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Hey, welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Andravis Gontas. This is a podcast that explores the space

where science and society collide. We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover,

and why it matters. It's the end of 2019. So for this episode, we are doing a look back at the

some of the stories that we covered over this year and a couple of our favorite science stories. And I'm joined in studio by our correspondent, Adam Bristol. Welcome, Adam. Indra, thanks so much for having me. It's my pleasure. So tell me what was your favorite inquiring minds episode of the year.

Oh, too many.

I mean, besides the ones that I did.

Yeah, those were great.

Because I truly enjoyed speaking with Matt Richtel, who is a very talented author of both

nonfiction and fiction.

We spoke about his more recent satirical look at Silicon Valley,

which was really funny in part because he and I both live in this area. And so a lot of the,

you know, foibles of everyday life that he picked up on and articulated in the book, you know, they really

hit home with me. And I think, you know, it was a very well-written account of Silicon Valley and

Bay Area life in general here in kind of 2019. And, you know, of your podcasts, I mean, you just

had this star-studded list of guests, you know, of your podcasts, I mean, you just had this star studded list of guests.

You know, remember, on most weeks, I'm just another one of your many listeners.

And so when I show up in my feed, some of my favorite, you know, public intellectuals and authors and journalists, people like Joe Pisnansky and Neil Stevenson

and former football player turned mathematician John Urshel. And then of course, Bill Nye, the science

guy. I mean, it was truly just a star-studded parade of guests on this podcast. It was just

really, really great. If I were to choose any of those, I thought John Urshel was a really illuminating discussion.

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