Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It is Monday December 5th and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. So we're approaching the holidays now and because of

that I want to do things a little bit differently here at the top of the show.

I will let you know that my guest this week is an incredible author.

Her recent book is called The Glass Universe, how the Ladies of the Harvard

Observatory took the measure of the stars. She is Dava Sobel and we will be

chatting with her in just a bit but before we do I want to

thank those of you who made talk nerdy possible this week by pledging your

support through Patreon or PayPal we have a couple of big supporters on PayPal this week, so I want to thank David R Hepburn and Diane Adams for your support and then over on the

Patreon portal. Buh so many peas, very illiterative.

Remember that you can visit Patreon.com

slash talk nerdy or just visit my website,

Kares Santa Maria.

And click through to the links to pledge your support. I want to

thank Phil T-Bare Timothy Glover David Lazer welcome to the group Jeffrey

Perez Ron Cano Block Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Stuart Og, the Honorable Husband, Charles Payet,

J. Gabriel Felipe Hadamio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell.

You guys, you're so incredible, you make talk nerdy possible each and every week.

Okay, without any further ado.

Ah, I got an email from somebody saying that it was annoying.

No, it was in my feedback that it's annoying that I always say without any further ado.

So I'm going to retract that, burp, and say,

without taking up any more time.

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