Be Happy For Yourself
June 15, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about deemphasizing how we stack up to others with Kay Wills Wyma, author of ‘I’m Happy for You (Sort Of … Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture of Comparison.’
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Where’s Ebola Now?
June 11, 2015We’ll talk about where viruses go when they’re in hiding with David Quammen, who writes about the topic in the July issue of National Geographic.
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Reaching Beyond After Loss
June 11, 2015When a parent loses a child, one may find solace in religion while another turns to a counselor. Sukey Forbes chose clairvoyance.
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Do Guns Make Us Free?
June 10, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how we interpret the Second Amendment with Firmin DeBrabander.
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A Legendary Journalist Looks Back
June 10, 2015North Texas news junkies know Bob Ray Sanders as a popular columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And viewers of a certain age may also remember his work as a television reporter for KERA’s Newsroom. Sanders has decided to retire, and this hour, we’ll look back with him at his life and work. https://www.kera.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/KERA_Think_06-10-15-HR-2.mp3[Download MP3]
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Music And Liberation
June 9, 2015Pianist Mona Golabek writes about how her mother narrowly escaped the Nazis of war-torn Vienna in ‘The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival.’
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Nuances Of Evolution
June 9, 2015This hour, we’ll talk about how we got to now with American Museum of Natural History curator Ian Tattersall.
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Losing Thomas Eric Duncan To Ebola
June 8, 2015Louise Troh met Thomas Eric Duncan in Ivory Coast and said goodbye to him in Dallas after he became the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S. We’ll talk to her about her new memoir, ‘My Spirit Took You In: The Romance that Sparked an Epidemic of Fear.’
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Finding Constants In A Changing Constitution
June 8, 2015What would the Founding Fathers think of our interpretation of the Constitution? We’ll ask the question to Carol Berkin, professor of history at Baruch College and author of ‘The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties.’
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Special Assignments For Women Soldiers
June 4, 2015During the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army created cultural support teams staffed with women. The idea was that in the patriarchal country, these soldiers might build relationships with local women that their male counterparts could not.
Krys Boyd has been host and managing editor of KERA-FM’s flagship midday talk show Think since 2006.
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