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Learn how to keep those New Year's Resolutions! A behavioral scientist figures out how to use an age-old Japanese principle to help anyone make life changes without fear or failure.
Robert Maurer, Director of Behavioral Sciences, Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, UCLA
From beer serving as currency in ancient Egypt, to how carbonated soda became a 20th century phenomenon, one book explains how the history of the world can be traced through six different drinks: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and carbonated sodas.
Tom Standage, author, "A History of the World in 6 Glasses" (Pub: Walker & Company) and technology editor, The Economist
For three decades, Laurence Gonzales has studied what happens when ordinary people survive in extraordinary circumstances like plane crashes and shipwrecks. In his latest book, he trains his focus on less exotic, everyday circumstances. Gonzales joins Kojo to explain how evolutionary biology explains why smart people do stupid things, from the corporate boardroom to your daily commute.
Laurence Gonzales, author, "Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things" (Norton)
They're stories that might seem like odd local examples of environmental change: ants devouring the jungles of Venezuela and elk destroying the landscape of U.S. national parks. But scientists say these phenomena are not random -- they're being driven by the disappearance of predators from many corners of the world. Join Kojo as we talk about the decline of meat-eating beasts -- and hear about controversial ideas for restoring their numbers in the wild.
William Stolzenburg, Freelance Wildlife Journalist; Author, "Where the Wild Things Were" (Bloomsbury)
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