Just Under 8 Weeks Until The Election; Teen Sexuality And Television; Adult ADHD: Personality Type Or Medical Problem?; The Art Of Earthquake Prediction
Just Under 8 Weeks Until The Election
Labor Day is over, and now the Bush and Kerry elections enter the final two month stretch leading up to the 2004 presidential election. Experts join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the strategy of each campaign as the election season heats up. Larry Mantle talks with P. Edward Haley, Professor of International Relations Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School, and conservative political strategist Arnold Steinberg.
Teen Sexuality And Television
A new study released today by the Rand Corporation finds that teenagers who watch sex on television engage in sexual behavior much sooner than teens who don't. Larry Mantle talks with the study’s lead author, psychologist Rebecca Collins.
Adult ADHD: Personality Type Or Medical Problem?
In honor of national ADHD awareness day, Larry Mantle takes a careful look at the problem of adult attention deficit disorder. More adults than ever before are being diagnosed and prescribed drugs for ADHD. People who used be known a procrastinators or scatterbrains are now being diagnosed with a medical problem. But where does one draw the line between normal forgetfulness and disorganization, and attention deficit disorder? Larry Mantle talks with Dr. David Feifel, founder and director of the Adult ADHD Program at the University of California-San Diego Medical Center, and with San Francisco therapist Lew Mills who has ADHD himself. For more information about adult or childhood ADHD go to www.chadd.org.
The Art Of Earthquake Prediction
David Ulin, author of numerous anthologies of literature about Los Angeles, has a new book called The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith. In it, Ulin explores research in earthquake prediction done by scientists as well as the predictions done by amateurs and “sensitives.” David Ulin joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss the book.