Talking Texas Primaries

Hour 1:Texans vote on Tuesday to decide which candidates will advance from the primaries to the general election. We’ll talk about the most hotly contested races this hour with Gromer Jeffers of The Dallas Morning News, Erica Grieder of Texas Monthly and Shelley Kofler of KERA.

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Understanding Human Personalities

Hour 2: We’ll talk this hour with John D. Mayer, psychologist and author of Personal Intelligence: The Power of Personality and How it Shapes Our Lives (Scientific American), to find out how our individual personalities affect the way we make decisions and interact with others.

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A Better Class Of Losers

Hour 2: Business leaders say that failing isn’t really such a bad thing if you learn from your mistakes. We’ll find out how to make the most out of failure with Megan McArdle, whose new book is The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.

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Are We Next?

Hour 1: In the last 500 million years, there have been five mass extinctions on Earth. And some scientists are saying we should prepare for the next one. We’ll speak with New Yorker staff writer, Elizabeth Kolbert, about her new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.

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Papal Problems

Hour 2: Pope Francis is facing challenges after, Pope Benedict XVI, resigned in 2013. We’ll talk this hour with, Antony Thomas, director of Secrets of the Vatican, a Frontline special that airs Tuesday on KERA TV.

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