Culture Shocks

Mark McCaffrey

robinson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:25:22 +0000

The National Center for Science Education launched a new initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change; Mark McCaffrey, Programs and Policy Director from NCSE takes on the deniers.

Candida Pugh

robinson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:02:08 +0000

Candida Pugh’s debut novel is about a young woman who joins the Freedom Riders in 1961, gets arrested and jailed in Mississippi, and learns that not everyone appreciates a hero in Bridge of the Single Hair.

Heather Donahue, Walter Mosley

robinson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:46:50 +0000

Actress Heather Donahue, who appeared as the lead character in The Blair Witch Project talks about her time as a medical marijuana grower in Grow Girl. Then, best selling author Walter Mosley with his latest novel, All I Did Was Shoot My Man.

Lori Andrews

robinson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:45:52 +0000

A leading expert on social networks and privacy Lori Andrews shows, through in-depth research and stories of abuses, as we work and chat and shop and date over the Web how we are opening ourselves up to increasingly intrusive and anonymous surveillance in I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did.

Gail Collins

robinson — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:28 +0000

William Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but NY Times columnist, Gail Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look.

Katherine Stewart

robinson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:49:01 +0000

The Good News Club came to the public elementary school where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children, but she soon discovered that the Club’s real mission is to convert children to fundamentalist Christianity.

John Woestendiek

robinson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:42:59 +0000

John Woestendiek takes readers behind the scenes of the emerging dog cloning industry in Dog, Inc., a fascinating look at how our emotional needs are bending the reaches of science and technology.

Scott Alarik

robinson — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:42:18 +0000

Scott Alarik‘s Revival celebrates America’s renewed passion for folk music as well as a May-December romance with a young female songwriter and older male songwriter.

Jonathan Moreno

robinson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:52:07 +0000

Jonathan Moreno explains the most contentious biopolitics issues in The Body Politic, offering an engaging history of the intersection between science and democracy in American life.

Kayt Sukel, Dr. Amir Levine

robinson — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:07:20 +0000

What does the brain have to say about the way we carry our hearts? Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out in Dirty Minds. Then, co-author Dr. Amir Levine reveals in Attached how an understanding of the attachment theory can help us find and sustain love.