invigorate Your Life In an Age of Media Overload” (Gaeta Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence [2011-07-26 12:00:00] Where do post Cold War militarism, economic upheaval and new global issues associated with climate change meet? We’ll find out this hour with Christian Parenti, a contributing editor at The Nation and Senior Fellow at Demos. His new book is “Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence” (Nation Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Providing Mental Health Treatment [2011-07-25 13:00:00] What is the state of mental health care in North Texas? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. James Baker, CEO of Metrocare Services, the largest provider of public mental health treatment in the area. We’ll also find out about the organization’s new Center for Education & Research, and plans to provide top-tier training for physicians, nurses, counselors, advanced nurse practitioners and other healthcare workers from around the region and the country. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Changing News Business [2011-07-25 12:00:00] How is the news business changing and how are traditional news organizations coping with these changes? We’ll talk this hour with David Folkenflik, NPR’s media correspondent and editor of “Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism” (PublicAffairs, 2011) – a companion guide to the new Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media documentary “Page One: Inside the New York Times.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of a Fight Against All Odds [2011-07-21 13:00:00] What’s the fighting really like on the ground in Afghanistan? We’ll talk this hour with U.S. Army Special Forces Major Rusty Bradley who tells the story of the 2006 battle of Sperwan Ghar in the new book “Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds” (Bantam, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Power of Positive [2011-07-21 12:00:00] Is positive thinking really that powerful? Our guest this hour thinks it may actually be necessary for survival. We’ll talk with Tali Sharot, research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London and author of the new book “The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain” (Pantheon, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Slower Path to Adulthood [2011-07-20 13:00:00] From the archive: What does an evolving concept of independence mean for young Americans and their families? We talked in January with Oregon State University human development expert Rick Settersten, co-author of the new book “Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone” (Bantam Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saving Native American Languages [2011-07-20 12:00:00] What is lost when a language dies? We’ll spend this hour with Colleen Fitzgerald, associate professor and chairperson of UT Arlington’s Department of Linguistics and TESOL and Mary Linn, an anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma and curator of Native American language at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics, Religion and a Gun [2011-07-19 13:00:00] How did politics, religion and a gun shine a national spotlight on Fort Worth, Texas in the late 1920s? We’ll look back this hour with minister, broadcaster and author David R. Stokes whose new book is “The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America” (Steerforth Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Libertarians Fix America? [2011-07-19 12:00:00] Could politics be getting in the way of actually fixing our country’s problems? We’ll discuss how the pursuit of genuine personal liberty might help this hour with Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason Magazine and co-author of the new book “The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America” (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lawless Years of Prohibition [2011-07-18 13:00:00] Many supported the 18th Constitutional Amendment banning the sale and consumption of alcohol, but did prohibition change the country for the worse? We’ll spend this hour with financial journalist and author Karen Blumenthal, who writes about this pivotal period in American history in the new book “Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition” (Flash Point, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Interrogator: An Education [2011-07-18 12:00:00] What happens when the good guys get it wrong? We’ll talk this hour with former CIA case officer Glenn Carle, who writes about his experiences fighting the Global War in Terror in the new book “The Interrogator: An Education” (Nation Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Attorney for the Damned [2011-07-14 13:00:00]We know him for defending John Scopes in the famous 1925 Money Trial, but who was the man behind the legend? We’ll talk this hour with journalist John A. Farrell, whose new biography is “Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned” (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Our Food Really Safe? [2011-07-14 12:00:00]From the recent e-coli outbreak in Europe to last year’s massive egg recall in the United States, the safety of our food supply has never been more top-of-mind. We’ll examine America’s food safety landscape this hour with farmer and writer Ben Hewitt, whose new book is “Making Supper Safe: One Man’s Quest to Learn the Truth about Food Safety” (Rodale, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty [2011-7-13 13:00:00] How important is our brain's empathy circuit and what happens to society when it doesn't work properly? We'll find out this hour with University of Cambridge psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. His new book is "The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty [2011-7-13 13:00:00] How important is our brain's empathy circuit and what happens to society when it doesn't work properly? We'll find out this hour with University of Cambridge psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen. His new book is "The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals [2011-07-13 12:00:00] How did the tragic Nazi perpetration of the holocaust against European Jews affect other minority groups? We’ll talk this hour with Edward Phillips, Ph.D., Director of the Division of Exhibitions for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and organizer of the current Dallas Holocaust Museum exhibit “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trapped by Technology? [2011-07-12 13:00:00] What would you do without your smart phone? Can you even remember a time before your device kept you constantly connected to the web, friends and games? And don’t forget about work! We’ll talk this hour with Wired.com contributor Brian X. Chen, whose new book is “Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future–and Locked Us In” (Da Capo, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Novelist Sarah Bird [2011-07-12 12:00:00] How do parents cope when their kids finally grow up and go off to college? We’ll spend this hour with novelist Sarah Bird who fictionalized her experiences in the new book “The Gap Year” (Knopf, 2011). Sarah will ?appear at A Real Bookstore this evening for an event that’s part of their “Fierce Words and Stiff Drinks” series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted [2011-07-11 13:00:00] Who shaped American landscape architecture and what were his influences? We’ll explore the life of one of the greats this hour with biographer and journalist Justin Martin, author of the new book “Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted” (Da Capo, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dallas's Little Mexico [2011-07-11 12:00:00] What was life like in the early 20th Century Dallas neighborhood of Little Mexico and what remains to remind us of the area today? We’ll look back this hour with lawyer, mediator and writer Sol Villasana, author of the new Images of America book “Dallas’s Little Mexico” (Arcadia Publishing, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Protecting the Oceans [2011-07-07 13:00:00] From the archives – What should we each be doing to help preserve the environment and especially the oceans? Last April we talked with adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild, who (along with his crew) crossed the Pacific Ocean last year on a boat made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other fully recyclable materials. His recounts the experience in “Plastiki: Across the Pacific: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans” (Chronicle Books, 2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS [2011-07-07 12:00:00] From the archives – Who was Julia Child before she became America’s most famous and beloved television chef? Earlier this year we revisited the intrigue of World War II espionage and more with journalist Jennet Conant, whose new book is “A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS” (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Science Will Shape Human Destiny [2011-07-06 13:00:00] From the archives – How will the fields of medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production and astronautics change our lives in the not-too-distant future? We talked in April with Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of the new book “Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100″ (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels with the State Historian of Texas [2011-07-06 12:00:00] From the archives – What makes Texas History so fascinating? We spent an hour in April with Light Townsend Cummins, Ph.D., the Bryan Chair of American History at Austin College and outgoing State Historian of Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs [2011-07-05 13:00:00] From the archives – Can ecology, biology, mathematics and physics help us avoid (or at least predict) forthcoming troubles of the worst kind? In April we talked with scientist Len Fisher, Ph.D., author of the new book “Crashes, Crises, and Calamities: How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emotion in the New Workplace [2011-07-05 12:00:00] From the archives – What role do emotions play at work? We talked in April with journalist and former executive vice president and worldwide creative director for Nickelodeon, Anne Kreamer, who tackles the issue in her new book “It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace” (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walking in Space [2011-06-30 13:00:00] From the archives – Ever wonder what it’s like to walk in space? We discussed the experience of space flight, the future of America’s space program and more last April with Astronaut Mike Massimino who made two space walks during STS-109 to repair the Hubble Telescope in 2002 and flew on the final Hubble servicing mission (STS-125) in 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Year in a Women's Prison [2011-06-30 12:00:00] From the archives – What can be learned from a year in the Danbury, Connecticut Federal Correctional Institution for Women? In March we talked with communications executive Piper Kerman, who writes about her experience in the new memoir “Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison” (Spiegel & Grau, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes with the New DSO Concertmasters [2011-06-29 12:00:00] From the archives – What is the role of the concertmaster? In March we discussed the future of the Dallas classical music community and the orchestra business in general with Alexander Kerr and Nathan Olson, who’ll assume the roles of Dallas Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster and Co-Concertmaster on September 1st. We even heard a bit of music! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef [2011-06-28 13:00:00] From the archives – What does it take to become a successful chef? How about becoming an accomplished writer? As we’ll learn this hour, the path to culinary and literary achievement can be challenging – especially if one’s sights are set on both. In March, we talked with author and chef/owner of New York City’s Prune restaurant Gabrielle Hamilton. Her recent memoir is “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Relucta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Kinder & Gentler Divorce [2011-06-28 12:00:00] From the archives – Is there a better way to divorce? Collaborative law provides a kinder and gentler model for divorce dispute resolution – where the object is to settle the case without going to court. In March we explored the less-messy divorce and emerging trends in litigation with a team of experts including attorney Curtis Harrison, mental health professional Linda Solomon and financial professional Scott Clarke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Marcia Gay Harden [2011-06-27 13:00:00] From the archives – What goes into the development of a character and how does an actor prepare to play that character? We spent an hour in February with Academy Award-winning actor Marcia Gay Harden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women for Women [2011-06-27 12:00:00] From the archives – What do women in developing and war-torn countries face as they try to build independent and better lives for their families and themselves? In February we talked with Zainab Salbi, former member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle and founder and president of Women for Women International. