What does it take to become a successful chef? We’ll talk with Gabrielle Hamilton, author and chef/owner of New York City’s Prune restaurant. Her new memoir is “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef” (Random House, 2011).
Is there a better brain in your future? What if it involves a machine augmentation? We’ll explore the possibilities this hour with Miguel Nicolelis, the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University and founder of Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering. His new book is “Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines—and […]
From the archives: How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America’s greatest presidents? We’ll find out this hour with historian Nora Titone, whose new book is “My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy” (Free Press, 2010).
What drives the best and worst of human nature? We’ll discuss probable causes of our triumphs and failures this hour with Malcolm Potts, Professor and Chair of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of the book “Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism […]
What’s happening at the “fringes” of our planet’s habitable space and what can we learn of our future from the most extreme environments on Earth? We’ll talk this hour with traveler and writer Sara Wheeler, whose new book is “The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle” (FSG, 2011).
How will local school districts be affected by looming state budget cuts? We’ll discuss likely scenarios with education reporters Tawnell Hobbs of the Dallas Morning News and Eva-Marie Ayala of the Star-Telegram. What can a comic teach us about teaching? Robert Wuhl, best known as the star of HBO’s “Arli$$,” is coming to Addison for […]
What makes Texas Texas? We’ll spend this hour with Don Graham, the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin and the state’s leading book critic on all things Texas. His new collection of essays is called “State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents” (UT […]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 133 million Americans – almost 1 out of every 2 adults – live with chronic illness. We got a view from both sides of the experience last summer with Type I diabetes patient and Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Julian Seifter. His recent book on the […]
What exactly is a living wage in 2011? We’ll find out this hour with Cannon Flowers and Serena Simmons Connelly, founders of the Demeter Project, a firm that strives to improve the community by improving the average workplace and supporting local nonprofits.
Why do healthy couples in long term relationships sometimes have sexual desire problems? We’ll spend this hour with sexuality and relationship expert Dr. David Schnarch. He’s in town to deliver the talk “The Sexual Ecology of Love Relationships” at the Simmons School Counseling Program at SMU-In-Plano this evening.
