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Coast To Coast AM Feb 05 2012 - Wisdom of... Mp3 (More) Mp3 http://www.4shared.com/rar/hZOxBvzg/Coast_To_Coast_AM_-_522012_-_W.html
Wisdom of Elders:
Joining George Noory on Sunday night, Professor of Gerontology at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Karl Pillemer, discussed his research on older people. He interviewed more than 1,000 Americans over the age of 65 about various topics, and they shared with him the wisdom and life lessons they've acquired. One of his surprising findings was that people over the age of 70 have higher rates of life satisfaction than younger people, even if they have a chronic disease. They're aware they have a "limited time horizon," and this helps them make better choices, he explained. Many of the people in the 90-100 age range conveyed to him the idea that "life is incredibly short."
Some of the other lessons they shared were: Train yourself to reduce or eliminate worry. Avoid regret by saying yes to opportunities, following your dreams, or trying something different. Travel more-- people and experiences end up mattering more than material possessions. In choosing a mate, find someone who shares your values and interests, and will make a suitable companion when the sex and romance fades.
The biggest area of sadness in their lives was when there was a rift in their family that wasn't repaired, Pillemer reported. He also talked about the problems of ageism-- few elderly people are depicted in films and TV, and a coming epidemic of Alzheimer's that will hit as Boomers continue to grow older. Past the age of 85, one out of 2 seniors will experience dementia, and the American healthcare system is not prepared for this, he lamented.
Philosophy of Religion:
First hour guest, philosophy professor John Reigstad pondered the "Science of God," and shared his concept of religion, which he related to the affirmation of ultimate values in a person's life, such that an agnostic or atheist could have religious practices. He also spoke about respecting "enlightened pluralism," which he defined as "the affirmation of your own religious tradition and the tradition of your ancestors, while remaining sympathetic to the peaceful traditions of others." (Less)
Visible Cities: International Media Portrayals... Speaker(s): Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Dr Vandana (More) Speaker(s): Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Dr Vandana Desai, Jamal Osman, Susan Parnell, Dr Scott Rodgers, John Vidal
Chair: Suzanne Hall
Recorded on 15 May 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.
We apologise for the poor audio quality, an mp3 audio podcast with better quality audio is available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/
As the world population urbanises, it is crucial that we critically examine how the media invites us to "see" cities. Visible Cities will bring together academics and journalists to critically examine the ways in which cities in developing countries are currently portrayed and consider alternatives.
Dr Shakuntala Banaji is a lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE. Her research interests include the meaning, history and textual study of cinema, particularly South Asian media and Hindi films; the socio-political contexts of audiences, representations of gender and ethnicity; tensions between popular and elite media; internet cultures; online civic participation; young people and cultural identities. She is the editor of South Asian media cultures: audiences, representations, contexts (2010).
Dr Vandana Desai is a senior lecturer in the geography department at Royal Holloway. She conducts cross-disciplinary research on infrastructure and security of tenure in slums; aging, livelihoods and poverty; and gender and development, with a regional focus on South Asia.
Jamal Osman is an award-winning independent journalist and filmaker focusing on East Africa, including extensive work in Somalia. He has produced stories for Channel 4 and the Guardian, and is the recipient of the Royal Television Society (RTS) Independent Award 2012, the Amnesty International Gaby Rado Memorial Award 2010, the news story of the year prize at the Foreign Press Association (FPA) Awards 2009. His work for the Guardian on Al-Qaida's aid distribution in Somalia was recently shortlisted for the 2012 Broadcast Digital Awards "Best News of Current Affairs Content".
Dr Susan Parnell is an urban geographer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town and is the Director of the 'CityLab' at the African Centre for Cities. She is currently the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at UCL. Her research interests include contemporary urban policy research (local government, poverty reduction and urban environmental justice). Sue is also on the boards of several local NGOs concerned with poverty alleviation, sustainability and gender equity in post-apartheid South Africa.
Dr Scott Rodgers is a lecturer in Media Theory in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck. His research interests include the idea of a specifically 'urban' politics or public culture, and especially its constitution through media and processes of mediation and the ways in which urban life has been a longstanding focus for, as well as a milieu of, professional and amateur journalism. In 2008 he hosted a two day workshop on media practices and the political spaces of cities entitled "Mediapolis".
John Vidal is the environment editor at the Guardian, writing on environment and international development issues, focusing on cities in Africa, Bangladesh and Latin America . He is the author of McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial (1998) and has contributed chapters to books on topics such as the Gulf war, new Europe and development.
Dr Suzanne Hall is an urban ethnographer, and has practised as an architect and urban designer in South Africa. Her research and teaching interests include social and economic forms of inclusion and exclusion, urban multiculture, the imagination and design of the city, and ethnography and visual methods. She is a recipient of the Rome Scholarship in Architecture (1998-1999) and the LSE's Robert McKenzie Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research (2010). She co-edited (with Dinardi and Fernández) Writing Cities (2010, LSE), and her research monograph, City, street and citizen: The measure of the ordinary, is forthcoming. (Less)
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