What constitutes intelligence and what’s the best way to measure it? We’ll learn about the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence this hour with renowned psychologist Dr. Robert J. Sternberg. He’ll deliver the lecture “Creativity is a Decision” at tonight’s installment of the UT Dallas “Creativity in a Technological Era” lecture series.
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How are the U.S. and Mexico working together to manage the current economic crisis and other issues? How will the relationship fare in the future? We’ll spend this hour with Ambassador Juan Carlos Cue-Vega, Consul General at the Consulate General of Mexico. He speaks to the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth tomorrow evening.
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What is life like for young Mexican women who have spent most of their lives in the United States? Journalist Helen Thorpe pull back the curtain in her new book “Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America” (Scribner, 2009). We’ll talk with Thorpe this hour.
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What caused the sleeping sickness epidemic of the 1920’s and could it happen again? We’ll find out this hour with science journalist Molly Caldwell Crosby whose new book is “Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries” (Berkley, 2010).
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Is Dallas’ “next big thing” south of the Trinity? Our guests this hour think so. With a nod to Jim Schutze’s recent Dallas Observer article, we’ll get the inside scoop on the Oak Cliff Renaissance from Jason Roberts, president of the Oak Cliff Transit Authority and co-founder of Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, Mariana Griggs, who runs the Oak Cliff Community Gardens and Amy Cowan, organizer of Cliff Fest, the Mardi Gras Parade, the 2008 Presidential Watch party in the Bishop Arts District.
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How important is the element of choice in our lives? We’ll spend this hour with Sheena Iyengar, the S.T. Lee Professor of Business at Columbia University and author of the new book “The Art of Choosing” (Twelve, 2010).
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What was the study of science like before the 19th Century and how did the Romantic Period lay the groundwork for our scientific understanding today? We’ll talk this hour with Richard Holmes, author of “The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science” (Vintage, Paperback, 2010).
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Who were the Cro-Magnons and how did they survive in their snow-bound world? We’ll talk this hour with Brian Fagan, emeritus professor of anthropology at U.C. Santa Barbara and author of the new book “Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” (Bloomsbury Press, 2010).
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How did Texas become such a big deal in national politics? We’ll spend this hour with historians Michael Phillips and Patrick L. Cox. Their new book is “The House Will Come to Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics” (UT Press, 2010).
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What does the future hold for Wolves in North America? We’ll examine the current situation this hour with Douglas H. Chadwick, whose piece “Wolf Wars: Once Protected, Now Hunted” is the cover story in this month’s National Geographic Magazine.
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What does a sport like horseracing tell us about our culture and what happens to the horses when their racing days are over? We’ll explore the world not seen from the grandstand this hour with Lynn Reardon, founder and executive director of LOPE – LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers and author of “Beyond the Homestretch: What I’ve Learned from Saving Racehorses” (New World Library, 2009).
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What does North Texas lack when it comes to trauma and burn care services? We’ll preview Wednesday’s Legacy Center for Public Policy forum with Timothy Bray, Assistant Professor at UTD’s School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, Don Spies, President & CEO of the North Texas 3-Share Plan and Warren Rutherford past Executive Vice President for Methodist Health Care Systems.
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