I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.

Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.

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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad.

I am Greta Johnson, and I am very happy to be with you on this glorious day, whatever day it may be that you are listening to this weird little podcast.

Nerdette is a show where we talk to your favorite or maybe even soon-to-be favorite people.

And I'm very excited to tell you about our guest this week. Her name is Lori Santos.

And she's a real

fancy pants professor over at Yale University. And what's really cool about Lori is that she

actually managed to teach the most popular class in Yale's like 316 year history. It was called

Psychology and the Good Life. This is a super cool class, and it turns out it is relevant not only to like very stressed

out, anxious type A Yale freshman, but also like the entire world because we're all very

stressed out.

And sometimes it's helpful to have a really concise distillation of a lot of different studies that

tell us why we might be kind of anxious and what could make us happier.

So buckle your seatbelts, turn off your phones because it turns out they make you miserable

and listen to this interview.

Unbeknownst to me, what ended up happening was that many, many, many Yale students wanted to take the class.

In fact, in the end, about one out of every four students at Yale was trying to get into the class.

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