As the number of homeless North Texans rises under a struggling economy, what can local communities do to help shelter their most vulnerable citizens? We’ll spend this hour with Mike Faenza, president and chief executive officer of Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, and Otis Thornton, Homelessness Coordinator for the City of Fort Worth.
Does being cool, in effect, mean you are actually not cool at all? We’ll discuss the irony of today’s post-cool society with noted jazz critic and music historian Ted Gioia, whose new book is “The Birth (and Death) of the Cool” (Speck Press, 2009).
Do the concurrent crises of the economy, climate change, and global food supply provide an opportunity to change the way we think? We’ll find the advantages in valuing people, places, and animals regardless of their economic worth with Raj Patel, author of the new book “The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and […]
Is it possible to build a robot that looks, thinks, and responds like a human being? We’ll spend this hour with robotics designer David Hanson, who develops “intelligent” robots with realistic facial expressions and conversational abilities from his laboratory in Richardson, Texas.
From the archives – What is the current state of women’s healthcare in America? We’ll spend this hour with Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States. She was in town to deliver the Louise B. Raggio Endowed Lecture at SMU.
Is a new world dawning and more importantly, are we prepared to live in it? We’ll spend this hour with Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR’s On the Media and author of the new book “The Chaos Scenario, Amid the Ruins of Mass Media, The Choice for Business is Stark: Listen or Perish” (Stielstra Publishing, 2009).
From the archives – How has the perception of God changed and how has this transformation affected society? We’ll talk this hour with scholar and world-wide religion expert Karen Armstrong, whose new book is “The Case for God” (Knopf, 2009).
From the archives – What does “gourmet” mean today? We’ll talk this hour with best-selling memoirist and Gourmet Magazine Editor-In-Chief Ruth Reichl. She’s also the editor of the brand new cookbook “Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009).
How are cautious investors reacting to the rising markets?
From the archives – How important are costumes in bringing characters to life on screen? We explored the intersection of fashion and film in August with Oscar-nominated costume designer Deborah Landis, author of “Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design” (Harper Collins, 2007).
