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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate the approach of another wonderful two-day break, Nerdette host Greta Johnsen talked with Alison Roman, author of the new cookbook Nothing Fancy, about three ways to make sure you host the most badass dinner party possible (she prefers to call it “having people over”).

And did you know that the largest 3D printer in the world just printed the world’s largest 3D-printed boat? We talk to Habib Dagher, the executive director at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine. His team was responsible for this accomplishment, so we asked him why they did it, how much pizza it took to do it, and what it might mean for the future of innovation and manufacturing.

Plus, if you’re a grammar nerd, this episode may tick you right off. Gretchen McCulloch is the author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, and she explains how the internet has given us all access to the writings of normal people, which has led to more and more people writing with less formality and more creativity — and without obeying grammar rules.

Then she goes on to tell us why that’s awesome. You'll either love it or hate it!

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen, wherever you get your podcast.
0:36.5	From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Greta Johnson, and this is Nerdette.
0:37.8	We're here to make sure you're ready for an excellent weekend. Think of this as another introverts guide to the good life. This week,
0:43.1	we're going to talk about the future of 3D printing, why you should throw a dinner party right now.
0:47.7	And y'all grammar nerds are going to be real pissed, but we've got a great interview about how
0:51.2	the internet is changing the rules of language and that's actually a good thing. LMAO. All right, let's get started. So this week was a really big week for prizes.
1:03.5	The Nobel's were awarded. I took some homemade Pop-Tarts out of the freezer and blew some friends' minds,
1:08.5	and in the literary world, the Booker Prize winners were announced.
1:13.8	The Booker is a super prestigious prize for fiction, and it usually only just goes to one book each year.
1:19.5	But this year we have two winners, Bernardine Everisto, one for girl, woman, other.
1:23.8	And Margaret Atwood won for the Testaments.
1:26.4	That means they're going to split the $63,000 prize.
1:29.7	Prize chairman, Peter Florence, said both of the winning books, quote, address the world today and give us insights into it and create characters that resonate with us.
1:38.4	He also said they were wonderfully compelling page-turning thrillers.
1:42.1	I read the Testaments. We actually did a whole nerd at Book Club on it, and we had a lot of
1:46.0	opinions, and so, in fact, did our listeners.
1:48.8	Why is everyone drinking glasses of warm milk constantly?
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