Coast to Coast 2011.03.25 Open Lines

Open LinesS

Date: 03-25-11
Host: Ian Punnett
Guests: Open Lines, Buck Wolf, Steve Murdock

Filling in for George, Ian Punnett hosted a night of Open Lines. In the first hour, Buck Wolf (book link), weird news editor for AOL News, shared some recent strange stories, then Steve Murdock, director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University, talked about population shift.

Website(s):
hobbycenter.rice.edu

Book(s):
The Wolf Files: Adventures in Weird News
Applied Demography in the 21st Century

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