Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It is Monday June 27th and I'm

your host Kara Santa Maria. All right guys I want to thank those of you who made talk nerdy possible this week, including

those who support the show in the many ways that you do, by rating and reviewing on iTunes, visiting my website at cara Santa Maria.com

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support this week I want to thank a few specific patrons including Phil T-Bare, Timothy Glover, Charles Payette, Jafe, the

Honorable Husband, Gabriel Felipe Hormillo Gonzalez, Ken Fifer, Brian Holden, and last but not least, Jeffrey Sewell.

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We're about to hit a new milestone and after we do that I think that I'll be able to finally

start getting transcriptions of the show produced and put up online for those who like to read along.

All right guys I'm really excited about this week's episode.

I had the opportunity to sit down with an incredible theoretical physicist and

author. She's actually a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia

University.

She has now written three books.

Her two early books are A Mad Man Dreams of Turing

Machines and How the Universe Got It Spots. But of course, this we'll be talking about her newest book Black Hole Blues

and other songs from outer space. Without any further ado, here she is, Dr. Jana Levin.

Well, Jana, thank you so much for,

I guess I should say, coming back.

Oh yeah, right?

Again to today.

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