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Veil's Resurgence [2011-06-23 13:00:00] What does the veil mean for Islamic women around the world and why is it growing in popularity? We’ll talk this hour with Leila Ahmed, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and author of “A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America” (Yale University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Swimming with Giants [2011-06-23 12:00:00] What’s it like to swim with and photograph the largest creatures on earth? We’ll find out this hour with Charles “Flip” Nicklin, lead whale photographer and marine mammal specialist for the National Geographic Society. His new book is “Among Giants: A Life with Whales” (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fascinating Feather [2011-06-22 13:00:00] How did feathers evolve and why are they so fascinating and valuable to humans? We’ll talk this hour with conservation biologist Thor Hanson, author of “Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Case for Corporal Punishment? [2011-06-22 12:00:00] Is there a solution to our overloaded criminal justice system? Our guest this hour, criminologist and former Baltimore City police officer, Peter Moskos thinks so. He ponders the possibility of offering quick and severe physical punishment to criminals as an alternative to incarceration in his new book “In Defense of Flogging” (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Case for the Only Child [2011-06-21 13:00:00] What’s leading the trend toward smaller and one-child families in the Unites States and why are many women deciding to become single parents? We’ll talk this hour with social psychologist Susan Newman. Her new book is “The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide” (HCI, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website South Africa and the U.S. [2011-06-21 12:00:00] Seventeen years after the end of Apartheid, what’s the status of our country’s relationship with South Africa and how is the country expanding its role in African politics? We’ll spend this hour with His Excellency Ebrahim Rasool, Ambassador of South Africa to the United States. Ambassador Rasool is in town for an event with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World Full of Men? [2011-06-20 13:00:00] How will the developing-world pressure to have a male child and the rising economic status of these developing countries jeopardize the gender balance of society in the years to come? We’ll talk this hour with Mara Hvistendahl, a Beijing-based correspondent for Science and author of the new book “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men” (PublicAffairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beekeepers, Agriculture and the Food We Eat [2011-06-20 12:00:00] What impact do honeybees and beekeepers have on agriculture in America? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Hannah Nordhaus who examines the industry through the experiences of commercial beekeeper Jim Miller in her book “The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America” (Harper Perennial, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viruses are Everywhere [2011-06-16 13:00:00] What is the most common form of life on earth? We’ll explore the incredible realm of viruses this hour with acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer. His new book is “A Planet of Viruses” (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passages in Caregiving [2011-06-16 12:00:00] What do we really need to know to be responsible caregivers for loved ones and friends? We’ll talk this hour with Gail Sheehy who writes about successfully navigating the 8 stages of caring in her book “Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence” (Harper Paperbacks, 2011) which is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Big Ideas are Born [2011-06-15 13:00:00] Where do the big, game-changing ideas originate? We’ll discuss how people like Steve Jobs, Chris Rock, Frank Gehry and others share similar methodologies this hour with Peter Sims, author of “Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries” (Free Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Waves [2011-06-15 12:00:00] What causes giant ocean waves and why would someone intentionally try to surf a 100-footer? We’ll talk this hour with journalist and O, The Oprah Magazine editor in chief Susan Casey whose new book is “The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean” (Anchor Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Politics & Playboy [2011-06-14 13:00:00] Could Playboy magazine be more than a collection of pin-ups and top-notch articles, interviews and fiction? Our guest this hour thinks so. We’ll discuss Playboy as a positive force for feminism with University of West Georgia historian Carrie Pitzulo, author of the new book “Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy” (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Psychopath Test [2011-06-14 12:00:00] How do you know if someone is disturbed? Could they be a psychopath? We’ll explore the bizarre world of psychopaths, the doctors who study them and the penal systems that incarcerate and try to treat them this hour with Jon Ronson, whose new book is “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry” (Riverhead Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Berlin 1961 [2011-06-13 13:00:00] ?Where did the Cold War almost become a real war? We’ll revisit the rise of the Berlin Wall and the tense beginning of a decades-long U.S./Soviet conflict this hour with Frederick Kempe, journalist and president and CEO of the Atlantic Council. His new book is “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth” (Putnam, 2011).   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Berlin 1961 [2011-06-13 13:00:00] ?Where did the Cold War almost become a real war? We’ll revisit the rise of the Berlin Wall and the tense beginning of a decades-long U.S./Soviet conflict this hour with Frederick Kempe, journalist and president and CEO of the Atlantic Council. His new book is “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth” (Putnam, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System [2011-06-13 12:00:00] Everybody loves it, and no one can live without it, but how do we make the world’s food system more equitable? We’ll talk this hour with Oran B. Hesterman, Ph.D., president and CEO of Fair Food Network and author of the book “Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All” (PublicAffairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Art & Activism [2011-06-09 12:00:00] Where do art and activism meet and how can seeing a threatened landscape change the way people feel about resource management and ecological preservation? We’ll spend the hour with artist Subhankar Banerjee, whose show “Where I Live I Hope to Know” will be on exhibit through August 28 at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. Banerjee is also the founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Americans in Paris [2011-06-09 12:00:00] Why did many Americans choose to travel to Paris between 1830 and 1900 and how did their experiences there influence life back home in the States? We’ll spend this hour with two-time Pulitzer Prize and two-time National Book Award winner David McCullough whose new book is “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris” (Simon & Schuster, 2011). McCullough was in town this week for an event with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving the World [2011-06-06 12:00:00] In spite of almost continuous bad news, is life actually improving for people around the world? We'll explore global advances in healthcare, education and more this hour with Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is "Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding-And How We Can Improve the World Even More" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fixing the Impossible [2011-06-08 13:00:00] Krys talks with Peter T. Coleman from the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future for Mexico [2011-06-08 12:00:00] Krys talks with former foreign minister of Mexico Jorge Castañeda. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Tragedy of the Gilded Age [2011-06-07 13:00:00] Krys talks with UT Austin historian H.W. Brands. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Real King of Rock and Roll [[2011-06-07 12:00:00] Krys discusses Bill Haley with Texas Monthly Senior Editor Michael Hall Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How an Actor Prepares [2011-06-06 13:00:00] Krys talks with Alan Arkin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving the World [2011-06-06 12:00:00] In spite of almost continuous bad news, is life actually improving for people around the world? We'll explore global advances in healthcare, education and more this hour with Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is "Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding-And How We Can Improve the World Even More" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sinister Internet? [2011-06-02 13:00:00] What are we giving away with each click of the mouse and how might the personalization of our web searches, news browsing and other on-line activities influence our democracy? We'll talk this hour with Eli Pariser, board president of MoveOn.org and author of the new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bugs, Bugs & More Bugs [2011-06-02 12:00:00] Which insects are your favorites and which ones just give you the creeps? We'll talk this hour with science writer Amy Stewart who covers the vast world of insects in her latest book Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects (Algonquin Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Being Texas [2011-06-01 13:00:00] What does it mean to be Texan? We'll discuss the controversies and the contrarians who stir them up this hour with documentarian and historian Glen Sample Ely, author of Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity (Texas Tech University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate & Health [2011-06-01 12:00:00] How are environmental degradation and climate change affecting our physical well-being? We'll talk this hour with Dr. Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the new book Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It (University of California Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Honestly Honest??Or Not? [2011-05-31 13:00:00] Doesn't anyone tell the truth anymore? We'll explore the epidemic of public falsehoods and what they mean for society this hour with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James B. Stewart. His new book is Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of Human Life [2011-05-31 12:00:00] How are archeologists, anthropologists and now geneticists changing what we know about the origins of people on Planet Earth? We'll talk this hour with journalist, biographer and historian Martin Meredith. His new book is Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life (PublicAffairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother [2011-05-26 13:00:00] Where did President Obama get his drive, dedication and commitment and who shaped his value system as a child? We'll talk this hour with journalist Janny Scott, whose deeply researched new book is "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother" (Riverhead, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Nature Principle [2011-05-26 12:00:00] What would our lives be like if we spent as much time with nature as we currently do with technology? We'll find out this hour with journalist and author Richard Louv. His new book is "The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder" (Algonquin Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remembering & Reliving Little House [2011-05-25 13:00:00] Remember Little House on the Prairie? Our guest this hour certainly does. We'll talk with writer and editor Wendy McClure about retracing the journey and recreating the life of the real Ingalls family as told in her new book "The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie" (Riverhead, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Self-Control in an Age of Excess [2011-05-25 12:00:00] From the Archive: Why is it so hard for us to resist overeating, drinking, smoking and more? We'll talk this hour with journalist and author Daniel Akst, whose new book is "We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess" (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels with Pico Iyer [2011-05-24 13:00:00] As the world moves faster and faster, what can be learned from slowing down? We'll spend this hour with writer and traveler Pico Iyer who's in town to discuss his life, his observations and his friendship with the Dalia Lama at the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power & Philanthropy [2011-05-24 12:00:00] Can globalism and connectivity help make the world a better place? We'll discuss social innovation, philanthropy and the power of working together this hour with John Kania, managing director at FSG and co-author of "Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World" (Jossey-Bass, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Shootout at the O.K. Corral [2011-05-23 13:00:00] What caused one of the most famous gun battles in history and how did it shape our view of the American West? We'll spend this hour with historical journalist Jeff Guinn whose new book is "The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West" (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life [2011-05-23 12:00:00] How do the selfish and animalistic aspects of our human nature contribute to some of our greatest accomplishments? We'll talk this hour with Arizona State University evolutionary psychologist Douglas T. Kenrick, author of the new book "Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An American Family in Hitler's Berlin [2011-05-19 13:00:00] What did Hitler's rise to power mean for Americans working in 1930s Berlin? We'll look back this hour to 1933 and the experiences of U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd with bestselling nonfiction author Erik Larson, whose new book is "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" (Crown, 2011). Larson will address the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series tonight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Memory and Emotion [2011-05-19 12:00:00] How does emotion affect the accuracy or intensity of a memory? We'll talk this hour with Dr. James L. McGaugh, director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine and author of the book "Memory and Emotion: The Making of Lasting Memories" (Columbia University Press, 2006). Dr. McGaugh will speak at tomorrow's 2011 UT Dallas Neuroscience Conference, hosted by the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration Policy in an Era of Globalization [2011-05-18 13:00:00] How should countries deal with the inevitability of increasing immigration in a world of growing connectivity and globalization? We'll spend this hour with three participants in this week's conference "Immigration Policy in an Era of Globalization" which is co-sponsored by SMU's Tower Center for Political Studies and the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank. Our guests are James Hollifield, director of the Tower Center; Joseph Chamie, director of research for the Center for Mig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush [2011-05-18 12:00:00] What was life really like during the 1890s Alaska and Yukon gold rush? We'll find out this hour with bestselling nonfiction author Howard Blum who tells the intertwining stories of three men and their parallel pursuits of fortune in his new book "The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush" (Crown, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cabaret [2011-05-17 13:00:00] How does a show set in 1931 Berlin shed new light on the early days of the Nazi era and what's it like for the artists who perform it each night? We'll discuss the current Dallas Theater Center production of "Cabaret" this hour with Director & Choreographer Joel Ferrell and performers Kate Wetherhead and Wade McCollum. The show runs until Sunday at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toward A Fair Society [2011-05-17 12:00:00] What is the individual's responsibility when it comes to holding corporate entities, public figures and others responsible for their actions - especially in regard to who get's what? We'll talk this hour with Peter Corning, director of the Institute for the Study of Complex Systems and author of "The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice" (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Staying Healthy in a Toxic World [2011-05-16 13:00:00] What are the chemicals, drugs and synthetically-produced products in our lives really doing to our bodies and our health? We'll talk this hour with journalist McKay Jenkins, author of "What's Gotten into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World" (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Australia and the U.S. [2011-05-16 12:00:00] A strong economic partner and security ally of the United States, Australia and the U.S. share similarities in culture, historical background and democratic values. We'll discuss our country's important relationship with Australia this hour with His Excellency Kim Beazley, Ambassador of Australia to the United States. Ambassador Beazley is in town for an event with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers [2011-05-12 13:00:00] Are you considering turning your backyard into an urban farm? Or perhaps you're considering a back-to-nature relocation to the country. We'll discuss trading the rat race for chickens, goats, bushels of produce and lots of work this hour with Josh Kilmer-Purcell, author of "The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir" (Harper Perennial, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Fair Season [2011-05-12 12:00:00] The United States may be falling behind overall when it comes to science and math education, but there are a few American kids who are achieving fantastic results in the world of high-stakes pre-college science fair competitions. We'll go behind the scenes of the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair this hour with Judy Dutton, whose new book is "Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch . . . and What It Takes to Win" (Hyperion, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter [2011-05-11 13:00:00] How is a knowledge of creatures we may never see important to our general understanding of how life works on our planet? We'll find out this hour with Ellen Prager, former chief scientist at the world's only undersea research station and author of the book "Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter" (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Arabs: A History [2011-05-11 12:00:00] Are the recent revolts and protests in the Middle East a logical next step in the history of the Arab people and their culture? We'll take a look back and discuss the possible future of the region this hour with Eugene Rogan, director of the Middle East Centre at St. Anthony's College, Oxford. His 2009 book, "The Arabs: A History" (Basic Books, 2011), has just been reissued in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Arabs: A History [2011-05-11 12:00:00] Are the recent revolts and protests in the Middle East a logical next step in the history of the Arab people and their culture? We'll take a look back and discuss the possible future of the region this hour with Eugene Rogan, director of the Middle East Centre at St. Anthony's College, Oxford. His 2009 book, "The Arabs: A History" (Basic Books, 2011), has just be reissued in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Social Challenges of High School [2011-05-10 13:00:00] Why is high school so hard for some kids and so easy for others? How can we help them all navigate the challenging and complex youth culture of today and still manage to learn something? We'll talk this hour with University of Texas sociologist Robert Crosnoe. His new book is "Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education" (Cambridge, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Modern History of Cambodia [2011-05-10 12:00:00] What happened in Cambodia? We'll examine the post-Khmer Rouge, post-Vietnamese and post-United Nations history of the country with Stanford University journalism professor and New York Times veteran reporter Joel Brinkley. His new book is "Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land" (PublicAffairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovering Life and Love in India [2011-05-09 13:00:00] What does it take to really understand a country and the people who live there? We'll talk this hour with NPR Morning Edition editor Miranda Kennedy, who writes about her five year immersion in a totally different culture in her new book "Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India" (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yosemite's Superclimbers [2011-05-09 12:00:00] Who are today's real adventure heroes? We'll talk this hour with Mark Jenkins whose current National Geographic cover story "Yosemite's Superclimbers" profiles a few athletes who are pushing the climbing envelope in unbelievable new directions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 17th Century Life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk [2011-05-05 13:00:00] What was life like for the first Native American to graduate Harvard College in 1665? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks will join us this hour to discuss what we know of the real life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk and how it inspired her new novel "Caleb's Crossing" (Viking, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Butterfly Smugglers [2011-05-05 12:00:00] Who is Yoshi Kojima? We'll find out this hour as we explore the lucrative and obscure world of illegal butterfly trafficking with journalist Jessica Speart. Her new book is "Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler" (William Morrow, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big-Time Ventriloquism [2011-05-04 13:00:00] Until Mesquite ventriloquist Terry Fator won the $1 million grand prize on NBC's America's Got Talent, ventriloquism may have seemed like a vaudeville act of yesteryear. Mark Goffman pulls back the curtain on the big time ventriloquism industry in his new film "Dumbstruck" which opens in Dallas this Friday at the Landmark Magnolia. We'll talk with Goffman this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The 80s Revisited [2011-05-04 12:00:00] How does the recent past inform our preset culture and what was so great about the 1980s anyway? We'll explore ongoing influence of the decade that brought us Rambo, The Cosby Show, Reaganomics and more this hour with journalist David Sirota. His new book is "Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything" (Ballantine Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Storm That Swept Mexico [2011-05-03 13:00:00] How did Mexico gain its independence in 1910 and how did the revolution transform the country and its relationships with the United States and the rest of the world? We'll talk this hour with Ray Telles, co-producer of the new documentary "The Storm That Swept Mexico" which airs this Thursday, May 4th on KERA 13 and PBS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living in Outer Space [2011-05-03 12:00:00] What is necessary for human survival in space and how long can a person reasonably expect to thrive in such an inhospitable, zero-gravity environment? We'll find out this hour with science writer Mary Roach, whose book "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ultra-Everything! [2011-04-28 13:00:00] What does it take to go the distance when the distance is over 3,000 miles? We'll talk this hour with Marshall Ulrich who recounts his incredible experiences in the new book "Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America" (Avery, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Language & Identity [2011-04-28 12:00:00] How do our beliefs about language affect our identities and impressions of others? We'll spend this hour with Robert Lane Greene, international correspondent for The Economist and author of the book "You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity" (Delacorte Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Revolutionary Gardeners [2011-04-27 13:00:00] How did an enthusiasm for nature and agriculture influence American governance? We'll talk this hour with journalist Andrea Wulf, whose new book is "Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation" (Knopf, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher [2011-04-27 12:00:00] One year later, what do we know about the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the effort to plug the well? We'll talk this hour with Joel Achenbach, staff writer for The Washington Post and author of the new book "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher" (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest [2011-04-26 13:00:00] Which is the fiercest creature in today's woods and how close do they get to our towns and cites? You might be surprised. We'll talk this hour with poet and American University of Paris instructor Jeffrey Greene, whose new book is "The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest" (University of Virginia Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Roots of Religious Uncertainty [2011-04-26 12:00:00] What happens when religion, science, reason and doubt collide? We'll find out this hour with Northwestern University Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature Christopher Lane. His new book is "The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty" (Yale University Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue [2011-04-25 13:00:00] Where do your loyalties lie? Are they with family, friends, country and church or elsewhere? We'll explore the concepts of commitment, reliability and trust this hour with Eric Felten, columnist for The Wall Street Journal and author of the new book "Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue" (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pakistan: A Hard Country [2011-04-25 12:00:00] Which country has almost 200 million citizens, half a million soldiers, nuclear weapons and a deteriorating political system? We'll explore Pakistan this hour with journalist Anatol Lieven, who was in the country last month. His new book is "Pakistan: A Hard Country" (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adventure & the Environment [2011-04-21 13:00:00] What should we each be doing to help preserve the environment and especially the oceans? We'll talk this hour with adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild, who (along with his crew) crossed the Pacific Ocean last year on a boat made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other fully