Tracy Letts gives homework, rainforest nerd Meg Lowman and an August Osage County cocktail
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Tracy Letts (August Osage County! Homeland!) gives some sonic homework. And lady nerd extraordinaire Meg Lowman talks about climbing trees, convincing her kids to count bugs and rainforest conservation. Plus an August Osage County-inspired cocktail and a heartfelt nerd confession from co-host Tricia Bobeda.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Julia. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi Julia. |
| 0:07.0 | You know us from TV. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi. |
| 0:11.0 | Meryl Streep, proving that there are still great parts in Hollywood for Merrill Streep's over 60. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Trisha Bobita. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:31.8 | And this is the Nerdat podcast. |
| 0:33.7 | Coming up, we'll get some homework from Homeland Actor and August Osage County writer Tracy Letts. |
| 0:39.3 | Tracy Letts is an artist I nerd out about hard. You'll hear a nerd confession for me about how hard later in the show. |
| 0:44.7 | But first, we have a lady scientist extraordinaire to talk with us today, two actually. |
| 0:49.6 | One brought the other to the nerd at podcast. Meg Lauman, known as Canopy Meg, has taken swing shots and |
| 0:55.3 | hot air balloons to study the canopy of the rainforest, studying biodiversity in ways and in places |
| 1:00.3 | that few people have ever seen. Not only is she an author, but she's also worked many different |
| 1:05.4 | science-y outreach jobs. She just started a new one. She's the chief of science and sustainability |
| 1:09.9 | at the California Academy of Sciences. And we know about Meg Lauman because of our new science correspondent, Sarah Rand. |
| 1:17.1 | Sarah is a researcher with the University of Chicago. She does a lot of work in researching how |
| 1:21.5 | young people get interested in STEM fields, among other things. And Sarah's career path, it could be |
| 1:26.6 | argued, was actually largely informed also by |
| 1:28.9 | Meg Lauman. Meg came and spoke at Sarah's college about biology and the canopy in the rainforest. |
| 1:35.5 | And it's what got Sarah inspired along this path. Since our pal Sarah ran nerds out about the |
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