Climate & Health

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Hour 1: How are environmental degradation and climate change affecting our physical well-being? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Paul Epstein, Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the new book “Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It” (University of California Press, 2011). http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/136864251/KERA_136864251.mp3

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Honestly Honest…Or Not?

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Hour 2: Doesn’t anyone tell the truth anymore? We’ll explore the epidemic of public falsehoods and what they mean for society this hour with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James B. Stewart. His new book is “Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff” (The Penguin Press, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/fb468c16-8113-4b32-9503-0598e868dff7/KERA_Think_05-31-11_HR_2.mp3

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The Origins of Human Life

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Hour 1: How are archeologists, anthropologists and now geneticists changing what we know about the origins of people on Planet Earth? We’ll talk this hour with journalist, biographer and historian Martin Meredith. His new book is “Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life” (PublicAffairs, 2011). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/dde219dc-29ad-4c7e-808b-899035115992/KERA_Think_05-31-11_HR_1.mp3

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Remembering Pat Tillman

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From the Archive: What would motivate a super-star athlete to leave his career and join the military? We explored the admirable honor of Pat Tillman last August with acclaimed writer Jon Krakauer who covered Tillman’s life and the U.S. Military and Bush Administration cover-up of the truth about his death in the book “Where Men Win Glory” (Anchor Books, Paperback, 2010).

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Revisiting the War in Afghanistan

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From the Archive: Sebastian Junger’s 2010 book, “War” (Twelve Books, 2010) and co-produced and directed documentary RESTREPO took on new meaning last month when his partner, filmmaker, photographer and journalist Tim Hetherington was killed covering the fighting in Libya. We’ll revisit our June 2010 conversation with Sebastian Junger this hour in memory of Tim Hetherington and in honor of journalists all over the world who risk their lives every day to bring us the news.

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Travels with Pico Iyer

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As the world moves faster and faster, what can be learned from slowing down? We’ll spend this hour with writer and traveler Pico Iyer who’s in town to discuss his life, his observations and his friendship with the Dalai Lama.

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