recyclable materials. His recounts the experience in "Plastiki: Across the Pacific: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans" (Chronicle Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Chicano Movement [2011-04-21 12:00:00] How did the mid-1960s Chicano Movement in Texas influence other Latino rights struggles around the country? We'll talk this hour with U.C. Berkeley Professor of Ethnic Studies David Montejano, author of "Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981" (University of Texas, 2010). Montejano will deliver the Center for Mexican American Studies Distinguished Lecture at the University of Texas at Arlington this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Animal Magnet & The Grizzly Bear [2011-04-20 13:00:00] How is the modern world treating the vulnerable Ursus Arctos Horribilis or Grizzly Bear? We'll spend this hour with naturalist and National Geographic "Expedition Wild" host Casey Anderson. He'll speak to the Brinker International Forum at the AT&T Performing Arts Center this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India [2011-04-20 12:00:00] He was undoubtedly one of the greatest leaders in history, but where did Ghandi's achievements fall short of his own expectations and how did those disappointments inform his world view? We'll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld, whose highly-acclaimed new book is "Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India" (Knopf, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World [2011-04-19 13:00:00] Could our human desire to fit in and identify with others lead to positive social changes around the world? According to our guest this hour, journalist, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Tina Rosenberg, it's already happening. Her new book is "Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS [2011-04-19 12:00:00] Who was Julia Child before she became America's most famous and beloved television chef? We'll revisit the intrigue of World War II espionage and more this hour with journalist Jennet Conant, whose new book is "A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS" (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Noah Webster's Obsession [2011-04-18 13:00:00] His influence on the written and spoken word is without question, but should Noah Webster get more credit for launching our uniquely American culture? We'll talk this hour with Joshua Kendall, author of "The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture" (Putnam, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Science Will Shape Human Destiny [2011-04-18 12:00:00] How will the fields of medicine, computers, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, energy production and astronautics change our lives in the not-too-distant future? We'll find out this hour with Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and author of the new book "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100" (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels with the State Historian of Texas [2011-04-14 13:00:00] What makes Texas History so fascinating? We'll spend this hour with Light Townsend Cummins, Ph.D., the Bryan Chair of American History at Austin College and official State Historian of Texas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Congo and the Great War of Africa [2011-04-14 12:00:00] What is the status of the civil war in the Congo? Raging since 1996 with at least 20 rebel groups, 9 government armies and millions of dead, the killing has been described as unstaunchable. We'll get an inside look and preview upcoming Congolese elections this hour with journalist, humanitarian and U.N. investigator Jason K. Stearns, author of "Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa" (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs [2011-04-13 12:00:00] Can ecology, biology, mathematics and physics help us avoid (or at least predict) forthcoming troubles of the worst kind? We'll talk this hour with scientist Len Fisher, Ph.D., author of the new book "Crashes, Crises, and Calamities: How We Can Use Science to Read the Early-Warning Signs" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Socrates, Athens & the Search for the Good Life [2011-04-12 13:00:00] Who was the man that influenced Western philosophy more than any other and what was the nature of his time and place? Historian Bettany Hughes explores the mystery of Socrates in her new book "The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life" (Knopf, 2011). She'll join us for the hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emotion in the New Workplace [2011-04-12 12:00:00] What role do emotions play at work? Our guest this hour, journalist and former executive vice president and worldwide creative director for Nickelodeon, Anne Kreamer tackles the issue in her new book "It's Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace" (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philanthropy that Gets Results [2011-04-11 13:00:00] Just how big is philanthropy's global impact and what factors should donors consider before making those financial gifts? We'll spend this hour with Thomas J. Tierney, cofounder and chairman of The Bridgespan Group and co-author of the new book "Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results" (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dumb Things We Do and How to Avoid Them [2011-04-11 12:00:00] Why do politicians, movie stars and even ordinary folks like us do stupid things and how can we avoid such self-destructive mistakes? We'll talk this hour with City University of New York Sociologist William Helmreich, Ph.D. His new book is "What Was I Thinking?: The Dumb Things We Do and How to Avoid Them" (Taylor Trade, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dallas Auto Show [2011-04-07 13:00:00] Considering a new car? The Dallas Auto Show runs this weekend at the Dallas Convention Center. We'll discuss some of the hundreds of cars and trucks at the show and get a round-up of what's new, what's hot and what's not this hour with automotive writer David Boldt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Insects & Humans [2011-04-07 12:00:00] What can we learn from the diverse but largely unseen world of insects? We'll talk this hour with Hugh Raffles, who teaches anthropology at The New School and has just published the new book "Insectopedia" (Vintage, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walking in Space [2011-04-06 13:00:00] Ever wonder what it's like to walk in space? We'll discuss the experience of space flight and the future of America's space program with Astronaut Mike Massimino. He'll deliver a lecture at UTD this afternoon presented by the university's Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Relativity Group and Physics Department. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan [2011-04-06 12:00:00] What's it really like on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan? We'll get a candid look at the war zone lives of journalists, soldiers, politicians, expats and more this hour with Kim Barker. Currently a New York-based reporter for ProPublica, Barker was the Chicago Tribune's South Asia bureau chief from 2004 to 2009. Her new memoir is "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan" (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth [2011-04-05 13:00:00] What might be the extremely long term effects of climate change on our planet? We'll examine a lot more than the immediate changes that face the next few generations this hour with Curt Stager, researcher at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute and author of the new book "Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth" (Thomas Dunne Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan [2011-04-05 12:00:00] What if you'd spent nearly 40 years wondering about your brother's fate in the jungles of post-war Vietnam and then someone told you they may have spotted him alive on the street? We'll spend this hour with documentarian Henry Corra whose film "The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan" is screening this week at the Dallas International Film Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Year of Paying Attention [2011-04-04 13:00:00] Can one writer's experiences with her Attention Deficit Disorder-afflicted son teach us all about coping with our fast-paced and frantic modern culture? We'll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Katherine Ellison. Her new book is "Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention" (Voice, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website America's Storyteller [2011-04-04 12:00:00] Where can you find the spirit and soul of 20th Century America? Our guest this hour might argue that you need look no further than the plays and screenplays of Texas' own Horton Foote. In recognition of Dallas' ongoing Horton Foote Festival, we'll spend this hour with New York-based critic and biographer Wilborn Hampton, author of "Horton Foote: America's Storyteller" (Free Press, 2009). Hampton will speak at the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live event this ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Long Vigil of Joe DiMaggio [2011-03-31 13:00:00] Who was Joe DiMaggio when he wasn't playing his incredible and mesmerizing game of baseball? Who did he become after retirement? We'll talk this hour with writer and cultural critic Jerome Charyn. His new book on the baseball icon is "Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil" (Yale, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Year in a Women's Prison [2011-03-31 12:00:00] What can be learned from a year in the Danbury, Connecticut Federal Correctional Institution for Women? We'll find out this hour with communications executive Piper Kerman, who writes about her experience in the new memoir "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" (Spiegel & Grau, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett [2011-03-30 13:00:00] Where do we get our image of the Wild West and just how accurate are the stories of cold-blooded outlaws and the lawmen sworn to bring them to justice? We'll spend this hour with writer and Southwest Studies expert Mark Lee Gardner, author of "To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett" (Harper Paperbacks, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Promoting Women's Freedom [2011-03-30 12:00:00] How might the inclusion of women in Afghanistan's economic future improve the country's stability? This hour, we'll preview this week's George W. Bush Presidential Center conference "Building Afghanistan's Future: Promoting Women's Freedom and Advancing their Economic Opportunity." Our guests will include Jim Glassman, Executive Director of the Bush Institute and former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Melanne Verveer, Ambassador of Global Women's Affai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon [2011-03-29 13:00:00] How did an advertisement for real estate become the symbol of fame, fortune and everything that goes with it? We'll talk this hour with Leo Braudy, University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature at the University of Southern California. He explores the history of one of the most famous signs in the world in his new book "The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon" (Yale, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Man Who Recorded the World [2011-03-29 12:00:00] From the Archives: Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America's greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is "Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World" (Viking, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sicilian Wine Odyssey [2011-03-28 13:00:00] What do culture, food and wine tell us about a specific place and time? We'll spend this hour with journalist and travel writer Robert V. Camuto who explores the rugged island of Sicily in his new book "Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey" (Nebraska, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Talking with Computers Teaches Us [2011-03-28 12:00:00] Will computers one day do our thinking for us? We'll talk this hour with Brian Christian whose new book is "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive" (Doubleday, 2011). Christian will take us behind the scenes at the annual Turing test which pits artificial intelligence against the real thing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes with the DSO Concertmasters [2011-03-24 13:00:00] What is the role of the concertmaster? We'll find out this hour and discuss Dallas's classical music community with Alexander Kerr and Nathan Olson; they assume the roles of Dallas Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster and Co-Concertmaster on September 1st. We might even hear a bit of music! