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Philanthrocapitalism (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 09 December 2009)

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For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away, but the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give see charity as more like business. Matthew Bishop explains how philanthrocapitalism works and what it means for philanthropy. In Philanthrocapitalism, written with Michael Green, he speaks with Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, Bono, and other wealthy people motivated to change the world. Read Matthew...

Pluto Was a Planet (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 08 December 2009)

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Astrophysicist and director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson looks at the fate of Pluto, which was long considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it was demoted to a "dwarf planet" in 2006. In The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet, he reconstructs Pluto’s origins, place in pop culture, and why its place in the pantheon of planets was revoked.

The Talented Miss Highsmith (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 09 Decembe

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Fiction writer Patricia Highsmith had a life as dark and compelling as that of her favorite character, the talented Tom Ripley. Biographer Joan Schenkar describes Highsmith’s secretive life and how it influenced her writing, including her popular novels Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Her book is The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. Event: Joan Schenkar will be speaking and signing books, and actress Kathleen Chalfant will be...

The Gurus of How-To (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 09 December 2009)

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Alvin and Larry Ubell, the Gurus of How-To, answer your questions about home repair. Call 212-433-9692 with your questions, or leave a comment below. The Ubells' Accurate Building Inspectors Website.

The Brother/Sister Plays (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 09 December 2

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Director Robert O’Hara and actors Brian Tyree Henry and Andre Holland discuss "The Brother/Sister Plays," Terrell Alvin McCraney’s trilogy of modern-day stories about an extended family and community in the Bayou. "The Brother/Sister Plays" are playing at the Public Theater through December 20.

International Mine Ban Treaty (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 08 Decembe

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Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams talks about the Obama Administration's mixed messages on whether the United States will sign the International Mine Ban Treaty, which 156 nations are party to. She’ll also discuss the work of her organization, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

U.N. Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday,

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As the UN Climate Change conference enters its second day in Copenhagen, Time staff writer Bryan Walsh describes what we can expect over the next two weeks, what the 15,000 delegates are talking about, and whether yesterday’s announcement that the EPA has determined that greenhouse gasses must be regulated will help the US come to an agreement in Denmark. Here are some of Bryan Walsh's recent articles about the Copenhagen conference: 5 Things to Watch for at the Copenhagen Climate-Change...

The Jazz Loft Project (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 08 December 2009)

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W. Eugene Smith’s Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds of art, photography, and music for more than 40 years. Sam Stephenson, writer and instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, tells about his seven-year project to catalog, archive, select, and edit Smith’s jazz loft photographs and tapes for his book, The Jazz Loft Project. It includes photographs of some of the biggest names in jazz—Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among...

The Viking in the Wheat Field (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 08 Decembe

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Susan Dworkin discusses the work of Danish scientist Bent Skovmand, who amassed, multiplied, and documented thousands of wheat varieties and was instrumental in creating the world’s seed banks. Her book The Viking in the Wheat Field: A Scientist's Struggle to Protect the World's Wheat Harvest examines the often overlooked topic of how crucial the world’s dependence on wheat seeds is, and how these "genetic resources" should be saved and protected, especially as climate change is creating new...

Harry Benson's Photographs (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 07 December 20

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World-renowned photojournalist Harry Benson talks about his remarkable career. His latest book, Harry Benson: Photographs, is a celebration of his career, and includes his photographs of presidents, Robert F. Kennedy on the night he was assassinated, and the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrities, and historic moments—the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the IRA hunger strikes, the Freedom March through Mississippi, 9/11, and conflicts around the world.

Mentors, Muses, and Monsters (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 07 December

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Writers Elizabeth Benedict, Sigrid Nunez, and Lily Tuck discuss the people who most influenced them. Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives was edited by and includes an essay by Elizabeth Benedict. Sigrid Nunez writes about what it was like to be Susan Sontag's protg, and Lily Tuck writes about having Gordon Lish as a teacher. Event: Elizabeth Benedict, Sigrid Nunez, and Lily Tuck will be speaking and signing books Monday, December 7, at 7:00 pm Barnes &...

Dissection (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 07 December 2009)

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Author James Edmonson, Chief Curator of the Dittrick Medical Center and Museum at Case Western Reserve University, explains why, in the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, medical students took pictures of themselves with the cadavers they dissected. His book Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine includes 138 rare, historic photographs that reveal a strange piece of American medical history. Event: James Edmonson will be giving a talk Monday,...

Texas Politics (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 07 December 2009)

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Robert Draper, contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, discusses Texas Governor Rick Perry, who’s in the fight of his political life against popular Republican senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who has the key players of the Bush administration behind her. His article "It’s Just a Texas-Governor Thing," is in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.

Young Farmers (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)

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Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture’s second annual Young Farmers Conference is December 3-4. Fred Kirschenmann, Stone Barns Center’s Board President and Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, discusses his advocacy of a new "50 year Farm Bill" in Washington, and about his work helping to energize the burgeoning young farmers movement in the United States. He’s joined by Zach Wolfe and Emma Hoyt, two young farmers. Resources for young farmers: The...

Please Explain: Epigenetics (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2

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The new science of epigenetics is changing our understanding of heredity, identity, and disease. On today’s edition of Please Explain, we’ll find out how environmental factors can change the way our genes function, and how the epigenome—which can be seen as the software that tells our DNA how to function—works. We’re joined by Dr. Dana Dolinoy, Searle Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan; and Dr. Randy Jirtle,...

