What happens when 28,800 plastic animals spill from a freighter in the North Pacific? Donovan Hohn writes about a 1992 spill, the incredible voyage of these bath toys, and the implications they caused him to consider in his article “MOBY-DUCK Or, The Synthetic Wilderness of Childhood” which appears in the January issue of HARPER’S Magazine. Hohn will be our guest this hour.
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What is on the agenda for the 80th Session on the Texas Legislature? We’ll preview the upcoming session with State Senators Royce West and Florence Shapiro this hour.
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How does art reflect the experience of the artist? We’ll spend this hour with Columbia University Professor of Art History and History, Simon Schama. Schama’s new book “The Power of Art” (Ecco, 2006) examines important turning points in the lives of eight great artists – Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko.
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Is suburban sprawl isolating people? Does development damage community? We’ll talk with filmmaker and UTD Media and Communications Professor Dean Terry. Terry’s new film “subdivided: isolation and community in America” airs at 8pm tonight on KERA 13.
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Is a messy desk a sign of true genius? It just might be – according to Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, co-authors of “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder” (Little, Brown, 2007). We’ll spend this hour with the authors who maintain that moderately messy systems can be more profitable and creative than their organized counterparts.
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Is brain imaging ethical when it’s used to detect abnormalities in the patient’s brain? What if the images are used to preclude the person from employment? What if they’re used to tell if the person is lying? Professor Judy Illes of the Stanford University Center for Neuroethics will speak on the ethics of brain imaging at UTD’s Public Forum Series next week. We’ll get a preview this hour.
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It’s a new year. Are you considering a new career? We’ll spend this hour with Dick Bolles, author of “the Best-Selling Job-Hunting Book in the World.” The book is called “What Color Is Your Parachute?” and it’s sold over 9 million copies in the 35 years since the first printing. The 2007 edition is just out.
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What do you believe? We’ll spend this hour with Jay Allison, host of the “This I Believe” national media project that you may have heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered over the past year and a half. We’ll also hear from several Texas contributors to the project, discuss the book “This I Believe” (Henry Holt and Co., 2006) which collects many of the essays from all over the country and take your calls.
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Join us this hour for a conversation and live performance from beatlegras – a Dallas trio that plays Beatles tunes on bluegrass instruments. The members of beatlegras are Dave Walser, George Anderson and Milo Deering.
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According to the international police agency Interpol, more than 25,000 works of art are officially listed as missing. And international art theft is not just the game of a select few, but a sophisticated global operation. Simon Houpt, the New York-based arts and culture columnist for The Globe and Mail, examines the history of art theft and what law enforcement agencies are doing to protect art today in his new book “Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft” (Sterling, 2006). Simon Houpt will join us for the hour.
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What is so great about Texas? Besides being one of the most recognizable geographic/political entities on the planet (Italy is also in the group), Texas has a lot going for it and it has a lot of fans. We’ll talk Texas this hour with storyteller and writer Donna Ingham who celebrates the state with her new books “You Know You’re In Texas When… 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Lone Star State” and “1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About Texas” (The Lyons Press, 2006).
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How has domestic life changed in America? Massachusetts historian Jack Larkin examines early American domestic life, what it says about our ancestors and American life today in his new book “Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home – The American Home from 1775 to 1840” (Taunton, 2006). Jack Larkin will join us this hour.
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