Garrison Keillor's Podcast

It was on this day in 1954 that the first inoculation of 137 children for polio began with the vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk. "Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was born this day in 1892. Her poem, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” is featured in honor of her birthday.

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Today is the birthday of W.H. Auden (1907). “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

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It’s the birthday of Richard Matheson (1926), writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels and television. His work influenced and inspired writers such as Anne Rice and Stephen King.

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“A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.” -- Stephen Dobyns, who celebrates his 80th birthday today.

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Today would have been the 90th birthday of Toni Morrison (1931), who published her first novel The Bluest Eye when she was 39 years old.

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“For a writer, the best way to speak is by writing. You will find everything I need to say in my works. Speech is carried off by the wind; the written word can never be obliterated.” –Mo Yan, born on this day in 1955.

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It’s the 281st birthday of printer Giambattista Bodoni, who designed over 300 typefaces. One of these, Bodoni, is found on most word processors today.

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Twenty years ago today a working draft of the human genome was published in the journal Nature. Two years later the Human Genome Project was completed and made available to the public.

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On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest” opened in London, in which two women find themselves in love with a man named Earnest.

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