Hour 1: Is there a solution to our overloaded criminal justice system? Our guest this hour, criminologist and former Baltimore City police officer, Peter Moskos thinks so. He ponders the possibility of offering quick and severe physical punishment to criminals as an alternative to incarceration in his new book “In Defense of Flogging” (Basic Books, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/35e9e5af-9b91-4ee1-ad42-2043e34b208a/KERA_Think_06-22-11_HR_1.mp3
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Hour 2: What’s leading the trend toward smaller and one-child families in the Unites States and why are many women deciding to become single parents? We’ll talk this hour with social psychologist Susan Newman. Her new book is “The Case for the Only Child: Your Essential Guide” (HCI, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/81a3b896-bdd3-440c-bf5b-313f3cc4a2f0/KERA_Think_06-21-11_HR_2.mp3
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Hour 1: Seventeen years after the end of Apartheid, what’s the status of our country’s relationship with South Africa and how is the country expanding its role in African politics? We’ll spend this hour with His Excellency Ebrahim Rasool, Ambassador of South Africa to the United States. Ambassador Rasool is in town for an event with the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/8d8e3da9-42f4-4a3c-89ca-d8959c3a44a8/KERA_Think_06-21-11_HR_1.mp3
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Hour 2: How will the developing-world pressure to have a male child and the rising economic status of these developing countries jeopardize the gender balance of society in the years to come? We’ll talk this hour with Mara Hvistendahl, a Beijing-based correspondent for Science and author of the new book “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men” (PublicAffairs, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/ef347f98-c8a3-4057-a2b0-a7b2dfcbd8d1/KERA_Think_06-20-11_HR_2.mp3
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Hour 1: What impact do honeybees and beekeepers have on agriculture in America? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Hannah Nordhaus who examines the industry through the experiences of commercial beekeeper Jim Miller in her book “The Beekeeper’s Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America” (Harper Perennial, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/a7f29279-66b9-4590-a02c-756ee49dedac/KERA_Think_06-20-11_HR_1.mp3
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Hour 2: What is the most common form of life on earth? We’ll explore the incredible realm of viruses this hour with acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer. His new book is “A Planet of Viruses” (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/137231407/KERA_137231407.mp3
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Hour 1: What do we really need to know to be responsible caregivers for loved ones and friends? We’ll talk this hour with Gail Sheehy who writes about successfully navigating the 8 stages of caring in her book “Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence” (Harper Paperbacks, 2011) which is now out in paperback. https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/59fdd60d-fd0d-433f-bba7-162b1a05811b/KERA_Think_06-16-11_HR_1.mp3
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Hour 2: Where do the big, game-changing ideas originate? We’ll discuss how people like Steve Jobs, Chris Rock, Frank Gehry and others share similar methodologies this hour with Peter Sims, author of “Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries” (Free Press, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/522e6f9c-7a10-4972-8240-38cc692b8d54/KERA_Think_06-15-11_HR_2.mp3
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Hour 1: What causes giant ocean waves and why would someone intentionally try to surf a 100-footer? We’ll talk this hour with journalist and O, The Oprah Magazine editor in chief Susan Casey whose new book is “The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean” (Anchor Books, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/46fed47f-7130-4ab5-9136-33c30ed7329d/KERA_Think_06-15-11_HR_1.mp3
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Hour 2: Could Playboy magazine be more than a collection of pin-ups and top-notch articles, interviews and fiction? Our guest this hour thinks so. We’ll discuss Playboy as a positive force for feminism with University of West Georgia historian Carrie Pitzulo, author of the new book “Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy” (University Of Chicago Press, 2011). http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/137182639/KERA_137182639.mp3
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Hour 1: How do you know if someone is disturbed? Could they be a psychopath? We’ll explore the bizarre world of psychopaths, the doctors who study them and the penal systems that incarcerate and try to treat them this hour with Jon Ronson, whose new book is “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry” (Riverhead Books, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/d0068d4d-1009-4fbd-9c52-676dbbfa022a/KERA_Think_06-14-11_HR_1.mp3
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Hour 2: Where did the Cold War almost become a real war? We’ll revisit the rise of the Berlin Wall and the tense beginning of a decades-long U.S./Soviet conflict this hour with Frederick Kempe, journalist and president and CEO of the Atlantic Council. His new book is “Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth” (Putnam, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/1cce2fab-1fc8-4c44-8a32-14429281bac1/KERA_Think_06-13-11_HR_2.mp3
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