This hour, we’ll talk about how focusing on the obstacles that stand in our way can help us to overcome them with NYU psychology professor Gabriele Oettingen, author of Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation.
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Human Bodies: Then And Now
We’ll talk this hour with Daniel Lieberman, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. His new book is “The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease.”
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Life After Death
This hour, we’ll talk about the moral and sociological ramifications of bringing people back to life with Dr. David Casarett, associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
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The Pot Debate
We’ll talk this hour about how marijuana affects individuals and society with University of Texas at Dallas researchers Dr. Francesca Filbey and Dr. Robert Morris.
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For Parkinson's Patients, A Path To Speech
As part of KERA’s Breakthrough’s series, we’ll talk this hour with speech-language pathologist Samantha Elandry of the Parkinson Voice Project about how Parkinson’s patients are being taught to speak again.
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On The Brain
This hour, we’ll explore how neurosurgeons had to experiment with different procedures to get to where we are with modern neuroscience with author Sam Kean.
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The Limits Of Science
We’ll talk this hour about how far science can take us with Dartmouth College theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser. His new book is “The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning.”
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Science Behind The Bar
This hour, we’ll talk to Adam Rogers about the biology, chemistry and physics behind alcohol, which he writes about in his book, “Proof: The Science of Booze.”
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