Where will we find our energy in the coming decades? According to Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., president of the Institute for Energy and Environment Research, the current energy crises is compounded by climate disruption, insecurity of oil supply, and nuclear proliferation. Makhijani, who’s speaking all over Texas this week, will join us this evening.
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When you fill ‘er up at the gas station, do you ever wonder about where gasoline comes from and what it took to get it there? Journalist Lisa Margonelli does. And it was that curiosity that prompted her book, now out in paperback, “Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank” (Broadway, 2008). She’ll join us this hour.
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Who was Kit Carson and how did his emergence on the scene of the American West mirror the growth of the United States and the decline of the Native American Nations that preceded it? The PBS American Experience film “Kit Carson” will examine the historic and controversial figure on Monday, February 18th. We’ll talk with the film’s director, Stephen Ives, this hour.
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What is ADHD and how can a different learning strategy help when medication can’t necessarily offer enough? We’ll talk this hour with Sandra B. Chapman, Ph.D. and Jacquelyn F. Gamino, Ph.D. who presented the lecture “Get Smart: New Hope for ADHD” earlier this week at the UTD Center for Brain Health’s “The Brain: An Owner’s Guide’ lecture series.
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Are we losing the ability to converse and what can be done to preserve the art and practice of conversation in our go-fast society? We’ll find out this hour with essayist Stephen Miller, author of the new book “Conversation: A History of a Declining Art” (Yale, 2008).
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What does the future hold for Latin America? According to Economist Americas Editor Michael Reid, a prosperous, fairer, and more democratic Latin America is just over the horizon. Reid’s new book on the subject is “Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul” (Yale, 2008).
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For most of the 20th Century, the traditional camera and the roll of film were ubiquitous household items. Not anymore. The rise of digital photography has spurred some to look back at the snapshot and what it offered as art. We’ll explore that idea this hour with John Rohrbach, Senior Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and Sarah Greenough, Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. A recent National Gallery exhibit, “The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson,” opens at the Amon Carter this weekend.
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Where did the Civil Rights Movement really get started? According to Yale Historian Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, we have to look back to the early struggles against Jim Crow in the 1920s and 30s to find the roots of American social justice. She’ll join us this hour to discuss “Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights” (Norton, 2008).
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How are art and science related? We’ll talk this hour with interdisciplinary expert Lynn Gamwell who’s in town for a series of lectures. Gamwell’s work as both a museum director and science professor give her special insight into the relationships between seemingly disparate fields of study. She explores these ideas in her book “Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual” (Princeton, 2002).
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Beginning Sunday, North Texans will have the rare chance to view one of the largest and most comprehensive artistic retrospectives ever seen in the United States as the Dallas Museum of Art opens “J. M. W. Turner.” We’ll discuss the exhibit and the artist this evening with Dorothy Kosinski, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Curator of European Art at the DMA, and Ian Warrell, Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Tate Britain.
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What are the Grammy Awards all about this year? We’ll discuss the 50th anniversary of the Grammys, which will be handed out Sunday, and the history of the award this hour with Thor Christensen, Pop Music Critic for the Dallas Morning News.
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How much could an average global temperature rise of six degrees really change things? The National Geographic Channel will give us a preview with the world premiere of “Six Degrees Could Change the World” at 7pm CT this Sunday (February 10th). We’ll spend this hour with the program’s host, Mark Lynas, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and author of the new book “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet” (National Geographic, 2008).
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