From the archives – Is there any way to prove the existence of the soul? Last summer we talked with David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine and author of the book “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives” (Vintage, Paperback, 2010).
Read more
How has the sun influenced science, literature and countless cultures around the world? We’ll spend the hour with writer Richard Cohen who traveled the globe researching his new book “Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life” (Random House, 2010).
Read more
What was World War II like for the citizens of Hitler’s capital city? We’ll find out this hour with historian Roger Moorhouse who takes us from the beginning of the conflict in 1939 to the 1945 Allied European victory in his new book “Berlin at War” (Basic Books, 2010).
Read more
How geopolitically important are the Indian Ocean and the countries that surround it? Our guest this hour, Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan, argues for a more complete understanding of the region and its power in the 21st Century and beyond in his new book “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power” (Random House, 2010).
Read more
As the temperature has changed, you might have noticed more and more of them on the roads, in the parks and on the trails of North Texas, training for an upcoming fall race. Running is a big deal here and all over the country. We’ll talk this hour about running and what makes runners tick with runner, writer and blogger Chris Cooper, whose new book is “Long May You Run” (Touchstone, 2010).
Read more
How will PBS navigate the unique challenges of a media landscape in flux? We’ll discuss changing technologies, fundraising issues, and the future of public television with Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with Atlee Phillips, Consignment Director for Heritage Auction Galleries, about Henry Arthur McArdle’s historic “lost” painting The Battle of San Jacinto. The artwork will be placed on auction in Dallas on November 20th.
Read more
Is there a time when war is the right decision? What makes Americans fight? We’ll find out this hour with Richard E. Rubenstein, Professor of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs at George Mason University and author of the new book “Reasons to Kill: Why Americans Choose War” (Bloomsbury, 2010).
Read more
Everyone’s seen the photos and films from Dallas in November 1963, but what was it like to be part of President Kennedy’s Secret Service team on the day of his tragic assassination? We’ll spend this hour with two of those agents, Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin – the journalist who helps tell their story in the new book “The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence” (Gallery Books, 2010). Our guests will also speak at The Sixth Floor Museum this Saturday, November 20th.
Read more
How will machines and humans interact in the future? We’ll talk this hour with designer Jonathan Tippett, who also co-hosts Discovery Channel’s “Breaking Point” program. Tippett will deliver the UTD Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology Lecture on “Expanding the Human Experience Through Machines” tonight.
Read more
What do numbers and statistics really tell us about ourselves and our country, and how vulnerable are these data to manipulation? We’ll find out this hour with NYU journalism professor Charles Seife, author of the new book “Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception” (Viking, 2010).
Read more
Almost seven decades later, tales of Nazi atrocities and personal experiences of the Holocaust are still coming to light. We’ll hear one such story this hour, with Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at UTD and author of “When the Danube Ran Red” (Syracuse University Press, 2010). She’ll address the Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture tonight.
Read more
Which writers do your favorite authors love to read and why? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling novelist Pat Conroy, who’ll discuss his new memoir, “My Reading Life” (Nan A. Talese, 2010), at tonight’s Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live event.
Read more