March 30 – April 3, 2015
Cameron manages to build a story about the dove trapped in her house around a Karen Carpenter song, and that IS the first time in the history of humankind that anyone’s done that.
Helen pursues her small obsession with museums, this one a bone museum at which she misses the opportunity of a lifetime and doesn’t buy the book on preparing a museum display of a whale skeleton, starting with the whole whale.
Erik has a story about an ancient Chinese high-ranking minister who took decades to depose the king of Wu, then settled in with the king’s ex-mistress and wrote the first textook on aquaculture.
“Hi, Jane, here are your weekly stats,” says guest Jane Hu‘s Fitbit. She walked 71,000 steps! she slept better! her dog got more exercise! Then she got the message with the red frowny face and from there, it’s all downhill.
Helen redux: on finding out that penguins don’t really need sweaters, she and her crew take on the civic-minded, even heroic, job of knitting sweaters for those in real need: peeps. She has pictures.