The Streets On The Stage
January 23, 2014The tragedy of Oedpus has taken many forms since Sophocles’ day – one is set in the barrios of Los Angeles in the play ‘Oedipus El Rey.’
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History Through Humor
January 22, 2014P.J. O’Rourke has been making us laugh through his writing for 50 years. And as a proud Baby Boomer, he’s got plenty of wry insights to make about his generation.
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Learning How to Live Longer
January 22, 2014As humans, we can reliably live about 70 years, give or take. So what are some tortoises doing that allows them to live twice as long?
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Taking on Obesity
January 21, 2014We’ll talk this hour about the factors at play in our war with our weight with Dr. Deborah A. Cohen, author of A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic – And How We Can End It.
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Mind Your Manners
January 21, 2014We’ll talk this hour about what passes as good manners – and how we learned them – with Henry Hitchings, author of Sorry!: The English and Their Manners.
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Civil Rights Meets College Football
January 20, 2014Where did college sports and racial integration meet?
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Looking Back at the March on Washington
January 20, 2014In August, the nation marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.
