Learning to Love Language
July 27, 2010How is language changing and what do we lose when a language disappears forever? We’ll find out this hour with linguist and author David Crystal. His latest work is “A Little Book of Language” (Yale, 2010).
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The Future of the Last Wild Food
July 27, 2010What are environmental degradation, fish farming and commercial fishing doing to the wild fish populations in the world’s oceans? We’ll talk with Paul Greenberg, seafood and ocean authority and author of “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food” (The Penguin Press, 2010).
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A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
July 26, 2010What does the world owe to steam? We’ll look back this hour at the marvelous invention that started the modern era with William Rosen, author of “The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention” (Random House, 2010).
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Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World
July 26, 2010Can making things and accomplishing projects yourself change your outlook on life? We’ll spend this hour with Mark Frauenfelder, founder of the popular blog boingboing.net, editor in chief of the do-it-yourself publication Make Magazine and author of the new book “Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World” (Portfolio, 2010).
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Saving a Historic Past
July 23, 2010How can we preserve the endangered historic sites in the urban areas of North Texas? We’ll talk with Jerre Tracy, Executive Director of Historic Fort Worth about the pressure to protect landmark buildings targeted by developers and which locations top the list of Fort Worth’s Most Endangered Places. What’s new in puppetry? Lake Simons, actress […]
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The Lives of Jack London
July 22, 2010He prospected for gold, hunted seals and wrote some of the most popular adventure novels of the early 20th Century. But what was Jack London really like? We’ll talk this hour with biographer, historian and novelist James L. Haley whose new book is “Wolf: The Lives of Jack London” (Basic Books, 2010).
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Power Brokers and the Fight to Save the Earth
July 22, 2010Why has it been so hard for our country to deal decisively with climate change and what will it take to get the world on a more environmentally-sound path? We’ll talk this hour with Bloomberg BusinessWeek deputy editor Eric Pooley, who spent three years researching his new book “The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, […]
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Forty Tales from the Afterlives
July 21, 2010Is there any way to prove the existence of the soul? With a nod to the Texas Observer, where we first saw his story, we’ll talk with David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine and author of the book “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives” (Vintage, Paperback, […]
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Challenges & Hopes in Japanese Politics
July 21, 2010What is the current state of U.S. – Japan relations and how are political changes in Japan influencing that relationship? We’ll talk this hour with Hiroki Takeuchi, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the John G. Tower Center of Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. He addresses the Japan-America Society of Dallas Fort […]
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The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
July 20, 2010Who was the real George Carlin? Aside from his “dirty words” routine, Carlin pushed the boundaries of performance with his comedy. We’ll remember him and his work this hour with James Sullivan, author of “Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin” (Da Capo, 2010).
