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All right, and so now let's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 442 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is Jan Levin. She's a professor of physics and astronomy

at Barnard College and director of sciences at Pioneer Works, a center for arts and science in Brooklyn.

She's also the author of the non-fiction books A Center for Arts and Science in Brooklyn.

She's also the author of the non-fiction books How the Universe Got Its Spots and Black Hole Blues and

Other Songs from Space, as well as the novel A Mad Man Dreams of Turning Machines.

And we'll be speaking with her today about her new book

Black Hole Survival Guide and now here's our interview with Jan 11.

All right so we're here with Jan 11 welcome to the show.

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