Hitting The Road For Healthcare
March 1, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the financial and health considerations that have patients traveling for care with Sasha Issenberg, author of “Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism.”
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Big Politics, Big Money
March 1, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about where big cash for political campaigns comes from and what’s really being bought with Nick Penniman, co-author of “Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It.”
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Teach The Children Well
February 29, 2016This hour, as part of KERA’s American Graduate series, we’ll talk about how at least trying to see the world through children’s eyes can inform the way we teach them with Erika Christakis. Her new book is called “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups.”
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Research Before Wikipedia
February 29, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the history of human’s desire to compile knowledge with Rutgers University English professor Jack Lynch, author of “You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia”
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The Best First Impression
February 23, 2016Harvard professor Amy Cuddy joins us to talk about how we can subtly tweak our body language to broadcast the image we want the world to see.
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Charting A Career Path
February 23, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Farai Chideya about how the career path for workers isn’t as linear as it once was. She’s the author of “The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption.”
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How To Get Close
February 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how we can strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that foster closeness with psychiatrist Amy Banks.
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A WWII Love Story
February 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Melody M. Miyamoto Walters on what she learned from reading her grandparents’ correspondence in Hawaii during World War II, the subject of her book “In Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple.”
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Neglect In Prison
February 16, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about cases of extreme medical neglect happening in prison facilities for non-American citizens with Seth Freed Wessler. His story on the topic appears in the current issue of “The Nation.”
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Improving Universities
February 16, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about ways that universities can better serve students with Columbia University professor Jonathan R. Cole, author of “Toward a More Perfect University.”
