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Talk Cocktail

Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

news & politics

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26:38

Can Boomers afford to age with dignity?

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2015/02/26

It’s been said that if you live to an old age, you give give up all the things that make you want to live to an old age. At a time when 10,000 boomers a day are reaching retirement age, when the generation that sought to change the world, is being changed by the ravages of age, when the cost of care for this huge generation of seniors could bankrupt us personally and as a nation, it’s time for a frank conversation to examine, if there is a better way forward. MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Ai

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24:13

Filmmaking that truly stands the test of time

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2015/02/25

Can you imagine if immediately after 9/11, filmmakers like Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, Fincher or Apatow would enlist in the military to make films about the war on terror? Films that would show America at war against its Taliban and Middle East enemies. Well with the exception of Clint Eastwood, that's pretty hard to imagine. Yet in WWII, that's exactly what happened. Filmmakers John Ford, William Wyler, Frank Capra, John Houston, and George Stevens would in various ways, join with the

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25:42

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain

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2015/02/23

How many times have you heard someone say that they were of two minds on a particular subject? What they were in fact reflecting and acknowledging, is the idea that we are literally of two minds. That the left and right hemispheres of the brain represent different and sometimes independent parts of the whole. Discovering this, understanding the foundations of cognitive neuroscience, how the brain works and how the two hemispheres communicate with each other, has been the work and crowning

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26:53

The Man Who Couldn't Stop......The Man Who Couldn't...

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2015/02/20

How many of you have ever left the house, gotten half way to your destination and were convinced that you had left the oven on, or left the door open, even though the rational side of you knew you had not? The more you tried to think about it, the more you became obsessed. Until you had no choice but to turn back, go home and find that yes, the oven was off, or the door was closed. Then imagine this kind of obsession impacting every aspect of your life. Turned on 24/7, often about the same issues

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27:03

The Science behind Touch, Pleasure and Pain

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2015/02/19

For the ten million or so people that saw Fifty Shades of Grey this past weekend, or the many more millions who read the books, in a way what they were doing is trying to understand touch. The complex ways in which our bodies and our brains process pleasure and pain. Why childhood development is so crucial to that process and the ways in which touch shapes our sexuality, our cooperation, our well being and our own internal interaction between the physical and emotional world. Professor of

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23:37

Lynsey Addario: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

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2015/02/18

There is a principle in physics known as the uncertainty principle. the idea simplified is that it’s impossible to observe or measure certain phenomenon without having an impact on that which is being observed or measured. In many ways we might look for the same impacts among those that give us the images of war and disaster. What do these images tell us about sufferings of people in faraway places? Images that do more than report, that can inspire dissent, foster violence, or create sympathy or

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24:09

Has Italy always been falling apart?

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2015/02/17

Back in the early 1960’s, in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, the world took note of the decadence of life in the Italian capital of Rome. Inspired by two major political/sex scandals of the era, the film which would win the 1960 Palme d'or in Cannes, depicted a Rome that was ultra sophisticated, ultra modern, ultra decadent and ultra cool. Fifty plus years later, Rome is kind of antidote to America. There is less sexuality, less modernity, less sophistication and less decadence. However there is more

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14:04

Miranda July

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2015/02/17

Short Stories, films ,novels and performance art. Over the years we’ve spoken to many guest that do some of these things, at the top of their profession. However, Miranda July has done them all and all of them exceedingly well Her collection of short stories, NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU won numerous awards and has been published in 23 countries. Her film, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, was a winner of Camera d'or at the Cannes Film Festival and a special Jury prize at Sundance. If

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34:39

Just how dangerous is Vladimir Putin? Ask Bill Browder!

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2015/02/16

We often throw terms around in our political and geopolitical debates like capitalist, and communist, and oligarch, and class divide. But very few who use these hot button terms truly understand the deep essence of what they really mean. One of those that does understand is Bill Browder. He rebelled against communism as a teenager, became of capitalist and then made millions in Putin’s Russia. What he didn’t know was just what kind of price he would pay for getting involved in the ever entangling

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21:28

Marriage today is not your parents marriage...but it...

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2015/02/16

It was Woody Allen who said that “marriage was the end of hope.” We know from the behavior of millennials today that while they strongly favor equality of marriage, they are not to keen on the institution for themselves. Arguably marriage today, like so much in our society, is undergoing a transition and even disruption. Marriage today is certainly not your parents marriage….but is it maybe your grandparents. Suppose we skip back not one, but two generations and look at marriage. Can we learn

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23:39

Is the perfect Battery the holy grail of the...

