We’ll talk this hour with Daniel Lieberman, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. His new book is “The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease.”
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Losing The Passenger Pigeon
We’ll talk this hour about what happened to what was once the most populous bird in the North American sky with naturalist Joel Greenberg.
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Dog Day Afteroon
We’ll talk this hour about the culture of dog parks – and about how they can be microcosms of the larger world – with the author of Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park.
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The Seoul Of Korea
We’ll talk this hour about how South Korea is attempting to become a superpower by taking over the world of entertainment with the author of The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture.
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Gardening In A Drought
We’ll talk this hour about drought-resistant gardening with Noelle Johnson, a horticulturist with Birds and Blooms magazine.
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Remembering Watergate
This hour, we’ll talk to Former White House Counsel John W. Dean about the scandal that brought down a president, which he writes about in “The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and What He Knew It.”
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Two Of A Kind
We’ll talk this hour about the link between greatness and gestalt with Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of “Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs.”
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Women At War
This hour we’ll hear the story of three women who spent time at war with Helen Thorpe, author of “Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War.”
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Battling Ebola
The CDC is fighting the biggest outbreak of Ebola that Africa has ever seen. We’ll talk this hour about why the virus is so difficult to contain with a panel of local infectious disease experts.
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Life After Death
This hour, we’ll talk about the moral and sociological ramifications of bringing people back to life with Dr. David Casarett, associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
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Parenting: A Primer
Many new parents don’t realize just how little they know about raising a child until they have one of their own. We’ll talk this hour about some of the most commonly asked parenting questions with Dr. David Elkind, professor emeritus of child development at Tufts University. He writes about the topic in Parenting on the Go: Birth to Six, A to Z (Da Capo). https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/d3bd2e99-de70-40ef-a74a-737a6db20f38/KERA_Think_7-31-14_HR_1.mp3
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Art In The Trenches
We’ll talk this hour about artwork created by soldiers in the trenches of World War I with a Dallas photographer who captured it for National Geographic.
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