Bed Bugs w/ Brooke Borel

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Science

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Science writer Brooke Borel joins Cara to discuss the differences between science journalism and science communication, as well as the ethical quandaries journalists sometimes face. They then turn the conversation to bed bugs, the topic of Brooke's new book, "Infested."

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to TalkNurdy. I'm your host
0:16.8	Kara Santa Maria and as you probably know at this point Talk Nurdy is 100% free to download it is an ad and
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0:37.6	A particular shout out this week goes to Phil T-Bare, Timothy Glover, Ken Fifer, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell.
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0:56.2	All right guys I am excited about this week's guest on the show she is a science writer and author of the new book
1:05.1	infested how the bed bug infiltrated our bedrooms
1:09.2	and took over the world.
1:11.2	Here she is Brooke Burrell. Well Brooke, thank you so much for joining me in my
1:17.2	LA studio. Thanks for having me. Trying to make it sound more official than it is on my dining room table.
1:23.2	And thanks for braving Hollywood traffic.
1:26.0	Yeah, I'm not used to it at all.
1:28.0	You're a New York girl, right?
1:29.3	I am, yeah.
1:30.3	Well, not born and raised.
1:31.7	I grew up in Kansas, actually.
1:33.6	And then I lived in Boston for undergrad,
1:36.0	but I've been in New York for about 13 years.
1:38.3	So I am very used to public transportation
1:40.6	at this point, and like having a little bit more of a sense of how long it'll take to get from point A to point B.
1:45.8	Yeah, it's definitely different in LA.
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