Fakers, Forgers And Frauds
July 28, 2015we’ll talk about some of history’s most notorious scams – and how they were pulled off – with the author of The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World .
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How Identical Twins Became Fraternal
July 27, 2015Imagine being separated at birth from your identical twin and raised alongside your assumed fraternal twin. That’s exactly what happened to four infants in Colombia.
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Rebooting An Aging Mind
July 27, 2015When Patricia Marx’s age was beginning to betray her memory, she decided to be proactive. This hour, we’ll talk to the New Yorker staff writer about her humorous search for ways to curb the mind’s decline.
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The Life Of A Speechwriter
July 23, 2015We’ll talk about the process of populating all those TelePrompters with Barton Swaim, a one-time speechwriter for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
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The Parenting Paradox
July 23, 2015We’ll talk about how we can be better parents with Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.
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Forensic Anthropology And Fictional Adventures
July 22, 2015This hour, we’ll talk to Kathy Reichs about injecting her experience as a forensic anthropologist into her most popular fictional character, Temperance Brennan.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
July 22, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about common expressions and terms that may set off the language police with Ammon Shea, author of Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
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Losing And Finding A Mind
July 21, 2015We’ll talk with Clark Elliott about how a pair of Chicago researchers helped him to regain his mental capacity, which he writes about in The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back.
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The Future Of Jobs
July 21, 2015As more and more jobs are becoming automated, some workers are becoming obsolete. This hour, we’ll talk about what that means for the future of our workforce with Derek Thompson, whose story “A World Without Work” appears in The Atlantic.
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The Two-Dad Dynamic
July 20, 2015We’ll talk this hour about two-dad households with Aaron Goodfellow, author of Gay Fathers, Their Children, and the Making of Kinship.
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think since 2006.
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