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MIT's AgeLab has a very specific goal at the heart of its mission: to give every human "100 quality years of living." To accomplish this goal, AgeLab founder and director, Joseph Coughlin created AGNES: the wearable "Age-Gain-Now-Empathy-Suit" that simulates the experience of being a 70-year-old woman. Coughlin hopes designers who wear AGNES will pay closer attention to how products for our aging population are designed, marketed, and used. We talk with Joseph Coughlin about AGNES, and about AgeLab's ongoing mission to help us age gracefully.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012       Listen 897
*Originally aired 11/02/12
Walter Mosley on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Walter MosleyLate last year, Walter Mosley joined us to talk about his latest novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. Mosley’s protagonist, Ptolemy Grey, is an old, ailing recluse living in a dump of a cluttered apartment. His mind, on a downward spiral of dementia, is equally cluttered with a mashup of memories: the death of his wife, the lynching of a friend, his service in World War II. Then everything changes when he’s offered a Faustian bargain—a drug that will restore his brain in exchange for a shorter life. He takes the plunge, hoping mental clarity will help him solve a murder. Though Mosley may be best known for detective novels, his writing spans all genres: literary fiction, science fiction, crime and social commentary. In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Mosely uses threads from all of these styles to tell the story of mortality and morality. 

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