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Author Deirdre Barrett talks about her book, Waistland: A (R)evolutionary View of Our Weight and Fitness Crisis. She explains how farming ruined our figures and our health. Barrett also offers advice on how to lose weight: eat less and exercise more.

Alan Schwarz talks about baseball's opening day and about his new collection of baseball stories called, Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories.

Journalist Melinda Henneberger set out across the United States to find out what issues really matter to women. In her new book, If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear, she discusses what she learned about why women vote the way they do.

Mathematics may seem like an unusual tool to catch criminals, but real math and actual events inspire the CBS crime drama Numb3rs. Guests discuss the intersection of math-based crime solving and prime-time television.

What would happen to the Earth if all humans suddenly disappeared? In his new book, The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman discusses how long it would take for all evidence of human life to vanish from the planet.

In English, we can babble, bark, bleat and bray. But we can also ask, cite, pose, preach and tell. Psychologist Steven Pinker says that studying how we use these verbs provides a window into human nature. Pinker discusses his new book, The Stuff of Thought.

One common worry for parents is whether they are paying too much, or too little, attention to their children. "Ask Amy" columnist Amy Dickinson gives advice on how parents can create the right balance in the relationship between parent and child.

In his new book, Terra, fossil hunter Michael Novacek writes that Earth is overburdened and that the planet faces a mass extinction. Novacek, a paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses the history of ecosystems on Earth, and current risks to the environment.

The ongoing financial crisis is posing some opportunities for parents to teach kids about smart money management. Mocha Moms Jolene Ivey, Cheli English-Figaro and Asra Nomani welcome money coach Alvin Hall, author of Show Me the Money, to discuss teaching youngsters how to become financially sound.

When you hit the road this Thanksgiving, take a look at the driver who honks at you: Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic, has a theory that men honk more than women, and expensive cars honk more at less expensive cars.

President-elect Barack Obama names Gov. Bill Richardson Secretary of Commerce in his administration, and Saxby Chambliss wins the Senate run-off in Georgia. Plus, former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has some recommendations to get Republicans moving the "right" way.

The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies peers into the world of ants and other social insects. Eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson and co-author Bert Hölldobler, a biologist at Arizona State University, discuss the book.

Your brain and body use "maps" to translate incoming sensory signals into meaningful information. Science writers Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee talk about their new book, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, which explains "body maps" and their role in connecting the body and the brain.

Having one baby is exciting enough. But throw in another at the same time, and you have twins. Mocha Mom Jolene Ivey is joined by broadcast journalist Tracey Neale, who recently adopted twins, and twin expert Pat Malmstrom to discuss caring for multiples, and getting rest.

Mary Elizabeth Bowser served Jefferson Davis in the Confederate White House. She was also a spy — for the Union. Bowser's story is one of many collected in African American Lives, a new encyclopedia edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higginbotham.

A Lufthansa Airlines flight attempting to land in Germany on Saturday got caught in strong cross-winds. Passengers experienced a frightening ride as the aircraft tipped and the wing scraped the runway. The pilot brought the plane back into the air and made a successful landing the second time around.

Depression is said to affect more than 20 million people in the United States, but psychiatrist James Gordon argues that it's not disease. In his book, Unstuck, Gordon makes the case that most people don't need drugs to feel better.

Think the Pilgrims were all straight-laced seriousness and tight buckles? Think again, says author Sarah Vowell. In her new book, The Wordy Shipmates, Vowell explores the lively history of America's ancestors. Just who were those folks living in the "shining city on a hill"?

After George Bush's unpopular presidency and John McCain's decisive defeat, there is a battle underway for the soul of the Republican Party. Conservative leaders weigh in on how to reinvigorate the GOP.

American families are nervous about the stability of their finances — and Peter Gosselin says that they should be. In his new book, High Wire, he writes that an increasing number of families are only one mortgage, doctor, or emergency payment away from financial ruin.

Baseball wasn't always this way — blighted by steroids and drug use, weighed down by statistics and science. Legendary sportscaster Joe Garagiola argues that baseball is really about memories and people, and wants to prove that real baseball is still alive and growing.

Jeff Henderson rose from Los Angeles' mean streets to become the executive chef at two top Las Vegas hotels, and wrote a best selling memoir. Now he aims to pass on what he's learned to other struggling young adults in a new reality TV show titled The Chef Jeff Project.

Some of the most vulnerable victims of the hurricane in Haiti are known as "Restavecs," children given away by their own families to perform domestic labor in exchange for food and shelter. Jean-Robert Cadet, an author and former child laborer, describes his own childhood experience and his work with Haitian "restavecs".

During the late 1960s and early 70s Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen became the nation's first black and white comedy team. During a tense time of segregation and race riots, they won rave reviews — all the while facing down threats and heckling from audience members.

Around the country people are talking about the Wall Street bailout. Rallies are planned in some cities against the proposal, as John McCain and Barack Obama meet in Washington with President Bush to help work out a solution.