Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, June 25th and I'm

your host Kara Santa Maria and I want to thank those of you who made Talk

Nurdy possible this week, including my patrons who have pledged at top dollar on

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Now this week is an exciting week.

Every week's an exciting week, isn't it?

But this week I got a chance to speak with a really, really talented author who's telling a very

important story.

So his name is Michael Lemonecknick and he's the opinion editor at Scientific

American but he's written for Time magazine for several years and he's

also written for National Geographic the New, and a lot of other places.

He's written several books, but his most recent book is called The Perpetual Now, a story of Amnesia, memory, and love. And it is exactly as the title implies, a beautiful

story about a remarkable woman living every day with severe amnesia. It's just fascinating and without

further ado I can't wait to share it with you so here he is Michael

Leminick. Well Michael thank you so much for joining me,

or do you prefer to be called Mike?

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