Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

Other Guests for Today’s Appearance on WAMU-NPR

On the Kojo Nnamdi Show at noon EST today, I will be joined by David Jenkins, Government Affairs Director for Republicans for Environmental Protection
and Gene Karpinski, President, League of Conservation Voters. Should be an interesting discussion on environmental issues and how they are playing out at the national and local political races.

You can tune in to the NPR affiliate’s live or archived broadcast here.

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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