Which scene or incident in American History would you have liked to witness first hand…Pre-Columbian Cahokia; Harpers Ferry; The Scopes Trial? We’ll spend this hour with Byron Hollinshead who has edited the new collection “I Wish I’d Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America” (Doubleday, 2006). I Wish I’d Been […]
What can we expect from the newly nominated Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates? We’ll spend this hour with Texas Monthly Senior Executive Editor Paul Burka, who profiled Gates for the November issue of Texas Monthly. Can This Guy Save the Aggies? Robert Gates to the Rescue appears in the November issue of Texas Monthly Magazine.
Is scientific research on human subjects necessary? What are the ethical considerations? Is there a risk of exploitation of research volunteers? Dr. Rosamond Rhodes, professor of Medical Education and director of Bioethics Education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, will deliver the UTD Public Forum lecture “Rethinking Research Ethics” this evening. We’ll get a […]
You hear her on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! You’ve seen her on television. But what’s it like to be Paula Poundstone? Find out this hour as she joins us to discuss her career and her new book “There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say” (Harmony Books, 2006), in which she profiles historical […]
What is the good life? Why are some people happy when others are not? Dr. Mark Hebert, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Austin College, will join us to discuss recent research into positive psychology. He’ll also discuss the topic with the Dallas Philosopher’s Forum tomorrow night. Dr. Mark Hebert will speak to the Dallas Philosopher’s […]
Why does music play such an important role in our culture? According to former record producer and AandR agent for Columbia Records, Daniel Levitin, the interaction of music and the brain leads to thoughts, feelings, hopes, desires, love and the experience of beauty. Levitin, who now runs the Levitin Laboratory for Musical Perception, Cognition, and […]
What are your favorite television shows this season? Do you have opinions on music and the news? Do you still read the paper? Our guest this hour deals with all these topics on his (relatively) new blog unclebarky.com. He’s none other than Ed Bark, who after 26 years as the television critic at the Dallas […]
According to the cover story on the current issue of Mother Jones Magazine, humans must “evolve or die.” How that evolution will occur is ultimately up to each of us. We’ll speak this hour with writer Julia Whitty who’s article “The Thirteenth Tipping Point” examines climate change and possible strategies to deal with it. The […]
Yesterday was Election Day and the voters have decided. Who won and what can be determined by the outcome here in North Texas and across the country? We’ll spend this hour with UTA Professor Allan Saxe, Dallas Morning News Editorial Page Editor Keven Willey and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Bob Ray Sanders.
Erik Larson has a knack for creating incredibly vivid accounts of little-known or entirely-forgotten historical events that seem obscure to modernity. He recreated the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair in “The Devil in the White City” and he’s given a 1902 murder in London the same treatment in his latest work. Erik Larson will join us […]
