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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it is me again. So I have a quick announcement. I have a new kids book coming out called |
0:06.7 | the Atlas Obscira Explorers Guide to Inventing the World. I cannot tell you how excited I am to have |
0:13.3 | this book in the world. And it is not just a tour all around the world to incredible locations, |
0:19.3 | but it's also this guide to the history of |
0:21.8 | science. I made this book for, well, for myself when I was 11 or 10 or 9, and for my son and |
0:30.8 | daughter, who are 8 and 10 now. And it's a book for any kid who just longs to understand |
0:36.1 | how the world works. What are all of these things around us? |
0:39.5 | And how did we end up with them? How did we get from fire to pumps to fusion power? Like, how do we |
0:48.0 | arrive in our modern world? This is a love note to that exploration and an incredible tour through the history of science and technology. |
0:57.5 | It is for any curious kid in your life who lights up when you talk to them about things like astronomy or computers or trains. |
1:07.6 | This book is for them. |
1:10.1 | Comes out August 12th, but you can pre-order it right now. |
1:13.7 | It is on all of the various retailers, wherever you want to get your books from. |
1:18.1 | Thank you. |
1:18.7 | And on to today's episode. |
1:23.1 | Hey, Amanda. |
1:24.6 | Hey, Johanna. |
1:25.3 | What's up? |
1:26.0 | I want to start by showing you this photo. First, maybe just |
1:30.7 | describe the photo to me. Yeah, okay. So we are standing behind like maybe a waist high glass |
1:40.7 | barrier. And beyond that, there's like a very large white room. Like it's the walls are |
1:49.1 | empty. It's white high ceilings. And it looks like there's a thick kind of layer of at first I thought |
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