Your Call 051508 The Emptying Oceans

Can you still eat seafood for dinner and sleep well at night? On the next Your Call we speak with Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Grescoe, a travel writer, has sampled the best the world has to offer: bouillabaisse in Marseille, sushi in Tokyo. But he found that his was one mouth among way too many and his book is a wide-ranging survey of failing global fish stocks. Are calamari, oysters and swordfish off the menu forever? Can 6 billion people live well and healthy only at the expense of the seas? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Taras Grescoe in San Francisco

Author of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Taras is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Independent, and National Geographic Traveler.

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Your Call 051408 Forget Me Not

Are we close to solving the problem of catastrophic memory loss? On the next Your Call we talk with Sue Halpern, author of Can’t Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From the Front Lines of Memory Research. More people fear getting Alzheimer’s than cancer. Why does memory loss frighten us so much? Will drug, surgical and computer-based cures solve the problem of memory loss or do they foretell an era of mental enhancements that will have unpredictable results? It’s Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guest:
Sue Halpern in San Francisco

Author of 8 books including Four Wings and a Prayer and Migrations to Solitude. Her latest book is Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research. She is a former Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and the director of the non-profit Face of Democracy project which teaches documentary journalism to high school students. Mrs. Halpern lives in Vermont and the Adirondacks with her husband Bill McKibben and their daughter Sophie.

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