Was the Boston Tea Party really about taxation or just a cunning ploy for political power? We’ll find out this hour with Harlow Giles Unger, author of “American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution” (Da Capo, 2011).
What does it take to become a successful chef? We’ll talk with Gabrielle Hamilton, author and chef/owner of New York City’s Prune restaurant. Her new memoir is “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef” (Random House, 2011).
What happens when nearly thirty thousand plastic animals spill from a freighter in the North Pacific? We’ll talk with Donovan Hohn, whose new book is “Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them” (Viking, 2011).
From the archives: How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America’s greatest presidents? We’ll find out this hour with historian Nora Titone, whose new book is “My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy” (Free Press, 2010).
Is there a better brain in your future? What if it involves a machine augmentation? We’ll explore the possibilities this hour with Miguel Nicolelis, the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University and founder of Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering. His new book is “Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines—and […]
What drives the best and worst of human nature? We’ll discuss probable causes of our triumphs and failures this hour with Malcolm Potts, Professor and Chair of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of the book “Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism […]
What’s happening at the “fringes” of our planet’s habitable space and what can we learn of our future from the most extreme environments on Earth? We’ll talk this hour with traveler and writer Sara Wheeler, whose new book is “The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle” (FSG, 2011).
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 11, 2011 DALLAS/FORT WORTH – KERA-FM 90.1 is pleased to announce the receipt of three 2011 Texas Associated Press Broadcasters (TAPB) Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2011 TAPB convention on Saturday, April 16, 2011, at the Dallas Marriott Quorum. Judges awarded KERA first place honors for its commentary, […]
How will local school districts be affected by looming state budget cuts? We’ll discuss likely scenarios with education reporters Tawnell Hobbs of the Dallas Morning News and Eva-Marie Ayala of the Star-Telegram. What can a comic teach us about teaching? Robert Wuhl, best known as the star of HBO’s “Arli$$,” is coming to Addison for […]
What makes Texas Texas? We’ll spend this hour with Don Graham, the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin and the state’s leading book critic on all things Texas. His new collection of essays is called “State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents” (UT […]
