How is depression diagnosed? Psychologist Gary Greenberg volunteered for a study on mild depression and was quite surprised, after examination, to be diagnosed with major depression. He writes about the experience in his current Harper’s Magazine cover story “Manufacturing Depression: A Journey into the Economy of Melancholy.” We’ll talk with him this hour.
We probably all know someone who has used assisted reproductive technology to have a child. According to journalist Liza Mundy, rising infertility rates and the reliance on technology to conceive are changing our conceptions of the American family. We’ll examine the changing reproductive landscape this hour with Mundy, whose new book is “Everything Conceivable: How […]
Now the President and CEO of Texas Instruments, Rich Templeton has been credited with focusing the technology company on semiconductors and away from diversification.
There have been many comparisons of the current conflict in Iraq with America’s Vietnam adventure which ended officially almost 32 years ago. But how do the experiences differ for the soldiers? Dr. Charles Moskos, professor emeritus of sociology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is one of the foremost military sociologists in the world. He’ll […]
Children’s Medical Center Dallas and the Coalition for North Texas Children recently released “Beyond ABC: Growing Up in Dallas County,” a 15-year comprehensive analysis of 58 indicators that measure the well-being of the more than 675,000 children in Dallas County in relation to health, education, safety and security. We’ll discuss the report this hour with […]
Do African Americans and Native Americans share a similar experience? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Tiya Alicia Miles, Assistant Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Miles will receive the Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture at the Dallas […]
Imagine being banished along with your entire community to a veritable wasteland 1200 miles away from home. It happened to sixteen Inuit families from Hudson Bay in 1953 when the Canadian Government moved them to barren and frozen Ellesmere Island. We’ll hear their story this hour with Melanie McGrath, author of “The Long Exile: A […]
Is the United States of America still a worthy nation? In spite of rancor between the political parties and divisive foreign and domestic policies, Senator Bill Bradley thinks so. We’ll explore his vision of the common good as laid out in his new book “The New American Story” (Random House, 2007).
We often think of ourselves as the masters of the natural world. However, according to Princeton Professor James R. Gould and science writer Carol Grant Gould, the dwelling constructions of animals point to a level of cognition beyond instinct and perhaps even a concept of beauty. We’ll examine the animal mind this hour with James […]
What does it take to be happy? For 74-year-old David Pearlman, A.K.A. Poppa Neutrino, the essentials of happiness are Freedom, Joy and Art. In addition to philosophy and many other pursuits, Neutrino has dedicated his life to making rafts out of garbage – one of which he used to cross the Atlantic Ocean We’ll talk […]
