The Revenge Of Analog
December 14, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the enduring appeal of tangibility with David Sax, author of “The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter.”
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How Play Made The World
December 13, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how history has been shaped by the pursuit of amusement with Steven Johnson, creator of the PBS series “How We Got to Now.”
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Presidential Appointees
December 12, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about building smooth transitions from one administration to the next with G. Edward DeSeve of the Brookings Institute. He writes about the topic in “The Presidential Appointee’s Handbook.”
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Do Parents Matter?
December 12, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with parenting experts Robert and Sarah LeVine about what we can learn from other cultures when it comes to child rearing. They write about their decades of research in “Do Parents Matter? Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax.”
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Why We Need Rest
December 8, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the idea of “deliberate rest” – and about strategies to incorporate it into our busy schedules – with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a visiting scholar at Stanford.
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Staying Calm In A Crisis
December 8, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how to think clearly and keep our feelings in check when the going gets tough with Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David, author of “Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life.”
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The Politics Of The White Working Class
December 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how many in the white working class have come to feel disenfranchised with George Mason University’s Justin Gest. He’s the author of “The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Era of Immigration and Inequality.”
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The Search For The Chibok Girls
December 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how the kidnapping has affected families – and about ongoing efforts to rescue the remaining students – with Helon Habila, author of “The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria”
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The Casino Trap
December 6, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how nearly every element of casinos is designed to keep the player playing with John Rosengren. His story “How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts” appears in the December issue of The Atlantic magazine.
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The Consciousness Of Cephalopods
December 6, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how the octopus and its close relatives were likely the first to develop a complex nervous system – and about how that evolution took place independent of land animals – with City University of New York professor Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think since 2006.
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