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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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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We’ll talk this hour about a new class of older migrant workers stuck between retirement and the reality of getting by with Jessica Bruder, who tells their story in the August issue of Harper’s.
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We’ll talk to him this hour with immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas about the current influx of undocumented children along the U.S-Mexico border and about his recent arrest in McAllen for his own citizenship status.
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We’ll talk this hour about the unfolding chaos in Iraq – and what’s on the horizon – with the producer of the Frontline documentary “Losing Iraq,” airing tonight on KERA.
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We’ll talk this hour with the author of a new book of Texas history, “Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name – One White, One Black.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how Michelangelo revolutionized painting, sculpture and architecture with Miles J. Unger, author of Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces (Simon & Schuster).
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the most resilient among us are able to turn setbacks into opportunities with psychologist David B. Fledman. He’s a co-author of Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success.
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We’ll talk this hour about how marijuana affects individuals and society with University of Texas at Dallas researchers Dr. Francesca Filbey and Dr. Robert Morris.
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As part of KERA’s Breakthrough’s series, we’ll talk this hour with speech-language pathologist Samantha Elandry of the Parkinson Voice Project about how Parkinson’s patients are being taught to speak again.
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We’ll talk this hour about the demise of America’s railroads – and if they will ever make a comeback – with Kevin Baker, who writes about the lost glory of train travel in the July issue of Harper’s.
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We’ll talk this hour about the origins of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard.
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