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What's for Dinner?
Michael Pollan tells us what to eat, for our health, and the well-being of the planet: Eat food, not too much, and mostly plants. Also, find how humans went from hunting and gathering, to trading on the stock market. A look at the science of sex. Plus: how the Kurds' quest for statehood is shaping the Middle East.
Michael Pollan on What to Eat
Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma, explains his "Eaters’ Manifesto" in his new book, In Defense of Food. He says we should eat food, not too much of it, and mostly vegetables.
The Evolution of Human Economics: From Hunter/Gatherers to Stock Market Traders
How did humans go from hunting and gathering, to trading on the stock market? Michael Shermer looks into what evolution tells us about human economic behavior. His new book is The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.
The Science of Sex
The science of sex is studied in labs, brothels, MRI centers, farms, and sex-toy companies. Science writer Mary Roach has spent two years following the study of sexual physiology; she writes about what she found in her new book, Bonk.
The Kurdish Quest for Statehood
There are 25 million Kurds throughout the world; they’re the world’s largest ethnic group without a nation. Quil Lawrence writes about the long Kurdish struggle for statehood and its place in Middle Eastern politics in Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East.
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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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May 14, 2009
Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.
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Video Pick: Elizabeth Edwards
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Elizabeth Edwards discusses how to best cope with lifes difficulties in her book Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities.
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Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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