September 22-26, 2014
Erik makes the case that Donald Trump is actually a performance artist — Andy Kaufman in disguise.
Ann explained how it happened that between 1993 and 2013 about 10 percent of American electricity came from the Russian nuclear program. “You don’t just propose an idea,” the man responsible for the program says, “you go do something about it.”
Richard catalogued some of the errors and myths found in a wall panel at the Galileo museum and posits that myths take hold when they seem to reinforce a useful universal lesson. “They endure if we really want to believe that lesson.”
In between trips to the loo, guest Jennifer Holland wondered what exactly is in that stuff used to clear out one’s bowels prior to a colonoscopy.
Michelle told us the story of Lonesome Larry, a dead sockeye salmon who recently toured the state of Idaho.