Remembering Watergate
August 6, 2014This hour, we’ll talk to Former White House Counsel John W. Dean about the scandal that brought down a president, which he writes about in “The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and What He Knew It.”
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Two Of A Kind
August 5, 2014We’ll talk this hour about the link between greatness and gestalt with Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of “Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs.”
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Women At War
August 5, 2014This hour we’ll hear the story of three women who spent time at war with Helen Thorpe, author of “Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War.”
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Battling Ebola
August 4, 2014The CDC is fighting the biggest outbreak of Ebola that Africa has ever seen. We’ll talk this hour about why the virus is so difficult to contain with a panel of local infectious disease experts.
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Life After Death
August 4, 2014This hour, we’ll talk about the moral and sociological ramifications of bringing people back to life with Dr. David Casarett, associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
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The Pot Debate
July 24, 2014We’ll talk this hour about how marijuana affects individuals and society with University of Texas at Dallas researchers Dr. Francesca Filbey and Dr. Robert Morris.
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For Parkinson’s Patients, A Path To Speech
July 24, 2014As part of KERA’s Breakthrough’s series, we’ll talk this hour with speech-language pathologist Samantha Elandry of the Parkinson Voice Project about how Parkinson’s patients are being taught to speak again.
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All Aboard
July 23, 2014We’ll talk this hour about the demise of America’s railroads – and if they will ever make a comeback – with Kevin Baker, who writes about the lost glory of train travel in the July issue of Harper’s.
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The History Of Conflict In Ukraine
July 23, 2014We’ll talk this hour about the origins of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard.
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New Thinking On Delusions
July 22, 2014We’ll find out this hour about how the social world contributes to delusion with Dr. Joel Gold, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.
