This hour, we’ll talk about questions over the way proposed social studies textbooks in Texas may teach culture and religion with a pair of SMU professors who testified about the books before the State Board of Education – Kathleen Wellman of the history department and David Brockman, who teaches religious studies.
This hour, we’ll talk about how our brains process fear – and why it can override our intellects – with Dr. Alicia Meuret, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center at SMU; and Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, Chair of UT-Southwestern’s Mental Health Department.
We’ll talk this hour about how we can reclaim the art of prose with Steven Pinker, author of The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.
This hour, we’ll talk to Timothy Denevi about how he ultimately learned to live with the disorder, which he writes about in Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Greg Abbott and State Senator Wendy Davis took part in The Texas Debates: Race for Governor – a live state-wide debate originating from KERA. This hour, we’ll talk about what we learned and how the campaigns are positioned going forward with KERA’s Shelley Kofler, Gromer Jeffers of The Dallas Morning News and Norma Garcia of Telemundo 39.
The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. was found Tuesday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. This hour, we’ll talk about what North Texans need to know about the disease with UT-Southwestern infectious disease specialist Dr. Robert Haley.
We’ll talk this hour about how we can better serve our teachers with Dana Goldstein. She writes about the past, present and future of education in The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession.
This hour, we’ll talk to Christopher Kimball of America’s Test Kitchen about food trends – and about taking a scientific approach to cooking.
This hour, we’ll learn how we can better interact with the most self-centered among us with the author of The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed — In Your World.
This hour, we’ll explore the phenomenon of Afghan parents dressing their girls as boys with the author of The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan.
