French chemist Pierre Laszlo tells Steve Paulson that our bodies need salt to prevent dehydration and that removing the salt from seawater isn’t that hard, but it’s very expensive.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Poet Anja Sieger, who often writes under the pen name Notanja, is the current Narrator-in-Residence at the storied Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. Her writing implement of choice? A vintage typewriter.Hear the interview as well as the bonus reading of a poem that she wrote on-site for producer Seth Jovaag's daughter, Lydia.
Joe Keenan is a novelist. He reads from his latest - "My Lucky Star" - and talks about the story with Steve Paulson.
Paul Feig is the creator of the critically acclaimed TV series “Freaks and Geeks.” He says that the show (which is no longer on the air) was based on his real-life adolescence.
Olga Nunes records voicemail memories of smell.
WANT TO SHARE YOUR MEMORY TOO? Just call 415-857-0589 (it is a Google voicemail box).
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Novelist Nicholson Baker exposed what he called libraries’ assault on paper in a book called “Double Fold.”
While coastal dialects are being lost, new American dialects are developing all the time as American English evolves.
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