When is it appropriate to answer that cell phone and when is it not? What is the proper way to behave in a checkout line or at an ATM? What about eating in public? Thomas Blaikie has literally written the rule book on proper behavior in today’s fast-paced society. We’ll spend this hour with the […]
How do young people view the world through the lens of war? We’ll discuss “Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries From World War I to Iraq” (Penguin, 2006) with the co-editors, best-selling Bosnian war diarist Zlata Filipovic’ (fill-i-POE-vich) and writer and activist Melanie Challenger.
Everyone understands that post-disaster housing is an issue worth discussing, but the time to have the conversation is before a disaster ever occurs. We’ll discuss the challenges of housing displaced people this hour with Dr. Paul Oliver, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Editor of the “Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World.” Dr. […]
How do you know you can trust someone? How does your brain know? We’ll discuss the issue of trust and how the brain plays a role with Dr. Richard King Clinical Assistant Professor of Cognition and Neuroscience at UTD’s Center for Brain Health. Dr. King will deliver the first lecture, “The Decision to Trust: Clues […]
Today we’ll once again turn to professional help for a two-hour special discussion of grammar and usage with language and grammar expert Bryan Garner. Garner is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including “Garner’s Modern American Usage,” “The Elements of Legal Style” and “A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage.” He is also […]
Everyone agrees that immigration is one of the biggest issues facing North Texas and the nation today. D Magazine Senior Editor Rod Davis will join us this hour to discuss what he found out about the influx of immigrants, both documented and undocumented and that they’re essential to the area’s economic growth. Davis’ cover story […]
Is school segregation worse today than it was 50 years ago? Journalist Susan Eaton thinks it is. Eaton spent four years at an all-minority public school in Hartford Connecticut and maintains that schools are poorer and growing more segregated every year. Susan Eaton will join us this hour to discuss the situation and her new […]
Can the brain continue to change and grow, even as we age? According to Wall Street Journal science columnist, Sharon Begley, Western science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism can combine to retrain and even re-grow parts of the brain. Begley will join us this hour to discuss her new book “Train Your Mind, Change […]
In December, NASA announced plans to return to the moon by 2020. How will this ambitious goal be accomplished and what will a moon base look like? We’ll spend this hour with Scott Horowitz, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems.
What is it like to be orphaned by civil war, driven from your home and forced to cross a desert and an ocean to survive and ultimately make a new life? We’ll spend this hour with John Bul Dau, one of the “Lost Boys” of Sudan who now makes his home in Syracuse, New York. […]
