The Leonard Lopate Show
Choose Wisely
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Behavioral economist Richard Thaler gives advice on how we can make better choices about our health, wealth, and happiness. Also, animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi. A new graphic novel about a Dutch trader's travel through Mohawk country in the 17th century. And on Underreported: new insight into how planets form.
How to Choose Wisely
Behavioral economist Richard Thaler explains why we often make poor choices when it comes to our health, wealth, and happiness, and how we can learn to make better choices. His new book is Nudge.
Event: Richard Thaler will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, April 17 at 4:30 pm
City University of New York
Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue (between East 34th and 35th Streets)
If you enjoy this interview, you might also enjoy Leonard’s Feb. 2008 conversation with Dan Ariely about why humans make irrational decisions.
Ralph Bakshi, Animation Pioneer
Cartoonist and animation pioneer Ralph Bakshi is responsible for films and TV shows like “Fritz the Cat,” “The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse,” “Spider-man,” “Cool World,” and “The Lord of the Rings,” to name a few. A new book, Unfiltered, chronicles Bakshi’s career.
Events: Ralph Bakshi will sign books at an exhibition showcasing his animation
Thursday, April 17 at 6 pm
Animazing Gallery
416 Broome Street (between Greene and Mercer)
Ralph Bakshi will be speaking on a panel and signing books
Friday, April 18 at 6:30 pm
New York Comic Con
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, IGN Theater
655 West 34th Street (between 11th and 12th Avenues)
Ralph Bakshi will be speaking and signing books at the screenings of two of his films
Saturday, April 19 at 7 pm ("Heavy Traffic") and 9 pm ("Coonskin")
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue (between East 1st and 2nd Streets)
Journey Into Mohawk Country
In the 17th century, Dutch trader Van den Bogaert set out through present-day New York’s Indian territory in search of beaver pelts. His actual diary entries have been brought to life in a new graphic novel, Journey Into Mohawk Country, by writer and illustrator George O’Connor and historian Charles Gehring.
More information about Charles Gehring's New Netherlands Project
How Cups Affect Taste
The feel of the container affects the taste of the drink it contains, according to a recent study by Rutgers Associate Professor of Marketing Maureen Morrin (along with Aradhna Krishna of the University of Michigan). Morrin tells us what happened when they blindfolded people and then gave them water to drink from firm and flimsy plastic cups.
Underreported: New Planet Forming?
Scientists may be closer to understanding how new planets form. Astrophysicist Ben Oppenheimer of the American Museum of Natural History and his colleagues at the Lyot Project have put together an image of material that seems to be coalescing into either a planet or a brown dwarf (which is an object with mass that neither a star nor a planet).
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