Stories of how people cope after brushes with death. Sometimes death comes as a disease. Sometimes it swims up and bites you. And sometimes it’s a pen or pencil, sitting there, just waiting for you to ingest it. Tig Notaro’s comedy set is at Louis CK’s site.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/476/what-doesnt-kill-you
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Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack