This week’s show begins with a brief check-in with Lisa Herbold, one of two candidates in a very tight Seattle City Council race that’s still undecided ten days after the election. Herbold has been trailing close behind opponent Shannon Braddock (who couldn’t come on the show) and on Thursday morning, when we recorded this episode, Herbold was only six votes behind Braddock. Today she’s 18 votes behind. How do you stay calm in a situation like that? Herbold explains.
After that, University of Washington geomorphologist David Montgomery and biologist Anne Biklé are on to talk about an invisible cycle of “eating, dying, and pooping” that is much older than humanity and much more important to the survival of humanity that most people realize. This invisible cycle is fueled by microbes, and Montgomery and Bikle have just published a book that explores the hidden world of microbes that extends from the soil that grows our plants to the soil that lines our colons. It’s called “The Hidden Half of Nature,” and they’ll be talking about it at Town Hall on November 18.
Then Ijeoma Oluo comes back on the show to talk about her refusal to review the movie Suffragette in The Stranger, and the huge online response her refusal has generated.
Plus, as always, the music of the amazing Ahamefule J. Oluo!
Blabbermouth November 13, 2015
