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
This unedited conversation with Rex Jung comes from the produced show "Creativity and the Everyday Brain." Few features of humanity are more fascinating than creativity; and few fields are more dynamic...
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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 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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[Unedited] Jane Gross with Krista Tippett
This unedited conversation with Jane Gross comes from the produced show "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...
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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...
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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[Unedited] Rex Jung and Krista Tippett
This unedited conversation with Rex Jung comes from the produced show "Creativity and the Everyday Brain." Few features of humanity are more fascinating than creativity; and few fields are more dynamic...
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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. Why the middle class will have eight fewer years of healthy life than the rich, and what...
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...
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