What’s in store for television this fall? We’ll spend this hour with Ed Bark, who after his 26-year career as the TV critic at The Dallas Morning News, began covering the television scene on his very popular website and blog, Uncle Barky.com.
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Archive from 7/13/07 – In the late 60s, Dr. Kenneth Cooper changed the way American’s approach exercise with the release of his book “Aerobics.” Now he hopes to help Texas school children revitalize their health with the Fitnessgram, a multi-platform physical fitness evaluation that Texas schools will implement in the coming year. Dr. Cooper joined last month to discuss the program.Dr. Anne Bromberg, Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and Asian Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, will joined us for the Scene segment to discuss the exhibit “From the Ashes of Vesuvius, In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite” which is open at the DMA.
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How is the United States Congress spending your money? Will new ethics rules change the way things are done in Washington or not? We’ll discuss pork, earmarks, and appropriations this hour with Tom Schatz, President of Citizens Against Government Waste, an organization “dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
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Without a doubt, the United States military mission in Iraq is facing an unprecedented challenge facing an insurgent that was completely unexpected when the conflict began. One just-published response is “The U.S. Army – Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual” (University of Chicago Press, 2007). We’ll talk this hour with Lt. Col. John A. Nagl, Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Sarah Sewall, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
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We’ve all heard about the sacrifices that mothers must make in order to pursue a successful career. But Leslie Bennetts, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wonders if stay-at-home moms might be making un-necessary sacrifices too. She’ll join us this hour to discuss the issue and her book “The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?” (Voice, 2007).
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There was once a great culture in this hemisphere known as the Maya. But how did their success contribute to their failure and what can our culture learn from their mistakes? We’ll spend this hour with Guy Gugliotta, whose three-part cover story, “The Maya: Glory and Ruin” appears in the August, 2007 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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Archive from 7/16/07 – It’s often said that the English language is the hardest to learn. What makes English so strange and why does it seem that the language was created without any plan or rules? We talked last month with Seth Lerer, Avalon Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and author of “Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language” (Columbia, 2007).
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Archive from 7/16/07 – Got pets? Jon Katz does – four dogs, four donkeys, a cat, several chickens, a herd of sheep, and a giant steer named Elvis – although he considers some of them livestock. Katz, who frequently writes about his menagerie for the online magazine Slate, was our guest last month to discuss the goings-on his upstate New York farm, and his book “Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm” (Villard, 2007).
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Archive from 7/12/07 – Is there a path to peace? Where does it begin? According to the organizers of the 3rd International Women’s Peace Conference – in Dallas last month, “the power to make peace happen begins with you.” We spent an hour with Professor Jody Williams, founding Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.
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Archive from 7/12/07 – What would motivate a “sweet, soft-spoken nurse” to begin murdering her patients? Skip Hollandsworth waited years to find out. He interviewed Nocona nurse Vickie Dawn Jackson for his July, 2007 Texas Monthly cover story “Angel of Death.” Hollandsworth joined us for an hour last month.
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Archive from 7/6/07 – How are art and war related? During World War II, the Nazi’s looted European art treasures by the thousands. Author and film producer Robert M. Edsel tells the story of this theft and the subsequent Allied recovery in his book “Rescuing Da Vinci” (Laurel, 2006) and the documentary film “The Rape of Europa.” He joined us for a discussion last month.Sam Dean, Director of Special Projects at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History was our guest in the Scene segment of the show. We discussed “STAR WARS: Where Science Meets Imagination” – on display until September 3rd.
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Archive from 6/13/07 – Everyone wants to do a good job, but doctors are under constant pressure to perform perfectly. Dr. Atul Gawande knows first hand what it’s like to work under stressful conditions. The 2006 MacArthur Fellow and general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is the author of “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance” (Metropolitan Books, 2007). He was our guest in June.
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