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Dr Lexi Lord, Interview, Doctor's Orders Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series Alexandra, "Lexi," Lord, chair and curator of the division of medicine and science at the Smithsonian American History Museum, explores the medical and public health advances of the '20s and places them in a cultural context. In the previous decade  World War I shaped new discoveries in medicine, and examinations of...

Q & A with Physicist Clifford V. Johnson, About the Creation of Genius, and Albert Einstein Our guest today, Dr. Clifford V. Johnson is a professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Southern California. Hearing the word 'physics,' should definitely not scare you away.  Actually, quite the contrary. You'll want to hear this because Dr. Johnson is well known for explaining...

Game of Thrones, Season 7, Deborah Riley, Production Design Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates For devoted followers of HBO's Game of Thrones, the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros is a land they know intimately. Its castle halls, towering battlements, starkly beautiful landscapes, and torch-lit chambers are places that root the epic narrative in a highly detailed world that bridges the real an...

Captain America Super Soldier, Science or Science Fiction Art of Living Interview series, Smithsonian Associates Captain America's Super-Soldier Serum: 1940s Fantasy Meets Modern Biotechnology This is a special interview.  The Not Old Better audience loves our science fiction!  Plus, some of Marvel's characters are among my favorite, whether it's puny and frail Steve Rogers into Captain America, o...

Dr Cindy Otto: Working Dogs as Saviors in the Post 9/11 World Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates The nose knows. A dog's nose has 300 million olfactory receptors, humans about 6 million. Because of their heightened sense of smell, highly trained dogs are now bomb-sniffing, drug-interdiction, search-and-rescue, and cancer-detecting professionals, thanks to such organizations as the Penn V...

Robyn Muncy: The Women's Vote: The 19th Amendment Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates When the 19th Amendment was ratified on Aug. 26, 1920, the status of many American women didn't change much. For one thing, women in many states had full voting rights well before the federal amendment passed. For another, many American Indian and Asian immigrant women remained disenfranchised because th...

Johanna Mendelson Forman:                                               Tasting Cuba: History, Hospitality, and Food Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates Welcome to The Not Old Better Show , I'm your host, Paul Vogelzang.   As part of our Smithsonian Associates partnership program, our guest today, Johanna Mendelson Forman, is an expert on the relationship between food, history, culture an...

American Eclipse: Scientific Rivals, Interview with David Baron Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates "A total eclipse pulls back the curtain that is the daytime sky, exposing what is above our heads but unseen at any other time: the solar system. Suddenly, you perceive our blazing sun as never before, flanked by bright stars and planets." David Baron, from the prologue to American Eclipse...

National Gallery of Art Renovation,                                    Interview with Susan Wertheim & Harry Cooper Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates In September, 2016, the National Gallery of Art's East Building, which houses the modern art collection, reopened after three years of renovation. Along with the renovation of existing galleries and construction of new galleries and a roof...

Pianist Robert Wyatt on Jerome Kern, the Godfather of American Musical Theater Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates Our guest today, Robert Wyatt, an American music specialist, researcher and pianist, and presenter of the Smithsonian Associates event, Jerome Kern the godfather of American Musical Theater, says Jerome Kern did it all, and is where it all began… Jerome Kern first began to ge...

The Manhattan Project: Visions of a Nuclear Future, Dr. Marty Sherwin Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates In 1939, the world's scientific community began a desperate race against an imagined German project to unlock the process of splitting a uranium atom. Under a cloak of secrecy, the Manhattan Project—code name for the 1941 wartime initiative to develop nuclear weapons—began. The next y...

Scott Turow Interview: Artists' Rights New Artist's Income, Voices In Jeopardy Scott Turow is an active, well known artist's rights advocate, and someone who does much to balance the goals of a free society and balance the needs of content creators, and preserving artists' rights against the technology companies who hope to profit from looser copyright policies, to provide content more freely onli...

Scott Turow Interview: "Testimony" Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates As part of our Smithsonian Associates partnership program, our guest today, Scott Turow, will be presenting his wide ranging subjects and expertise, including his new book, "Testimony," May 18 Washington DC, at the Ridley Center.   For ticket information, please check our web site, or at smithsonianassociates.org Of co...

