Iran Talks
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Western powers and Iran ended high-stakes talks in Geneva with an agreement to meet again. We speak with Reza Aslan, author of “How to win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror,” and contributing editor at The Daily Beast.
Assignment Detroit
The Detroit skyline is seen Wednesday, July 1, 2009. (AP)
Time Inc. has just kicked off a year long project it’s calling “Assignment Detroit.” Time believes the city, the birthplace of the industrial age and the middle class, but where unemployment hovers today at 29%, is a window into the challenges facing modern America. So the media conglomerate has bought a house in Detroit and is filling it with journalists, photographers, videographers and bloggers from Time, Fortune, Money and Sports Illustrated magazines to document the city’s peril and promise. Our guest is Dan Okrent, a Detroit native and former editor and writer for Time magazine.
Making a Better Light Bulb
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The US Department of Energy is offering companies $10 million to invent a better light bulb. The device would have to use LED (light emitting diode) technology and produce the same quality light as Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb, but use 85% less energy and last 25 times longer. Jim Brodrick of DOE’s Solid-State Lighting Program is our guest.
Doing Your Own Genetic Testing
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Would you be relieved or upset if you found out, through a genetic test that you can take at home, that you’re at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease? Dr. Robert Green has studied the issue, and concludes that people can tolerate the bad news quite well. The problem is that people can easily misunderstand the results of home genetic tests, and there are also privacy concerns. Dr. Green is a professor of neurology and epidemiology at Boston University and a genetics resident at Harvard Medical School.
Letters
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We take a few minutes to hear from listeners.
A Harpist Retires
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We hear from listeners; and Here and Now’s Andrea Shea has the story of Ann Hobson-Pilot, who is retiring this season from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Hobson-Pilot was the first African American woman to win a seat with the BSO.
I listened as here and now credited Thomas Edison for the invention of the incandescent light bulb. This is why we have to start looking at Black history as U.S. history; teach the correct information.
Lewis Howard Latimer was a chief draftsman who executed the drawings and assisted in preparing the applications for the telephone patents of Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the incandescent light bulb utilizing the carbon filament, later to be sold and marketed by Westinghouse Company. Mr. Latimer supervised the installation of his lighting system in New York, Philadelphia, London and Montreal. Mr. Latimer wrote the first text book on electricity. He was also an accomplished poet, musician, author and artist. In an effort to give back to the community, he also taught English to new immigrants to the United States.
Posted by Glenda, on October 1st, 2009 at 2:43 pm