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Type 1 and Juvenile Diabetes [2011-03-24 12:00:00] What are the latest developments in the fight against type 1 and juvenile diabetes? We'll talk this hour with Dr. Gregory Clark of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Jeffrey Brewer, President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill [2011-03-23 13:00:00] What made Winston Churchill one of the great leaders of the 20th century? We'll spend this hour with Celia Sandys, author of "We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill." Sandys, who will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Forth Worth this evening, is Churchill's granddaughter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice [2011-03-23 12:00:00] Would you risk your life to achieve equality? This hour we'll remember the brave individuals who did just that in the spring and summer of 1961 with Ray Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. His acclaimed book "Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice" (Oxford, Paperback, 2011) has just been published in an abridged 50th anniversary edition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Festival of Ideas & The Future of Journalism [2011-03-22 13:00:00] What are the current big ideas about power, journalism, religion and healthcare? We'll preview the upcoming Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Festival of Ideas this hour with KERA's own Lee Cullum, who'll lead this weekend's event. We'll also be joined by George Getschow, writer-in-residence of UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and "Future of Journalism and the Media" panelist at the festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dallas-Sendai Relationship & Japan's Economy [2011-03-22 12:00:00] What does the destruction in Japan mean for the Japanese and global economy and how will the tragedy affect our relationship with Japan? We'll spend this hour with David Schnetzer, President of the Japan America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth and William Tsutsui, Dean of Dedman College at SMU. Tsutsui, a specialist in modern Japanese business and economic history, was actually in Tokyo when the massive earthquake occurred. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hidden Sources of Love, Character & Achievement [2011-03-21 12:00:00] Why do we choose to live the way we do and what really influences those choices? We'll talk this hour with New York Times columnist and bestselling author David Brooks, whose new book is "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement" (Random House). Brooks will address the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series and the World Affairs Council of Dallas Forth Worth next week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong [2011-03-17 13:00:00] Can making errors improve our families, jobs and the world? We'll talk this hour with New York Times consumer columnist Alina Tugend, whose new book is "Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong" (Riverhead Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution [2011-03-17 12:00:00] Was the Boston Tea Party really about taxation or just a cunning ploy for political power? We'll find out this hour with Harlow Giles Unger, author of "American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution" (Da Capo, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef [2011-03-16 13:00:00] What does it take to become a successful chef? We'll talk with Gabrielle Hamilton, author and chef/owner of New York City's Prune restaurant. Her new memoir is "Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef" (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea [2011-03-16 12:00:00] What happens when nearly thirty thousand plastic animals spill from a freighter in the North Pacific? We'll talk with Donovan Hohn, whose new book is "Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them" (Viking, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin & John Wilkes Booth [2011-03-15 13:00:00] From the archives: How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America's greatest presidents? We'll find out this hour with historian Nora Titone, whose new book is "My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy" (Free Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines [2011-03-15 12:00:00] Is there a better brain in your future? What if it involves a machine augmentation? We'll explore the possibilities this hour with Miguel Nicolelis, the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University and founder of Duke's Center for Neuroengineering. His new book is "Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives" (Times Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Biology Explains Warfare & Terrorism [2011-03-14 13:00:00] What drives the best and worst of human nature? We'll discuss probable causes of our triumphs and failures this hour with Malcolm Potts, Professor and Chair of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of the book "Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World" (BenBella Books, 2010). Potts will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Notes from the Arctic Circle [2011-03-14 12:00:00] What's happening at the "fringes" of our planet's habitable space and what can we learn of our future from the most extreme environments on Earth? We'll talk this hour with traveler and writer Sara Wheeler, whose new book is "The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle" (FSG, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: Transcending Chronic Illness [2011-03-10 13:00:00] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 133 million Americans - almost 1 out of every 2 adults - live with chronic illness. We got a view from both sides of the experience last summer with Type I diabetes patient and Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Julian Seifter. His recent book on the subject is "After the Diagnosis: Transcending Chronic Illness" (Simon & Schuster, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Texas Culture and Its Discontents [2011-03-10 12:00:00] What makes Texas Texas? We'll spend this hour with Don Graham, the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin and the state's leading book critic on all things Texas. His new collection of essays is called "State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents" (UT Press, 2011). Jerome Weeks of KERA's Art&Seek will guest host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sexual Ecology of Love Relationships [2011-03-09 13:00:00] Why do healthy couples in long term relationships sometimes have sexual desire problems? We'll spend this hour with sexuality and relationship expert Dr. David Schnarch. He's in town to deliver the talk "The Sexual Ecology of Love Relationships" at the Simmons School Counseling Program at SMU-In-Plano this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Living Wage [2011-03-09 12:00:00] What exactly is a living wage in 2011? We'll find out this hour with Cannon Flowers and Serena Simmons Connelly, founders of the Demeter Project, a firm that strives to improve the community by improving the average workplace and supporting local nonprofits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Change the World One Idea at a Time [2011-03-08 13:00:00] Are you optimistic about the future? Our guest this hour certainly is. We'll talk with Israeli attorney and civic leader Shraga Biran about the future of information, the potential of reform, and his new book "Opportunism: How to Change the World One Idea at a Time" (FSG, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collaborative Law [2011-03-08 12:00:00] Is there a better way to divorce? Collaborative law provides model for divorce dispute resolution where the object is to settle the case without going to court. We'll explore emerging trends in litigation this hour with a team of experts including attorney Curtis Harrison, mental health professional Linda Solomon and financial professional Scott Clarke. They will participate in this week's Collaborative Law Institute of Texas Spring Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies [2011-03-07 13:00:00] Why is being a nerd seen as a bad thing? We'll spend this hour with Bennington College professor of psychology, David Anderegg, Ph.D. He addresses the rising tide of anti-intellectualism and more in his book "Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope" (Tarcher, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dark Side of Internet Freedom [2011-03-07 12:00:00] Could worldwide freedom and democracy be threatened by the free flow of information? We'll talk this hour with Evgeny Morozov, contributing editor to Foreign Policy Magazine and Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation. His new book is "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom" (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading & Speech in Children [2011-03-03 13:00:00] How are genetics related to pediatric language, speech and reading disorders and what are the current strategies for intervention? We'll talk this hour with the University of Iowa's Dr. Bruce Tomblin and Dr. Tom Campbell, executive director of the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communications Disorders. Dr. Tomblin is in town to receive the 2011 Callier Prize at this weekend's Callier Prize Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mountain in Tibet [2011-03-03 12:00:00] Where is the holiest mountain on earth and what does it take to get there? We'll spend this hour with distinguished travel writer Colin Thubron. He recounts his journey to Kailas in the new book "To a Mountain in Tibet" (Harper, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World [2011-03-02 13:00:00] What happened to American colonists who didn't want to leave the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War? We'll explore their lives this hour with Harvard associate professor of history, Maya Jasanoff. Her new book is "Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World" (Knopf, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unrest in the Middle East [2011-03-02 12:00:00] What does the climate of unrest in the Middle East mean for the United States and its allies in the region? What does it mean for the protesters and the people who live there? We'll spend this hour with Ambassador Robert Jordan, attorney and Diplomat-In-Residence at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU. Jordan served as U.S. Ambassador to the Saudi Kingdom from 2001 to 2003. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Entering a New Epoch of Man [2011-03-01 13:00:00] Is the planet entering a new epoch, one defined by human's massive impact? Elizabeth Kolbert covers what many scientists are calling the start of the Anthropocene in her current article for National Geographic Magazine. She'll join us this hour to discuss the piece "Enter the Age of Man." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Memoir of Food, Love, and War [2011-03-01 12:00:00] We see the headlines and the aftermath of frequent bombings and other attacks, but what is daily life really like for the people who live in cities like Baghdad and Beirut? We'll talk this hour with cultural journalist and food writer Annia Ciezadlo who has reported from both cities for The Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic. Her new book is "Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War" (Free Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Quest for Relief from the Headache [2011-02-28 13:00:00] Everyone gets headaches, but how would you deal with a headache that's lasted for over three years? We'll explore the phenomenon of chronic pain this hour with writer and designer Jennette Fulda, who documents her own painful experience in the new book "Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief from the Headache that Wouldn't Go Away" (Gallery Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Conversation with Marcia Gay Harden [2011-02-28 12:00:00] What goes into the development of a character and how does an actor prepare to play that character? We'll spend this hour with Academy Award-winning actor Marcia Gay Harden who will appear at the Dallas Museum of Arts' Arts & Letters Live: Texas Bound series this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Happier [2011-02-24 13:00:00] Could urbanism ultimately save humanity? We'll talk this hour with Edward Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and author of the new book "Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier" (The Penguin Press. 