The Real Have-Beens of Hollywood
Oscar season is approaching — not when they give out the awards, but when the high profile Oscar-bait movies trickle into theaters. This year, quite of few of those movies have something strange in...
View ArticleGetting Faster and Older
Margaret Webb, a long-distance runner, a volunteer running coach for underprivileged kids, and the author of Older, Faster, Stronger: What Women Runners Can Teach Us All About Living Younger, Longer...
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Video Games Meet Middle Age Emotions
The first crop of video gamers are facing middle age with no plans to put down the controller. So the games have to grow up too. Expect less blood splatter, more reflection. (This is part 1 of 2 about...
View ArticleYouth-Obsessed
Robert Harrison, professor of Italian literature and chair of graduate studies in Italian at Stanford University and the author of Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age (University Of Chicago...
View ArticleStoryCorps 404: Taking Care
Miguel Alvarez (L) and Maurice Rowland (R) remember caring for residents at an assisted living home, where they were a janitor and a cook, when it closed suddenly, leaving many elderly residents...
View ArticleAging Artfully
Worried about getting old? Amy Gorman was, so she went looking for inspiration among old women - some who were over 100.
View ArticleWhy People Get Happier in Old Age
Life gets better for people in their 60s and 70, according to lots of recent studies. Why? Geriatric psychiatrist Dilip Jeste says people often become wiser with age.
View ArticleIt's Never Too Late to Dance
Renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones stopped dancing in his 50s - and recently, did something radical. He created a dance based on John Cage's ideas about chance and randomness. He felt compelled to...
View ArticleThe World Envies Our Wrinkles
This segment originally aired live on March 27th, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on July 17th, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.The next...
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[Unedited] Jane Gross with Krista Tippett
Jane Gross is the creator of "The New Old Age" blog at The New York Times and author of "A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves." This interview is edited and produced with...
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Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging
It is a story of our time — the new landscape of living longer, and of dying more slowly too. Jane Gross has explored this as a daughter and as a journalist, and as creator of the New York Times’ “New...
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Robert Earl Keen Quit Nashville and Stayed Married
When Robert Earl Keen moved from Texas to Nashville in 1985, things were looking up: He’d just gotten married and put out his first album, No Kinda Dancer. Nashville was the place to be for an aspiring...
View ArticlePhotographer Faces His Future
Phil Toledano was worried about the future. So he decided to look it in the face. He took a DNA test and hired a special effects makeup artist to help him become different versions of his future...
View ArticleHarper Lee's Old/New Novel; Laughing At/With Aging; China's Techies/Addicts
Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee's new novel, is due to be published tomorrow. Bloomberg Businessweek's Claire Suddath explains the controversial decision to green-light the decades-old manuscript. Plus:...
View ArticleLaughing At/With Aging
Patricia Marx, writer for The New Yorker, former writer for "Saturday Night Live," and the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon, talks about her new book Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to...
View ArticleMalcolm Gladwell; How to Age; The Hidden History of Love Songs
Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer at The NewYorker, shares his advice for college-bound kids: choose a school based on where you will thrive the best. Plus: a filmmaker who was raised white and Jewish in...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Playing Music in Your Vintage Years
Thinking about taking piano lessons at 69? Or violin at 73? Maybe guitar after you retire? Well, even if you're not thinking about those things, maybe you should be. According to Francine Toder, author...
View ArticlePushing the Limits of the Human Lifespan
The average American lifespan rose from about 50 years to nearly 80 during the 20th century. Can we live even longer? Harvard Medical School’s David Sinclair has done research that he says may one day...
View ArticlePushing the Limits of the Human Lifespan
The average American lifespan rose from about 50 years to nearly 80 during the 20th century. Can we live even longer? Harvard Medical School’s David Sinclair has done research that he says may one day...
View Article8.08.15 Life, Death, and Sharing
This week on Innovation Hub: life, death, and sharing. Harvard genetics professor David Sinclair on his research into how we may be able to live significantly longer. Then, Zipcar co-founder and author...
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