It's Monday, November 19th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

Each week, we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.

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podcasting app. Now, if any of you've been following the news, you probably know that Northern

California in particular has been struck by major wildfires. Kishore and I are not in any

kind of danger and certainly send out our best wishes to the families whose lives have been devastated by the enormous campfire up in Butte County.

But we have been affected by the poor air quality in the city, which means that schools have been

closed. And as you can imagine, it's getting more and more difficult to entertain small children

indoors for days upon end. So this week, as we're coming up to Thanksgiving,

we wanted to rerun a show that we really enjoyed last year all about turkeys. Well, actually about

dinosaurs. But I suppose since birds are the direct descendants, or some might even call still

dinosaurs, it does apply, as we're about to be eating dinosaur, at least most of us,

sometime this week. This is an interview with paleontologist Ken Lakovara, who unearthed one of the

largest dinosaurs ever known, the Dreadnoughtus, who's at 65 tons larger than even the T-Rex.

We hope you enjoy re-listening to this episode, this Thanksgiving week, and we wish

you all a very happy Thanksgiving.

And another reason why we're running this particular show this week is because next week

we'll be airing a brand new interview also about dinosaurs with Steve Broussat, who's

also a paleontologist, involved in discovering

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