Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, May 14th 2018 and I'm

your host Kara Santa Maria and today we are going to have a really fun chat with science communicator,

extraordinary Samantha Yameen.

You know her a science Sam, or you're going to get to know her a science Sam if you don't already. But before we dive into that, I want

to thank those of you who made TalkNurdy possible this week. Remember, I say it every week. Talk Nurdy

is and will always be 100% free to download. That is a very important model for me. And the way I support the

show in everything that we do on it, when I say we, it's because we've gotten to, we, I have

gotten to the point where instead of doing everything myself

I've also been able to hire an assistant to help out a bit,

you know, here and there, and also an editor which is huge.

So I want to thank Noel Dilworth and I also want to thank the folks at Pro Podcast Solutions. You guys are amazing. But of course this stuff don't come for free. So you guys support the show and it's huge. Those of you can afford to, you make it so that everybody else can listen, you know, without having to sign up or subscribe or swipe a credit card. If you do want to

support the show there's a lot of ways you can do it. You can visit my website

kara Santa Maria.com and there you'll see links, links to things. One of the links is to

Patreon. Patreon.com slash talk nerdy that's the easiest way to support the

show on an episodic basis. My big patrons this week, you're so awesome and you also include Rob Schreck,

Phil T-Bare, the zombie drummer, David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles Payette, Jonathan

Wright, the Honorable Husband, Jafe, Gabrielle,

Felipe, Hermiel Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

There are a bunch of other ways that you can support the show. You can shop in the talk nerdy store.

The older merchandise that I've been selling for quite some time there, I'm going to sell out of most of that soon, and I am in the process of transferring over to a new storefront

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So take a look, maybe I'll throw everything up on sale that we've got right now in advance of giving you guys a bunch more options.

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