Rethinking The Bomb
August 13, 2015We’ll talk about how views have changed in the years since the U.S. decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with UMass Amherst history professor Christian Appy.
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Challenges For a Growing World
August 12, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how to keep the population manageable with Robert Walker, CEO of Population Media Center and author of the new report “Demographic Vulnerability: Where the Population Growth Poses the Greatest Challenge.”
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Tattoo You
August 12, 2015We’ll talk specifically about what extensive body art says about the women who chose the look with Siena College sociology professor Beverly Yuen Thompson.
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Healthcare Hang-ups
August 11, 2015We’ll talk to Dr. Sandeep Jauhar about how the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and government policies are affecting patient care, which he writes about in Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician.
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Remembering Robert Peace
August 11, 2015We’ll talk about how the dreams of a brilliant student were ultimately crushed by the life he tried to leave behind with Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.
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Feeding An Overcrowded World
August 10, 2015We’ll talk 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.
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For Richer or Poorer: Natural Disasters
August 10, 2015How does the aftermath of hurricanes, floods and the like fuel global inequality? We’ll talk about the topic with the author of The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
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How Humans Took Over The World
August 6, 2015We’ll talk about how we beat out all other animals to become the planet’s dominant species with Curtis W. Marean, associate director of Arizona State’s Institute of Human Origins.
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The First G.O.P. Debate
August 6, 2015We’ll talk about who might emerge from the crowded field – and about the possibility of Vice President Joe Biden jumping into the race – with a panel of local political science professors.
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Francis: The Pope, The Person
August 5, 2015We’ll get to know the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio a little better with Robert Draper, whose book with photographer David Yoder is called Pope Francis and the New Vatican.
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think since 2006.
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