We’ll talk about how we beat out all other animals to become the planet’s dominant species with Curtis W. Marean, associate director of Arizona State’s Institute of Human Origins.
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The Gangster Gat
We’ll talk about John Thompson’s original intent for the submachine gun – and the ongoing debate it sparked – with Dallas author Karen Blumenthal, author of Tommy: The Gun That Changed America.
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Unthinkable Racism In Recent History
A young Congolese man was included in an anthropology exhibit at the World’s Fair before being put on display in the New York Zooligical Gardens’ Monkey House – at the turn of the 20th century,
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The Origins Of Middle East Unrest
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.
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A Legendary Journalist Looks Back
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/6b165848-480d-4d9b-a054-a683ea7dfa55/KERA_Think_06-10-15_HR_2.mp3 North Texas news junkies know Bob Ray Sanders as a popular columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And viewers of a certain age may also remember his work as a television reporter for KERA’s Newsroom. Sanders has decided to retire, and this hour, we’ll look back with him at his life and work.
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Music And Liberation
Pianist Mona Golabek writes about how her mother narrowly escaped the Nazis of war-torn Vienna in ‘The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival.’
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Nuances Of Evolution
This hour, we’ll talk about how we got to now with American Museum of Natural History curator Ian Tattersall.
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Finding Constants In A Changing Constitution
What would the Founding Fathers think of our interpretation of the Constitution? We’ll ask the question to Carol Berkin, professor of history at Baruch College and author of ‘The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties.’
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Reviewing Reagan
Ronald Reagan guided the U.S. through the last days of the Cold War and ushered in a new breed of conservatism that still reverberates today. We’ll take inventory of his legacy this hour with biographer H.W. Brands.
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A Full Inventory Of Our 44th Presidency
We’ll spend this hour with David Bromwich, whose essay in the June issue of Harper’s is “What Went Wrong: Assessing Obama’s Legacy.”
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Running From The Nazis, Together
It took Anthony Doerr 10 years to write his novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in exile during the Nazi occupation in France. He won a Pulitzer for it.
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How NASA Helped End Segregation
While NASA’s primary mission in the 1960s was to go to the moon, it also wanted to improve the economy and use its program for social change.
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