For this discussion of “Poop & Pipes” (as guest Scott Huler put it) we were joined by Rose George, whose most recent book is “The Big Necessity : The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters”, and Scott Huler, whose book is “On the Grid : A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make our World Work”. I’ll avoid all puns involving the word “sh*t” and merely say: Who knew sewers & sanitation could be so interesting!
(The cheering at the beginning, by the way, happened when we apparently overcame a Google+ technical glitch that kept our Hangout from going “on air”.)
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Read Science! Episode 3: “Sanitation” Edition
For this discussion of “Poop & Pipes” (as guest Scott Huler put it) we were joined by Rose George, whose most recent book is “The Big Necessity : The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters”, and Scott Huler, whose book is “On the Grid : A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make our World Work”. I’ll avoid all puns involving the word “sh*t” and merely say: Who knew sewers & sanitation could be so interesting!
(The cheering at the beginning, by the way, happened when we apparently overcame a Google+ technical glitch that kept our Hangout from going “on air”.)
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work
9 years ago Read Science!, Video • Tags: Jeff Shaumeyer, Joanne Manaster, On the Grid, Read Science!, Rose George, Scott Huler, The Big Necessity