Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria, and we've got a great episode for you today. We're going to learn a little bit about the moon and a little bit about the moon and a history of science and a little more about being a

woman and getting through grad school but before we do that I've got a little bit of business to get

through first and foremost I want to thank all of you who have supported the

podcast by going to my store at kares Santa Maria.com slash store and picking up a little

something a little logo item a t shirt a slap bracelet whatever those proceeds go to

support the podcast and it's really helpful to be able to continue to bring you this content for free.

So thank you those of you who are rocking the t-shirts and supporting the podcast in that way.

Another big thank you to those of you who have hit that donate button. in that

way another big thank you to those of you who have hit that donate button on my website

through PayPal want to call out a couple of people individually.

We've got Elizabeth Hershov from Boulder, Colorado.

Thank you so much for your donation.

And also, Pavel Dudrenov, I think that's how you pronounce that,

from Bulgaria who made a substantial donation so thank you so much

Pavel for your help we all thank you actually everybody listening right

now because it is your support that really helps me keep this thing going and hopefully soon I'll be able to switch over to doing this more than once a week.

That's my goal.

All right guys with no further ado I would like to announce that my guest today is Dr. Meg Rosenberg.

She's a science historian and communicator.

She's also the creator of The True Anomilies series on PhD TV, which you can check out by going to PhD Comics.com

slash TV.

Meg, thank you so much for being here in my apartment.

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