Ada Lovelace Day, Hopscotch, Lucius and Serial's Sarah Koenig

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It's Ada Lovelace Day! In celebration of the mother of computer programming, we get to know a great lady nerd of today: Hopscotch app co-founder Jocelyn Leavitt. Then we go behind-the-scenes at Serial, the new podcast from This American Life. Lauren Chooljian talks to singers from indie pop powerhouse Lucius about their nerdy passions. Mr. Superlative stops by. And a Gilmore Girls-related nerd confession.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	Mark my words Potter.
0:18.6	One day soon, you are going to meet the same sticking end.
0:25.0	Don't be scared.
0:28.0	I'm the super sweet monster with the super sweet new serial,
0:31.0	Count Chocular.
0:33.2	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:34.8	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:35.8	And from W.Beezy in Chicago, this is Nurdett.
0:38.9	Coming up, a conversation with the co-founder of Hopscotch,
0:41.6	a tool for teaching kids to code.
0:43.4	And we go behind the scenes of the new storytelling podcast from This American Life that everyone is talking about,
0:49.6	serial.
0:50.6	Plus we hear from the band, Lucious. All that plus your nerd confessions right here on
0:55.1	Nurdette. We love to talk about Great Lady Nords of History all time, but this week is special.
1:05.0	Tuesday is Ada Lovelace Day.
1:07.0	October 14th is the day we set aside to celebrate Ada Lovelace, the mother of computer programming.
1:12.0	She is amazing, and the more I understand about the context that she was living in,
1:17.0	the more I realize just how imaginative and how far ahead of her time she was.
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