We’ll talk this hour about how reunification has turned the city into one of the world’s most vibrant capitals with Peter Schneider. His new book is Berlin Now: The City After the Wall.
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Learning And The Brain
We’ll talk this hour about how our brains absorb and retain information with New York Times education reporter Benedict Carey, author of How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens.
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Suburban Sprawl, Gentrification And The Rise Of Urbanism
This hour, we’ll talk about why certain metropolitan areas tend to grow out instead of up with Benjamin Ross. He writes about strategies to stem sprawl in his book, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
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Punishment Without Crime
We’ll talk this hour about what it takes to persevere behind bars for a crime you didn’t commit with Billy Smith and Richard Miles, two men who’ve been exonerated. We’ll also be joined by Dorothy Budd, a former prosecutor in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office who profiles Smith, Miles and others in her book, Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope.
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Facing Infertility And What You Can Do
We’ll talk this hour about the options available to those facing infertility with reproductive experts Dr. Satin Patel of Texas Health Resources and Dr. Bruce Carr of UT-Southwestern Medical Center.
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Gambling With Personal Data
Adam Tanner explains how casino companies mine their customers’ personal data in his book, What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data—Lifeblood of Big Business—and the End of Privacy as We Know It.
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Down By The River
We’ll talk this hour about how cultures throughout history have been driven by their access to water with Dr. Fekri Hassan, an Egyptian archaeologist in town to speak this week at SMU.
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Celebrating The Meyerson
We’ll talk this hour about one of the anchors of the Dallas Arts District with KERA arts reporter Jerome Weeks and Laurie Shulman, author of The Meyerson Symphony Center.
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Exploring The Galapagos
We’ll get to know the inhabitants of this remote archipelago in the Pacific with Jeff Corwin, who narrates Nature’s Wonderland: Galapagos 3D. The film opens this weekend at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
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A Falling Out With Football
We’ll talk this hour to Steve Almond about leaving the game behind, which he writes about in Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto.
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The Art Of Code
We’ll talk this hour about the intersection between writing for humans and writing for computers with Vikram Chandra, author of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty.
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Now Vs. Later
We’ll talk this hour about resisting the temptation to take the easy route with Paul Roberts, author of The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification.
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