Hello everyone.

Welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. I want to give a big

shout out to all of my new patrons, patroninin'n'n'n'n's.

As many of you know, if you've been listening to the podcast,

I recently joined Patreon,

and you can find my Patreon page at Patreonreon.com slash talk nerdy. You can also go to my website

kara Santa Maria dot com and click on the patreon buttons there and and you help support the podcast,

help support the podcast, keep it 100% free to download

and help me work towards that goal

of removing ads all together from the podcast. We'll see if we can

get there together. Now I have some amazing patrons this week, so I want to give a big shout out to Ron No Block.

Thank you so much for your incredibly generous donation.

I also want to thank Rob Barcy, Brian Holden, Jeffrey Sewell, and Chuck Pell.

Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart

for supporting the podcast

and I don't know, helping me keep churning it out and making me feel just

all around special. Also oh yeah a little announcement not a very big announcement but a

small one I I started a little reading list on my website and I'm going to find the

URL for you right now. If you go to kara Santa Maria. com slash let's see I think it is slash reading

dash list yeah that's it Carares Santa Maria.com slash reading

dash list.

You will see all of this great recommended science reading

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