Is the use and abuse of your personal information a constant, undeniable worry? We’ll explore the way privacy functions on the virtual frontier and in our everyday lives with Christena Nippert-Eng, whose new book is “Islands of Privacy” (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
If having mixed feelings about motherhood is a social taboo, how can women deal with powerful fears of pregnancy or negative thoughts about their own children? We’ll talk this hour with Barbara Almond, Stanford University psychotherapist and author of the book “The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood” (University of California Press, 2010).
Does bountiful farming require a vast outdoor plot of land, or could agricultural systems thrive in a high-rise city building? We’ll spend this hour with Columbia University microbiologist Dickson Despommier, whose new book is “The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010).
What philosophical factors determine our relationship to nature? We’ll spend this hour with Richard Galvin and John Harris of TCU’s Department of Philosophy. They will deliver a lecture this week on “Moral Standing and the Environment” as part of TCU’s Sustainability Lecture Series.
Do the great oceans of the world have their own unique biographies? We’ll spend this hour with Simon Winchester, whose new book is “Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories” (HarperCollins, 2010).
What was Texas like when it was still wild – just after independence in the mid 19th Century? Journalist S.C. Gwynne tells the legendary story of the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and its consequences in his highly-acclaimed new book “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of […]
Who were the titans, engineers, and test pilots racing to deliver the world’s first transatlantic passenger jet? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Sam Howe Verhovek, author of the new book “Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World” (Penguin, 2010).
