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From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette, I'm Greta Johnson, we did it, we made it to another

weekend against all odds, but we are here and that's what counts.

Coming up, author Sequoia Nagamatsu tells us about his fantastic new book How High We Go

in the Dark.

As I started to explore and do more research, I actually ended up going to a more

trolley, I guess, convention or expo, whatever you want to call it, so it was me and a bunch

of Japanese senior citizens.

Plus, a conservation biologist has an idea for dealing with invasive species, and it is

eating them.

But first, let's take a moment to chat about all the weird and wonderful things that happen

this week.

With us today, we have Lauren Trulgin, reporter and producer for New Hampshire Public Radio.

Lauren, hello.

Hi, Greta.

We also have Ariane Nettles, a journalism professor at Northwestern University, Ari,

hi.

Hi, Greta.

That was like a song.

I was like, I'm just waiting for the singing hello from Ariane, I love it so much.

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