The Leonard Lopate Show
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Friday, August 24, 2007
On today's show: we’ll join the BBC’s interactive program World Have Your Say, simulcast live in London, Toronto, and Sydney, to make the case for New York as the world’s most multicultural city. Call us live to have your say! Also, Jon Voight tells us about his new film exploring a dark chapter in Mormon history, September Dawn. But first, on today’s Please Explain, we’ll be racking our brains to learn all there is to know about IQ.
Please Explain: IQ
Cognitive researchers have been creating ways to define and measure human intelligence for more than a century, sparking plenty of controversy along the way. Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education joins us today to answer your questions about the history and practice of IQ testing, the possibility of multiple intelligences, why nurture and nature affect cognitive ability, and how we got from Stanford-Binet to the SAT.
Purchase Dr. Gardner’s most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, at amazon.com, or learn more about his work by visiting his homepage.
Call us live on the air at 212-433-9692 or post your questions and comments here.
Weigh in: Can a standardized test accurately measure intelligence?
September Dawn
On September 11, 1857, a wagon train of emigrants passing through Mountain Meadows, Utah was attacked my members of a Mormon militia. Jon Voight's latest film, September Dawn, is a fictionalized account of the brutal massacre that left over a hundred men, women, and children dead, a tragedy that still haunts the Church of Latter-Day Saints one hundred and fifty years later.
September Dawn opens today nationwide.
Visit the September Dawn website.
New York, Have Your Say!
New York thinks of itself as the most multicultural city in the world. But London, Toronto, and Sydney all make the same claim! Which city is right?
Today we're participating in the BBC program World Have Your Say, a daily interactive program where listeners set the agenda. World Have Your Say will decide which city should be held up as the best multicultural example for the rest of the world.
The Leonard Lopate Show will be simulcasting with three other radio stations - in London, Toronto, and Sydney - with advocates and listeners in each city arguing that their city should win. At the end of the hour, a panel of listeners will crown the winner. For more information about the contest, check out the show's blog here. Leonard needs your help to make the best case for New York!
UPDATE: The panel of voters chose London as the world's most multicultural city. If you disagree, keep posting your comments here.
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