Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, March 11th,

2024 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and as always before we dive into this week's episode, I do want to thank those of you who make

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Thank you all so much. All right, let's get into it. So today I have the opportunity

to chat with science journalist Rebecca Boyle. She is currently a columnist at Atlas Obscura. this Times, PopSai, Smithsonian, and a whole bunch of other publications that I'm sure you know and

love as the science enthusiasts you all are.

She also was a Night science journalism fellow at MIT and she's won a bunch of science writing awards and she's had her work anthologized three different times in the best American science and nature

writing, but this is her first book which is very exciting. It's called Our

Moon, how Earth's Celestial Companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are.

So without any further ado, here she is, Rebecca Boyle.

Well, Rebecca, thank you so much for joining me today.

Thanks so much for having me. Yeah, so I'm excited. We're going to be talking about your new book, Our Moon,

how Earth Celestial Companion transformed the planet,

guided evolution, and made us who we are.

But as I always do on the show,

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