Does short-term thinking kill off transformative innovation? Roberta B. Ness, Dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health and Vice President for Innovation at the University of Texas Health Science Center, thinks there’s another way to see things new: actually reinvent science.
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A filmmaker tells his story of becoming a criminal and revisiting his past to figure out why he broke bad.
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This hour, we’ll get a better understanding of one of nature’s most destructive phenomena with experts featured in the new IMAX film Tornado Alley.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how our minds process moving images – and are often tricked in the process – with Washington University psychology professor Jeffrey M. Zacks. His new book is Flicker: Your Brain on Movies
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This hour, we’ll get to know the man who left slavery behind and became a leading voice for civil rights with SMU professor Ezra Greenspan, author of William Wells Brown: An African American Life.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and their contemporaries have gone from social outcasts to titans of industry with the author of Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth.
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Next week, the Texas House and Senate convene in Austin for 84th Legislature. This hour, we’ll get a preview of the issues our state government will tackle with Erica Grieder of Texas Monthly.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the importance of nurturing learning in the first year of life with science writer Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, who covers the topic in the current issue of National Geographic.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how humans developed the concept of friendship as a tool for survival with the author of A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait.
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This hour, we’ll talk about Earth’s most important bird with the author of Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization.
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This hour, we’ll learn how money and politics became fast friends in the Texas sun with Alan Peppard of The Dallas Morning News. His three-part series, “Islands of the Oil Kings,” concludes in this Sunday’s paper.
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This hour, we’ll talk about why Millennials are more inclined to rent, borrow and share the necessities of life with Leslie Bradshaw, a managing partner with innovation company Made by Many and a researcher for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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