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Hour 2: For many overweight people, being fat is part of their identity. So what happens when all of the sudden the weight’s gone? We’ll talk this hour to Alexandra Lescaze, director of the Independent Lens documentary All of Me, which looks at a tight-knit group of Austin women struggling with the fallout from weight-loss surgery. All of Me airs March 31 at 11 p.m. on KERA. https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/140/22ae1e42-56bb-4d0b-a1a4-f7a679f9846f/KERA_Think_3-27-14_HR_2.mp3 http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/77/510036/295365685/KERA_295365685.mp3]

Hour 2: Judith Baker, curator of “Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture and Cuisine” at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, joins us to talk about the intersection of food and art.

Hour 1: We’ll explore the current questions that face our schools this hour with UCLA professor Mike Rose, author of Why School?: Reclaiming Education For All Of Us.

Hour 2: This hour we’ll learn just how smart birds are with Noah Strycker, author of The Thing With Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Human Beings.

Hour 2: Local stem-cell research is shining a light on aging. We’ll speak this hour with Dr. Sean Morrison, professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and director of the Children’s Research Institute.

Hour 1: Why are we so fixated on caffeine? We’ll explore the question with Murray Carpenter, author of Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Help, Hurts, and Hooks Us.

Hour 1: What is the state of American liberalism? We’ll find out by speaking with Adolf Reed Jr., science professor and author of “Nothing Left,” which is featured in Harper’s this month.

Hour 2: This hour we’ll talk to virologist Dr. Nathan Wolfe about his book, The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age (St. Martin’s Griffin) and upcoming trip to Dallas.

We’ll explore collaborative divorces this hour with a panel of lawyers and mental health professionals who specialize in the process

We’ll talk this hour about why our minds have been conditioned to go through mood swings with psychologist Jonathan Rottenberg, author of The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic.