Hey everybody and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday November 11th 2019 and I'm

the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. So this week we have a chat with Dr. Lydia Pine all about her new book

Genuine Fakes but before we dive into that I want to thank those of you who have made

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Thank you all so all so very much. All right guys this week is a

really great show because it is a guest that I had on actually three years ago

almost to the day, which is fascinating.

She first came on to talk about her book, Seven Skeletons,

but this time she talks about her brand new book, Genuine Fakes.

How phony things teach us about real life.

Dr Lydia Pine is a writer and a historian.

She's actually interested in the history of science

and material culture.

Her degrees are in history and anthropology

and she has a PhD in history and philosophy of science

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