Paying Mind To Mental Health
April 6, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how we can improve access to mental health services with Tom Luce, President and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.
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Weighty Issues
April 6, 2015We’ll talk about our national obsession with thinness with the author of “Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight – and What We Can Do About It.”
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The Power Of Pills
March 31, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how people develop a dependence to prescription drugs – and how pain pills and anti-depressants differ from street drugs – with experts who treat prescription-drug addicts.
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A Place Called Jubilee
March 19, 2015The cost of living poor can be staggering: Racking up interest on a payday loan, working for minimum wage, paying fees to cash a check, and eating healthy when groceries are hard to find. This hour, as part of KERA’s One Crisis Away: Inside a Neighborhood initiative, we’ll talk to Courtney Collins, who reported the […]
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Helping Kids Creatively
March 3, 2015We’ll talk to Lisa Schmidt of Big Thought and Dallas County Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Terry Smith about Creative Solutions, a joint arts program that has helped 10,000 kids over the last two decades.
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The Crimes Of Tomorrow
March 3, 2015We’ll talk about the dangers brought about by technological advancement with Marc Goodman, author of Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It.
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Vitamin Overload
March 2, 2015We’ll talk about the history of hyping vitamins – and why the vitamin section of food labels doesn’t tell the whole story – with Catherine Price, author of Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection.
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What The Future Holds
February 11, 2015We’ll talk about upcoming shifts in business, technology, security and the environment with futurist James Canton, author of Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World
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The Rise Of Measles
January 27, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how the outbreak may be linked to the anti-vaccination movement in American with Dr. Seema Yasmin, professor of public health at UTD and a staff writers at The Dallas Morning News.
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James Ellroy’s Life of Crime
January 22, 2015Novelist James Ellroy is known for his novels set in his native Los Angeles, including The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential. In October, we talked to him about his latest work set in his home town, Perfidia, which centers around the investigation of a Japanese family’s murder at the outset of American involvement in World War II.
