Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, November 7th, 2022 and I'm the host of the show

Kara Santa Maria and I'm so excited about this week's episode because I get to talk to an old friend and we get to have so much fun and she's amazing and yeah but before we dive into that I do want to thank those of you who make TalkNurdy possible.

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All right, let's get into the show.

So this week I had the opportunity

to talk to somebody who hasn't been on the show

in many, many years. And actually when she was been on the show in many, many years.

And actually when she was first on the show,

we became good friends and we've stayed good friends ever since.

Her name is Rachel Ignatofsky.

She's a New York Times best-selling author and illustrator and she has written so many incredible, beautiful, informative, fascinating books, starting with women in science and then women in sports, women in

art, the wondrous workings of planet Earth, what's inside a flower. She has a lot of kids books that she's done as well,

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