Looking At Light
December 1, 2015This hour, we’ll get a better understanding of how light functions in the universe with Kim Arcand of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
This hour, we’ll get a better understanding of how light functions in the universe with Kim Arcand of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
We’ll talk about the current state of microbial research with Rob DeSalle, curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
This hour, as part of the KERA series “One Crisis Away at the Holidays,” we’ll talk about living paycheck-to-paycheck this time of year.
This hour, we’ll talk about why the music of Gershwin, Porter and other greats fell out of favor and how those tunes found a new audience with the author of “The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song.”
This hour, we’ll listen back to our August conversation about the scientists who are exploring new ways of producing food with Joel K. Bourne, author of “The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World” (W.W. Norton and Co.).
This hour, we’ll listen back to our January conversation with Washington University psychology professor Jeffrey M. Zacks about how our minds process moving images.
This hour, we’ll talk about why Chagas, Dengue and other conditions are making their way to local doctors’ offices – and about what you can do to avoid them – with Dr. Seema Yasmin.
This hour, we’ll talk about how the future of democracy may depend on credit unions, community gardens and other hyperlocal organizations with urban planner Gabriel Metcalf.
This hour, we’ll talk about how the ruling opened the door to further rights for LGBT Americans with Roberta Kaplan, which she writes about in “Then Comes Marriage: United States V. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA.”
This hour, we’ll talk about the idea of “reproductive justice” with investigative reporter Dani McClain. Her story on the history of birth control appears in the Nov. 16 issue of “The Nation.”