How will our use and ownership of goods and services need to change if society is to move toward a more sustainable model? We’ll spend this hour with collaboration expert Rachel Botsman, co-author of the new book “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption” (HarperBusiness, 2010).
Can our cities be functional, sustainable and aesthetically inspiring places to live and work? We’ll talk this hour with Sarah Whiting, Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University and principal of WW Architecture. Whiting is in town to judge the 2010 AIA Dallas Design Awards.
On a special Best-of-Think program this hour, we’ll revisit conversations from earlier this year with Julie Hersch, who tells the story of her struggle with depression and suicide in her book “Struck by Living” (Brown Books, 2010) and Jerre Tracy, who works to preserve endangered local historic places as Executive Director of Historic Fort Worth.
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’ll explore their stories this hour with acclaimed historian of the ancient world Adrian Goldsworthy, whose new book is “Antony and Cleopatra” (Yale University Press, 2010).
Do typos drive you nuts, especially when you see them on signs, t-shirts, billboards and elsewhere? If so, you’re not alone. Our guests this hour are Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, authors of the new book “The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time” (Harmony, 2010).
Is the search for a unified theory a misguided effort? We’ll talk this hour with physicist and science writer Leonard Mlodinow, co-author with Stephen Hawking of the new book “The Grand Design” (Bantam, 2010).
Where are the stories of young African-Americans in modern-day America? We’ll spend this hour with writer Danielle Evans whose debut story collection is “Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self” (Riverhead, 2010).
Is the damage to the Gulf worse than we’ve been led to believe? We’ll talk this hour with Mother Jones Magazine environmental correspondent Julia Whitty. Her current cover story is “BP’s Deep Secrets” and her recent book is “Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
Legendary oil man Boone Pickens joins host Lee Cullum for a revealing conversation spanning a colorful 60-year career.
What roles have carbon, silicon, neon, gold and other elements played in human history? We’ll explore these and other tales this hour with science writer Sam Kean, whose new book is “The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements” (Little, […]
