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🗓️ 28 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | This thing is so fun to read and I have of the sort of siloed genre of literary science non-fiction. |
0:12.0 | I loved how much he used verbs and how well you stage things as an unfolding story. |
0:22.0 | I had a favorite opening to one of your chapters. |
0:26.0 | I remember it was chapter 8 and it is once upon a time back in the denobian period, |
0:34.0 | there was a pair of bones inside an armored fish in the back of the head, |
0:38.0 | one on each side, the fish paid them no mind, the fish was after all, |
0:42.0 | busy swishing sand into the dead-eyed stair of a giant sea scorpion that was chasing it. |
0:48.0 | I love it. Like, like, I opened things like that. I'm like, yeah, science, baby. |
0:52.0 | Thank you. Thank you. That's great. |
0:54.0 | I had a lot of fun writing it. |
0:56.0 | Thank you. |
1:20.0 | Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. |
1:24.0 | Episode 220 |
1:42.0 | My name is Henry G and I am a senior editor of the Science Journal Nature. |
1:50.0 | This is the International Science Journal where scientists said all their best work, |
1:56.0 | but I should say other science magazines are available. |
2:08.0 | Yes, that is the voice of Henry Ernest G, the paleontologist, |
2:14.0 | evolutionary biologist, and senior editor of the scientific journal Nature, |
2:20.0 | the famed scientific journal, the Mount Olympus of science journalism. |
2:26.0 | And I was very honored to get a chance to just sit down and hang out with one of the absolute titans |
2:32.0 | of science-creenication, Mr. Henry G. |
2:36.0 | He's also a blues musician and a tokenist that's a person who's really into |
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