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Program 10-12-05-B |
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Everyone know you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, maybe that used to be true, but today's families are a lot more flexible about defining themselves. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll hear NPR's Scott Simon rhapsodize about his two adopted daughters from China. And we'll learn how it takes a whole family to fight one member's anorexia.
SEGMENT 1:
Annie Murphy Paul is a magazine journalist and author of "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives." She talks with Jim Fleming about her research into the field of fetal development. As if pregnancy wasn't scary enough! Also, Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia. Her book describing the family's experience of her daughter's illness is called "Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia." Brown talks with Anne Strainchamps (whom she's known for years) about her daughter's illness and treatment.
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Jonah Lehrer has written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe, and he's written two books: Proust Was a Neuroscientist and now, How We Decide. Steve Paulson talks with Lehrer about the bio-mechanics of the decision-making process. What exactly happens in the brain when you "decide" to do something?
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NPR's Scott Simon has endeared himself to listeners as the longtime host of Weekend Edition. He's also a best-selling author. His latest book is "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption." Simon talks with Anne Strainchamps about why he and his wife are such fans of adoption. They've adopted two baby girls from China, and Scott tells the story of what happened when they went to pick up their second little girl. There won't be a dry eye in the house!
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| Annie Murphy Paul Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives (Free Press) | |
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Scott Simon, Baby We Were
Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption (Random House) |
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| Harriet Brown brave girl eating: a family's struggle with anorexia (William Morrrow) | |
| Jonah Lehrer How We Decide
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
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- Scott Simon
http://www.npr.org/people/3874941/scott-simon - Jonah Lehrer
http://www.jonahlehrer.com/books - Harriet Brown
http://www.harrietbrown.com/ - Annie Murphy Paul
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Annie-Murphy-Paul/18895973
- Return: "Love and Marriage" by Frank Sinatra from The Capitol Years (CDP 7 94317 2)
- After Paul: "Elegy for Iris" from Amber
Dispositions by John Danley (A Prior Records JCDP 06)
http://www.johndanley.com - After Brown and Option 1: "Acoustic Spooks"
from Amber Dispositions by John Danley (A Prior Records JCDP 06)
http://www.johndanley.com - After Lehrer and Option 2: "Sonic Blues"
by Kraig Kenning from Maktub
http://www.kraigkenning.com - After Simon: "Dancing!" by Wu Man from Pipa: From a Distance (Naxos World 76037-2)
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