How important is the lowly ant? We’ll find out this hour with the Smithsonian’s Mark W. Moffett. His latest, highly-researched book is “Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions” (University of California Press, 2010).
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Is there a sustainable way out of the work-spend cycle and the current economic crisis? We’ll talk this hour with Juliet B. Schor, co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream and author of the new book “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth” (The Penguin Press, 2010).
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Where did the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest begin? We’ll explore the story of an early 20th Century experiment this hour with historian and journalist Greg Grandin, author of “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City” (Picador, 2010).
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How will the airline industry confront the challenges of the current economic turbulence? We’ll discuss mergers, summer travel and survival of the Texas airline industry with Andrea Ahles of the Star-Telegram’s “Sky Talk” blog and Terry Maxon of the “Airline Biz” blog at the Dallas Morning news. Janis Burkland, executive director of the Dallas Film Commission, will join us for the Art&Seek segment.
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Is someone trying to take over your computer? Perhaps they already have. We’ll explore the world of the super hackers and the cyber sleuths trying to slow them down with acclaimed journalist and author Mark Bowden. His piece “The Enemy Within,” appears in the June issue of The Atlantic.
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Is appearance important? Do looks play an unfair role in our successes and failures? We’ll talk this hour with Deborah L. Rhode, professor of law at Stanford University and author of the new book “The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law” (Oxford, 2010).
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How has the Obama Administration performed in its first year and how will the President face the challenges that lie ahead? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Jonathan Alter whose new book is “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
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Climate change skeptics, anti-vaccine activists and other scientific doubters have all made headlines recently. But why do people believe what they do in spite of scientific evidence to the contrary? We’ll spend this hour with City University of New York philosopher and blogger Massimo Pigliucci. His new book is “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk” (Chicago, paperback, 2010).
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Who’s responsible for the current social networking explosion? We’ll find out this hour with Ben Mezrich, author of the bestselling book “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” (Anchor, 2010) which is now out in paperback.
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What kind of writer was Pearl Buck and why is her groundbreaking work largely forgotten today? We’ll spend this hour with biographer Hilary Spurling whose new book is “Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
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From the archives – What was the Pacific Theater of World War II really like? In April, we talked with Hugh Ambrose, historical consultant for the recent HBO miniseries “The Pacific” and author of the official series companion book “The Pacific: Hell Was An Ocean Away” (HBO/NAL Caliber, 2010).
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What happens to reality when it is transformed by the artist’s eye and brush? We’ll find out this hour with influential European painter Luc Tuymans whose first U.S. retrospective opens next week at the Dallas Museum of Art.
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