We’ll talk to Paul Oyer this hour about his new book, Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating.
Read moreThe Importance of STEM Education
As part of KERA’s American Graduate initiative, we’ll talk this hour about teaching students science, technology, engineering and math with a panel of experts in town today for Microsoft YouthSpark Connections.
Read moreTruth Be Told
We’ll talk this hour about the slippery slope that secrets create with Jane Isay, author of Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives.
Read moreAsk Amy
We’ll talk this hour to best-selling author Amy Tan about her new novel, The Valley of Amazement.
Read moreA Mind, Made Up
As part of KERA’s Breakthroughs initiative, we’ll talk this hour about how we may be predisposed to certain belief systems and methods of decision-making with neuroscientist D.F. Swaab, author of We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer’s.
Read moreThe Trials Of Law School
Earning a law degree isn’t the ticket to wealth that it once was. In fact, many newly minted lawyers have trouble even finding work.
Read moreStanding Out From The Crowd
We’ll talk this hour about how to make an impression with Susan RoAne, author of How to Work a Room: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lasting Connections – In Person and Online.
Read moreOn Dying in Prison
David R. Dow, a leading anti-death penalty crusader who founded the Texas Innocence Network, explains how he arrived at his beliefs in a new memoir.
Read moreThe Streets On The Stage
The tragedy of Oedpus has taken many forms since Sophocles’ day – one is set in the barrios of Los Angeles in the play ‘Oedipus El Rey.’
Read moreHistory Through Humor
P.J. O’Rourke has been making us laugh through his writing for 50 years. And as a proud Baby Boomer, he’s got plenty of wry insights to make about his generation.
Read moreLearning How to Live Longer
As humans, we can reliably live about 70 years, give or take. So what are some tortoises doing that allows them to live twice as long?
Read moreTaking on Obesity
We’ll talk this hour about the factors at play in our war with our weight with Dr. Deborah A. Cohen, author of A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic – And How We Can End It.
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