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Virtual Memories Show
\nCOVID Check-In: Jim Ottaviani<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I really don’t want to test my introversion and find out where the vein peters out and empties into the magma core of horror.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jim Ottaviani<\/a>, award-winning & best-selling author of graphic novels about scientists (think Hawking<\/a>, Feynman<\/a>, Fossey<\/a>, Turing<\/a>), provides a COVID check-in from Ann Arbor, MI. We talk about how he’s balancing his day job and comics writing with the compulsion to read the news and graph out infection rates. We also get into whether his science background has helped his perspective on the pandemic, how the university model might change when we’re past this, and what new books he has coming (fingers crossed). You also get a story from me about the limits of risk mitigation plans. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go check out Jim’s work and his 2016 appearance on the podcast<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“This is teaching us what primates really are.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n