The Leonard Lopate Show
All in Your Head?
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Brain surgeons operate on one of our least understood organs. On today’s show, we'll ask a neurosurgeon what’s inside our skulls. Later on, New Yorker writer Roger Angell shares his new memoir. And we’ll pay tribute to the autoharp. Plus, word maven Patricia T. O’Conner will be here.
Adventures in Brain Surgery
Brain surgeons use a mix of new technology and old-fashioned dexterity to probe one of our most important—and least understood—organs. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, neurosurgeon Katrina Firlik takes us inside our skulls, and describes the day to day challenges of operating on human brains.
Events: Katrina Firlik will be reading and signing books
Monday, June 5 at 7 pm
Upper West Side Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway, at 82nd Street
Roger Angell on Love and Loss
New Yorker writer Roger Angell looks back on his life, and remembers the people he's known, and misses, in Let Me Finish.
Events: Roger Angell will be discussing his book
Wednesday, June 14 at 7 pm
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
For tickets, 212-864-5400 of visit symphonyspace.org
Applauding the Autoharp
Musicologist Mike Seeger celebrates the history of the autoharp, which was invented in the 1870s, in Masters of Old-Time Country Autoharp.
Words Fail Me
Word maven Patricia T. O’Conner answers your questions about the English language, and explores the changing nature of the word "pimp."
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