I'm a woman of science and you are a man of non-sci... nonsense, actually.

The thought that I wasn't a nerd was duly horrifying. But then I remembered that I have memorized all the known last words of American presidents.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita. And this is the Nerdat podcast. This week, a conversation with presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. She's pretty much the original Nerdat. This was so exciting. We talked about her new book, The Bullie Pulpit, that's all about Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.

Muckraking, guys, muckraking.

Yeah.

And NERDAT contributor, Rebecca Poulson, made a Teddy Roosevelt themed cocktail.

I wonder if you have to stir it with a big stick.

But what's that sound?

It's sort of breaking dinosaur-related news.

You guys, this is pretty exciting stuff.

We would have been anxious to talk to whatever reporter was tasked with the awesome assignment of learning more about the brand-new dinosaur discovered by scientists at the Field Museum in Chicago last week.

And lucky for us, it was our own nerd-out contributor, Lauren Chulgin.

Lauren?

I touched a dinosaur bone. Lauren, explain to us how and when and why this happened. You weren't out at a dig. Last week, I believe it was, the Field Museum's Tyrannosaurus Rex Sue got her biannual bath, which basically involves a feather duster and a vacuum switched in reverse, so you don't, you know, blow her over because she is 67 million years old.

Wow.

Yeah.

So because I did that, then there was another dinosaur story that came up recently about how the Field Museum discovered an entirely new species of dinosaur.

What?

You say the Field Museum discovered it, but it's someone who works with the Field Museum and, like like goes out west on digs, right? Yeah. So it was Pete McAvicki, one of the curators of dinosaurs at the field. And he and a team of paleontologists, they went out to Utah and found in 2008 for the first time and they found the hip bone of what they're now calling the Siats micororum. How long did it take

you to figure out how to pronounce that one? A little while. But it's kind of funny because Pete was

saying, you know, usually they say Osoris and then for a long time that's how they named dinosaurs.

But this one is actually named for two reasons. One, Seats is named because the Siats back in the Ute tribal legends and the Ute tribe is the Indian tribe that used to live where they found this thing.

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