Saad Bhamla
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27 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And so an educator who was doing this for non-profit reached out and said, oh, I printed all your comics because many of these kids are now displaced and in refugee camps and we were having a hard time getting textbooks and teaching them. And so the comics reminded them about kind of living systems and biology were in... In certain situations, they might not encounter them.
So they really were grateful and appreciated and made my heart kind of warm.
I'll tell you a recent story. In December, after Christmas break, we were out camping in the middle of nowhere in Georgia at the state park, Magnolia Springs State Park. And so I met this... local Georgian woman. She lives in a farm nearby and enjoys. And she said, well, what do you do? And I explained, I'm a scientist and I study bugs. And she says, why? I said, I really love animals.
And we were able to connect because she said, I'll tell you this, but don't report me into animal control. And I said, why? Why would I do that? She says, I love possums. And I have three possums in my house. They're just like my pets. And this is a person that I would never encounter in Atlanta, Georgia, right? This is rural Georgia, middle of nowhere.
But we are still able to connect over our shared love of animals. And I think sometimes it takes stepping out of these ivory towers that scientists put themselves in, writing these fancy journals. that really exclude taxpayers, my neighbors who pay for this. So kind of that's, I think a little bit onus is on us is to step out of our comfort zone and not underestimate the average American.
I think they're resilient, curious, and perhaps sometimes we hold ourselves back.
Thank you, Emily. Thank you for doing what you do.
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