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 WB EZ 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 Nerdette.

I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Trisha Bobita.

And this week we have a special show. We are calling it Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita. And this week we have a special show.

We are calling it Nerdette Messing with Nature.

We have five, count of five different guests.

They're entrepreneurs and scientists, fellow nerds who take how we think the world is and should be, and then mess it up.

Yes, I'm definitely messing with nature as much as anyone else is messing with nature. We're hopefully messing with nature in a way that

actually prevents it from getting messed up. And one of them said, you're trying to replace me with a

computer and I don't like it one bit. The future of jobs, and especially in journalism, what's

going to happen to reporters.

The worst is not trying to explain what I'm doing.

It's not being subjected to all the jokes.

Oh, I was just thinking about you the other day while I was pooping.

These are people doing really futuristic sounding things right this very minute.

So this is a slight variation in what we normally do, and that this week we're going to dive into the lives of five different people who have jobs in science and technology and are doing very interesting things in them.

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