Hey everyone, Kara here and I just wanted to let you know right at the top of the show that the amazing science-based

Annabel and Aidin Children's Book Series has just released a new title called There's a Dragon in My Garage, inspired by, you guessed it, Carl Sagan's famous

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dot com. Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, March 7, 2022 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria and we're going to be having

a really fascinating chat today but before we dive into that I do want to thank those of you who make Talk Nurdy

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All right let's talk about today's episode so this week I had the opportunity

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