#626 The Equal Rights Amendment: Twists, Turns and Update - Dr. Robyn Muncy
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The Equal Rights Amendment: Twists, Turns and Update - Dr. Robyn Muncy The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to on and . I’m Paul Vogelzang and today’s show is an important one. Not only is it important to us as citizens, but it’s also important as humans and important in the manner of our respect, treatment, and relations with one another. I rarely say this, but it’s important to me and I strongly support this constitutional process. By way of background, in 1923, the debuted in Congress. Introduced only three years after the ...
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#625 Fred Rogers Presence - Steven Emmanuel
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Fred Rogers Presence - Steven Emmanuel The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang and today’s show will be a fan favorite for a couple reasons: l, our guest today, is known for his depth, consciousness, caring and for excellent Smithsonian Associates presentations. He’s always been a fan favorite, too and today’s subject by Steven is none other than Fred Rogers, of PBS and public television fame. For 33 years, Fred Rogers opened each episode of Mister Rogers’...
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#624 The Cartiers - Francesca Cartier Brickell
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The Cartiers - Francesca Cartier Brickell The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to interview series on radio and podcast. We have a wonderful show and interview today with Francesca Cartier Brickell. Francesca Cartier Brickell is a member of the Cartier dynasty and is the author of the new book, . will be appearing at and you’ll find out more in our show notes today. We are talking with Francesca Cartier Brickell today and we’ll learn about the wondrous and eventful past of the Cartier family. The Cartier story unfolds against...
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#623 Breaking the Age Code - Dr. Becca Levy
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Breaking the Age Code - Dr. Becca Levy The Not Old Better Show, Science of Aging Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang and today’s show will give you some aging insights to live longer and more joyfully. Sometimes life isn’t so joyful, and we’ve all had moments of frustration when we can’t remember someone’s name or where we put the car keys. If this happens to you and you’re 25, you shrug it off as a temporary lapse of memory. If you’re over 60, like so many in our Not Old Better Show audience, you likely...
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#622 Senior Products, Innovation & Entrepreneurship - John Zapolski
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Senior Products, Innovation & Entrepreneurship - John Zapolski The Not Old Better Show, Business Buildout Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Business Buildout interview series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang and today’s show is brought to you by As we in The Not Old Better Show audience know well, age can be an advantage. And, today, entrepreneurship isn’t just for the young. Experts say that more adults over age 60 are starting...
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#621 Smashing Statues - Dr. Erin Thompson
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Smashing Statues - Dr. Erin Thompson The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to interview series on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang and we have a wonderful episode today with , is a professor of art crime at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and is a leading expert in the legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles. As America’s only professor of art crime, Dr. Thompson studies the black market for looted antiquities, art forgery, museum theft, and the ethics of digital reproductions of US cultural...
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#620 The Insect Crisis - Oliver Milman
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The Insect Crisis - Oliver Milman The Not Old Better Science Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. Great to be with you today on a beautiful spring day…not a cloud in the sky…birds chirping…just perfect outside…but, is it? It isn’t, because the world's insect population is in decline — and that's bad news for humans. Our guest today is science and environment author will join us in a moment to discuss his new book, and Oliver Milman will tell us about his devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide...
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#619 Cognitive Decline, Dementia, Alzheimer's - Dr. Deborah Barnes
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Cognitive Decline, Dementia, Alzheimer's - Dr. Deborah Barnes The Not Old Better Show Science Interview Series Welcome to on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and today’s show is brought to you by . Healthcare and health news is among the most popular topics for our Not Old Better Show audience. and the National Institutes of Health now report that nearly half of all older adults now die with a diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer’s listed on their medical record, up 36% from two decades ago. But that sharp rise may have more to do with better public awareness on those...
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#618 Women in White Coats - Olivia Campbell
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Women in White Coats - Olivia Campbell The Not Old Better Show, Science, and Technology Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on the radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang, and today’s show is brought to you by and We’ve got a great show today about an historical sea-change event that impacts us all to this day. We are talking health care with author is the author of the non-fiction book, , . Women in White Coats takes us back to the early 1800s. Before there were any women doctors, it was a time when women were dying from treatable diseases. Dying because...
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#617 “A New Birth of Freedom”: Lincoln’s Oratory and the Civil War
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“A New Birth of Freedom”: Lincoln’s Oratory and the Civil War The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. I’m Paul Vogelzang and as part of our interview series, we have a wonderful show today. Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate and author and professor of history teaches and writes about U.S. History: War and American society, the individual experience of combat, technological change and warfare. The title of Dr. Hamner’s upcoming presentation at Smithsonian Associates is ...
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Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I’m Paul Vogelzang and today’s show is brought to you by Raycon Everyday Ear Buds
Our smartphones are turning us into dopamine addicts, addiction expert Professor Anna Lembke says.
As chief of Stanford University's dual diagnosis addiction clinic, Dr. Anna Lembke has treated patients addicted to everything from heroin to water (yes, you read right), and she refers to the smartphone as the "modern-day hypodermic needle".
Her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence examines how we can beat our digital dependencies, with its central thesis attempting to find out why with more abundance than ever, we remain less happy than we were in the past.
In my conversation with Dr. Anna Lembke today, we’ll talk about her new book "Dopamine Nation,” defining dopamine, and the interconnection between pleasure and pain, and how that connection helps explain addiction. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter, the chemical messenger, that's most connected with processing, rewarding pleasurable behavior. The more dopamine a drug or behavior releases, the more addictive it is. Dr. Lembke is a psychiatrist who's the medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Dopamine is the key here, the key to pleasure and pain.
That of course is our guest today, Dr. Anna Lembke reading from her new book, Dopamine Nation about pleasure and pain. Dr. Lembke will illustrate today how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. You’ll hear about the lived experiences of her patients, which are the gripping fabric of her new book. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. My conversation with Dr. Lembke shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery. Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show via internet phone, Dr. Anna Lembke.
My thanks to Dr. Anna Lembke, author new book, Dopamine Nation for her generous time and preparation today. Of course, my thanks to Raycon Everyday Ear Buds for sponsoring today’s episode, please check out Raycon Everyday Ear Buds for a wonderful in-ear audio experience…just like the Not Old Better Show… My thanks to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience…please be safe, get your flu shots and your booster shot for COVID, recommend others do the same and Let’s Talk About Better. The Not Old Better Show. Thanks, everybody.
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