We’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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Ebola And The Law
This hour, we’ll talk about the intersection of health care and the law with Professor Nathan Cortez of SMU’s Dedman School of Law; Laura Reilly O’Hara of Strasburger & Price, LLP; and KERA health and science reporter Lauren Silverman.
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From Farm To The Garbage
An estimated one-third of all food produced worldwide is either lost or wasted somewhere between the farm and our dinner plates. This hour, we’ll talk about the opportunities presented by all that waste with Elizabeth Royte. She writes about the topic in the November issue of National Geographic.
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Memories Of A Mormon Missionary
This hour, we’ll talk about the wide array of reactions they receive after knocking on those doors with Craig Harline. The one-time missionary writes about his experiences in Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary.
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Antibiotics' Dark Side
This hour, we’ll talk about why some scientists are warning that we may soon lose the power of antibiotics with Frontline correspondent David Hoffman. His reporting on the topic is included in Frontline: The Trouble With Antibiotics, which airs Tuesday at 9 on KERA-TV.
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The End Of The Wright Amendment
This hour, we’ll talk about how the end of the amendment affects both local travelers and the two major airlines based in North Texas with aviation writers Terry Maxon of The Dallas Morning News and Andrea Ahles of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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The Legacy Of North Texas Beer
This hour, we’ll talk about how we transformed from the land of Bud and Coors into one of America’s budding beer capitals with the authors of North Texas Beer: A Full-Bodied History of Brewing in Dallas, Fort Worth and Beyond
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Building Just Cities
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can imagine cities that work for everyone with Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster and Colleen Casey of the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Urban and Public Affairs.
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James Ellroy's Life Of Crime
We’ll talk to him this hour about his latest work, Perfidia, which centers around the investigation of a Japanese family’s murder at the outset of American involvement in World War II.
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Re-examining An Execution
This hour, we’ll talk about whether or not Texas executed an innocent man with Jessie Deter, the director and producer of the Frontline documentary Death by Fire 2, which updates a previous film about the story.
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A Moment Of Peace In The Middle East
This hour, we’ll talk to Lawrence Wright about his book Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (Knopf), which explores how peace in the Middle East was found during the 1978 meeting.
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Social Studies Revised
This hour, we’ll talk about questions over the way proposed social studies textbooks in Texas may teach culture and religion with a pair of SMU professors who testified about the books before the State Board of Education – Kathleen Wellman of the history department and David Brockman, who teaches religious studies.
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