Do typos drive you nuts, especially when you see them on signs, t-shirts, billboards and elsewhere? If so, you’re not alone. Our guests this hour are Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, authors of the new book “The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time” (Harmony, 2010).
Where are the stories of young African-Americans in modern-day America? We’ll spend this hour with writer Danielle Evans whose debut story collection is “Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self” (Riverhead, 2010).
Is the damage to the Gulf worse than we’ve been led to believe? We’ll talk this hour with Mother Jones Magazine environmental correspondent Julia Whitty. Her current cover story is “BP’s Deep Secrets” and her recent book is “Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010).
Legendary oil man Boone Pickens joins host Lee Cullum for a revealing conversation spanning a colorful 60-year career.
What roles have carbon, silicon, neon, gold and other elements played in human history? We’ll explore these and other tales this hour with science writer Sam Kean, whose new book is “The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements” (Little, […]
What will happen when genetic advances begin to allow humans themselves to control the future of human evolution? We’ll talk this hour with Steve Potter, Ph.D., author of “Designer Genes: A New Era in the Evolution of Man” (Random House, 2010).
Where do ad campaigns come from and why do they work? We’ll spend this hour with W. Glenn Griffin, who leads the Method Creative program at SMU’s Temerlin Advertising Institute. His new book, written with Deborah Morrison, is “The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising’s Big Ideas Are Born” (How Books, 2010).
Imagine beginning a new life in America as an adoptee only to be given another child’s identity and told to keep it a secret from your new family. That’s the story of our guest this hour – filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem. She tells the tale and searches for the truth of what really happened in […]
Does our innate desire to spy on our friends and neighbors improve or harm society? We’ll talk with City University of New York Professor of Linguistics John L. Locke this hour. His new book is “Eavesdropping: An Intimate History” (Oxford University Press, 2010).
The State Fair of Texas begins its 24-day run this weekend and this hour we’ll explore the historic place where it all goes down with Willis Winters, Assistant Director of the Dallas Parks & Recreation Department. His new book is “Fair Park” (Arcadia Publishing, 2010).
