What will actually help your brain perform better and what won’t? We’ll find out this hour with neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, co-author of the new book “Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life” (Bloomsbury, 2008).
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How good is the good life for our representatives in the U.S. Congress? We’ll spend this hour with Ken Silverstein, Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine. His March cover story is “Beltway Bacchanal: Congress lives high on the contributor’s dime.”
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Think will be pre-empted this hour by special NPR coverage of the Tuesday, March 4th Primaries.
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Today is Election Day in Texas (don’t forget to vote) and the big races are the Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries. We’ll spend this hour with William McKenzie, editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News and J.R. Labbe, deputy editorial page editor for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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Where are the roots of liberty? Many would argue that our modern concepts of due process and judicial rights began in 1215 with the Great Charter also known as Magna Carta. We’ll examine the history of this important document and how it relates to greed and imperial ambitions today with Professor Peter Linebaugh, author of “The Magna Carta Manifesto” (University of California Press, 2008).
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What was the Ark of the Covenant and what happened to it after its 586 BC disappearance? We’ll spend this hour with Professor Tudor Parfitt. Known to some as the “British Indiana Jones,” Parfitt’s new book is “The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark” (Harper One, 2008).
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Will the situation in Iraq improve, or will the country’s spiral into guerrilla war and anarchy continue? We’ll spend this hour with Charles Ferguson, author of the book “No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos” (Public Affairs, 2008). Ferguson’s film of the same name was a nominee for Best Documentary Feature in last month’s Academy Awards.
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Where is the country headed politically and how can regular Americans maintain their voice? We’ll discuss the history and future of American politics this hour with someone who knows the subject well. Willie Brown’s political career has spanned four decades. The former two-term San Francisco Mayor is in town to address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. His new memoir is “Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times” (Simon and Schuster, 2008).
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What’s new in the study of our planet’s oceans and how do today’s teachers get students interested in the environment? Dr. “Deepsea” Dawn Wright, Professor of Geography and Oceanography at Oregon State University, was among the recipients of the 2007 U.S. Professors of the Year Award, bestowed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She’s in town to address the 2008 Geotech Conference at Bishop Dunne High School in Dallas and will be our guest this hour.
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What is the latest in the field of reproductive medicine? We’ll talk this hour about cutting-edge techniques including the cryopreservation of eggs with Dr. Karen Bradshaw and Dr. Kevin Doody of the new Fertility and Advanced Reproductive Medicine clinic at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
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You hear him each week on the Marketplace Morning Report’s Sloan Sessions. We’ll talk about the economy, business, and journalism this hour with Allan Sloan, Editor-at-Large for Fortune Magazine. He’s in town to deliver the third William O’Neil Lecture in Business Journalism at SMU.
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What does it take to see a project through in spite of the odds, and regardless of those who would rather see you fail? We’ll talk this hour with two artists in very different fields about their interpretation of and approach to adversity. Albert Maysles is a documentary filmmaker whose latest film “The Gates” follows the 26-year effort of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to accomplish one of their most triumphant installations in New York’s Central Park. “The Gates” premieres on HBO tonight. In the second part of the hour, we’ll talk with Lily Weiss, head of the Dance Department at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. There since the school became an arts magnet three decades ago, Weiss has helped transform the school into a nationally and internationally recognized institution.
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