Science Enables Parents to Choose a Child Without Alzheimer's
Yesterday the public was made aware of a new breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's after doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston successfully replicated the disease in a petri...
View ArticleScientists Close In on Alzheimer's Cure
Of the top 10 causes of death in the United States, Alzheimer's disease is the only one that cannot be prevented, cured, or slowed.However, researchers at Duke University might be one step closer to...
View ArticleLove, Sex and Alzheimer's: The Question of Consent
The question of consent has become a hot-button issue over the last few years as colleges and universities struggle with problems of sexual assault on campus. Now the issue has come up in a completely...
View ArticleThe Grayest Generation: Older Parents
Americans are becoming parents at older and older ages. The average first-time mother is now four years older (25) than she was in 1970. Judith Shulevitz, science editor at The New Republic and author...
View Article"56 Up"
Documentary filmmakerMichael Apted talks about the latest in his 7 Up series, "56 Up." Joining him is Tony Walker, one of the subjects who has been featured in the films since he was 7 years old.
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[Unedited] Rex Jung and Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett interviewed neuropsychologist Rex Jung on February 12, 2012. This interview is included in the show "Creativity and the Everyday Brain." Download the mp3 of the produced show at...
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Rex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain [remix]
Few features of humanity are more fascinating than creativity; and few fields are more dynamic now than neuroscience. Rex Jung is a neuropsychologist who puts the two together. He's working on a...
View ArticleLove & Let Die
Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, and Diane Meier, chief executive officer of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) and professor of geriatrics,...
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Born Wet, Human Babies Are 75 Percent Water. Then Comes Drying
Look at this baby.Robert Krulwich/NPRLovely, no? Now think of this baby abstractly — as a sack of hundreds of millions of atoms. Here's the atomic formula for a new human being, arranged by elements,...
View ArticleP.J. O'Rourke's Generation
In his new book,The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again) , author P.J. O'Rourke turns his scathing wit on himself and his demographic cohort -- boomers.
View ArticleAging and Long-Term Unemployment
Peter Coy, economics editor for Bloomberg Businessweek, talks about the CBO report on the effect of Obamacare on jobs, plus age discrimination's part in long-term unemployment. Then Ruth Finkelstein,...
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Clock Your Sleep: Seniors
Dr. Shelby Harris, director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center talks to you about aging and sleep--whether seniors need less sleep and how sleep plays a role in other...
View ArticleMiddle-Aged and Menopausal
Sandra Tsing Loh, writer, comedian and author of The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), talks about her new book in which she describes the joys and...
View ArticlePreview: What Death and Divorce Taught Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda says she’d disappear into a monastery before she'd get married again. She’s had three marriages — to a French director, an anti-war activist, and the billionaire Ted Turner — and each ended...
View ArticleJane Fonda Acts and Ages with Lily Tomlin
Jane Fonda is reuniting with her 9-to-5 co-star Lily Tomlin in Grace and Frankie, a new Netflix series out next summer. She says it's a return to form for the pair, who along with Dolly Parton, brought...
View ArticleAre You Ready for Retirement?
Do you have a plan for retirement? Today's show may help. It's a two-hour "family meeting" about whether you crave or dread retirement, and some advice for how you can actually afford it. Plus, a...
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I Love You, But There's This Money Thing...
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of spreadsheets and tax documents. But here's the thing: serious relationships are both romantic and financial...
View ArticleA Family Meeting on Retirement: Plans, History and Money
The Brian Lehrer Show is not live today, so we won't be taking any calls. As always, you can join the conversation online through our comments section (links below), on Facebook, or on Twitter through...
View ArticleThe New Science Of Immortality
If current trends persist, we can expect that Americans born in the year 2084 will live to be 100. That's up from an average life expectancy of 39.4 years in 1880. Living longer, healthier lives is an...
View ArticleThe Dead, Dead, Dead at 75 Edition
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder, the bombing campaign against ISIS, and Ezekiel Emanuel's Atlantic piece, "Why I Hope to Die at...
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