Trump Trails, Ancient Food, Mentor and Murderer

Making Sense of Trump's Trailing Status in Polls Guests: Grant Madsen, PhD, Professor of 20th Century US History at BYU; Chris Karpowitz, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at BYU Donald Trump left the Republican National Convention with a boost in the polls against Democrat Hillary Clinton. But last week, he engaged in an unpopular fight with the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier and refused to back top Republicans in their primary races – including Senator John McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan. If you average the current polls right now, Trump is trailing Clinton by 7 points.  Recreating and Trying Out Ancient Recipes Guest: Ilaria Patania, Graduate Student in the Department of Archaeology, Director of the “Eating Archaeology” Project at Boston University One of the most important parts of traveling is tasting the local food. If it’s true that you can’t completely understand a culture until you’ve eaten its food, could the same be true for ancient cultures? That’s the question behind a program called “Eating Archaeology” at Boston University. What Kids Are Really Doing on Social Media Guest: Marion Underwood, PhD, Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Texas in Dallas If you could look at an entire year’s worth of texting and social media posts from one teenager, what do you suppose you’d find? Incoherent messages? Bullying? Inappropriate pictures? Lots of selfies and emojis, to be sure.  Psychologist Marion Underwood and her colleagues recently finished monitoring every single text, email, or Facebook message produced by a large group of youth from the time they were 9 until they were 20.  From this massive database they discovered that texting and social media use among teens is far more sophisticated, and not nearly as ugly, as adults tend to think.  Impact of Media Violence on Gifted Kids Guest: Brad Bushman, PhD, Professor of Communication and Psychology at Ohio State Univer