Could you survive on $15 per day for thirty days? Could you do it in Cuba? Harper’s Magazine contributor Patrick Symmes tried to live for a month on the average Cuban journalist’s income for his October issue piece “Thirty Days as a Cuban: Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana.” We’ll find out how it went this hour.
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Which founding American leaders had the greatest influence over the course of our country’s political development and how did their real personalities differ from the myths? We’ll spend this hour with Louisiana State University historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg. Their new book is “Madison and Jefferson” (Random House, 2010).
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Why do some of us excel under pressure while many of us, regardless of preparation fail to perform at the highest levels when it really counts? We’ll talk this hour with University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock, whose new book is “Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To” (Free Press, 2010).
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How do community service organizations remain vital to a society in continuous transition? We’ll talk with Gordon Echtenkamp, President and Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas, as the institution celebrates its 125th anniversary. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with Heather MacDonald, who co-curated the unprecedented exhibition of French Medieval sculpture, “The Mourners,” opening October 3rd at the Dallas Museum of Art.
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How will our use and ownership of goods and services need to change if society is to move toward a more sustainable model? We’ll spend this hour with collaboration expert Rachel Botsman, co-author of the new book “What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption” (HarperBusiness, 2010).
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Can our cities be functional, sustainable and aesthetically inspiring places to live and work? We’ll talk this hour with Sarah Whiting, Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University and principal of WW Architecture. Whiting is in town to judge the 2010 AIA Dallas Design Awards.
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Who were the real people behind the legendary lovers and rulers of Ancient Egypt? For starters, she was actually Greek and he was more politician than soldier. We’ll explore their stories this hour with acclaimed historian of the ancient world Adrian Goldsworthy, whose new book is “Antony and Cleopatra” (Yale University Press, 2010).
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On a special Best-of-Think program this hour, we’ll revisit conversations from earlier this year with Julie Hersch, who tells the story of her struggle with depression and suicide in her book “Struck by Living” (Brown Books, 2010) and Jerre Tracy, who works to preserve endangered local historic places as Executive Director of Historic Fort Worth.
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Is the search for a unified theory a misguided effort? We’ll talk this hour with physicist and science writer Leonard Mlodinow, co-author with Stephen Hawking of the new book “The Grand Design” (Bantam, 2010).
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Do typos drive you nuts, especially when you see them on signs, t-shirts, billboards and elsewhere? If so, you’re not alone. Our guests this hour are Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, authors of the new book “The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time” (Harmony, 2010).
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Is the damage to the Gulf worse than we’ve been led to believe? We’ll talk this hour with Mother Jones Magazine environmental correspondent Julia Whitty. Her current cover story is “BP’s Deep Secrets” and her recent book is “Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
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Where are the stories of young African-Americans in modern-day America? We’ll spend this hour with writer Danielle Evans whose debut story collection is “Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self” (Riverhead, 2010).
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