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Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHello Houston: Where Houston Talks!<\/p>\n
On today’s Hello Houston, we talk about oil prices surging due to the Iran conflict, with University of Houston energy fellow Ed Hirs<\/a>, who explains what’s driving the spike in these prices and what this could mean for consumers.<\/p>\n Then, we learn about the Houston area non-profit The Woods Projec<\/a>t, with executive director Natalie Hausman-Weiss and program manager Manny Salas, who both explain how the organization creates wilderness exploration experiences for high school students.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n In the second hour, Simon Fischer-Baum<\/a>, an associate professor in Rice University’s Department of Psychological Sciences, tells us about this week’s Brains in Society<\/a> conference, which brings together neuroscientists and other experts to discuss how advances in brain research are influencing health care, education, technology, and more.<\/p>\n Plus, we also chat with Houston-based chef and restaurateur Jassi Bindra<\/a>, who tells us all about being a contestant on the new season of Top Chef, as well as the story of his culinary journey, moving from India to the United States at age 30.<\/p>\n And, as always, Celeste and Frank discuss today’s top stories at the top of each hour, including discussing how daylight savings time affects sleep patterns with neurologist Dr. Sudha Tallavajhula<\/a> and the removal of a Ramadan display<\/a> at a Houston elementary school after district officials said it violated a \u201cpolitical and religious neutrality\u201d policy.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: Where Houston Talks! On today’s Hello Houston, we talk about oil prices surging due to the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[273823,273824,64,151927,79,75861,407,6262,9972,990,1213,9973,9974,4345,273825,1801,83,273826,425,273827,273828,831,50,53197,11411,273829,273830,1079,175578,32417,358,273831,75097,3187],"class_list":["post-643814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-brains-in-society","tag-bunker-hill-elementary","tag-business","tag-daylight-savings-time","tag-economy","tag-ed-hirs","tag-education","tag-education-news","tag-energy-environment","tag-food","tag-health-science","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-podcast","tag-houston","tag-houston-chefs","tag-international","tag-iran","tag-jassi-bindra","tag-local","tag-manny-salas","tag-natalie-hausman-weiss","tag-neuroscience","tag-news","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-oil-prices","tag-ramadan-houston","tag-simon-fischer-baum","tag-sleep","tag-spring-branch-isd","tag-sudha-tallavajhula","tag-texas","tag-the-woods-project","tag-top-chef","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}