We’ll talk about extreme cases of philanthropy with New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar, author of “Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help.”
We’ll talk about how fictional foreign tongues add to their fantastical stories with David J. Peterson, author of “The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building.”
This hour, we’ll explore the innerworkings of the human control center with Dr. David Eagleman.
We’ll talk about how we can better protect lions with minimal intrusion into their worlds with Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
This hour, we’ll talk about a treatment some experts have expressed skepticism about – one that Texas taxpayers have funded to the tune of $2.2 million.
This hour, we’ll talk about what was on the Civil Rights leader’s mind in the hours before his death with actor Hassan El-Amin and director Akin Babatunde, the team behind Dallas Theater Center’s production of “The Mountaintop.”
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can better advocate for ourselves and receive better medical care with Leslie D. Michelson, author of “The Patient’s Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love” (Knopf).
This hour, we’ll talk about how statistics can lead us to Mr. (or Mrs.) Right with Jon Birger, author of “Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” (Workman).
This hour, we’ll talk about how close we are to a Jetsons-like existence with Pulitzer Prize-winning technology writer John Markoff, author of “Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots” (Ecco).
This hour, we’ll talk to Moustafa Bayoumi about what it’s like to constantly feel like a suspect in a crime you didn’t commit, which he writes about in “This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror” (NYU Press).
