Who Cares How the President Spends His Time?

Who Cares How the President Spends His Time?

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 1010 , Segment 1

Episode: Emergency Powers, Presidential Time, Brain Remodeling

  • Feb 19, 2019 11:00 pm
  • 13:12 mins

Guest: Stacy Cordery, Professor of History, Iowa State University We can’t imagine many jobs more stressful than being President of the United States. With the well-being of the nation on your shoulders, it’d be tough to ever step away from the job and recharge or get enough sleep. President Trump’s work ethic has been under scrutiny recently because some leaked copies of his daily schedule show frequent, large blocks of unscheduled time where the President is reported to be watching TV, reading the papers, sending Tweets and making calls to friends, aides and members of Congress. Should this worry us?

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Why it Matters that the World's Population May be Shrinking

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Guest: John Ibbitson, Journalist, Co-Author of “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline” When you were deciding how many kids to have, I bet you thought about things like money and timing and emotional stuff like, “does our family feel complete yet?” Maybe you also thought about whether your house was big enough for another child. On a global scale, experts have been fretting for decades about Earth running out of room. They’ve warned of an impending population crisis that will stress our supply of food, water and land. Cue the apocalyptic soundtrack. But now there’s another group of population experts out there worried that maybe we’ve got the opposite problem –that somewhere around 2050 the Earth’s population is going to start shrinking. Crisis averted, right? Not entirely.

Guest: John Ibbitson, Journalist, Co-Author of “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline” When you were deciding how many kids to have, I bet you thought about things like money and timing and emotional stuff like, “does our family feel complete yet?” Maybe you also thought about whether your house was big enough for another child. On a global scale, experts have been fretting for decades about Earth running out of room. They’ve warned of an impending population crisis that will stress our supply of food, water and land. Cue the apocalyptic soundtrack. But now there’s another group of population experts out there worried that maybe we’ve got the opposite problem –that somewhere around 2050 the Earth’s population is going to start shrinking. Crisis averted, right? Not entirely.