January 24, 2010
Volcanoes of West Texas - Keith & Russ are in the KRTS studios in Marfa, Texas, to talk with hydrologist and geologist Kevin Urbanczyk. Urbanczyk is the director of the Rio Grande Research Center and will talk about the history of volcanoes in West Texas and their role in region's groundwater.
January 17, 2010
Platinum Drugs - Keith talks with Stephen Lippard, Dept. of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lippard talks about his research into platinum drugs and their use in cancer treatments.
January 10, 2010
Early Peoples of the Big Bend - Keith & Russ are on location again at the KRTS Studios in Marfa, Texas, to talk with Melissa Williams, an archaeologist and historian with the Center for Big Bend Studies. She talks about the early peoples of the Big Bend region and about current-day looting in the region.
January 3, 2010
Ethnobotany - Keith & Russ go on location to Marfa, Texas, to talk to Martin Terry of Sul Ross State University's Department of Biology. Terry talks about the healing use of plants by various cultures. Rebroadcast of a program that aired Sept. 7, 2008.
December 27, 2009
The Simple Theory of Everything - Keith & Russ talk to theoretical physicist Garret Lisi who is best known for his work, "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything," which proposes a unified field theory. Lisi walks us through the basics of theoretical physics and tells us about the new physics that the Large Hadron Collider may reveal in coming months and years, including the possible discovery of the Higgs boson particle.