We’ll talk about what might be causing these frequent tremors – and whether we should be worried – with SMU seismologists Dr. Brian Stump and Dr. Heather DeShon.
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The Future Of Science
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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Inside The Criminal Mind
A filmmaker tells his story of becoming a criminal and revisiting his past to figure out why he broke bad.
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Tracking A Twister
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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The Mind And The Moving Image
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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A Voice For Civil Rights
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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Nerd Nation
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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Texas Legislature Preview
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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Infant Education
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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The Buddy System
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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Chickens In Charge
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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Oil And Politics: A History
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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