It's Friday, May 6th, 2016, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Indrae Viscontas.

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That's audiblepodcast.com slash inquiring minds. That's audiblepodcast.com slash inquiring minds. We are in the third of four episodes talking about climate change.

We launched this series on April 22nd, which was Earth Day, with Bill Nye. And we talked to Bill

about advocacy and climate change. Then we

talk to Josh Willis about melting ice sheets. And this week we're going to talk to Hope Jaron,

who studies the effect of climate change on plant life. Finally, we're going to wrap everything up

next week talking to Ben Beard from the Centers

for Disease Control on the effect of climate change on human beings, and in particular, vector-borne

diseases. What an uplifting way to end. Vector-borne diseases just rolls off the tongue.

Yeah, it all gets better from here. But let me tell you about this week's guest. So you might have heard

about Hope Jaron's book Lab Girl. It's been hitting the presses. It's got really good reviews in the New York

Times. And I have to say when it was first pitched to me, I thought, huh, I've never heard of this person,

but maybe it's okay. And I loved this book. It was like a guilty pleasure. She is so funny and witty and talks

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