Culture | Think - Part 103

How Identical Twins Became Fraternal

July 27, 2015 Culture

Imagine being separated at birth from your identical twin and raised alongside your assumed fraternal twin. That’s exactly what happened to four infants in Colombia.

The Life Of A Speechwriter

July 23, 2015 Culture, Politics

We’ll talk about the process of populating all those TelePrompters with Barton Swaim, a one-time speechwriter for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

The Two-Dad Dynamic

July 20, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk this hour about two-dad households with Aaron Goodfellow, author of Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship.

We’ll talk with Tracy Slater about leaving America to live across the Pacific with the man she fell in love with, which she writes about in her memoir, The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World.

Serious Taco Talk

July 14, 2015 Culture

The history and future of the taco in Dallas – and where the best ones can be found.

The Legacy of Dadaism

July 8, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk about the lasting legacy of Dadaism with Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century.

Scandinavians Have Problems, Too

July 6, 2015 Culture

Are Scandinavians really as content as we’re lead to believe? Michael Booth, author of ‘The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia,’ dissects the illusion.

Native Vision

July 6, 2015 Culture

The exhibition “Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection” brings 120 artworks from tribes across North America to the Amon Carter in Fort Worth.

One Radio Host, Two Dancers

July 2, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk with ‘This American Life’ host Ira Glass and dancer Monica Bill Barnes about their hybrid performance project.

The Evolution Of Television News

July 2, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk about the line between news and entertainment – and if the nightly news is still relevant – with Charles Ponce de Leon, author of That’s the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America.

The Origins Of Middle East Unrest

June 29, 2015 Culture, History

We’ll travel back in time a little more than a century with filmmaker Ben Loeterman to talk about how things turned sour, the subject of his film 1913: Seeds of Conflict.

Career Roulette

June 25, 2015 Culture

We’ll talk about why you might be sorry in playing it safe at work with Anne Kreamer, author of “Risk/Reward: Why Intelligent Leaps and Daring Choices are the Best Career Moves You Can Make.”