What will ultimately be the most dramatic effect of climate change? We’ll discuss what a massive sea level rise would mean for humankind this hour with species extinction expert and University of Washington professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, Peter D. Ward. His new book is “The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a […]
How is the field of Women’s Studies changing and how has it informed and influenced fields like African American, Latino, and Queer Studies among others? We’ll talk this hour with professor and director of the TWU Ph.D. in Women??s Studies Program, AnaLouise Keating, Ph.D.
How can a pathogen infect 500 million and kill nearly a million each year when we know how to control it? We’ll talk this hour with Sonia Shah who tells the story of this deadly parasite in her new book “The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
What’s behind the rapid recent growth of the concealed and open-carry handgun movements? We’ll talk this hour with Dan Baum, Harper’s Magazine contributor about his August issue cover story “Happiness Is A Worn Gun: My Concealed Weapon and Me.”
From the archives – What does an increasing population mean for the future of the United States? We’ll revisit our March conversation with social demographer and urban historian Joel Kotkin, whose book “The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050” (The Penguin Press, 2010) is the subject of this week’s Dallas Morning News Points Summer Book […]
Best covers topics ranging from the Barnett Shale and mounting public concern over drilling safety to the distribution of natural gas and the growing need for energy in Texas and the nation.
What does Arizona’s S.B. 1070 mean for the rest of the country? We’ll examine the similar 2008 Prince William County, Virginia law and the fallout it caused this hour with Eric Byler, co-director of the documentary “9500 Liberty” which opens at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas this weekend.
What are the different roles played by zoos and are they important enough to justify life-long captivity of animals? What’s life really like inside a zoo? We’ll talk this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French who spent six years researching and reporting for his latest work “Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives” […]
Just how important is food to the stability of a society? We’ll examine the Romans and Mayans, modern challenges in the United States and China and more this hour with agricultural expert Evan D. G. Fraser, co-author of the new book “Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations” (Free Press, […]
Do certain psychiatric conditions commonly referred to as disorders go hand-in-hand with outstanding creativity and success in other fields? Our guest this hour thinks we should consider it. We’ll talk with Thomas Armstrong author of “Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences” Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2010).
