Hour 2: This hour we’ll speak with Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondent, about her time covering the Supreme Court.

Hour 1: Research suggests that locking up more people has not served the social function intended. We’ll speak with Natasha A. Frost, Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, about America’s incarceration problems.

Hour 2: For many overweight people, being fat is part of their identity. So what happens when all of the sudden the weight’s gone? We’ll talk this hour to Alexandra Lescaze, director of the Independent Lens documentary All of Me, which looks at a tight-knit group of Austin women struggling with the fallout from weight-loss surgery. All of […]

Hour 2: Judith Baker, curator of “Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine” at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, joins us to talk about the intersection of food and art.

Hour 1: We’ll explore the current questions that face our schools this hour with UCLA professor Mike Rose, author of Why School?: Reclaiming Education For All Of Us.

Hour 2: This hour we’ll learn just how smart birds are with Noah Strycker, author of The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Human Beings.

Hour 2: Local stem-cell research is shining a light on aging. We’ll speak this hour with Dr. Sean Morrison, professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and director of the Children’s Research Institute.

Hour 1: Why are we so fixated on caffeine? We’ll explore the question with Murray Carpenter, author of Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Help, Hurts, and Hooks Us.