The Virtual Company
April 5, 2010Can businesses and employees thrive as a virtual company without a physical office? We’ll discuss the pros and cons of the office-free working world with Max Chafkin, senior writer for Inc. Magazine.
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Archiving the Global Seed Vault
April 2, 2010How can our planet’s food crops be protected from natural disaster, and what architectural form would that protection take? We’ll talk this evening with Dornith Doherty, professor of photography at the University of North Texas, who traveled to a remote Scandinavian island to photograph the “Doomsday Vault” – a structure which preserves seeds from around […]
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A New Perspective on America's Founding Fathers
April 1, 2010What kind of nation did the founders truly intend America to be? We’ll discuss the ongoing debate and the diverse group of lawyers, merchants, soldiers, politicians and others who framed the Constitution with R.B. Bernstein, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School and author of “The Founding Fathers Reconsidered” (Oxford, 2009).
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Hell Was An Ocean Away
April 1, 2010What was the Pacific Theater of World War II really like? We’ll spend this hour with Hugh Ambrose, historical consultant for HBO’s “The Pacific” miniseries and author of the official series companion book “The Pacific: Hell Was An Ocean Away” (HBO/NAL Caliber, 2010).
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Understanding Earthquakes
March 31, 2010What have we learned from the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile and can earthquake science help us be better prepared for the next big U.S. quake? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Pamela Jansma, geo-sciences expert and dean of the College of Science at The University of Texas at Arlington.
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Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
March 31, 2010What is it about stories of criminals and imposters that captivate our imagination? We’ll explore the subject this hour with New Yorker staff writer David Grann. His new collection is “The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession” (Doubleday, 2010).
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How to Become a Private Investigator
March 30, 2010How exactly does one become a private investigator? We’ll find out this hour with UNT criminologist Dr. Scott Belshaw and professional investigator and instructor Timothy Quinn. They’re both involved in the new private investigator program at UNT’s Professional Development Institute.
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From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
March 30, 2010Have reformers of the past unwittingly created the public education problems of today? How will today’s information revolution impact the future of education? We’ll talk this hour with Paul E. Peterson, the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard University. His new book is “Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning” (Harvard, 2010).
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Tragic Country Queen
March 29, 2010Who’s your favorite classic country star? We’ll look back at the life of one of the greats this hour with biographer Jimmy McDonough whose new book is “Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen” (Viking, 2010).
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From the Archive: Shoah as Turning Point
March 29, 2010In memory of Dallas Holocaust Museum executive director Elliott Dlin, who passed away earlier this month, we’ll re-air a special Think program archive this hour. We spoke to Dlin and Rick Halperin, director of SMU’s Human Rights Education Program last fall about the ongoing legacies of the Holocaust.
