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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":2,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77892,76921,910,75356,918,42163,163,1182,6782,49,2940,2245,4103,56,77893,58,57,4104,31231,77894,66,77895,77896,5508,223,11531,1545,76922,77897,63348,20929,77898,77899,60717],"class_list":{"0":"post-197082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-brains-in-society","9":"tag-bunker-hill-elementary","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-daylight-savings-time","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ed-hirs","14":"tag-education","15":"tag-education-news","16":"tag-energy-environment","17":"tag-food","18":"tag-health-science","19":"tag-hello-houston","20":"tag-hello-houston-podcast","21":"tag-houston","22":"tag-houston-chefs","23":"tag-houston-headlines","24":"tag-houston-news","25":"tag-international","26":"tag-iran","27":"tag-jassi-bindra","28":"tag-local","29":"tag-manny-salas","30":"tag-natalie-hausman-weiss","31":"tag-neuroscience","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-oil-and-gas-industry","34":"tag-oil-prices","35":"tag-ramadan-houston","36":"tag-simon-fischer-baum","37":"tag-sleep","38":"tag-spring-branch-isd","39":"tag-sudha-tallavajhula","40":"tag-the-woods-project","41":"tag-top-chef"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}