Marriage & Co-Habitation, Touch Technology, Color Consultant

Living Together Before Marriage Should Make for Better Marriages. So Why Doesn’t It? (Originally aired February 7, 2019) Guest: Scott Stanley, Research Professor and Co-director of the University of Denver’s Center for Marital and Family Studies One of the most striking trends in America over the last forty years has been the rise of cohabitation. Unmarried couples of all age groups are living together in greater numbers. Among 18-24 year olds, it’s now more common to cohabitate than to actually be married. And the justification is often that living together is a way to test the waters before marriage. But it generally does not lead to better odds that a marriage will succeed. Why? Turning Ordinary Objects into Touch Screens (Originally aired February 26, 2019) Guest: Chris Harrison, Assistant Professor of Human-computer Interaction, Director of the Human Interfaces Group, Carnegie Mellon University I think we can all agree touch screens are amazing, but we’ve still got the problem of big thumbs and tiny keyboard buttons or links. So what if everything around us was a touch screen? Your couch could sense when the cat scratches and shoo it away. The reminder you scribble on a Post-It would be automatically uploaded to your computer. Coral is the New Black: Exploring the Impact of Color (Originally aired April 2, 2019) Guest: Jill Pilaroscia, Founder of Colour Studio Have you ever thought about how most fast food restaurants have the same colors? McDonald’s: red and yellow. Wendy’s: red and yellow. Burger King: red and yellow. It’s probably not a coincidence -certain colors evoke universal biological responses. Red, for instance, makes your heart rate speed up a bit. How Liberia’s Women Overthrew Male Domination to Elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Originally aired March 6, 2019) Guest: Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent, New York Times, Author of “Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf” Six of the 26 people currently running for president in 2020 are women. What will it take