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June 16, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Work and Leisure
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Animals 3 - Animal Intelligence
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Father's Day
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Work and Leisure
SEGMENT 1:
Economist Jeremy Rifkin tells Steve Paulson that the only way
to preserve jobs in the information age is to shift to a thirty
hour work week. Rifkin's latest book is "The End of Work."
Also, historian Benjamin Hunnicutt, a Professor of Leisure
Studies (seriously!) at the University of Iowa, talks with
Judith Strasser about the American obsession for work, work,
work.
SEGMENT 2:
New York Times science writer Natalie Angier tells Judith
Strasser that laziness is normal and commonplace in nearly
every species in the natural world. Angier's New York Times
stories have been collected in a book called "The Beauty of the
Beastly."
SEGMENT 3:
Physician Stefan Rechtschaffen thinks we need to become more
aware of how we use and abuse time in our lives. He explains
his ideas on "time shifting" to Margaret Andreasen. Stefan
Rechtschaffen is a medical doctor and president of the Omega
Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. His book is "Timeshifting:
Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
95-09-03-C.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Animals 3 - Animal Intelligence
SEGMENT 1:
Princeton biologist James Gould tells Margaret Andreasen that
studying animal intelligence is tricky because animals
sometimes look smart when they're just doing what's hard-wired
into their brains. Gould is the author, with Carol Grant Gould
of "The Animal Mind." Also, University of Arizona ethologist
Irene Pepperberg tells Jim Fleming about her star pupil -- an
African gray parrot named Alex, who not only talks but can tell
you how he's feeling.
SEGMENT 2:
Lou Herman is a psychologist at the University of Hawaii based
at the Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Laboratory. He's done the
most thorough study ever of dolphin intelligence. He tells Jim
Fleming that dolphins are entirely different from humans, and
fundamentally mysterious to us. Also, Harvard entomologist
E.O. Wilson tells Steve Paulson that ants are remarkably clever
creatures who communicate chemically. Wilson is the author,
with Bert Holldobler of "Journey to the Ants."
SEGMENT 3:
Cynthia Moss may know more about elephants than anyone else on
the planet. She tells Steve Paulson some of what she's learned
in her twenty five years studying the elephant herds of Kenya's
Amboseli National Park.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
95-10-15-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Father's Day
SEGMENT 1
We hear a lot about about single mothers, welfare moms, and
mothers who do or don't deserve government aid. Where is the
talk about fathers? Social critic and author of "Fatherless
America" David Blankenhorn tells Jim Fleming that the missing
dad is our most pressing social problem. Also, lawyer and
labor expert Rhona Mahoney agrees that men aren't doing their
part, but as she argues in her book "Kidding Ourselves," women
have to stop blaming men for the problem. She tells Margaret
Andreasen that if women want out of the mommy track, it's up to
them to change.
SEGMENT 2:
There's nothing like having children to teach you to love your
parents, and men are finally learning that's true for fathers
and sons. Commentator Andy Moore reflects on what his father
taught him about raising kids. And, psychologist Sam Osherson
tells Judith Strasser that the relationship of fathers and sons
deserves a lot more attention than it's getting, but it's not
too late to start.
SEGMENT 3:
Poet Li-Young Lee has been called one of America's finest young
poets, and he's now published his first prose work -- "The
Winged Seed," a memoir of his family's long and sometimes
dangerous journey from China to America. Lee tells Steve
Paulson that searching for memories of his father made him
realize how much a stranger his father was.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
95-6-18-A.
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