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Have you ever thought about how strange everything is? No, but really, something happens in January when it still feels like

last year, but it's suddenly this year, and it always makes me ask, what are we transitioning into?

What have we transitioned from? I'm Bree Kane, a member of Scientific Americans' editorial team

and resident reader. Today, I'm sharing a conversation with Nell Greenfield Boyce, author of Transient and Strange.

I asked her about this new, intimate collection of essays she's written about the science

that helps contextualize her life, and all of our lives, for that matter.

The essays range from why fleas have sexy poems written about them, to how

mecca inspire touchable moonstones oceans away, to even how all of this is tiny but still

meaningful when you remember just how big time and space really are. You're listening to

science quickly. You might recognize Nell's voice.

She's been an NPR science correspondent for a while.

You may also recognize the title of her new book from a Walt Whitman poem called Year of Meteors.

For those of you who are poetry aficionados or fans of meter, our poetry column,

Year of Meteors ends with Whitman talking to time and space

itself about the new year he finds himself in and how strange it is to see your own self in the

brief and beautiful years coming and going. He's asking a similar question to what Nell asks herself

and asks the readers of her book, what are we doing here? What am I transitioning to or

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