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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

The Secret World of Animal Sleep w/ Aurelie Beatley

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Cara chats with illustrator and animator Aurelie Beatley about the new Smithsonian Earth series they worked on together, “The Secret World of Animal Sleep.” They discuss Aurelie’s background in science illustration as well as the fascinating process of animating this breathtaking science series. Bonus: lots of cool tidbits about animal slumber!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, November 13th and I'm your

0:19.2

host Kara Santa Maria. It's a really exciting episode that I've got for you guys today. I

0:25.0

actually get to talk to the illustrator and animator behind a brand new series

0:31.3

called The Secret World of Animal Sleep.

0:34.6

It's on Smithsonian Earth, and I was lucky enough

0:37.1

to do the narration for it, and Orly Beatly made it beautiful. And so we're going to dive into all of that really soon.

0:47.3

You can watch the first episode for free right now at SmithsonianEarth TV.com slash sleep, So I highly recommend you do that. Maybe you can even have it

0:56.0

open while you're listening to the podcast. But before I dive in guys, I want to thank those of you

1:00.8

who have made Talk Nurdy possible this week.

1:04.3

And that includes those of you who pledge your support at Patreon.com slash Talk

1:09.4

nerdy. That's Phil T-Bare, Timothy Glover, Rob Schreck, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Jeffrey

1:15.8

Perez Charles Payet, Jonathan Wright, Christian Jeffrey, Stuart Oogue, the Honorable

1:21.1

husband, Jafe, Gabriel Felipe Hermio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

1:28.0

And there are so many more of you who help support the show.

1:31.0

I want to thank you from the absolute bottom of my heart.

1:35.3

Okay, one more piece of business before we dive in.

1:39.7

Guys, I am traveling to Australia and New Zealand. I'm actually recording this a couple

1:45.7

days before I leave because it's going live on the day that I'm going to be

1:49.2

visiting there and after Australia and New Zealand, I get to go to Hong Kong and China.

1:57.4

And I'm doing all of this with the Skeptic Societies in those different places.

2:02.5

So the first place that I'm going to be visiting

2:06.8

is Melbourne, Australia, and I'm going to be doing

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