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Today on the 3@3, WBEZ Senior Producer Steve Bynum and Huffington Post Chicago's Jen Sabella talk about the topics of the day. Which include:Steve Edwards: The Heartland Institute put up a billboard on the Eisenhower.

For nearly 20 years, the nations of the world have been discussing ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But from Kyoto to Copenhagen, the results have been limited.The conversation in recent years typically goes something like this: Europeans blast the Americans for not signing on. The U.S.

On Monday's Afternoon Shift we talk about a variety of aspects of ripening. First, climate change- the earth keeps getting warmer and we don't really know what to do about it. Next we talk about the Bulls, who went from ripe to rotten over the weekend.

How did Shrek The Musical get brought to life? By those who see dollar signs rather than rallying cries of social change when they think of this pure American art form called the Broadway musical.

Somewhere near the beginning of the last century, the car drove itself into the forefront of our collective consciousness, applied its parking break, and, seemingly, took up permanent residence. But, there's change (and terrible puns) afoot.

Friday on Afternoon Shift we take on death, destruction and the end of things, with a trip to Englewood to find out what people in that neighborhood are saying about the Balfour slayings and subsequent courtroom drama. Anna Quindlen discusses her new novel Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. We remember Adam Youch of the Beastie Boys. And Chicago Fire commissioner Jose Santiago talks about the life of (and in) the department. 

In our youth-obsessed culture, aging is among the things we're taught to fear at all cost. But novelist and journalist Anna Quidlen believes in another truth: Aging is not only inevitable, it's enjoyable.