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I am blushing bright pink, Katie, but what a lovely post - and I promise to listen later (if I can bear to, hate my voice) and I will share it with my own readers. It was a huge pleasure and honour to take part and I really enjoyed talking to you - a professional, empathetic and intelligent interviewer as well as a thoroughly nice person!

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Thank you Ann! So glad you came on. Loved getting to know you a bit better, and thank you for the kind words :)

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Hi, Katie, I really enjoyed this episode. It dovetailed well with a book I’m reading called “The Glass Universe, How The Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars” by Dava Sobel. It’s about the women who worked at the Harvard College Observatory in the 19th century as calculators or “human computers “ and who did groundbreaking work that changed the world and advanced modern astronomy.

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So glad you enjoyed Penelope! I'll need to look up that book!

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I’d also recommend “The Planets” by Dava Sobel. Her writing reminds me a little of Annie Dillard. Both Sobel and Dillard know how to weave storytelling, cool facts, and beautiful prose together seamlessly.

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I agree, Penelope! I love how Dava Sobel puts the spotlight on women scientists while also writing so beautifully. Her latest book, The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science has been getting great reviews.

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I’m reading that book right now too (I have a bad/good habit of reading a lot of books at the same time) 😺

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Sounds like a very good habit to me...

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