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Characterizing the Court
NPR legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg, looks at the role of precedent in Supreme Court decisions and how Chief Justice Roberts is making his mark. And how many experts does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? We'll look at how to make the switch from incandescent to CFL. Plus: therapist Michael Gurian on supporting your child's unique personality, and No Impact Man on the joys of walking.
Characterizing the Court
Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio, sizes up the third Supreme Court session under Chief Justice Roberts and looks at the role of precedent today.
Green Light
Jennifer Bogo, senior science editor at
Popular Mechanics magazine, and architectural lighting designer Gary Gordon, on why and how people can use compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs).
Popular Mechanics tested a number of CFLs, and you can read their findings here.
For more about how and where to recycle CFLs, go to lamprecycle.org. For information about recycling CFLs in New York City, go here.
For a previous Brian Lehrer Show segment on lighting, see "Let There Be Light" here.
Albania, New York
Stacy Sullivan, journalist and author, Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War (2004, St. Martin's Press) tells us about the Albanian community in the region and the reaction to the arrest of the Duka brothers for plotting to attack Fort Dix.
Nature Nurtured
Michael Gurian, family therapist, founder of the Gurian Institute, an educational training organization, and author of Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core Personality (Wiley 2007), talks about child rearing and development.
Nurture the Nature is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Foot Power
In our series on non-car transporation, Colin Beavan, who has vowed to have zero impact on the environment for one year, looks at what it's like to walk from A to B.
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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