Rethinking The Bomb
August 13, 2015We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
This hour, we’ll talk about how to keep the population manageable with Robert Walker, CEO of Population Media Center and author of the new report “Demographic Vulnerability: Where the Population Growth Poses the Greatest Challenge.”
We’ll talk specifically about what extensive body art says about the women who chose the look with Siena College sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson.
We’ll talk to Dr. Sandeep Jauhar about how the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and government policies are affecting patient care, which he writes about in Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician.
We’ll talk about how the dreams of a brilliant student were ultimately crushed by the life he tried to leave behind with Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.
We’ll talk about the scientists who are exploring new ways of producing food with Joel K. Bourne, author of The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World.
How does the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and the like fuel global inequality? We’ll talk about the topic with the author of The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
We’ll talk about how we beat out all other animals to become the planet’s dominant species with Curtis W. Marean, associate director of Arizona State’s Institute of Human Origins.
We’ll get to know the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio a little better with Robert Draper, whose book with photographer David Yoder is called Pope Francis and the New Vatican.
We’ll talk about whether a “gay voice” exists – and if it does, why? – with filmmaker David Thorpe, whose documentary Do I Sound Gay opens this weekend at the Texas Theatre.