The Leonard Lopate Show

Modern-Day Slavery

There are more slaves in the world today than at any other time in history. E. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, tells us who and where these slaves are, and whether anything can be done to end slavery worldwide once and for all.

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Iraqi Film Students

The Independent Film & Television College in Baghdad teaches young Iraqis how to tell their stories through film. Maysoon Pachachi is the school’s co-founder.

Independent Film and Television College website

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Are Baseball Stars Worth Their Salaries?

University of Wisconsin math professor Jordan Ellenberg has calculated whether baseball stars are worth the huge salaries they get.

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Please Explain: Games of Make Believe

We look into how children play games of make believe, and whether kids’ imaginations have changed along with trends in technology and education. Dr. Susan Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center, Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of most recently The Case For Make-Believe: Saving Play in Our Commercialized World. Dr. Elizabeth Goodenough teaches at the University of Michigan Residence College and is the author of most recently Under Fire: Childhood in the Shadow of War.

Weigh in: What games of make believe do your children play? Are they different from what you remember playing when you were a kid?

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