TODAY IS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009

A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.
(Thursday, November 5, 2009)
The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.
(Thursday, November 5, 2009)
Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who profoundly challenged the understanding of human cultures, has died at the age of 100. We’ll look back at his work and its meaning.
(Wednesday, November 4, 2009)
A shot-across-the-bow election day for Republicans and Democrats. We’ll look at the results as both parties look ahead to 2010.
(Wednesday, November 4, 2009)
The story of the 1507 map that gave America its name, and its role in changing our understanding of the universe.
(Tuesday, November 3, 2009)
Rethinking alimony. With the old model of breadwinning father and stay-at-home mother mostly gone, does a lifelong obligation to an ex still make sense?
(Tuesday, November 3, 2009)
Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial changed how we remember war. We’ll talk with her about her latest and, she says, last public memorial — a monument to vanishing species.
(Monday, November 2, 2009)
Whole Earth Catalog guru Stewart Brand now says we need nuclear energy and genetically modified food. We’ll ask him if he’s selling out, or getting real.
(Wednesday, October 21, 2009)
Hip-hop legend and Wu Tang Clan founder The RZA on life lessons and the “Tao of Wu.”
(Friday, October 16, 2009)Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean, both doctors, take up the health care debate.
(Monday, October 5, 2009)
“Mad Men” wins Best Drama — again — at the Emmys. We’ll talk to the show’s executive producer and creator, Matt Weiner.
(Friday, September 25, 2009)
Actress, filmmaker, and model Isabella Rossellini on her new sex-in-nature project, “Green Porno,” and a life in front of the camera.
(Friday, September 18, 2009)
On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show! The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]
A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.
More | Comments [5]Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.
More | Comments [4]Our show today about the life and times of Thelonious Monk had us peering into the jazz world to look for the children of the “George Washington of be-bop.” Who are Monk’s musical and spiritual heirs?
MoreIn today’s first hour, Whole Earth guru Stewart Brand and energy expert Amory Lovins debated whether the U.S. should build more nuclear power plants in the effort to reduce carbon emissions.
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