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Isaac Newton & the Birth of the Modern World [2011-02-24 12:00:00] Where did modern scientific study and our common understanding of the universe originate? We'll spend this hour with science journalist and writer Edward Dolnick. His new history is "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" (Harper, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spare Time is Important Time [2011-02-23 13:00:00] How does one become an expert on almost everything? We'll find out this hour with Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks, Inc. and author of the popular "How Stuff Works" series of books and other media. Brain will deliver the lecture "Your Spare Time is Your Most Important Time" at the University of Texas at Arlington this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Academy Awards 2011 [2011-02-23 12:00:00] Who will win big at Sunday night's Academy Awards? We'll get your favorites picks and discuss it all this hour with Stephen Becker of KERA's Art&Seek, Chris Kelly of the Star-Telegram and Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Creativity Works [2011-02-22 13:00:00] Where do artists, writers, musicians and other creative thinkers find their inspiration? We'll spend this hour with Julie Burstein, "Studio 360" creator and author of the new book "Spark: How Creativity Works" (Harper, 2011). Burstein speaks to the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live Series this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret Journey from Black to White [2011-02-22 12:00:00] How important is race in American society today? How important was it to families in the past? We'll explore the complexity of race in our country this hour with Vanderbilt University associate professor of law, Daniel J. Sharfstein. His new book is "The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White" (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Becoming a Playwright [2011-02-17 13:00:00] What makes a writer a writer, and how can a great teacher influence the arc of a writer's career? We'll spend this hour with playwright, author, screenwriter, actor, director Doug Wright and Linda Raya, the Highland Park High School Fine Arts director and theatre teacher who instructed Doug when he was a student at the school. Doug Wright will deliver the keynote address at this weekend's 15th annual Highland Park Literary Festival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economics & Marriage [2011-02-17 12:00:00] Is there a simpler (or at least more formulaic) way to negotiate the pitfalls of marriage? According to our guest this hour, economics could be the key. We'll talk with Jenny Anderson, New York Times reporter and co-author of the new book "Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes" (Random House, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Women for Women [2011-02-16 13:00:00] What do women in developing and war-torn countries face as they try to build independent and better lives for their families and themselves? We'll talk this hour with Zainab Salbi, former member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle and founder of and president of Women for Women International. She'll address the Global Outreach Forum and accept the Austin College Posey Leadership Award at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre tomorrow evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s [2011-02-16 12:00:00] How and where did the American women's movement begin? We'll look back at the mid-20th Century this hour and explore the lives of our mothers and grandmothers with Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families. Her new book is "A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geopolitics in The Next Decade [2011-02-15 13:00:00] How will the United States deal with Iran, China and other countries with growing geopolitical influence and how fast will those relationships change? We'll talk this hour with George Friedman, president and CEO of STRATFOR - a private intelligence company. His new book is "The Next Decade: Where We've Been...and Where We're Going" (Doubleday, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Illumination [2011-02-15 12:00:00] What would happen if our injuries, suffering and sicknesses began to glow? The phenomenon is a key element in novelist Kevin Brockmeier's latest book "The Illumination: A Novel" (Pantheon, 2011). Brockmeier, who speaks to the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series this Friday, will be our guest this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Family's Tour of Duty [2011-02-14 13:00:00] What's it really like to wait for your loved one to return from military service overseas? What's it like when they do return? We'll talk this hour with writer Siobhan Fallon, whose husband did two tours of duty in Iraq himself. Her new collection of stories is called "You Know When the Men Are Gone" (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam , 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How We Age [2011-02-14 12:00:00] What does "old" really mean? We'll explore the concept of aging this hour with someone who sees it every day - Marc E. Agronin, MD, adult and geriatric psychiatrist and Medical Director for Mental Health and Clinical Research at Miami Jewish Health Systems. His new book is "How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old" (DaCapo Life Long, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture [2011-02-10 13:00:00] It's hard to resist your young daughter's request for the latest and greatest trendy must-haves, but what will be the ultimate effects of the ubiquitous commercialization of American girlhood? We'll talk this hour with journalist Peggy Orenstein whose new book is "Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture" (Harper, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander the Great [2011-02-10 12:00:00] Who was the real man behind the legendary conqueror Alexander the great? We'll explore the achievements of the famous Macedonian king this hour with Philip Freeman, Qualley Professor of Classics at Luther College in Decorah, Illinois. Freeman's new biography is "Alexander the Great" (Simon & Schuster). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Power [2011-02-09 13:00:00] How is global power represented in the digital age and what strategies are developing nations and non-state entities using to gain power in our ever-more-connected world? We'll talk this hour with Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, former dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and former Assistant Secretary of Defense. His new book is "The Future of Power" (Public Affairs, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth [2011-02-09 12:00:00] Where can true happiness be found? Former Marketplace radio journalist Lisa Napoli discovered it halfway around the world in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. She'll join us this hour to tell her story and discuss her new book "Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth" (Crown, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Does A Child's Brain Develop As It Does? [2011-02-08 13:00:00] Does experience influence the brain development of children as much as genetics? We'll examine the latest research this hour with Dr. Helen Neville, Lab Director at the University of Oregon's Brain Development Lab. She'll deliver the UTD Center for BrainHealth "The Brain: An Owners Guide" lecture tonight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance [2011-02-08 12:00:00] Can the countries of the world join together to create the next golden age? Our guest this hour thinks so. We'll talk to Parag Khanna, director of the Global Governance Initiative at the New America Foundation and author of the new book "How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance" (Random House, 2011). He speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Artist Rises Above Racism [2011-02-07 13:00:00] How can overcoming institutional racism influence an artist's career? We'll spend this hour with distinguished mezzo-soprano Barbara Smith Conrad. The story of her experiences as a member of the first integrated class at the University of Texas and her subsequent career is featured in the PBS Independent Lens documentary "When I Rise." The film will air tomorrow at 10pm on KERA 13. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economic Outlook for 2011 [2011-02-07 12:00:00] Many indicators are showing an economy on the mend, but things aren't improving across the board and many Americans are still in dire financial straits. How will the economy fare in 2011? What is the outlook for North Texas? We'll spend this hour with Richard Fisher, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt [2011-02-03 13:00:00] From the archives - Who was Sarah Bernhardt and why is she still known as one of the most famous actresses in the world? We talked last fall with biographer and editorial legend Robert Gottleib. His latest effort as part of the Yale Jewish Lives Series is "Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt" (Yale, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age [2011-02-03 12:00:00] Does anyone have immunity from old age? Not according to our guest this hour, journalist and author Susan Jacoby. She'll join us to discuss what really awaits the Boomer generation and her new book "Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age" (Pantheon, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Animation & "THE ILLUSIONIST" [2011-02-02 13:00:00] How do you turn a compelling and poignant story into a ninety-minute animated feature that garners a Golden Globe nomination and generates a bit of Oscar buzz? We'll talk this hour with recent Dallas arrivals - animator Justin Hall and production manager Fiona Hall, whose new film "The Illusionist" opens this week at the Angelika Film Centers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: Changing the World One Correction at a Time [2011-02-02 12:00:00] From the archives - Do typos drive you nuts, especially when you see them on signs, t-shirts, billboards and elsewhere? If so, you're not alone. We talked in September with Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, authors of the book "The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time" (Harmony, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Rise of Barack Obama [2011-02-01 13:00:00] How might the Obama presidency be viewed by history and what can we learn from his past? We'll look back this hour at the early years of President Obama's life and how his experiences might color the future with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker. His book "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama" (Vintage, Trade Paperback, 2011) is now out in trade paperback with a new epilogue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building a Thriving Artistic Community [2011-02-01 12:00:00] What is necessary to create a vibrant artistic community and a public which responds to the arts? Perhaps more importantly, what's missing in Dallas and the rest of North Texas? This hour we'll take an exclusive first look at the Creative Time Meadows Prize Report, "Building a Thriving Artistic Community." Our guests are Jose Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU and Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, the New York-based art ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video Games in Education [2011-01-31 13:00:00] Could playing video games during school hours actually help kids learn more effectively? We'll discuss the controversial potential of gaming in education this hour with Tom Linehan, Director of the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering at UT-Dallas, and Peter Raad, Director of the Linda and Mitch Hart eCenter at The Guildhall at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking [2011-01-31 12:00:00] As the country continues its economic climb, what are the unique issues and challenges faced by the people of India today? We'll find out this hour with Anand Giridharadas, author of the new book "India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking" (Times Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video Games in Education [2011-01-31 13:00:00] Could playing video games during school hours actually help kids learn more effectively? We'll discuss the controversial potential of gaming in education this hour with Tom Linehan, Director of the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering at UT-Dallas, and Peter Raad, Director of the Linda and Mitch Hart eCenter at The Guildhall at SMU. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: Antony and Cleopatra [2011-01-27 13:00:00] From the Archives - Who were the real people behind the legendary lovers and rulers of Ancient Egypt? For starters, she was actually Greek and he was more politician than soldier. We explored their stories last fall with acclaimed historian of the ancient world Adrian Goldsworthy, whose latest book is "Antony and Cleopatra" (Yale University Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children [2011-01-27 12:00:00] How big a problem is sex trafficking in America today and how many American girls are victims? You might be surprised. We'll talk this hour with investigative journalist Julian Sher, author of the new book "Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them" (Chicago Review Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee [2011-01-26 13:00:00] How did an ambitious burlesque performer help lift Americans' spirits during the depression and influence the future of musical theater? We'll find out this hour with bestselling author Karen Abbott, whose new book is "American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee" (Random House, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide [2011-01-26 12:00:00] What are women doing right now to overcome global poverty and a host of other problems plaguing the world? We'll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn who will address the 2011 Planned Parenthood of North Texas Annual Luncheon tomorrow in Fort Worth. She's the co-author along with her husband Nicholas Kristoff of "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" (Vintage, 2009). