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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Space Rainbows w/ Holly Bender

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2014

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Optical engineer Holly Bender speaks with Cara about making and using cool imaging spectrometers (for science!) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, why it’s important for women to have strong role models in STEM fields, and just how much science and creativity go hand-in-hand.

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0:26.8

Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. I am your host, Kara Santa Maria. And guys, do you remember a few weeks ago when I was talking about this cool PBS digital show called Frankenstein MD. I've been watching it a lot more lately and just this Friday, Dr. Frankenstein got a visit from the creature she made.

0:34.5

Yes, Dr. Frankenstein is a she in this series.

0:37.4

You've got to check it out.

0:38.8

And she actually demanded that she make him a mate. I'm excited to see what happens, is there going to be a

0:46.0

bride of Frankenstein, is this going to follow the original Mary Shelley's story? I mean the

0:50.8

adaptation is already really cool a bit different and I don't know just an

0:56.2

awesome new take on the traditional story I think gonna have Franken babies I don't

1:00.3

know now is your chance to catch up on all of the episodes. You should do it

1:05.0

now honestly before the big Halloween finale that's going to be next week or this

1:08.8

coming week actually. If you want to watch with me, go to YouTube.

1:13.6

dot com slash PBS digital studios and tweet me guys at the hashtag

1:19.0

Franken thoughts. Tell me what you think.

1:21.9

I want to know if you like it as much as I do.

1:24.0

All right, I want to thank a handful of people who are doing amazing things to help keep

1:29.0

talk nerdy possible. Keep it on the airwaves and free to download for you guys.

1:34.0

First I want to say thank you if you visited my store.

1:37.4

If you haven't, go check it out.

1:38.7

It's Kara Santa Maria.com slash store.

1:41.8

Also just on the front page of kara san and rhea

1:43.6

and there I have all sorts of cool talk nerdy goodies fun t-shirts slap

1:49.0

bracelets really beautiful handmade mugs by the artist H.P. Bloomer. Lots of cool stuff. So check it out and

1:56.2

also thank you, thank you, thank you so much to a handful of you who donated to support the

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