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2015/02/13

If any one issue has dominated both our international and domestic dialogue it is the subject of energy. A developed and developing world, with every increasing energy needs and, in spite of the current glut, not an endless supply of oil. Enter alternative energy...wind, solar and the battery. If only we could prefect the later. With range anxiety for electric cars, computer anxiety on long flights, the need for a better battery might very well be the holy grail of the electronic and digital

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22:49

Fear, Hope and Dread

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2015/02/12

It is often said that to name something is to understand it. If that’s true, than Scott Stossel has a greater understanding of anxiety than anyone else. In his book, My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind, he takes us through the litany of his multiple anxieties and treatments. In so doing, we come away with a far greater understanding of and sympathy for the anxieties, that for Scott and many others, (far more than we know) plaque everyday life. In a more

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24:19

Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of...

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2015/02/07

Why is it that certain cultural and/or ethnic groups tend to have successes, far in excess of their percentage of the population? Jews, Indians, Iranians, Chinese, Mormons, and a few others. These groups are simply more financially and academically successful than others in the US. And while hearing this, often sends powerful signals to our racial antenna, the fact is that if we can answer the question of why, then perhaps we can find a formula to lift up others. To truly find the holy grail of

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53:28

Vidal

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2015/02/06

Today we have talking heads and pundits. But back in second half of the 20th century we had writers and public intellectuals, whose ideas, attitudes and personalities became a part of our public discourse. Gore Vidal was one of those. He wrote about history, about sex, about politics and sometimes all at once. He wrote non-fiction, novels, movies, and was the guest you wanted to have at a dinner party. But he was also one of the bad boys of American letter. His rapier wit and insults pushed away

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26:03

The paid dogs of war

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2015/02/04

The world is a dangerous place. We no longer have the moral clarity and security of the cold war, or of earlier wars where we knew precisely who our enemy were. Today, as non state actors battle nations and each other, the asymmetry of conflict has created new opportunities for paid armies, and for mercenaries on all sides. Just as we outsource call centers and the delivery of packages, today we outsource war. From the protection of the high seas to making our own national interests more

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18:08

Alexandra Fuller

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2015/02/03

It is one of the tragic ironies of the psychoanalytic age that we are attracted to people, particularly our partners, who often turn out to be the very ones that begin to repel us later in life. At first, its those once endearing and now annoying habits. And then, it becomes annoyance at their larger world view. Perhaps it's because in partnering, we seek to make up for those things that we are lacking. Perhaps its because we buy into to the old adage that opposites attract. Even though,

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23:52

The Brain's Way

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2015/02/02

Imagine a machine that can rewire itself, finds its own way to work around non working circuits, heal its own bugs and viruses, find and adapt to new sources of energy and know when it needs repair and attention. No, it’s not the latest product from Silicon Valley, it is the human brain. The recent discoveries about the brains ability to adapt, its neuroplasticity, have truly redefined how we imagine the brain and how we treat it in the face of disease and trauma. Someday, it may also lead us full

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29:05

A Biography of PTSD

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2015/01/30

Sometimes the reality of war is just too complex and absurd to be understood in real time. Perhaps that why books about war are so powerful and important. That’s why novels like Catch 22, Slaughterhouse 5, The Things they Carried, A Rumor of War, and The Yellow Birds, have been essential for our understating. Equally important to our understand is grasping the impact of PTSD on those who served or who, for whatever reasons, journeyed into the heart of darkness that is combat. While embedded

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21:07

The last time the music business died

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2015/01/28

As music and the music business evolves today, the content of the music often plays second fiddle to the debate about economics. About digital royalties, performance royalties, Pandora, Spotify, etc. In many way the medium impacts the message, the songs we hear and what gets produced and what becomes popular. And why not? After all, it is the music business! In fact, it always has been a business, but one balanced precariously on the fulcrum of popular taste. Where those two ideas and trends

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22:58

The Legacy of Tahrir Square...Four years later

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2015/01/27

Revolutions are hard AND exciting. They combine courage and new ideas and the excitement of once in a generation change. However what’s even harder, is what comes next. The way in which the apogee of a moment of revolutionary fervor sticks and is translated into changes in government and in bureaucratic institutions. And perhaps most importantly, the way in which the multilateral ideas of the divergent revolutionaries come together to shape it, accommodate and compromise. We know from our own

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