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Right Way to do the Right Thing [2011-01-25 13:00:00] How can we overcome the dissatisfaction so common in modern life and work? We'll cover Aristotle, the digital age and everything in-between this hour with Swarthmore College Professor of Social Theory and Social Action, Barry Schwartz. He's the co-author of the new book "Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to do the Right Thing" (Riverhead, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aftershocks in Haiti [2011-01-25 12:00:00] What do we really know about what's going on in Haiti and how much is U.S. aid helping? We'll spend this hour with Mac McClelland, Mother Jones Human Rights Reporter. Her "Aftershocks" appears in the current issue of Mother Jones Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Straight Talk from an Energy Insider [2011-01-24 13:00:00] How high will our energy prices go and what can be done to make energy affordable for everyone? We'll get an insider's view this hour with former Shell Oil Company president and current CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy, John Hofmeister. His recent book on the subject is "Why We Hate the Oil Companies: Straight Talk from an Energy Insider" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality [2011-01-24 12:00:00] There have always been divisions between the rich and poor, but what do these differences mean in an increasingly global economy? We'll talk this hour with World Bank research economist and University of Maryland Professor Branko Milanovic, author of the new book "The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality" (Basic Books, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Three Wired Teenagers Pulled the Plug on Technology [2011-01-20 13:00:00] How is the ubiquity of technology affecting your life and the life of your family? This hour we'll find out what happens around the house when the tech toys disappear with journalist Susan Maushart. Her new book is "The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale" (Tarcher Penguin, Paperback, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pioneers of Television [2011-01-20 12:00:00] Who were your favorite small screen stars of yesteryear? We'll revisit the early days of television and the quintessential shows that changed everything with Mike Trinklein one of the producers of the "Pioneers of Television" series which is running now on PBS and KERA 13. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A True Crime Story & the Birth of Forensic Science [2011-01-19 13:00:00] Where did modern criminology and forensic police procedures first gain practical acceptance? We'll journey back to the 1890s this hour with Douglas Starr, co-director of the Center for Science and Medical Journalism and professor of journalism at Boston University. His new book is "The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science" (Knopf, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exercise, Environment and Health [2011-01-19 12:00:00] How does exercise affect the heart and what role do environmental factors play in cardiovascular health? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Ben Levine, director of the UT Southwestern Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and Dr. Tony Babb, director of the cardiopulmonary laboratory at the Institute. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Where Human Error & Malevolence Meet Technology [2011-01-18 13:00:00] We get a lot from technology, but how much control are we compromising as our reliance on the technical continues to grow? We'll spend this hour with Lloyd Jeff Dumas, Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas. His new book is "The Technology Trap: Where Human Error and Malevolence Meet Powerful Technologies" (Praeger, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20-Somethings' Slower Path to Adulthood [2011-01-18 12:00:00] What does an evolving concept of independence mean for young Americans and their families? We'll talk this hour with Oregon State University human development expert Rick Settersten, co-author of the new book "Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone" (Bantam Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend [2011-01-13 13:00:00] What would you pay to keep your favorite pet forever? We'll explore the possible future world of pet cloning this hour with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Woestendiek, author of the new book "Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend" (Avery, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JFK & the Speech That Changed America [2011-01-13 12:00:00] How does a leader unite a divided country when political rancor is business as usual? We'll examine of the most powerful such moments in American history this hour with author Thurston Clarke. His book "Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America" (Penguin, Paperback, 2010) has just been re-released in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Self-Control in an Age of Excess :2011-01-12 13:00:00] How are those New Years resolutions coming? We'll discuss why it's so hard for us to resist overeating, drinking, smoking and more this hour with journalist and author Daniel Akst, whose new book is "We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess" (The Penguin Press, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Man Who Recorded the World [2011-01-12 12:00:00] Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America's greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is "Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World" (Viking, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Pope Who Brought Science to the Dark Ages [2011-01-11 13:00:00] How were scientific study and the Church related at the turn of the first millennium? We'll spend this hour with science writer and medievalist Nancy Marie Brown, author of the new book "The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages" (Basic Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear [2011-01-11 12:00:00] Just how powerful is fear as a motivator in our modern society? We'll examine the impact of the now completely repudiated late 1990s vaccine and autism scare this hour with Vanity Fair contributing editor Seth Mnookin, whose new book is "The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear" (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photographing the World [2011-01-10 13:00:00] What does it take to travel the world as a photographer? We'll spend this hour with Annie Griffiths, one of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic. Griffiths speaks this evening at the Brinker International Forum Lecture Series at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Population Seven Billion [2011-01-10 12:00:00] What might this year's predicted 7 billion population milestone mean for planet earth? We'll find out this hour with Robert Kunzig, National Geographic's senior editor for the environment. His cover story "Population 7 Billion" appears in the January, 2011 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: An Experience of the Holocaust [2011-01-06 13:00:00] Almost seven decades later, tales of Nazi atrocities and personal experiences of the Holocaust are still coming to light. We'll hear one such story this hour, with Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at UTD and author of "When the Danube Ran Red" (Syracuse University Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories [2011-01-06 12:00:00] Do the great oceans of the world have their own unique biographies? We'll spend this hour with Simon Winchester, whose new book is "Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories" (HarperCollins, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Natural History of Innovation [2011-01-05 13:00:00] From the archives: We all know the adage about necessity being the mother of invention, but are there ways to increase the occurrence of our collective eureka moments? We examined the phenomenon of innovation in October with Steve Johnson, author of "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" (Riverhead Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: Defending Against the Death Penalty [2011-01-05 12:00:00] From the archives: What will it take to finally eliminate bias against the poor and people of color in the American criminal justice system? We spent an hour in September with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative Alabama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Triumph of Capitalism [2011-01-04 13:00:00] How did the United States transform itself from a largely agrarian economy to a powerhouse on the world stage and how did it happen so fast? We'll spend this hour with H.W. Brands, the Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin and author of the new book "American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900" (Doubleday, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: An Oscar-Winning Director [2011-01-04 12:00:00] How did a working-class English lad evolve into an Oscar-winning filmmaker? We'll talk this hour with Danny Boyle, director of "Slumdog Millionaire," "Trainspotting," and the upcoming "127 Hours," which opened last November. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert E. Lee [2011-01-03 13:00:00] Who was Robert E. Lee and what led him to turn his back on the Union to lead the Army of the Confederacy in the American Civil War? We'll find out this hour with Mark Zwonitzer, producer of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Robert E. Lee" which airs on KERA 13 tonight at 8pm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The War of Images [2011-01-03 12:00:00] How are verbal and visual images imbedded in politics and both literal and figurative war-fighting? We'll talk this hour with University of Chicago iconologist W.J.T. Mitchell, author of the new book "Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present" (Chicago, 2011). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archive: The Natural History of Innovation [2010-12-30 12:00:00] From the archives: We all know the adage about necessity being the mother of invention, but are there ways to increase the occurrence of our collective eureka moments? We examined the phenomenon of innovation in October with Steve Johnson, author of "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" (Riverhead Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Border [2010-12-29 12:00:00] From the archives: With running gun battles in the streets and an almost complete lack of Mexican news coverage on the violence and the cartels, what's life really like these days for people who live along the U.S./Mexico border? We got an update in October with journalist John Burnett, who covers the southwest for NPR. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: Defending Against the Death Penalty [2010-12-28 12:00:00] From the archives: What will it take to finally eliminate bias against the poor and people of color in the American criminal justice system? We spent an hour in September with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Future of Iraq [2010-12-27 12:00:00] From the archives: What does the future hold for Iraq? We talked in September with Ambassador Ryan Crocker who served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009. Crocker is now Dean of Texas A&M's George Bush School of Government and Public Service. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Achives: Extreme Places in Our Solar System [2010-12-23 13:00:00] From the archives: Where is the smelliest place in the Solar System? Where is surfing most intense? Why is a lighting bolt on Earth the thickness of a common household banana? In September, we explored the strangest phenomena in our corner of the galaxy with David Baker, Chairman of the Physics Department at Austin College and co-author of "The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System" (Belknap Harvard, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website People & Ideas That Will Shape the New Year in Dallas [2010-12-23 12:00:00] What will be the big stories and what will matter most to you in 2011? Next time at noon we'll peer into the future with Zac Crain and Peter Simek, contributors to the current D Magazine cover story "20 for 2011: the People & Ideas That Will Shape the Year in Dallas." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman [2010-12-22 13:00:00] From the archives: What would motivate a super-star athlete to leave his career and join the military? We explored the admirable honor of Pat Tillman last August with acclaimed writer Jon Krakauer who covered Tillman's life and the U.S. Military and Bush Administration cover-up of the truth about his death in the book "Where Men Win Glory" (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top Albums of 2010 [2010-12-22 12:00:00] What were your favorite albums and who were your favorite performers in 2010? We'll discuss the year in music this hour with Mario Tarradell, music critic for The Dallas Morning News and Preston D. Jones, music critic for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Stephen Becker will guest host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Joy of Chocolate [2010-12-21 13:00:00] From the archives: What's great about chocolate? Where is the best cacao grown and what goes into getting it on the plate? We discussed every step of the process last summer with chocolate expert Adrienne Newman, Wiseman House Chocolatier Kevin Wenzel and Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek Executive Pastry Chef David Collier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway [2010-12-21 12:00:00] Will Interstate 69, the actual "NAFTA Highway" ever be constructed? We'll examine the issue this hour with journalist Matt Dellinger, whose latest book is "Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway" (Scribner, 2010). Alan Melson will guest-host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Language is Changing [2010-12-20 13:00:00] From the archives: How is language changing and what do we lose when a language disappears forever? In July we talked with linguist and author David Crystal. His latest work is "A Little Book of Language" (Yale, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Voice [2010-12-20 12:00:00] How did Frank Sinatra become one of the greatest stars of the 20th Century? We'll talk this hour with James Kaplan, author of the highly-acclaimed new biography "Frank: The Voice" (Doubleday, 2010). Stephen Becker will guest-host. