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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest,

performance anxiety edition.

This is also the daily podcast from Slate.com for Wednesday, May 6th, 2009.

On today's program, we're going to talk about cosmetic neurology,

wave of the future, Boston Globe and the demise of the local newspaper,

and summer movies it's that time again.

Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner. Hello, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

And Slate's film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana.

Hey.

Guys, let's start right in with, oh, no, we're not starting right in. We're starting with the news.

We're starting with a really exciting announcement, which is that the Slate Culture Gab Fest, long, a bi-weekly podcast for the past year,

as we've slowly nurtured it from a wee fledgling baby into a full-grown podcast, is going weekly

as of this week. So instead of having to wait two weeks for our next episode, we'll be back next week. And one of the topics we will be discussing is the Star Trek movie. So feel free to see it this weekend if you weren't planning to already. From a cheap knockoff to a mid-market knockoff.

Can we get a high-five on going weekly here? Sound of a high-five?

Hi-five. Can we at least fistbone?

This sounds like it. You can't hear it on the radio. All right, now we can dive right in. Margaret

Talbot, a journalist of the New Yorker, wrote an article that many people are talking about,

in which she describes the use, perhaps overuse, perhaps even abuse of certain psycho-enhancing drugs, most prominently

Adderall and Ritalin.

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