This hour, we’ll talk about our blood supply – how it’s managed, why some people can donate when others can’t and about whether we’re equipped to mobilize mass blood drives in an emergency.
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The History Of Lithium
This hour, we’ll talk about how scientists learned to use lithium most effectively – and about its strong Texas ties – with University of Toronto psychiatry professor Dr. Edward Shorter.
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The Life Of An Activist
This hour, we’ll talk to Jody Williams about what it takes to be an effective activist. Her memoir is called “My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize.”
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Building More Livable Cities
This hour, we’ll talk about how redesigned crosswalks, bike lanes and parks are making urban centers more livable with the author of “Street-Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.”
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The Brains Of Big Stars
This hour, we’ll take what we’ve learned about how the mind works and revisit some of history’s most intriguing figures with science writer Claudia Kalb, author of “Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History’s Great Personalities.”
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Best Of Think: Football And Brain Injury
This week, the NFL for the first time admitted a link between concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). This hour, we’ll listen back to our December conversation with Jeanne Marie Laskas about her book “Concussion.”
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Life After The Storm
This hour, as part of the KERA series “One Crisis Away: Rebuilding a Life,” we’ll talk about how to recover from trauma with Jeff Quan, a counselor at Eastfield College, and Dr. Ann Marie Warren, staff psychologist at Baylor University Medical Center.
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Pole Dancing Goes Public
This hour, we’ll talk about the corporatization of what was once an underground industry with Yale University dance instructor Jessica Berson, author of “The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business.”
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Medical Marijuana And Epilepsy
This hour, we’ll talk about the the drug’s potential to help people who suffer from frequent seizures with a Fort Worth doctor studying the possibility.
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Compensation for College Athletes
This hour, we’ll talk about the level that college athletes should share in the money they help to generate with “New York Times” columnist Joe Nocera.
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Gene Editing And Muscular Distrophy
This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of applying gene editing techniques to humans in order to stop Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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How Criticism Can Improve Our Lives
This hour, we’ll talk with A.O. Scott, film critic for “The New York Times”, about his approach to writing reviews – and about criticism’s role in fostering creativity – which he writes about in “Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth”.
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