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Oh, I feel like I should have
worn my high heels and bustier

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or something after
the Beyonce reference.

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Whoa, thank you for that.

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No, that would not
have been a good idea.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But it's fun thinking about it.

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Oh, thank you for that
really generous introduction.

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And I want to thank everybody
that Hannah thanked,

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as well as Hannah.

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And I'm hoping I remember
everybody's names--

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Julie, and Katie,
and of course, Tyler.

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Thank you so much
for bringing me here.

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I just discovered my
stopwatch on my phone,

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so I don't have to
remember when I started.

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OK.

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Tucson is so gorgeous.

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Thank you.

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It's just-- and I'm
here until Monday,

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so my trip has just begun.

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I'm very excited to be here.

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Thank you, especially, out
of that nasty New York winter

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weather, which we finally got.

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Here's my little lineup.

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My husband, Harold, says I
should stick to my top hits,

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so I'm going to try and do that.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So a number of years
ago, I found myself

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writing poems that were
triggered by the science

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section of The New York Times.

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And they were
particularly difficult

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poems to revise because there
was so much interesting stuff

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in the poems that I didn't
want to let go of it,

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but after getting kind of
shoved around by poetry friends

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and shaken up a
little bit saying,

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"this poem doesn't
need that," I relented.

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But it took me a
long time to give

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up some of the really
cool facts and so forth.

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So the poems are not
really about science

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as they are triggered by
the language and stories

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and little narratives
in science.

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Of course, it also meant
that every Tuesday, I had--

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have more material
to write about,

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and I'm a little bit of
a magpie in that regard.

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Whatever I see, I want to pick
up and see how shiny it is.