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Apr. 29, 2011
Annoying Book Probes The Science Of Irritations
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| Can science explain life's daily annoyances? From the psychology of trash talk to frustrated magnets, NPR's Joe Palca and Science Friday's Flora Lichtman survey a broad swath of science to try to understand perhaps the most widely-experienced and least-studied feeling. |
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Joe Palca
Author, "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us" (Wiley, 2011)
Science Correspondent,
National Public Radio
Washington, D.C. -
Flora Lichtman
Author, "Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us" (Wiley, 2011)
Multimedia Editor,
NPR's Science Friday
New York, New York
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