Wypr: The Signal Podcast

www.stoopstorytelling.com)" width="283" height="300" style="float: right;">The Stoop’s “Twilight Zone” storytelling event brought a seasoned raconteur to the microphone, a retired US Army medic who served stateside as a psychiatric tech in a number of military rehabilitation hospitals.  Jim Karantonis shared this recollection…

We begin this week’s special Halloween edition of The Signal with a story from Jeff Alphin.  Jeff told this anecdote in front of a live audience at a Stoop Storytelling event titled, “The Twilight Zone:  True Tales of the Bizarre and Unexpected.”  Here’s Jeff…

Moira Egan is an award-winning poet, a longtime Signal contributor, and an accomplished literary translator.  She’s also 50 years old and increasingly fussy about the thermostat.  Her poetry collection, Hot Flash Sonnets, gives a lyrically graceful, honest, and witty treatment to a subject that’s usually discussed in hushed tones and only among select company.  Egan visited recently with The Signal’s Aaron Henkin…

Ptolemy Slocum takes the stage at The Windup Space to share a story about the trouble with good intentions, at the Stoop Storytelling event, “Dating Tales:  Stories of Meeting Cute, Failed Fix-ups, and Other Romantic Misadventures.”  

The ancient Greeks prayed to the muses for creative inspiration.  (They also practiced alchemy and believed the human body was made of four humors.)  And while our understanding of science has become more refined over the millennia, the source of creativity is as mysterious to us today as it was in the age of mythical gods and goddesses.  That might be about to change, though, as science tunes in to the human brain – at play.  The Signal’s Aaron Henkin reports…