The History Of Hanging
August 28, 2014This hour, we’ll talk with the author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
This hour, we’ll talk with the author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
We’ll talk this hour about why it’s still valuable to look someone in the eye with developmental psychologist Susan Pinker, author of The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 27, 2014 DALLAS/FORT WORTH — A stellar collection of homegrown documentaries, feature films and video shorts premieres this September on KERA, the public broadcasting station for North Texas. On Thursday, September 4 at 10 p.m., KERA TV will premiere the first full season of Frame of Mind, a series of Texas-made independent […]
We’ll talk this hour about how we can better teach children with ADHD, dyslexia and other challenges with David Flink, who writes about the topic in Thinking Differently: An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities.
Sarah Varney discusses the love lives of obese and overweight people, which she writes about in XL Love: How the Obesity Crisis Is Complicating America’s Love Life.
Hoomad Mjad joins us this hour to talk about his memoir, The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran.
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson examines the language of food.
This hour, we talk to sociologist Heather Laine Talley about those affected by facial disfigurement and the politics of appearance.
We’ll talk to Michael Morton this hour about what it was like to spend a quarter century in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, which he writes about in his memoir, Getting Life: An Innocent Man’s 25-Year Journey from Prison to Peace.
This hour, we’ll take a trip 35 million miles from Earth with science writer Marc Kaufman, author of “Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission.”