Microsoft/Yahoo - Deal Or No Deal?; SAG Negotiations Update; L.A.'s Sewers Exposed; Primary Preview; Can Intelligence Be Learned?
Microsoft/Yahoo - Deal Or No Deal?
Larry talks with Ina Fried, Reporter at CNETnews.com about the break down in the negotiations between Microsoft and Yahoo.
SAG Negotiations Update
Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios are scheduled to resume today, three days after the union backed off some of its demands. The current three-year contract covering 120,000 film and TV actors expires on June 30. Larry talks with Steve Gorman of Reuters about the state of the negotiations.
L.A.'s Sewers Exposed
For all we know, sewers are garbage-filled, rodent-infested pipes that pollute our beaches and ocean; but what don't we know about Los Angeles' sewer system? Larry Mantle talks with Anna Sklar, author of "Brown Acres: An Intimate History of the Los Angeles Sewers," an historical narrative that examines the complex and alarming story of one of the major metropolitan sewage networks in the country. From its development in the nineteenth century to today, Sklar traces how key players-politicians, engineers, environmentalists-had high stakes in our city's sewers.
Primary Preview
Larry Mantle and guests Mark Barabak of the the Los Angeles Times, Mary Hartnett, News Director for WFYI in Indianapolis, and Jack Betts, Associate Editor of The Charlotte Observer, provide a preview of the upcoming primary elections in both Indiana and North Carolina.
Can Intelligence Be Learned?
Intelligence has always been considered principally an inherited trait. Whatever you're born with, is what you get. But a new study flies in the face of that commonly held belief and shows that it's actually possible to increase one's brainpower. The key, researchers say, is training in working memory, the kind that allows memorization of a phone number long enough to dial it. Larry talks with Susanne M. Jaeggi, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at the University of Michigan and co-author of the study "Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory," and Nahmoo Soh, a junior at the University of Michigan who participated in the training.