{"id":364456,"date":"2026-07-07T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:08:12","slug":"hello-houston-the-commuter-cut-july-7-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364456\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houston \u2013 The Commuter Cut (July 7, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-517232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HH_Podcast-Cover_The-Commuter-Cut-1000x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie and guest host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kprc2robertarnold\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Arnold<\/a> talk with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.me.uh.edu\/faculty\/selvamanickam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Venkat Selvamanickam<\/a>, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, who tells us about a possible breakthrough in fusion energy.<\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.rice.edu\/faculty\/benjamin-hayden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Hayden<\/a>, an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering and linguistics at Rice University, discusses a new study that looks at how the brain supports bilingualism and translates thoughts between different languages.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, public radio host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/people\/david-greene\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Greene<\/a> and director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0695629\/bio\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Pray<\/a> tell us about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louderthanguns.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louder Than Guns<\/a>, a music documentary about the gun violence issue in the United States and finding common ground through conversations with individuals from all ends of the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello Houston: The Commuter Cut In today&#8217;s edition of &#8220;The Commuter Cut,&#8221; Ernie and guest host Robert Arnold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[129181,16764,129182,129183,129184,129185,6782,129186,129187,5603,16610,2940,2245,2246,56,58,57,129188,66,129189,278,223,56354,18624,129190],"class_list":["post-364456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-benjamin-hayden","tag-bilingual","tag-bilingualism","tag-brain-research","tag-david-greene","tag-doug-pray","tag-energy-environment","tag-fusion-energy","tag-gun-debate","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-health-science","tag-hello-houston","tag-hello-houston-commuter","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-languages","tag-local","tag-louder-than-guns","tag-music","tag-news","tag-robert-arnold","tag-theatre-film","tag-venkat-selvamanickam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364456","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=364456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}