8.08.15 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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[Unedited] Rex Jung and Krista Tippett
Rex Jung is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He's a Distinguished Senior Advisor to the Positive Neuroscience Project, based at the University of...
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Rex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain
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...
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Patricia Marx Wants You to Be Less Stupid
Baby boomers are the generation that invented staying forever young — and that means never losing any of their mental sharpness. As they reach retirement age, however, that belief seems increasingly...
View ArticleListen Up! When to Worry about Your Hearing
More than 4,000 of you took us up on testing your hearing with the Mimi Hearing Test app — which is remarkable, considering the national stigma surrounding hearing loss. That may be why many American...
View ArticleRoger Angell on Writing and Love
Roger Angell, a senior editor and staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 1944 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame last year, for his writing on the sport. This year, he won a...
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Bacon, Booze and the Search for the Fountain of Youth
While we sweat it out at spin class in the name of good health, the world’s oldest people drink whiskey, eat bacon, and chug Miller High Lifes with a side of Johnny Walker Blue.At least those are the...
View ArticleYour Paycheck and Your Lifespan
Why the middle class will have eight fewer years of healthy life than the rich, and what that means for you.
View ArticleLesley Stahl on Reporting from the White House to 60 Minutes, and Becoming a...
Before journalist Lesley Stahl joined 60 Minutes, she became the first woman to serve as CBS News' White House Correspondent. Her coverage of news, political leaders and stories has taken her around...
View ArticleDana Spiotta Reads Joy Williams
Dana Spiotta joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Joy Williams’s “Chicken Hill,” from a 2015 issue of the magazine.
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What happens when a nursing home and a day care center share a roof?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: A new report due out later this week from the National Institute on Early Education Research finds that a number of states are struggling to find ways to...
View ArticleSiddhartha Mukherjee Traces the History of Genetics, Jill Lepore Solves a...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of genetics and heredity in his new book The Gene: An Intimate History. Former New York Times Magazine editor Gerald...
View ArticleTaking on the National Tennis Circuit at Age 60
Former New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati took up tennis in his mid-50s. In Late to the Ball: Age. Learn. Fight. Love. Play Tennis. Win., he details his journey to compete on the national...
View ArticleTo Fight Disease, Researchers Aim to Slow Down Aging
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Yesterday in Chicago, Vice President Joe Biden spoke to one of the largest annual meetings of cancer researchers in the world, and he urged...
View ArticleFour Generations Struggle With Aging in Cathleen Schine's New Novel
86-year-old Joy Bergman is struggling to keep her life under control. She’s single-handedly caring for her husband who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s – plus she’s trying to hang onto her job as a museum...
View ArticleWhy Aging is Crucial to Our Survival
Aging has evolved over millions of years to prevent an ecological crisis. In Cracking the Aging Code: The New Science of Growing Old-And What It Means for Staying Young theoretical biologist Josh...
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Sobering IMF report on U.S. economy cites dwindling middle class, growing...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The American middle class is shrinking and struggling. The six-year-long economic recovery is showing some signs of slowing. And the pronounced wealth...
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Is there any relief for astronomical drug costs?
Medicare is prevented by law from negotiating with drug companies over their prices. In recent years, the price tag for people who must take expensive new drugs has risen at an alarming rate, writes...
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How selling a home may affect what you pay for Medicare
Photo by Shannon Stapleton/ReutersEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on aging and retirement, is here to provide the answers you need in “Ask Phil.” Send your questions to...
View ArticleTessa Hadley Reads “Dido's Lament”
Tessa Hadley reads her story “Dido's Lament,” from the August 8 & 15, 2016, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published six novels and four story collections, including “Sunstroke and Other...
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