How is the economic downturn affecting Texas and what does the future hold? Kathleen Cooper, Senior Fellow at SMU’s Tower Center, Mine Yucel, Senior Economist and Vice President at the Federal Reserve of Dallas and William Wallace, Adjunct Professor of Economics at UNT will join us to preview their Thursday panel discussion at the Dallas […]
What does astrophysics mean to you? We’ll discuss life, the universe and everything else this hour with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who’ll speak to UTA’s Maverick Speakers Series tonight and Bishop Dunne Catholic School’s 2009 GeoTech Conference next month.
It’s popular political fodder on both sides of the aisle, but what exactly is the Reagan legacy and how does it impact politics today? We’ll spend this hour with journalist Will Bunch, whose new book is “Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future” (Free Press, 2009).
With trends in eco-cuisine and a simultaneous resurgence of comfort food, where is the culinary industry headed these days? We’ll talk this hour with Amy Albert, Senior Associate Editor of Bon App??tit. She’s in town to judge in this year’s Dallas Morning News Wine Competition which takes place this week. Winning wines will be featured […]
How should photographers challenge their audience and how has the practice of photography progressed in the last several decades? We’ll talk this evening with one of the agents of that change – artist Barbara Crane. Her groundbreaking work from the last 25 years can be seen in “Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision,” which is on exhibit […]
For almost 40 years, no other show has delighted kids and parents like Sesame Street. How did it get started and why has the show lasted so long? Television critic Michael Davis will join us this hour to discuss his new book, “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street” (Viking, 2008).
We all need sleep to make it through the day, but are there other benefits of getting that important shut-eye? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Matt Walker, who’ll lecture at UTD’s The Brain: An Owner’s Guide BrainHealth Lecture Series on Tuesday, February 17th.
Will the U.S. Government, under a new administration, finally be able to solve the health-care issues that have trouble so many Americans? We’ll talk this hour with Luke Mitchell, Senior Editor for Harper’s Magazine and author of the current piece “Sick in the Head: Why America Won’t Get the Health-Care System it Needs.”
What followed the so-called “great leap forward” in human civilization and was that really the end of biological evolution in human beings? We’ll explore the subject this hour with Gregory Cochran, physicist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah and co-author of the new book “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated […]
If you had to flee your homeland in order to have a life free from government persecution, how would you do it? We’ll spend this hour with journalist Tom O’Neill, whose story “Escape from North Korea” appears in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine.
