Terror and Detention, Bird Flight Origin, Will and Jane

Terror, Detention and Torture under President Trump Guest: Ryan Vogel, Professor of National Security, Foreign Policy and the Law of Armed Conflict, Founding Director of the Center for National Security Studies, Utah Valley University As President-elect, Trump works to fill his cabinet, four of the 15 positions are directly related to national security issues – State, Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security. His picks to fill those posts will give us a clearer indication of how closely President Trump will align with “Candidate Trump” on issues such as how the US will target, detain and interrogate suspected terrorists and how far the nation will go to monitor communication of American citizens.  Origin of Flight in Birds Guest: Michael Habib, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Research Associate in the Dinosaur Institute at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History A region in Southern China has become a hotspot for dinosaur discoveries: in the last five years, half a dozen bird-like dinos have been unearthed there. The latest was found by construction workers building a new school. The name they gave it translates into: “Muddy dragon on the road to heaven” and it appears to have perished after getting stuck in the mud. It has a beak, a crest on its head, wings and feathers. But scientists say it probably couldn’t fly.  Three Things Effective Bosses Do Guest: Kathryn Shaw, PhD, Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University TV comedies are riddled with bad bosses: Michael Scott from The Office, Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation, for example. We love to laugh at their terrible ideas, or their disinterest in being ‘good’ at their job.  But what makes a good boss? Is it the one who gets to know the names of your kids or brings treats to the office or makes motivational speeches in staff meetings? Apple Seed Guest: Sam Payne, Host of BYUradio’s “The Apple Seed” Sam Payne joins us in the studio to share talks of tellers and stories. Will & Jane and the Cult of Celebrity Guest: Janine Barchas, PhD, English Professor, University Texas, Austin; Kristina Straub, PhD, English Professor, Carnegie Mellon University William Shakespeare and Jane Austen were recently featured together in an unusual exhibit at the very serious Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. It’s a venue where scholars go to study First Folios of The Bard’s plays.  This latest exhibit was unusual because Shakespeare had never before shared the library’s Great Hall with another writer. And because the displays included quite a bit of pop culture and whimsy alongside the more serious stuff you’d expect to see in a literary exhibition. Bobblehead toys of Will and Jane, for example. And a certain long white tunic from the wardrobe vault of the 1995 BBC adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice.” Mr. Darcy fans know the one. . .and they turned out by the bus load to swoon over it. From Illiterate Childhood to Novel Writer Guest: Othello Bach, Author Words have shaped Othello Bach’s life. First, it was her inability to decipher them – she was illiterate until the 8th grade. When she finally did discover the secret to reading, words brought an escape from her miserable life in an orphanage and restored a bit of her self-confidence. She became a prolific letter writer and then tried her hand at novels and published her first at the age of 25. It just never occurred to her that publishing a book wasn’t something a girl who’d been illiterate most of her childhood could do. She went on to publish several novels that sold tens of thousands of copies and several children’s books, too. “Whoever Heard of a Fird?” is her most successful. Othello Bach’s memoir is called, “Cry Into the Wind.”