Helen De Cruz, Danforth Chair in the humanities and a professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, Missouri, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how wonder pushes us to explore the world around us, leads us to love more fully and helps us to get the most out of our brains.
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Brian Hare, a professor of evolutionary anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, joins us to talk about how sharing and caring led early humans to evolve past their rivals.
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MIT economics professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo join us to talk about building a more humane world through rethinking the exchange of goods and services.
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Paleoanthropologist professor Lee Berger and Director of the Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey Becca Peixotto join us to discuss the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science exhibition.
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Nicholas A. Christakis, director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, joins us to explain how for thousands of years we’ve actually evolved to co-exist in greater harmony.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the ethics of changing who we are – and about how these technologies could redefine what it is to be human – with Vanderbilt history professor Michael Bess, author of “Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about the long-term effects of man’s interjection into nature with Jared Farmer, author of Trees in Paradise: A California History. Farmer is in town to accept the Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
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