todd: It’s hard to pick an Interview of the Week on Fresh Air - all of them have been excellent: Ahmed Rashid, Jonah Lehrer… But I found Terry Gross’s conversations with science writer Dick Teresi and transplant surgeon Richard Freeman really eye-opening. They discuss the ethics of transplant surgery and how doctors determine the point between life and death. (via Blurring The Line Between Life And Death : NPR)
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todd:

It’s hard to pick an Interview of the Week on Fresh Air - all of them have been excellent: Ahmed Rashid, Jonah Lehrer…

But I found Terry Gross’s conversations with science writer Dick Teresi and transplant surgeon Richard Freeman really eye-opening. They discuss the ethics of transplant surgery and how doctors determine the point between life and death.

(via Blurring The Line Between Life And Death : NPR)

In his new book Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory, historian Harold Holzer says Abraham Lincoln very carefully calibrated the timing and delivery of this act. “He did things in this run-up that are perplexing, sometimes unattractive, sometimes scary — to prepare the country for what in his mind would be a revolutionary moment,” Holzer says. Listen to the interview with Holzer (via ‘Emancipating Lincoln’: A Pragmatic Proclamation : NPR)
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In his new book Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory, historian Harold Holzer says Abraham Lincoln very carefully calibrated the timing and delivery of this act.

“He did things in this run-up that are perplexing, sometimes unattractive, sometimes scary — to prepare the country for what in his mind would be a revolutionary moment,” Holzer says.

Listen to the interview with Holzer

(via ‘Emancipating Lincoln’: A Pragmatic Proclamation : NPR)

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We have an almost unhealthy excitement about today’s interview with Lucy Worsley, author of the new book If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of The Home. It airs at noon and 8pm today on Fresh Air on 89.3 WFPL News. /toddmundt nprfreshair: “To keep their children from going to the fields, some parents in the 17th century would allow their daughter to sleep in the same bed as the young man courting her – but both the woman and man were tied down with heavy rope, in a practice known as ‘bundling.’” — From today’s Fresh Air, on the history of bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. [Photo via weheartit]
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We have an almost unhealthy excitement about today’s interview with Lucy Worsley, author of the new book If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of The Home. It airs at noon and 8pm today on Fresh Air on 89.3 WFPL News. /toddmundt

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“To keep their children from going to the fields, some parents in the 17th century would allow their daughter to sleep in the same bed as the young man courting her – but both the woman and man were tied down with heavy rope, in a practice known as ‘bundling.’” — From today’s Fresh Air, on the history of bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens.

[Photo via weheartit]

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Morning Edition commentator Eric Deggans says Game Change may inform the way we see the 2012 election. Check out his review. nparts: In anticipation of HBO’s upcoming film, Game Change, we have a look at how the movie’s two lead actors, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris, prepared for taking on the respective roles of Sarah Palin and John McCain. Moore: “I knew I would have to do a tremendous amount of research. It’s daunting to play somebody who is not only a living figure, but a hugely well-known one. So, for me, the most important thing was accuracy. I wanted to be as accurate as I could in my characterization. It was just four years ago, after all.” Harris: “My respect and my understanding of Mr. McCain, Senator McCain, certainly deepened. I spent a lot of time reading some of the books he had written with Mark Salter, particularly Faith of My Fathers, which is an autobiographical account of his time growing up; his father and grandfather being admirals in the navy, him knowing from a young age that he was going to be going to Annapolis; his years as a prisoner-of-war, and the aftermath of that, and his decision to go into politics.”
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Morning Edition commentator Eric Deggans says Game Change may inform the way we see the 2012 election. Check out his review.

nparts:

In anticipation of HBO’s upcoming film, Game Change, we have a look at how the movie’s two lead actors, Julianne Moore and Ed Harris, prepared for taking on the respective roles of Sarah Palin and John McCain.

Moore: “I knew I would have to do a tremendous amount of research. It’s daunting to play somebody who is not only a living figure, but a hugely well-known one. So, for me, the most important thing was accuracy. I wanted to be as accurate as I could in my characterization. It was just four years ago, after all.”

Harris: “My respect and my understanding of Mr. McCain, Senator McCain, certainly deepened. I spent a lot of time reading some of the books he had written with Mark Salter, particularly Faith of My Fathers, which is an autobiographical account of his time growing up; his father and grandfather being admirals in the navy, him knowing from a young age that he was going to be going to Annapolis; his years as a prisoner-of-war, and the aftermath of that, and his decision to go into politics.”

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“Again and again, as the Western world took over these HIV prevention campaigns, truly frank conversation about sex drained out of these societies. And fascinatingly, the places that were kind of left alone [like] Zimbabwe — which is north of South Africa, has a horrible government, political collapse — did way better on preventing HIV than South Africa did. Because Zimbabweans didn’t have all of the heavy-handed Western messages [and] they watched lots of people die.” A fascinating conversation with Craig Timberg, author of Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It, on NPR’s Fresh Air. Listen to the interview or read it
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“Again and again, as the Western world took over these HIV prevention campaigns, truly frank conversation about sex drained out of these societies. And fascinatingly, the places that were kind of left alone [like] Zimbabwe — which is north of South Africa, has a horrible government, political collapse — did way better on preventing HIV than South Africa did. Because Zimbabweans didn’t have all of the heavy-handed Western messages [and] they watched lots of people die.”

A fascinating conversation with Craig Timberg, author of Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It, on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Listen to the interview or read it

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Rick Santorum and his campaign will likely look back on Michigan’s 2012 primary not only as a heartbreaking loss in the battle against Mitt Romney but as a historic lost opportunity.

The upstart former senator from Pennsylvania was within a few percentage points of toppling the wobbly frontrunner in a state that really mattered.

NPR’s Ron Elving, on last night’s Michigan primary.

Santorum & Co. Left To Mourn What Might Have Been in Michigan : It’s All Politics : NPR

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