News - You Can Call This Book "Annoying." But It's Okay 11.05.09

A loud-talker in public. Being stuck at a stoplight. A long line. All annoying to some degree, moreso to some of us than others. But why is that? Why do we get annoyed to some things, but not others? Science Friday personalities Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman set out to discover just that in their new book ?Annoying: The Science Of What Bugs Us.? They spoke with KWBU?s Derek Smith about their work, starting with a how an annoying event led to the book.