Vote For Best Of Think 2016
December 5, 2016We’ve narrowed down to our favorites, and we want you to help us choose the shows we’ll hear during “Best of Think Week,” Dec. 26-29. Voting ends Dec. 16.
Think: Episode Archives
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How To Overcome Passive-Aggression
December 5, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how to deal with conflict directly with Dr. Tim Murphy, co-author of “Overcoming Passive-Aggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness.”
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The Distracted Mind
December 5, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about strategies for working on one task at a time – and about how we can block out the interference that keeps us from getting things done – with Adam Gazzaley, director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UC-San Francisco.
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How To Save Money
December 1, 2016This hour, we’ll get practical advice for stretching our dollars from David Pogue. His newest book is called “Pogue’s Basics: Money – Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers to Tell You)”
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The Republic Of Spin
December 1, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how every administration since then has used presidential press conferences as opportunities to craft the messages they want the American public to hear with Rutgers University presidential historian David Greenberg. He writes about the topic in “Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency”
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Navigating Your Office Enemies
November 30, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how to navigate those officemates who complain, undermine and even bully us with the author of “Working with Difficult People, Second Revised Edition: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing Your Mind.”
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Hidden Minds
November 30, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how doctors search for brain function with Dr. Nicholas D. Schiff and Dr. Joseph J Fins of Weill Cornell Medicine. Their story “In Search of Hidden Minds” appears in the current issue of Scientific American Mind.
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The National Endowment For The Arts
November 29, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with National Endowment for the Arts chair Jane Chu about how her organization distributes its funding and about the intersection of politics and the arts.
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Inside The Fish Market
November 29, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the commercialization of fishing and the effect it’s had on the seafood we consume with journalist Lee Van Der Voo, who writes about the topic in “The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate”
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The Use And Abuse Of Stop And Frisk
November 28, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the history of the stop and frisk – and about if it’s even possible to hunt for criminals without racial profiling. We’ll be joined by Arizona State criminology professor Michael D. White, co-author of “Stop and Frisk: The Use and Abuse of a Controversial Policing Tactic.”
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think since 2006.
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