We’ll speak with Ryan Holiday this hour about how great innovators have turned failure into success, which he writes about in, “The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph.”
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An Urban Update
This hour, we’ll talk about the future of cities with a panel of experts in town for the New Cities Summit 2014.
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Dressed To Impress
We’ll talk this hour with Notre Dame associate history professor Linda Przybyszewski, author of “The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish.”
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Tiananmen Revisited
We’ll talk this hour with NPR correspondent Louisa Lim about the People’s Liberation Army’s massacre in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago.
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Economic Gender Gap In Texas Remains
We’ll talk this hour about the economic challenges that Texas women face with Roslyn Dawson Thompson of Dallas Women’s Foundation and Frances P. Deviney of the Center for Public Policy Priorities.
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Winning Freedom With A Bloody Summer
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer. We’ll look back this hour at the effort to register black voters in Mississippi with historian Bruce Watson.
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Offseason Learning
While kids are happy to be out of school, the “summer slide” worries both teachers and parents.
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The Ryan Express
Nolan Ryan is one of the all-time greatest athletes to play in North Texas, and this hour Rob Goldman joins us to talk about how the Alvin, Texas, native built his Hall of Fame career.
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Science Behind The Bar
This hour, we’ll talk to Adam Rogers about the biology, chemistry and physics behind alcohol, which he writes about in his book, “Proof: The Science of Booze.”
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The Hip Challenge
As part of KERA’s The Broken Hip series, we’ll talk to a panel of experts this hour about how to prevent hip injuries and how to better care for those who suffer from them.
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What's So Funny About That?
Peter McGraw, director of the University of Colorado’s Humor Research Lab, joins us this hour to talk about what makes us laugh and his book “The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny.”
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Sizing Up Our Seismic Activity
We’ll talk this hour about the recent increase in North Texas earthquakes with SMU seismologist Brian Stump and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lisa Song of Inside Climate News.
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