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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on December 31st,

2016. I'm Steve Murerski. On this episode...

Together, this is just one of the most extraordinary groups of women's scientists that we've never heard of.

That's Barbara Kaiser. She's the books and arts editor at the journal Nature.

You may not have known, but Scientific American is part of the Nature Publishing Group.

And I was a guest at the Nature offices in London for a week earlier this month, during which I sat down with Kaiser in the Nature podcast studio to talk about some of the most memorable books of 2016.

Well, here we are, two Americans in London.

And tell the audience who you are and why you've been here in London for such a long time.

Oh, that really is a lengthy story because it's 30 years.

I'm the Books and Arts Editor at Nature.

I've been doing the job for

five years, which means that I've probably winnowed, well, at about 400 books a year, something like 2,000 bucks, since I've been doing the job, and that has been a really fascinating process.

And when we met the other day, you told me that you have prepared this collection.

Why don't you tell us about that?

Yeah, so every year, well, since I've had my online- platform, a view from the bridge, I have a top

20, so this is now in its third year. And it is a very difficult process, winnowing 400 books.

Why a view from the bridge? A view from the bridge, Because it bridges science and culture.

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