Typos and misprints are as old as writing and printing. This hour, we take a look at them from the "Wicked Bible" to National Park signs and your email inbox. And: the changing status of human typos in the age of AI.

GUESTS:

• Rachel Churner: Art critic, editor, and professor. She is a co-curator with Geoff Kaplan of the exhibit “Beauties of My Style: Errata and the Printed Mistake” at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. She is the co-founder of no place press and currently serves as the director of the Carolee Schneemann Foundation

• Jeff Deck: Writer, writing coach and co-author with Benjamin D. Herson of The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

• Katie Notopoulos: Senior correspondent at Business Insider who writes about technology, business, and culture

Music featured (in order):

• The Typewriter – Leroy Anderson and “His” Orchestra

• Typos – The Incredible Casuals

• Oops!... I Did It Again – Britney Spears

• Apostrophe – The Doubleclicks

• S-E-X-X-Y – They Might Be Giants

• To Make a Mistake Is Human – Ella Fitzgerald

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