Jane Gross — The Far Shore of Aging [remix]
We are living longer, for better and for worse. And the story of aging is one that too often goes untended. Our guest tells us that we not only have to care for our parents — but for ourselves.
View Article[Unedited] Rex Jung and Krista Tippett
How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between...
View ArticleRex Jung — Creativity and the Everyday Brain [remix]
How do we prime our brains to take the meandering mental paths necessary for creativity? New techniques of brain imaging, Rex Jung says, are helping us gain a whole new view on the differences between...
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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,...
View ArticleAdapting Society to an Ever-Growing, Ever-Aging Population
This week, we've been pondering the significance of aging, and aging well in today's world.First, genomic life scientist J. Craig Venter told us about his plans to make genomic sequencing a tool for...
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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 75."
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article78 is the New 20: Why The Golden Years Are Now Our Best
New forecasts from the government find that Americans can now expect to live longer than ever. For a child born in America in 2012, the average life expectancy is 78.8-years-old.But for some people,...
View ArticleScience 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...
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