TeloYears is a simple, accurate DNA test that lets you track your cellular age based on your telomere length.  Will it work?  Join me as I go through the test, and then share the results with you. One of the greatest medical mysteries, IMO, is how and why we age?  And, today, almost as important, what can we do about it? Here on The Not Old Better Show we try and tell those stories, describe those...

Ernest Hemingway: Author & SPY! Interview Series with Nicholas Reynolds Ernest Hemingway's military adventurism has been fairly well-documented over the years. But a new book by a former CIA intelligence officer and historian, Nicholas Reynolds, while doing research at the CIA Museum tells the little known story of Hemingway's secret life as a spy — both for the Americans and the Soviets. CIA arch...

5 Tips for Better Sleep...Short Version The Art of Living Series Presents 5 Tips for Better Sleep I sleep well...but that got me thinking… 90 million Americans suffer from sleep deprivation, or insomnia every night.   Busy schedules and never ending to-do lists make it easy to place a low priority on getting enough sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation, more than 60% of adults report f...

5 Tips to Sleep Better The Art of Living Series, The Not Old Better Show   Today is April 18.  A day that serves as both excited government employee holiday, and day to keep only the most hearty of us from feeling overwhelmed, tired, and even sleepless.  When you hear the phrase, 'what keeps you up at night," for me, it's not much.  Not even taxes.  I'm old fashioned, believe in the system and pay...

5 Tips for Getting Your 55+ Age Body Ready for Spring The Art of Grooming for Those 55 +... The start of "Spring Begins" falls each year between Feb. 3 and Feb. 5, when the weather remains cold. The spring equinox arrives about 45 days later. At this time, the earth has absorbed enough heat that nature begins to show signs of life–insects start to move their wings and fish swim more actively under...

RETURNING HOME: HOW TIME WITH MY PARENTS CHANGED THE WAY I THINK ABOUT LIFE... Traveling for everyone eventually comes to an end, or evolves into something different. It is said that what we can take from our travels enriches our lives and honors our experiences. I'll never look at my parents in the same way again...and I mean that in a good way. This last month with my parents in California enric...

The Beauty of Modesto Wisteria: A Feast for the Senses... Including a Poem, written and read aloud by Author, Newspaper Columnist, Poet, VJ Vogelzang The beautiful wisteria plant, fragrant and visually stunning, grows in Modesto, California, and on my recent visit there, I found a spectacular trellis with an enormous vine. Wisteria is notable not only for its attractive, fragrant flowers, but also...

I Had To Put My Parent's Sweet Little Dog Down Caretaker Essay to My Parents, Pt 2 'Bailey' So, my parents found out very recently that their sweet little dog, Bailey, had been urinating on a couple spots of an expensive "Persian rug."  The rug sits atop a new hardwood floor in their home, and the spots were directly adjacent to a very nice lo-boy cabinet.  As happens, the pee, which had been accu...

Caretaker Essay to My Parents The Not Old Better Show Reflections I wish I could find any humor in taking care of my parents right now.  I'm exhausted, and I think that's part of it, but we've always had a great relationship and now I find that, because they both so desperately need my attention and care as they age (my mom is 87 and my dad 86), that's it's become about performing a caretaker role...

Yoga As Lifestyle Medicine: Interview with Linda Stern Lang Art of Living series, Smithsonian Associates You can do yoga at any age -- really! It's just a matter of picking what type of yoga you do and working within your abilities. It might even help you age better, keeping you flexible and building strength through low-impact moves.  Our guest today, on The Not Old Better Show, Linda Stern Lang,...

Almond Blossoms of Central California The Not Old Better Show Travel Series I'm here in Northern California, specifically Modesto, where I grew up, visiting my parents, who are both pretty ill.  But, I couldn't leave Modesto without giving you a glimpse into what is probably one the most beautiful sights in all of agriculture: almond blossoms. After the first rains of the winter season, the Califo...

Sam Worthington, 'The Shack' Interview The Not Old Better Show, Movies for Adults Over the course of the last week, we've really had some great interviews, of course we've talked to star Octavia Spencer,…author, William Paul Young, who wrote the best selling novel, The Shack, that the movie is based on, actor Tim McGraw, and today, the last in our 'The Shack' series, actor Sam Worthington. Please...