Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It is Monday June 20th and I'm your

host Kara Santa Maria. In just a little bit we're going to have a chat with

neuroscientist professor and television host Dr Heather Berlin

but before we do I want to thank those of you who make talk nerdy possible week

after week if you've ever wondered about the names that I call out at the beginning

of the episode, those are individuals who have visited my Patreon page, which you can at patreon.com slash talk nerdy and they've

pledged to support the show on an episodic basis. There are a lot of different levels of

support all the way down from like a dollar or

50 cents up to levels that give you certain perks like free merchandise from the

store signed photos of course a personal shout out at the top of the show every week and the

reason for this is because I produce and run talk nerdy all by myself I

don't work with a podcasting company. Nobody hosts my show for me.

Nobody edits it. I have to do all the work and obviously I don't charge to be able to listen to the show. I want to make sure it remains 100% free for everybody

who's interested. So of course that relies on a model where those who want to support and those who can

support can do it in an effort to make it easy for everybody to have access so if

you are interested in showing your support for the show. You can just visit

Patreon.com slash talk nerdy. It's looking like my next level once I break a

certain dollar amount I can upgrade the show and do some things that will help everybody enjoy it just a little bit more.

I'm thinking my next level is going to involve having a transcriptionist work to ensure that all of the

show notes are really thorough and anybody can read along with the show.

So if we want to be able to make that happen, I rely on support of people like you.

And like, let's see, this week, the show is actually made possible by Phil T-Bare, Timothy Glover, Charles

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