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Don't Eat With Your Hands
On today's show: why cashing in on global warming may become the great game of the 21st century. We'll also find out about a remote Israeli village where all residents - both hearing and hearing-impaired - communicate by a unique form of sign language, and what that reveals about the connection between language and the brain. Plus: one man's cross-country journey to find the best food America has to offer, from fast food to organic produce. Also, a cookbook that helps vegetarians and meat-lovers eat together.
Sign Language and the Brain
In the remote Israeli Bedouin village of Al-Sayyid, an unusually high percentage of the population is deaf. Everyone in the village - whether or not they're hearing impaired - communicates in a unique, local form of sign language. New York Times reporter Margalit Fox followed researchers into the village to explore the connection between language and the human brain. Her new book is Talking Hands.
Talking Hands is available for purchase at amazon.com
Events: Margalit Fox will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, September 19 at 7pm
Morningside Bookshop, 2915 Broadway (at 114th Street)
Eat This
Ian Jackman traveled across America, through small towns and big cities, to uncover the best food the country has to offer -- whether it's fast food, organic produce, delivery or fine dining. In his new book, Eat This!, Jackman reveals where he found the best eats on his coast-to-coast culinary journey.
Eat This! is available for purchase at amazon.com
Flexitarian Cookbook
Believe it or not, it's possible for vegetarians and meat-lovers to share a meal. Chef Peter Berley provides recipes that work equally well meatless or meat-full in a new cookbook called The Flexitarian Table. Flexetarianism is part-time vegetarianism, with an emphasis on grains, lean proteins, and beans.
The Flexitarian Table is available for purchase at amazon.com
Weigh in: If you have both vegetarians and meat-eaters in your family, we want to hear from you. What's your favorite recipe that can be adjusted to suit everybody?
Profiting from Global Warming
Canada's prime minister Stephen Harper is in talks with President Bush right now, and Harper is asserting his nation's claim to the Northwest Passage through the warming, resource-rich Arctic. An ice-free North Pole would offer important new shipping lanes and an estimated 175 billion barrels of oil and 912 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Russia and Denmark are also staking their claims to the Arctic, but the United States insists it is international territory. Journalist McKenzie Funk joins us from an Alaskan icebreaker to talk about why cashing in on global warming could become the Great Game of the 21st century. Funk is the author of an article in the September issue of Harper's Magazine called "Cold Rush: The Coming Fight for the Melting North."
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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