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Encore Episode: The Dragons Next Door

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The next live taping of The Object is May 11—the show is sold out, but don't forget to come if you have tickets and watch for the next live taping coming up.

This encore episode reprises last year's popular episode about one of our oldest relationships with a non-human: dragons, and the very different ways we've imagined them in different parts of the world. Helping or hurting, making rain or breathing fire. The difference, of course, is us. Here, a brief, beastly history of the creature we can’t live with—or without.

You can see many manifestations of dragons, European and Asian, in Mia’s collection.

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