Coming to you live from the Skylight Festival in Paris, Ontario, it's Ask Science Mike Lach! He's got answers even though he may not understand. He's talk anyway. We've got problems. He won't solve anyway.

He won't solve them. But I'm talking talking, talking till it's blue in the face.

Science, faith, and life.

Ask Science Mike.

Welcome to Ask Science Mike, the weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life.

And as you heard at the top, this is a live episode, so the questions are completely unscreened

and the answers unrehears,

so please be liberal.

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Well, that's enough announcements.

What do you say?

Let's get it started. Hi Mike. It is so fantastic to have you here in Ontario and I thought you'd come.

It is so fantastic to be here and to see you.

You have a written question. I do. I wrote this out beforehand.

So my question is about the science of meeting new people and introducing yourself to strangers.

At a festival like this, it's so exciting to be around a group and introducing yourself to strangers.

At a festival like this, it's so exciting to be around a group of like-minded people

who are all interested to some degree or another in faith art and social justice.

And part of the point of this gathering is for us to meet each other and learn

from each other and learn from each

other's experiences but that meeting part can be hard. In some ways it's easier for me

to sit here in front of literally everybody and ask a question than it is for me to introduce myself to one stranger

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