How will machines and humans interact in the future? We’ll talk this hour with designer Jonathan Tippett, who also co-hosts Discovery Channel’s “Breaking Point” program. Tippett will deliver the UTD Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology Lecture on “Expanding the Human Experience Through Machines” tonight.
Almost seven decades later, tales of Nazi atrocities and personal experiences of the Holocaust are still coming to light. We’ll hear one such story this hour, with Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, The Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies, Professor of Literature and the History of Ideas at UTD and author of “When the Danube Ran […]
Which writers do your favorite authors love to read and why? We’ll spend this hour with bestselling novelist Pat Conroy, who’ll discuss his new memoir, “My Reading Life” (Nan A. Talese, 2010), at tonight’s Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live event.
What still awaits discovery on our planet and how will it be found? We’ll talk this hour with Robert Rutford, Antarctic explorer, President Emeritus at UT Dallas and winner of the 2010 Medal for International Scientific Coordination by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Religion is undoubtedly a force in American society, but what role if any should religion play in politics? We’ll talk this hour with Harvard University Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Robert D. Putnam. He’s the co-author of the new book “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
Should society do more to stop the bullying of homosexual, lesbian, and transgender teens? We’ll discuss ways to protect gay youth with Fort Worth city councilman Joel Burns of the It Gets Better campaign and Sam Wilkes of Youth First Texas. In the Art&Seek segment, we’ll talk with violinist Matt Albert of eighth blackbird, the […]
What does it take to provide shelter, clean water, sanitation and power for the poorest and most under-privileged in the world? We’ll spend this hour with Kenyan architect Ronald Omyonga and Andrew Quicksall, the J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professor at SMU’s Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering.
Why was Winston Churchill voted out of office in 1945 – almost immediately after World War II and what led to his unlikely political comeback six years later? We’ll talk this hour with biographer Barbara Leaming, author of the new book “Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955” (Harper, 2010). Leaming addresses the World Affairs Council of […]
What forces shaped Dallas from its humble 1841 beginnings into the city we know today? We’ll look back this hour with the perspective of 125 years of news-gathering with Bob Mong, editor of The Dallas Morning News and David Woo, photo editor of the newspaper’s 125th anniversary book, “Frontier to Top Tier: A Photo Retrospective […]
What factors influence which of us will retain mental acuity with age and what can we do to maintain cognitive vitality for the rest of our lives? We’ll talk this hour with neuroscientist Denise Park. Ph.D., founder and director of the UTD Center for Vital Longevity.
