Hey everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, July 15th 2019 and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria and this week we're going to be chatting with a super, super cool woman,

Alexis Pedric, but before we do I want to thank those of you who have made TalkNurdy

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All right, let's get into this week's episode because it is a good one.

So Alexis Pedrich is the manager of public programs at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

She is also a co-host of the Distilations Podcast, which is a super cool podcast that they put on at the Science History Institute.

The subtitle says, using stories from science's past to understand our world, which I absolutely love.

And this week we're going to focus a little bit on rare earth elements.

It's a fascinating chat.

I know you guys are going to love it.

So without any further ado, here she is is Alexis Pedric. Well Alexis thank you so much for joining

me today. Hey thank you for having me. Okay so this is going to be kind of an

interesting episode for me because we're going to talk about a subject that I have very, very little knowledge about.

So you are the manager of public programs at the Science History Institute.

Where is the Science History Institute?

So we are in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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