Cleaving (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)

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Julie Powell talks about learning the art of butchering and traveling from Argentina to Ukraine to Japan to learn about meat. Her new memoir is Cleaving: A Memoir of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession. Event: Julie Powell will be reading and signing books Friday, December 4, at 7:30 pm Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle 1972 Broadway, 66th Street She'll also be reading and signing books Thursday, January 7, 7:00 pm Housing Works 126 Crosby Street

Nightingale (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 04 December 2009)

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Actress Lynn Redgrave stars in a play she wrote herself, inspired by the life of her maternal grandmother, a woman she barely knew. "Nightingale" is playing through December 13 at New York City Center, Stage 1, 131 West 55th Street.

Underreported: The Prosecution of a Right Wing Radio Host Turned FBI Inform

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For years Hal Turner hosted a right-wing internet radio show from northern New Jersey that catered to white supremacists and neo-Nazis. For most of that time Turner also received thousands of dollars from the FBI for acting as an informant who spied on the same groups he was broadcasting to. Now he’s on trial in Brooklyn for posting death threats against three federal appeals court judges on his blog. On today’s second Underreported, we’ll speak with Mike Kelly, a columnist for The Record of...

If We Can Put a Man on the Moon (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 Dece

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William Eggers and John O'Leary discusses how we can renew our trust in our government and renew its legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government, they remind American people who might be frustrated with the government, the war in Iraq, and the financial meltdown that our nation has a long history of great achievements.

Don’t Touch Me (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2009)

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Comedian and host of "Deal or No Deal" Howie Mandel describes his ongoing struggle to overcome Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and ADHD, and how has it shaped his life and career. His book Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me is a frank, funny account of his effort to find comic inspiration in his darkest, most vulnerable places.

Underreported: Swine Flu and Ukraine's Presidential Election (The Leonard L

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Ukraine will hold its presidential election in January, but in recent weeks swine flu has threatened to delay the vote. On this week’s first Underreported: Julia Ioffe of Foreign Policy explains how fears about swine flu have been politicized and why next year’s election is so important to the future of Ukraine. You can read Julia Ioffe’s article here.

The Late Christopher Bean (The Leonard Lopate Show: Thursday, 03 December 2

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Director Jenn Thompson and actress Mary Bacon discuss the "The Late Christopher Bean," a comedy rarely seen in New York since its Broadway premiere in 1932. It tells the story of a country doctor who learns that the paintings a poor former tenant gave him instead of rent are suddenly valuable and sought after by a New York art collector. "The Late Christopher Bean" is playing at the Beckett Theater, 410 West 42nd Street, through December 12.

Snitching (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)

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Alexandra Natapoff, Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, argues that the consequences of snitching—police and prosecutors offering deals to criminal offenders in exchange for information—aren’t always positive. Her book Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice is a comprehensive analysis of this common practice, and looks at how it affects the legal system, policing, and communities. Event: Alexandra Natapoff will be speaking Wednesday, December 2,...

Antarctica (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)

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Award-winning photographer Michael Poliza talks about venturing to the polar regions with his camera. His book Antarctic: A Tribute to Life in the Polar Regions captures images of these frozen paradises threatened by global warming.

FDR's Shadow (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)

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In 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just lost an election as vice president, was left paralyzed from the waist down by polio, and his marriage was on the rocks. Julie Fenster describes how his friend and advisor, Louis Howe, was instrumental in FDR’s resurgence and for shaping Eleanor Roosevelt’s role. In FDR’s Shadow: Louis Howe, the Force that Shaped Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, she gives a behind-the-scenes account of this influential friendship. Event: Julie M. Fenster will be in...

Stones Into Schools (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 December 2009)

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Picking up where his bestseller Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, Greg Mortenson recounts his efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake; and the ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders. In Stones Into Schools, he shares his vision to promote peace through education and literacy and weaves together personal stories of those who have been involved in his...

U Is for Undertow (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 01 December 2009)

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Sue Grafton talks about her twenty-first thriller about her sharp-tongued heroine Kinsey Millhone. U Is for Undertow, tells the story of Michael Sutton, a twenty-seven-year-old college dropout who asks for Kinsey’s help to uncover a kidnapping and murder of a child over 20 years earlier. But can she trust him or was he a boy who cried wolf? Events: Sue Grafton will be reading and signing books Tuesday, December 1, at 7:00 pm Barnes & Noble, Upper East Side 150 East 86th Street, between...

Thank Heaven (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 01 December 2009)

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Leslie Caron made her film debut with Gene Kelly in the classic MGM musical "An American in Paris," created one of the most enduring roles in American musicals as "Gigi," danced with Fred Astaire in "Daddy Long Legs," and starred with Cary Grant in "Father Goose." She discusses her remarkable career and reminisces about MGM at the end of its Golden Era and about the great stars she worked with. Her memoir is titled Thank Heaven. Event: Leslie Caron will be speaking and signing books Tuesday,...

Nigella Christmas (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 01 December 2009)

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Popular British cook Nigella Lawson tells us how to have a happy holiday in her latest book, Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities. It’s filled with inspirational ideas, practical tips for making the most of the season, and reliable, easy-to-follow recipes and advice about planning, cooking, and entertaining. Events: Nigella Lawson will be speaking and signing books Wednesday, December 2, at 7:00 pm Barnes & Noble, Upper East Side 150 East 86th Street, between Lexington and...

Jeffrey Toobin (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 01 December 2009)

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Jeffrey Toobin, CNN senior analyst and New Yorker staff writer, discusses the upcoming Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial, and how the appointment of Justice Sonya Sotomayor will affect the Supreme Court. He's the author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.

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