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Spiderman 3 broke records at the box office, but it was widely panned by the critics. Does it matter what the reviewers say any more? We’ll ask the question as we look at the movies worth watching this summer and take listener recommendations. Plus, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata challenges the conventional wisdom about weight loss. And the latest in our series, Anything But the Car: Where are our Jetpacks?
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Immigration Deal
Angie Marek, associate editor for U.S.News & World Report, talks about the immigration bill brokered by the Senate and the White House.
Gina Kolata: Thinking Through Thick and Thin
Gina Kolata, science writer for the New York Times and author, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), challenges the conventional wisdom about weight loss, including research that shows weight is more a matter of genetics than willpower.
Rethinking Thin is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Celluloid Summer
Owen Gleiberman, film critic at Entertainment Weekly, and Dana Stevens, film critic at Slate, size up the summer movie season and respond to listener recommendations.
Anything but the Car: Jetpacks
Dr. Daniel H. Wilson, contributing editor for Popular Mechanics, and author, Where's My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived (Bloomsbury, 2007), discusses commuting by jetpack and other modes of advanced transport.
Where's My Jetpack? is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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Happy 150th Birthday, Evolution!
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Richard Dawkins, biologist, professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and author of many books on science, most recently, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, talks about Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which was published on 24 November 1859.
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