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And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 430 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Katie Mack.

She's an assistant professor of physics at North Carolina State University, where she's also

a member of the Leadership in Public Science Cluster.

She's written for a number of popular publications such as Sky and Telescope, Time,

and Scientific American, and she can follow her on Twitter at Astro Katie.

And we'll be speaking with her today about her first book The End of Everything

Astrophysically speaking which explores various scenarios for the end of the

universe. And today's show is brought to you by the Mother Code, the debut novel by Carol Stivers, and here's a description is

the mother code, the debut novel by Carol Stivers. And here's a description of the book. It says,

The year is 2049.

When a deadly biow warfare agent spreads out of control,

scientists must scramble to ensure the survival of the human

race by placing genetically engineered children inside large-scale robots to be incubated,

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