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

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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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0:13.6	I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita
0:18.2	and from W be easy in Chicago this is nerd at.
0:21.3	Coming up. I'm the girl who has the little of kids you can remember, basically geeked out
0:26.8	about the planet.
0:28.2	We talked to Kathy Sullivan, a former astronaut who's now the head of the National Oceanic
0:32.1	and Atmospheric Administration.
0:33.8	And then we get to know Indira Gandhi on the anniversary of her election.
0:37.4	That and your nerd confessions, on Nurdette.
0:39.7	Because everybody's a little nerdy about something. Make it snappy, nerd!
0:47.0	Nerns, NERD!
0:50.0	NERD's NERD! Nert! Nert! I'm Greta Johnson.
0:56.0	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:57.0	And you're listening to Nardette.
0:58.0	I don't know about you, Tricia, but now that we're well into January and the holidays are over,
1:02.0	I feel like we're in that really
1:03.6	miserable part of winter. Where it's just cold and dark and everybody's feeling a
1:08.0	little broke and yeah exactly but we found something we think might help console us all during these winter months.
1:14.4	Mike Royko is most famous for his character-driven columns in the Chicago Tribune.
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