Astronaut and NOAA head Kathy Sullivan, Indira Gandhi's legacy and beating the winter blahs

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We talk to the first U.S. woman to walk in space: Kathy Sullivan. Now she's in charge of NOAA and leads research on everything from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the sun. We get to know Indira Gandhi on the anniversary of her election as Prime Minister of India. And we dig up a recipe for beating the winter blahs from Mike Royko.

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0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:32.5	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:33.5	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:36.5	And from WB. BeEZ in Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:43.1	Coming up, I'm the girl who has the littlest kid she can remember, basically geeked out about the planet.
0:47.6	We talked to Kathy Sullivan, a former astronaut who's now the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
0:49.2	And then we get to know Indira Gandhi on the anniversary of her election.
0:52.8	That and your nerd confessions on Nerdette.
0:55.1	Because everybody's a little nerdy about something.
1:03.5	Make it snappy, nerd.
1:05.5	Nerds!
1:06.3	Nerds!
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1:10.0	I'm Greta Johnson.
1:11.3	I'm Trisha Bobita.
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1:13.9	I don't know about you, Trisha, but now that we're well into January and the holidays are over,
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