Our Material World w/ Ainissa Ramirez

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by materials scientist, author, and science communicator Dr. Ainissa Ramirez. They talk about her new book (and winner of the 2021 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books), The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another. From clocks to light bulbs to silicon chips, they dig into the myriad ways such groundbreaking inventions have profoundly changed the way we exist in the world, with a special emphasis on the under-appreciated figures who paved the way.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, February 22nd, 2021 and I'm the
0:18.1	host of the show Kara Santa Maria and we have a great guest for you this week but but before we dive into the show, I want to thank all of you who continue to make Talk Nurdy 100% free to download.
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2:14.4	All right, enough about me. Let's talk about Dr. Anisa Ramirez.
2:20.0	I'm so excited to have her on the show this week.
2:23.0	She is an award-winning scientist, actually a material scientist,
2:27.0	and an incredible science communicator
2:30.0	who has been working tirelessly to get the general public excited about science.
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