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SOUNDWAVES AUGUST 2010

• August 8 Radiolab - Limits

  Jad and Robert talk to two Ironman competitors, Julie Moss and Wendy Ingraham to find out how they do what they do. Physiologist David Jones tells us how to trick the voice in your head that tells you you're exhausted. Then we follow two men as they bike across the country as fast as they can in a crazy race called The Ride Across America.

• August 15 IQ2: The Cyber War Threat has been Grossly Exaggerated

  Are we at risk of a well-coordinated cyber attack, and if so, are we taking measures to protect ourselves? Or will the first cyber war be a war we're already positioned to win? The nation's sophisticated digital technologies may be without rival, but may also provide a sprawling target to enemies determined to cripple the nation. Alarming or alarmist? In this debate, these issues are examined.

• August 22 State of the Re:Union explores and celebrates New Orleans, Louisiana

  The city of New Orleans is as proud of its traditions as it is steeped in them. But since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the city and its residents have been thrust into new relationships with those very traditions they hold so dear. State of the Re:Union visits the Big Easy to explore how the city is negotiating that tension between the old and the new, from race relations to po-boys to combating crime, five years after the storm.

• August 29 The Great Textbook War

  What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia. Schools were hit by dynamite, buses were riddled with bullets, and coal mines were shut down. The fight was over a new set of textbooks.

• September 5 Fired

  Rejection has never been so hilarious! After her role in a much-anticipated Woody Allen play was recast, actress Annabelle Gurwitch was devastated. Then she began collecting tales from fellow performers who at one time had also been canned, canceled or dismissed. In a series of monologues, Gurwitch and a cast of show-biz veterans share their stories of hilarious mistakes and misadventures that happen on the job.