This hour, we’ll talk about how everyone from car companies to restaurants to filmmakers use sound to subtly plant ideas in our brains with composer Joel Beckerman. He explains how they do it in his book The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms What We Think, Feel, and Buy.
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This hour, we’ll talk about what the satire has to say about racial identity with the film’s writer and director, Justin Simien.
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This hour, we’ll get to know the people who were instrumental in making the pill a reality with Jonathan Eig, who writes about them in The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution.
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This hour, we’ll get a preview of the day’s discussion from two of its participants: Trinity Trust CEO Gail Thomas and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, principal of Wallace Roberts & Todd LLC.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how discoveries of new energy sources have had profound effects on art and culture with Barry Lord. He writes about the topic in Art & Energy: How Culture Changes.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how focusing on the obstacles that stand in our way can help us to overcome them with NYU psychology professor Gabriele Oettingen, author of Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how we are defined both by our genes and by the lives our predecessors lived with Christine Kenneally, author of The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how we can better accommodate our winged neighbors with the author of Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife.
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This hour, we’ll talk about how our culture has come to embrace vegetarians – and even vegans – with Stephanie Casey and Jamey Scott, organizers of this weekend’s Texas Veggie Fair.
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This hour, we’ll talk to him about his career in comedy while he’s in town to accept VideoFest’s Ernie Kovacs Award.
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This hour, we’ll talk to Sophie Sartain about the challenges of telling her family’s story, which she does in the documentary Mimi and Dona.
Read moreWe’ll talk this hour about what we can learn from maps with University of Texas at Arlington special collections curator Ben Huseman; Texas Map Society president Gerald Saxon; and Imre Dembardt, Professor of Cartographic History at UTA. They’ll take part in this week’s Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography and the accompanying Map Fair of the West.
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