The Dallas Cowboys might not have made the playoffs, but will North Texas triumph as host of Super Bowl XLV? We’ll talk with Fort Worth Star-Telegram business columnist Mitchell Schnurman about the potential economic impact – and probable advertising spectacle – of America’s biggest day in sports holding court next month at Cowboys Stadium. In […]
What would you pay to keep your favorite pet forever? We’ll explore the possible future world of pet cloning this hour with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Woestendiek, author of the new book “Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man’s Best Friend” (Avery, 2011).
How does a leader unite a divided country when political rancor is business as usual? We’ll examine of the most powerful such moments in American history this hour with author Thurston Clarke. His book “Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America” (Penguin, Paperback, 2010) has just been re-released […]
How are those New Years resolutions coming? We’ll discuss why it’s so hard for us to resist overeating, drinking, smoking and more this hour with journalist and author Daniel Akst, whose new book is “We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess” (The Penguin Press, 2011).
Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America’s greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” (Viking, 2011).
How were scientific study and the Church related at the turn of the first millennium? We’ll spend this hour with science writer and medievalist Nancy Marie Brown, author of the new book “The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages” (Basic Books, 2010).
Just how powerful is fear as a motivator in our modern society? We’ll examine the impact of the now completely repudiated late 1990s vaccine and autism scare this hour with Vanity Fair contributing editor Seth Mnookin, whose new book is “The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear” (Simon & Schuster, 2011).
What does it take to travel the world as a photographer? We’ll spend this hour with Annie Griffiths, one of the first women photographers to work for National Geographic. Griffiths speaks this evening at the Brinker International Forum Lecture Series at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
What might this year’s predicted 7 billion population milestone mean for planet earth? We’ll find out this hour with Robert Kunzig, National Geographic’s senior editor for the environment. His cover story “Population 7 Billion” appears in the January, 2011 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Should society do more to stop the bullying of homosexual, lesbian, and transgender teens? We’ll discuss ways to protect gay youth with Fort Worth city councilman Joel Burns of the It Gets Better campaign and Sam Wilkes of Youth First Texas. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with violinist Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, the […]
