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Looking At Our World Through Glass

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Glass is all around us: from windows and mirrors, to phone screens and fiber optic cables.

This hour, we learn how glass helped shape our world, about efforts to create different types of glasses, and what it's like to make art out of glass.

GUESTS:

  • John Garrison - Professor at Grinnell College, and author of the book Glass
  • Alexis Clare - Professor of Glass Science at Alfred University 
  • Eric Meek - Senior Manager of Hot Glass Programs at the Corning Museum of Glass

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.

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Lily is the senior producer for The Colin McEnroe Show. She first worked at Connecticut Public as an intern in 2014. She has previously worked for WBUR, KUNC and as a producer for the New England News Collaborative's weekly show Next. Lily can be reached at ltyson@ctpublic.org.
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