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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Science News w/ Maya Ajmera

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by the President and CEO of the Society for Science and the Public, as well as the publisher of Science News, Maya Ajmera. They talk about the Society’s mission to promote the understanding and appreciation of science. They also discuss the challenges of such a mission in America’s current landscape of fake news, distrust in scientific institutions, anti-vaccine rhetoric, and politicization of scientific principles.

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Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, September 14th,

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2020 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. I'm actually moving over to a new hosting provider so if you notice

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any issues with today's episode I just recommend rescanning your feeds

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meaning just

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go back through whatever

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provider that you use,

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whether it's Spotify or Apple Podcast,

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Google Podcast,

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you know, all the different places where you can download

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podcast and just

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rescan your feeds or redownload whatever the process is like for you. That said if

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you're listening to me right now you've probably already done that or you didn't have to which would be even better.

0:55.1

All right I'm super excited about this week's show but before we dive into it I want to

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thank those of you who continue to make Talk Nertie possible. Remember the way that I do my show Thank you me keep the show 100% free to download. My model is that anybody who wants to listen to the

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show should be able to completely free of charge. So it's the patrons, the people who can

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afford to help support the show that in a way really offset those fees

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for everybody else.

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And I'm super grateful to this amazing community of supporters.

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I want to give a shout out to my top supporters this week.

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They include Michael Goshay, Mary Niva, Christopher Pitts, June Separa, Pasqualee-Jalate,

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Ulrika Hagman, Dudas Infinitas, Charles Payet, Brian Holden, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Daniel Lang, David

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J. E. Smith, Robert Christ, and Elise Christie.

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