The Malleable Mind
July 8, 2014We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Thalma Lobel, an expert on human behavior. Her new book is Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence.
We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Thalma Lobel, an expert on human behavior. Her new book is Sensation: The New Science of Physical Intelligence.
We’ll talk this hour to a trio of local entrepreneurs who’ve successfully navigated the start-up world to learn about the advantages our area has to offer.
We’ll talk this hour about the tricks to walking away a little happier than the other guy with Lawrence Susskind, co-founder of the Program for Negotiation at Harvard.
We’ll talk this hour about Rick Perry’s accomplishments and failures with Texas Monthly writers Brian Sweany and Erica Grieder, who grade his time in office in the July issue.
Legal jargon can be tough to dissect and understand. This hour, we’ll be joined by Byran Garner, editor-in-chief of Black’s Law Dictionary, to talk about what it takes to write clearly about the law.
We’ll talk this hour about how far science can take us with Dartmouth College theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser. His new book is “The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning.”
Immigration will be a much-debated topic during this year’s national and state campaigns. We’ll talk this hour about what it means to be undocumented with immigration rights activist Aviva Chomsky.
We’ll talk this hour about insight scientists have gained from working with disturbed animals with Laurel Braitman, author of “Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves.”
This hour, we’ll talk to the director of Dallas Theater Center’s Les Misérables, Liesl Tommy, about how she’s freshening up one of the world’s most performed musicals.
What does it take to be a freediver? This hour, we’ll talk about how these athletes are using this skill to explore Earth’s last great frontier.