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I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Grant, I've been reading a book in a field I know almost nothing about, and there's

a whole lot in this book about guts and toes.

You mean guts like my innards and toes like the little things that end up my feet?

Actually, no.

Spelled the same way, G-U-T and T-O-E, bought their acronyms.

Oh, acronyms, T-O-E, top of Everest, I don't know, G-U-T, get under table, that's Earthquake

advice, right?

I don't know, what is it, what are you learning about Martha?

It's always something, no.

This is a book about cosmology.

What is a physicist term for Grand Unified Theory and T-O-T-O-E?

You probably remember Stephen Hawking talking about this.

Yeah, I read his book when I was a kid.

Okay, yeah, the theory of everything.

Right, that makes perfect sense.

Yeah, this is a fascinating book, it's called The End of Everything, Astrophysically Speaking,

and it's by Katie Mack, who is an assistant professor of physics at North Carolina State

University, and Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist, which means that she studies

cosmology seeking to understand the universe from its very beginning to its very end.

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