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(A30_Tsitika/flickr)Slow Medicine
As a geriatrician, Dr. Dennis McCullough deals with his end-of-life issues for many patients -- including his own mother. Today, he advocates an approach relying more on communication and less on crisis intervention that he calls "slow medicine."
Summer Streets Map Project!
On Tuesday we discussed the DOT's plan to close six miles of Manhattan streets on three Saturdays in August. We also asked you to suggest other streets that could be closed to cars on the weekends. Here's a map that shows everyone's suggestions, from the Henry Hudson Parkway north of Harlem to Pelham Parkway in the Bronx. You can keep adding more suggestions on this comments thread!
NIMBO (Not In My Back Ocean)
Offshore drilling is on the brain. Jim Presswood, energy advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Rayola Dougher, senior economic advisor at the American Petroleum Institute, and Peter Maas, New York Times Magazine contributor, discuss the immediate and long-term impacts of drilling in U.S. waters.
Who's Driving the Train
Recent revelations about free E-ZPasses and Metrocards have put the MTA board under scrutiny. Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign, talks about the board and its perks.
Personal Democracy: Rebooting the System
For today's segment our ongoing series in conjunction with the the Personal Democracy Forum, we're joined by two participants who have thoughts on the future of voting technology: Andrew Rasiej, founder of PDF, and Allison Fine, Senior Fellow at Demos.
Do The Right Thing
Dennis McCullough, M.D., author of My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones, talks about how to avoid "death by intensive care" and other end-of-life issues.
Holes Found in Swiss Banking
An ex-UBS banker plead guilty this week to helping his wealthy clients cloak their assets and evade taxes. David Henry, senior writer at BusinessWeek, discusses the fallout of this white collar crime.
Open Phones: Is Email Privacy Overrated?
Do your feelings about email privacy correspond to your generation? People of "a certain age" might be appalled to learn their private emails aren't, well, all that private. But with young people exposing all their personal details on Facebook, is privacy an old-fashioned idea?
Do you consider email privacy important? Do you encrypt your personal emails or keep personal matters off of email? Comment below!
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