Monday Morning Politics; Later-In-Life Aging Spurts; How to Sort Your Trash in NYC; 100 Years of 100 Things: Summer Camps

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 26, 2024
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Coming up on today's show:

  • Philip Bump, national columnist for The Washington Post and the author of The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America (Viking, 2023), talks about the latest national political news.
  • Stanford Medicine researchers recently found that we undergo two periods of rapid molecular aging during our life span, averaging around age 44 and age 60. Listeners call in to share how their bodies changed during these time periods.
  • Due to the popularity of e-commerce, New York City supers are having a rough time dealing with cardboard boxes from their tenants' purchases in their apartment buildings. Liam Quigley, reporter covering parks & sanitation for Gothamist and WNYC, discusses his reporting on sanitation woes from NYC's supers and explains how to properly sort your trash if you live in one of the city's building's.
  • As our centennial series continues, Ashley Stimpson, Maryland-based freelance journalist who writes about science and travel, takes us through the past 100 years of kids going to the woods for summer camp. 
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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