i am doctor mario livio, an astrophysicist and author of seven popular science books. the most recent of which is called galileo: and the science deniers. i live in baltimore and and i currently and in baltimore at my home. as you can see i imagine i am in front of shells with books. actual at something that looks like that in every room in the house. so it almost doesn t matter where i am. so the book as a saint is called galileo: and the science deniers as i say this is a fresh biography of galileo but at the same time with an eye on science denial today which unfortunately we have quite a bit of. so the idea is to study from these fascinating person who lived during the 17th century, but to see what lessons we can learn from that or, you know, to what extent he in some sense already font some battles that we have to fight again today. when people here that i wrote a book about galileo, natural question is how come i decided to write a book about all
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