Tag: Life
The Brian Lehrer Show
No One Ever Told Us That
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
John Spooner, guest commentator on Bloomberg National Radio and author of No One Ever Told Us That: Money and Life Letters to My Grandchildren, shares letters written to his grandchildren about money and life.
The Takeaway
Watery Planet Found 20 Light Years from Earth
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Scientists believe they may have discovered a planet that is capable of holding water on its surface; if true, it strongly implies life could exist there as well.
The planet orbits a dim red star called Gliese 581, some 20 light years away from us.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Wynton, Whales, and What's for Dinner
Monday, May 10, 2010
Wynton Marsalis talks about Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition. Then, we’ll explore the complex and often violent history of American whaling with filmmaker Ric Burns.
The Leonard Lopate Show
The Council of Dads
Monday, May 10, 2010
Bestselling author Bruce Feiler talks about what happened when he was diagnosed with cancer and began worrying about what his young daughters' lives would be like without him. In The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me, he tells the story of ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
The Pill and America
Friday, May 07, 2010
Historian Elaine Tyler May talks about how the pill changed America. In America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation she describes how women saw that the pill was about much more than family planning—it offered women control over their bodies and their lives, and it ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Humorist Dave Barry talks about the mystifying territory of adulthood—from fatherhood, parenting, self-image, the battle of the sexes, celebrity, technology, certain unmentionable medical procedures, and more. His latest book is I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood.
The Leonard Lopate Show
Rosalynn Carter on the Mental Health Crisis
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter talks about her 35 years of advocacy work in the field of mental health. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need. In Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis, she gives a powerful account of a subject previously shrouded ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Private and Public Lives
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
On today’s show, former first lady Rosalynn Carter discusses her advocacy for the mentally ill. Then, Pam Grier talks about her life, career, and her with many memorable roles, like Jackie Brown. Also, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley on her latest, called Private Life. Humorist Dave Barry tells terrifying tales ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Molly Ringwald
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Molly Ringwald talks about her career, which took off when she starred in the John Hughes high school classics "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "Pretty in Pink," and about turning 40. In Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Shade of Lipstick, she shares personal ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Smoke and Mirrors
Monday, April 26, 2010
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Burton Richter, who has served on U.S. and international review committees on climate change and energy issues, discusses the sensible, senseless, and biased proposals for averting the consequences of global warming. In Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century, he ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
World Voices
Monday, April 26, 2010
On today’s show, we’ll look at some of the sensible and senseless proposals for curbing global warming and the disasters associated with it. Then, we’ll learn about the unintended consequences of “operation Babylift,” the U.S. government’s 1975 effort to place thousands of Vietnamese children with families overseas. Also, Emmy Award-winning ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
A Game of Character
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama's brother, talks about the family members and mentors who have shaped his life. His memoir A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond is about his important influences and his journey from the basketball courts of ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
In the Neighborhood
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Journalist and author Peter Lovenheim talks about his quest to meet his neighbors and find a sense of community on his street suburban Rochester, NY. In In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, Lovenheim takes readers inside the homes, hearts, ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Bounce
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Matthew Syed, columnist for The Times of London and a commentator for the BBC, explores our competitive nature. He explains why some people thrive under pressure while others choke and considers the value of innate talent versus practice, hard work, and will. His book Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
A Thousand Sisters
Thursday, April 15, 2010
One afternoon in 2005 Lisa Shannon saw an episode of Oprah on women in Congo and the atrocities happening there, and it changed her life. She describes how she felt called to action, and how she began raising money to sponsor Congolese women and founded a national organization, Run for ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Reality Hunger
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Reality TV has taken over the networks, and YouTube and Facebook dominate the Web. David Shields argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality” because we experience hardly any in our real lives. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, he explores the bending of form and genre and the blur ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Overcoming Speechlessness
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Alice Walker talks about her trips to Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali, and to the Gaza Strip. In Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel, she bears witness to cruelty she saw, and presents ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Wisdom
Monday, April 12, 2010
Stephen S. Hall explores the history of wisdom and its journey from philosophy to science. He looks at how wisdom became one of our most cherished ideals, and at the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of it. In Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience he reveals ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Wise Ones
Monday, April 12, 2010
Live from Afghanistan, former NPR correspondent Sarah Chayes gives us an update on what’s happening there. Then, Army gunner Ryan Conklin describes what it's been like for him to serve on the front lines in Iraq. And Olga Grushin discusses her second novel, The Line. Also, science writer Stephen Hall ...
The Leonard Lopate Show
Please Explain: Skin Care
Friday, April 09, 2010
On this week's Please Explain, we're looking into skin care and skin care products. There are numerous lotions and potions that promise to restore youthful skin, but us there any truth to the claims they make? Dr. Michelle Hanjani, assistant professor of clinical dermatology at Columbia University Medical Center joins ...