New Insight Into Bullying
March 29, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about a pair of new studies that analyze bullying with UT-Dallas criminology professor Nadine Connell, who conducted the studies.
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Recovering From Disasters
March 29, 2016This hour we’ll talk with KERA’s Courtney Collins, who has followed the recovery of some of the North Texas families affected by the Dec. 26 tornadoes.
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The State Of The Working Class
March 28, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about issues important to workers – and what workers are looking for in a candidate – with Sherry Linkon, a professor at Georgetown who edits the Working-Class Perspectives blog.
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Inside Saudi Arabia
March 28, 2016This hour, we’ll get an inside look at the nation’s tension between modernity and tradition with James Jones, director of the Frontline documentary “Saudi Arabia Uncovered.”
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Best Of Think: Racial Typecasting In Hollywood
December 28, 2015Having emigrated with his family to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, Maz Jobrani spent his childhood learning baseball and watching “Dallas.” Still, casting directors only wanted him to play extremists. This hour, we’ll talk about his experiences with typecasting, which he discusses in his book “I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One On TV: Memoirs of a Middle Eastern Funny Man.”
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How NASA Helped End Segregation
May 13, 2015While NASA’s primary mission in the 1960s was to go to the moon, it also wanted to improve the economy and use its program for social change.
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The Congolese Expat And The Journalist
May 13, 2015Francisca Thelin managed to leave her home in the Congo behind for a new life in America. As an adult, though, she returned to her homeland with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon to check in on the family she left behind.
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Spreading Pathogens Through Poultry To Plate
May 12, 2015David Hoffman investigates the spread of salmonella through poultry for Frontline.
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A Symbiotic Relationship
May 12, 2015Every year, tiny birds known as red knots fly 19,000 miles – from the tip of South America to the Arctic and back.
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From Bacon to ‘Charlotte’s Web’
May 11, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about the relationship between humans and pigs with Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig.
