Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerurdy. It's Monday February 13th. Happy

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All right, I'm excited to dive right into this week's episode because it's a really fun one. I was honored to be able to be

joined by Helen Chersky. Now she hails from the UK but she was visiting the

U.S so we were able to talk in person, in studio.

She is a scientist and a television presenter in the UK.

Her research actually focuses on the optics and acoustics of ocean bubbles and

she's interested in the influence of ocean bubbles on the atmosphere.

She wrote a book recently and it was just published in the US just last month and it's called Storm in a

teacup, The Physics of Everyday Life. So once again here she is Helen Chersky.

Well Helen thank you so much for joining me today. I'd love to say for coming all this way across the pond just to sit down on my

podcast but of course you're not just here for me. Well I could be let's let's

pretend I am. So you are obviously a you've lived in the US but obviously everybody I think can tell based on your voice that you're from the UK do you live in London?

I do live in London now yeah I'm from Manchester in the north and I lived in San Diego and in Rhode Island here

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