What still awaits discovery on our planet and how will it be found? We’ll talk this hour with Robert Rutford, Antarctic explorer, President Emeritus at UT Dallas and winner of the 2010 Medal for International Scientific Coordination by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
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Should society do more to stop the bullying of homosexual, lesbian, and transgender teens? We’ll discuss ways to protect gay youth with Fort Worth city councilman Joel Burns of the It Gets Better campaign and Sam Wilkes of Youth First Texas. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with violinist Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, the Grammy Award-winning music sextet that won SMU’s Meadows Prize for professional artists with an emerging international profile. The group is in town for its residency at SMU.
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What does it take to provide shelter, clean water, sanitation and power for the poorest and most under-privileged in the world? We’ll spend this hour with Kenyan architect Ronald Omyonga and Andrew Quicksall, the J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professor at SMU’s Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering.
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Why was Winston Churchill voted out of office in 1945 – almost immediately after World War II and what led to his unlikely political comeback six years later? We’ll talk this hour with biographer Barbara Leaming, author of the new book “Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955” (Harper, 2010). Leaming addresses the World Affairs Council of Dallas Forth Worth this evening.
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What forces shaped Dallas from its humble 1841 beginnings into the city we know today? We’ll look back this hour with the perspective of 125 years of news-gathering with Bob Mong, editor of The Dallas Morning News and David Woo, photo editor of the newspaper’s 125th anniversary book, “Frontier to Top Tier: A Photo Retrospective from the Dallas Morning News and its Readers” (Pediment Publishing, 2010).
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What factors influence which of us will retain mental acuity with age and what can we do to maintain cognitive vitality for the rest of our lives? We’ll talk this hour with neuroscientist Denise Park. Ph.D., founder and director of the UTD Center for Vital Longevity.
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What really killed off the Neanderthals? This hour we’ll explore new findings about the mysterious extinction that cleared the way for modern humans and changed the planet forever with UTA Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Naomi Cleghorn. She is the co-author of a “Current Anthropology” October issue paper on the Neanderthal extinction.
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What can the careful observer glean from simply watching society? If they have access to the presidents, pundits, music stars, activists and thinkers who shaped the 20th Century, then quite a bit. We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, whose new book is “Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer” (Viking, 2010).
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The mid-term elections are over, but when will our country come to terms with immigration and the fervent opinions on both sides of the debate? We’ll discuss the issues this hour with syndicated columnist Froma Harrop.
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How did the death of a solider killed in battle in World War II spark the Mexican-American civil rights movement in a small Texas town? We’ll find out this hour with John Valadez, a founding member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers and director of the film “The Longoria Affair” which airs tomorrow evening on KERA 13.
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How will the outcome of the mid-term election play out in North Texas? We’ll discuss possible political ramifications with Gromer Jeffers Jr. of the Dallas Morning News and Bud Kennedy of the Star-Telegram. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with actress and playwright Regina Taylor, whose trilogy of one-acts, “The Trinity River Plays,” begins previews tonight at the Dallas Theater Center.
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If having mixed feelings about motherhood is a social taboo, how can women deal with powerful fears of pregnancy or negative thoughts about their own children? We’ll talk this hour with Barbara Almond, Stanford University psychotherapist and author of the book “The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood” (University of California Press, 2010).
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