Hello friends and welcome to Talk Nurdy. I am your host Kara Santa Maria and and we have a very special episode this week this is I probably say that a lot

actually we have a very special episode this week but I am especially

excited about this episode because my

BFF Crystal Dilworth is going to be joining us but before I get into that I just

want to take a moment to thank all of you for your support in keeping talk nerdy going,

keeping it free to download. So for starters, I want to thank Rick Richardson from Elma Washington for a donation on my website.

You know if you go to my website keros Santa Maria.com you'll see a

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see here, Robert Lennich from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Thank you Robert for your donation.

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Thank you so much for your international donation.

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Those of you who rate the podcast or review it on iTunes or Stitcher, that really does go a long way so thank you very much from the bottom of my heart

All right I am excited to introduce today's guest

She is Dr. Crystal Dilworth. Her credits include being my best friend. Maybe

that's not probably the first thing I should say. But Crystal recently

graduated from Caltech with a PhD in molecular neuroscience.

She was also a professional dancer.

She is the host of the series Fail Lab, which you can find on test tube on YouTube and she is a

regular contributor to techno on Al Jazeera America.

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