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Dr Cara Santa Maria has been with The Skeptics Guide To The Universe podcast for over 11 years now. Along with the rest of the crew, she recently visited Sydney, Australia for NotACon, hosted by SGU and Australian Skeptics. The three day skeptical festival was full of science and science adjacent antics.

During a break in the last night of the show, I was lucky to catch Cara, who is a clinical health psychologist, science communicator, podcaster, and Emmy Award-winning journalist. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in 2025 in the Patient and Family Support Program at the Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center. She also holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology, an M.S. in Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience, and a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy. 

So obviously I started by asking her about Devo ..

Our conversation ranged from advertising on podcasts to being a public figure, and we even speculate on how much George Michael will be played by George Hrab at the 80s Singalong grand finale at NotACon.

Also we discover Cara’s height in the newly discovered German metric measurement of the Zentimeter.  Breaking news: she’s 165,000 Zentimeters.

Skeptics Guide To The Universe website

Talk Nerdy, Cara’s podcast website

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