life expectancy

What’s The Longest You Can Possibly Live?

May 25, 2021 Culture, Global Issues, Health, History, Science and Technology

Steven Johnson is host of the PBS/BBC series “How We Got to Now,” and the “American Innovations” podcast. He joins us to talk about societal change that has pushed us to live older, fuller lives and why that’s dependent on the greater good.

Caring For Mom And Dad

June 17, 2015 Health

This hour, we’ll talk with Ai-jen Poo, co-director of Caring Across Generations, about how we can better look after older Americans.

What Would Darwin Say?

March 31, 2015 Health, Science and Technology

Modern medicine and biotechnology reduce the force of natural selection, and conditions that used to kill us are now being passed on to new generations. This hour, we’ll talk about how we can alter humanity’s future with Juan Enriquez, co-author of “Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth.”