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 […]
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).
Almost seven decades later, tales of Nazi atrocities and personal experiences of the Holocaust are still coming to light. We’ll hear one such story this hour, with Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at UTD and author of “When the Danube Ran […]
From the archives: We all know the adage about necessity being the mother of invention, but are there ways to increase the occurrence of our collective eureka moments? We examined the phenomenon of innovation in October with Steve Johnson, author of “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” (Riverhead Books, 2010).
From the archives: What will it take to finally eliminate bias against the poor and people of color in the American criminal justice system? We spent an hour in September with Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative Alabama.
How did the United States transform itself from a largely agrarian economy to a powerhouse on the world stage and how did it happen so fast? We’ll spend this hour with H.W. Brands, the Dickson, Allen, Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas in Austin and author of the new book “American […]
How did a working-class English lad evolve into an Oscar-winning filmmaker? We’ll talk this hour with Danny Boyle, director of “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Trainspotting,” and the upcoming “127 Hours,” which opened last November.
