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Okay, this week I have a super interesting chat with Dr Nick Hadad.

He is a senior terrestrial ecologist

in the Department of Integrative Biology

at Michigan State University

and Kellogg Biological Station, and we talk about his brand new book, The Last Butterflies,

A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Van vanishing creature. So without any further ado, here he is Dr. Nick

Hadad. Well Nick, thank you so much for joining me today.

Oh, great to be here.

So we were talking, this is our third time to try and start.

We keep running into snags, but we were talking earlier about the fact that you and I met way

back in the day at Science Online, which was a science communication conference on

the East Coast in Research Triangle, but now you are in Michigan. You're no longer in Raleigh.

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