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[2013-05-23 12:00:00] How does photography help us understand the human condition? We’ll talk this hour with Steve McCurry, a photographer for National Geographic Magazine. His solo exhibition “The Unguarded Moment” is on display at Laura Rathe Fine Art, and he’ll give a lecture at the gallery this evening.
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Wednesday at 9:02 PM
[2013-05-22 13:00:00] Will longer lives mean better ones? We’ll find out this hour with Sonia Arrison, a founder of Singularity University. Her new book is “100 Plus: How The Coming Age Of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers And Relationships To Family And Faith” (Basic Books, 2013).
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Wednesday at 9:01 PM
[2013-05-22 12:00:00] What’s the downside of the new adoption movement? Are some children taken from families who still want them? We’ll talk this hour with Kathryn Joyce, who wrote the exposé “The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, And The New Gospel Of Adoption” (Public Affairs 2013)
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Tuesday at 10:05 PM
[2013-05-21 13:00:00] Where can you find the best barbeque in Texas? What makes it so memorable? We’ll scour the corners this hour with Daniel Vaughan, the longtime ‘cue sleuth who just became Texas Monthly’s first ever barbeque editor. His new book is “The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbecue” (Anthony Bourdain/Ecco, 2013). Vaughan will sign his book at a barbeque on Saturday, at Four Corners Brewery in West Dallas.
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Tuesday at 10:04 PM
[2013-05-21 12:00:00] What makes political cartoons stick with us after the headlines fade? We’ll talk this hour with Victor Navasky, longtime editor of The Nation and professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His new book is “The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power” (Random House, 2013).
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Monday at 8:33 PM
[2013-05-20 13:00:00] How does Romare Bearden’s legacy live on in contemporary art? We’ll find out this hour with Fort Worth artist Sedrick Huckaby, who credits Bearden as an important influence. The exhibition Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey is now on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. Huckaby’s oil painting Hidden in Plain Site is also on view in the museum’s atrium.
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Monday at 8:33 PM
[2013-05-20 12:00:00] Why can’t we all just get along, anyway? Could the answer lie in two basic personality types and a handful of ways to misunderstand each other? We’ll talk this hour with cultural psychologist Alana Conner, co-author of “Clash!: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are” (Hudson Street Press, 2013).
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Thu May 16, 2013 at 7:43 PM
[2013-05-16 13:00:00] Can the way primates interact explain the human capacity for empathy and community? We’ll talk this hour with Emory University biologist Frans De Waal, who makes the case for morality as a product of evolution, rather than religion, in “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013).”
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Thu May 16, 2013 at 7:43 PM
[2013-05-16 12:00:00] Why are many young adults embracing slower-paced and more home-centric lifestyles and what does the trend say about our changing society? We’ll find out this hour with Emily Matchar, who follows neo-homesteaders, crafty moms and gardening hipsters in her book “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity” (Simon & Schuster, 2013).
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Wed May 15, 2013 at 8:23 PM
[2013-05-15 13:00:00] How do words and their meanings color our experience with possibility and how does our changing language keep us learning? We’ll spend this hour with Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette, hosts of the popular public radio show “A Way With Words.” The pair appears at the Lakewood Theater Thursday evening to benefit the Aberg Center for Literacy.
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