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Movies [2010-12-16 13:00:00] What are the hot and not-so-hot holiday movies this season? We'll get the picks and pans of this year's crop of films with a panel of our favorite critics this hour Stephen Becker of KERA's Art&Seek, Chris Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Movies [2010-12-16 13:00:00] What are the hot and not-so-hot holiday movies this season? We'll get the picks and pans of this year's crop of films with a panel of our favorite critics this hour Stephen Becker of KERA's Art&Seek, Chris Kelly of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin & John Wilkes Booth [2010-12-16 12:00:00] How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America's greatest presidents? We'll find out this hour with historian Nora Titone, whose new book is "My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy" (Free Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin & John Wilkes Booth [2010-12-16 12:00:00] How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America's greatest presidents? We'll find out this hour with historian Nora Titone, whose new book is "My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy" (Free Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism [2010-12-15 13:00:00] How did a small desert town on the Persian Gulf become a shining beacon of global capitalism and how has the economic downturn tarnished its image? We'll talk this hour with the former Associated Press Persian Gulf correspondent, Jim Krane. His book "City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism" (Picador, 2010) is now out in paperback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Risk and Resilience in America Today [2010-12-15 12:00:00] How are Americans doing? Where are our strengths and weaknesses and how do we compare to each other and the rest of the world's population? We'll spend this hour with Kristen Lewis, co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of the new report "The Measure of America, 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website English Until the Return of Babel [2010-12-14 13:00:00] Is the English language losing ground globally? Our guest this hour thinks so. We'll speak with Nicholas Ostler, chairman of the Foundation of Endangered Languages and author of the new book "The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel" (Walker & Company, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Theodore Roosevelt, Post-Presidency [2010-12-14 12:00:00] Why was Theodore Roosevelt so influential and famous overseas even after his presidency? We'll discuss the last decade of his life this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris, whose new book is "Colonel Roosevelt" (Random House, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Guide to Making the Best of Foods & Recipes [2010-12-13 13:00:00] What should you really know to be competent in the kitchen? We'll talk to food and cooking science expert Harold McGee this hour. His latest work is the highly-acclaimed "Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes" (The Penguin Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise and Fall of Information Empires [2010-12-13 12:00:00] Who actually owns the internet and all the information that flows freely on the world-wide-web? We'll explore issues surrounding net neutrality this hour with Tim Wu, the Columbia Law Professor and policy advocate who coined the term. His new book is "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires" (Knopf, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origins of Viniculture [2010-12-09 13:00:00] What makes the perfect glass of wine? We'll spend this hour with Dr. Patrick McGovern, Scientific Director of the Penn Museum's Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health. His Dallas Museum of Art Boshell Family Lecture, "Uncorking the Past: The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Origins of Viniculture," takes place this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Health Became the New Morality [2010-12-09 12:00:00] How do our attitudes and judgments about what is healthy affect our actual health? We'll talk this hour with Jonathan M. Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan. He's also the co-editor of the new collection "Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality" (NYU Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Education Round Table [2010-12-08 13:00:00] What are the most important elements in educating our country's youth? We'll discuss three different approaches this hour with Leslie Sharp, Principle of DISD's Julia C. Frazier Elementary School, April Allen, Executive Director of KIPP: Dallas-Fort Worth and Michael Simpson, Head of the Lower School at Greenhill School. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website North Texas in Need [2010-12-08 12:00:00] North Texas may be weathering the current economy better than many U.S. cities, but what's the climate like for those who help the needy in our community? We'll talk this hour with Larry James, President and CEO of City Square, which recently changed its name from Central Dallas Ministries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Perilous Position of Old-Fashioned Journalism [2010-12-07 12:00:00] Is the bell really tolling for print journalism or do newspapers and magazines simply need to rethink their business models? We'll talk this hour with Thomas Frank, Easy Chair Columnist for Harper's Magazine and veteran journalist and author. His inaugural column, "Bright Frenetic Mills," appears in the December, 2010 issue of the magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Aging of the World's Population [2010-12-06 13:00:00] How is the increasing average age of the world's population affecting society and ultimately altering our lives? We'll spend this hour with journalist and writer Ted Fishman, whose new book is "Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation" (Scribner, 2010). Fishman will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth on Tuesday. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A World War II Story of Survival & Redemption [2010-12-06 12:00:00] What does it take to survive the worst the world can dish out and still manage to go on to lead a happy life? We'll hear the remarkable story of Louis Zamperini this hour with author Laura Hillenbrand. Her new book is "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" (Random House, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life of Bill Clinton [2010-12-02 13:00:00] Though he's been out of office for almost a decade, people still wonder what makes Bill Clinton tick. We'll explore the life of the 42nd President this hour with writer and oral historian Michael Takiff whose new book is "A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him" (Yale, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper Health Care [2010-12-02 12:00:00] Why hasn't the U.S. achieved the same kind of universal health care that other industrialized nations instituted long ago? Journalist and author T.R. Reid examined this question and many more in his bestselling book "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care" (Penguin, Paperback, 2010) which is now out in paperback. We'll talk to him this hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Some People Excel Under Pressure & Others Don't [2010-12-01 13:00:00] How do top performers train themselves to succeed under extreme pressure and what can the rest of us learn from them? We'll talk this hour with Paul Sullivan, "Wealth Matters" columnist for The New York Times and author of the new book "Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't" (Portfolio Penguin, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise of America's Prison Empire [2010-12-01 12:00:00] What made Texas the national leader and template for criminal incarceration? We'll talk this hour with Robert Perkinson, professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and author of "Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire" (Picador, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower [2010-11-30 13:00:00] What was retirement like for the great hero of World War II whose presidency marked the start of unprecedented prosperity for Americans? We'll spend this hour with David Eisenhower whose new book is "Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969" (Simons & Schuster, 2010). Eisenhower will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth this evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution [2010-11-30 12:00:00] What will it take to restore habitats, protect migration routes and preserve the planet's necessary predators? We'll talk this hour with writer Caroline Fraser, whose new book is "Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution" (Picador, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Life and Times of Joe Louis [2010-11-29 13:00:00] What was one early 20th Century athlete's influence on sports, culture and African American hopes for racial equality? We'll find out this hour with biographer Randy Roberts, whose new book is "Joe Louis: Hard Times Man" (Yale, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bats [2010-11-29 12:00:00] How important are bats to maintaining a healthy ecosystem and what caused more than a million hibernating bat deaths in the U.S. since 2006? We'll talk this hour with writer David Quammen, whose article "Bat Crash," appears in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: Forty Tales from the Afterlives [2010-11-24 13:00:00] From the archives - Is there any way to prove the existence of the soul? Last summer we talked with David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine and author of the book "Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives" (Vintage, Paperback, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Archives: The Future of the Last Wild Food [2010-11-24 12:00:00] From the archives - What are environmental degradation, fish farming and commercial fishing doing to the wild fish populations in the world's oceans? We talked in July with Paul Greenberg, seafood and ocean authority and author of "Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food" (The Penguin Press, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World War II Berlin [2010-11-23 13:00:00] What was World War II like for the citizens of Hitler's capital city? We'll find out this hour with historian Roger Moorhouse who takes us from the beginning of the conflict in 1939 to the 1945 Allied European victory in his new book "Berlin at War" (Basic Books, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life [2010-11-23 12:00:00] How has the sun influenced science, literature and countless cultures around the world? We'll spend the hour with writer Richard Cohen who traveled the globe researching his new book "Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life" (Random House, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Serious Running [2010-11-22 13:00:00] As the temperature has changed, you might have noticed more and more of them on the roads, in the parks and on the trails of North Texas, training for an upcoming fall race. Running is a big deal here and all over the country. We'll talk this hour about running and what makes runners tick with runner, writer and blogger Chris Cooper, whose new book is "Long May You Run" (Touchstone, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Indian Ocean & the Future of American Power [2010-11-22 12:00:00] How geopolitically important are the Indian Ocean and the countries that surround it? Our guest this hour, Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan, argues for a more complete understanding of the region and its power in the 21st Century and beyond in his new book "Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power" (Random House, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence [2010-11-18 13:00:00] Everyone's seen the photos and films from Dallas in November 1963, but what was it like to be part of President Kennedy's Secret Service team on the day of his tragic assassination? We'll spend this hour with two of those agents, Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin - the journalist who helps tell their story in the new book "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence" (Gallery Books, 2010). Our guests will also speak at The Sixth Flo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Americans Choose War [2010-11-18 12:00:00] Is there a time when war is the right decision? What makes Americans fight? We'll find out this hour with Richard E. Rubenstein, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University and author of the new book "Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War" (Bloomsbury, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception [2010-11-17 13:00:00] What do numbers and statistics really tell us about ourselves and our country, and how vulnerable are these data to manipulation? We'll find out this hour with NYU journalism professor Charles Seife, author of the new book "Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception" (Viking, 2010). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Web