Is There Anybody Out There?
June 26, 2014What are the odds that life exists on other planets? We’ll talk about the possibility this hour with Michael Lemonick, who explores the question in a cover story for the July issue of National Geographic.
What are the odds that life exists on other planets? We’ll talk about the possibility this hour with Michael Lemonick, who explores the question in a cover story for the July issue of National Geographic.
As KERA marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer, we’ll talk to Rev. Jackson about his lifetime devotion to the Civil Rights movement.
We’ll take an inside look at the effect the drug trade has on Mexico this hour with Michael Deibert. His new book is In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America’s Drug War in Mexico.
We’ll talk this hour about how we can have healthy yards and clean water with Dr. Diane Lewis. Her new book is The Great Healthy Yard Project: Our Yards, Our Children, Our Responsibility.
This hour, we’ll talk with University of Sydney professor Iain McCalman. His new book is The Reef: A Passionate History – The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change.
We’ll talk this hour to Jerusalem-based journalist Matthew Kalman about the current state of affairs in the Middle East. Kalman is in town to address the annual meeting of American Jewish Committee.
We’ll find out this hour how food trends develop with David Sax, author of The Tastemakers: Why We’re Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with Fondue.
This hour, we’ll talk about how we educate college students with Wesleyan University president Michael S. Roth. His new book is Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.
We’ll talk this hour about what a home-rule district could look like with reporters covering the issue: KERA’s Bill Zeeble and Tawnell Hobbs and Matthew Haag of The Dallas Morning News.
We’ll look back this hour at one of the defining battles of the Vietnam War with Gregg Jones, author of Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam.