Will there ever be a cure for the common cold? We’ll talk this hour with author and scientist Jennifer Ackerman who examines the virus, remedies that help and some that might actually make you feel worse in her new book “Ah-Choo: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold” (Twelve, 2010).

What is your body doing right now? We’ll find out this hour with journalist Jennifer Ackerman, who’s new book is “Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body” (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).