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WTOP
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on WTOP
"And data from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, and unless you're an astrophysicist yourself, it's kind of difficult to even understand the context of these astonishing colorful photos. This morning fortunately for us, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson helps us this morning get some perspective all these images, some of which have been billed as a look back into space and time Telescopes are basically time machines because it takes light, time to reach us from wherever the object is, so the farther away an object is, the farther back in time, you are observing it. And that one picture that was leaked. I think it was leaked by The White House and got everybody excited. What that shows is a field of galaxies, some of which go all the way back to nearly the beginning of time. And also many of those galaxies that have arc shaped, and that's a distortion through the fabric of space and time created by a galaxy cluster that's only halfway to the end of time, and its gravity has curved the spacetime continuum to make those distortions. We have also been treated to the site of a dying star and it is in really unprecedented detail, right? The colors are so vivid. They look almost enhanced. When you saw that, what did you think? And how do we interpret it? And that's a category of object called a planetary nebula has nothing to do with planets. It's an historical artifact that it's called that. But stars that died non explosively, such as what the sun will do in 5 billion years. They release their outer gases and the outer gases glow when radiated by the center of the star that's left over and you get this marvelous ensemble of shapes and colors and it feels like you're looking in to different sort of shell structures within the total frame. And so yeah, it totally is called the southern ring nebula. And there's tons of those. That's just the beginning. Wow. And what potential would you say the Webb telescope has and giving us more understanding of the Big Bang and the formation of the universe? Well, so it was conceived to identify galaxies being born in the early universe and those galaxies emit primarily ultraviolet light. So you might say, let's make an ultraviolet telescope no, because in the 13 billion years that light has been traveling, the wavelength has stretched and become infrared. And so the telescope is tuned to the infrared because that's the light that's reaching us from those galaxies and it turns out infrared is exquisitely positioned on the spectrum to peer deep inside of gas clouds to watch stars and star systems being born. So it's the beginning of the universe and the beginning of star systems right in front of our noses. In the Pantheon of moments for an astrophysicist like you, where does this moment rank? Yeah, I heard someone
WTOP
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on WTOP
"Didn't get off to a great start. In fact, it lost money early on, so where do things stand now? D.C. councilman canyon mcduffie opened an oversight hearing bluntly. The District of Columbia is not collecting the same level of revenue as other jurisdictions are collecting from sports wagering. But Frank Suarez, who heads the D.C. lottery says the city is making less money from private operators than it used to in that for all the mistakes and overly rosy projections early on, the lottery run mobile app called gambit is much more popular now. The model is working. It took a minute, and he urged critical members of the D.C. council like Mary Chang not to change the law to allow more competition. You're basically saying that we have fumbled and stumbled our way into the most ideal system we could have. John Doe in WTO. If you looked at those images released this week from the James Webb Space Telescope and were absolutely amazed, that's apparently an under reaction renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joined us here on WTO a little earlier to explain. Telescopes are basically time machines. Okay, got that. So that being true, Tyson says that first image that was released by The White House is more than just amazing. What that shows is a field of galaxies some of which go all the way back to nearly the beginning of time. Bottom line because of this new multi-billion dollar telescope, we now have the deepest infrared image of the universe ever, which opens up the possibility of seeing other habitable worlds in the universe and to get a peek at the early universe to better understand how it came into being. See the photos now, a WTO dot com search telescope. A bunch of kids had one summer camp are getting the chance to try something new. Here
The View
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The View
"Director of the hayden planetarium and author of the new book cosmic queries. Neil degrasse tyson tyson tyson. Hey good to see you need what we're going to get into all of these other things in a minute but what we've had so many things in space but i don't think we've ever had billionaires in space so he's announced jeff basil's and his brother will mark will be the very first space tourists a flight from his company. Blue origin scheduled take-off july twentieth from west texas. Are you looking forward to this. Neil or are you not sure. This is a good idea. Where do you stick with this. I don't think he's the first billionaire. I think a charleston mony one of the microsoft billionaires. He bought it. See on the russian capsule to go up. So you won't be the first bill billionaire. Oh sorry that's my thing here. Is that him calling you right now. Billionaires in space space. Yeah yeah so so. It's not the second the it's just the kind of testing. I would want to happen before i ever agree to a trip. So for example you know. I've joked about this. If ilan wants to say neal you want to go to mars i would say have. You sent your mother. I and brought her back. That would be my evidence of safety. So i think jeff bezos is flash in the game. Then we should all pause and pay attention and check. What is what is latest will looks like well. I've been obsessed with this story meal. I mean we've all seen those videos out there of ufo's spotted by navy pilots on both coasts over the last several years and according to reports a highly anticipated pentagon investigation found no evidence. These ufo's were alien spacecraft. But they're not ruling out the possibility either. So you have a whole chapter of your book called. Are we alone in the universe. So i'm going to ask you. Do you think these. Ufo's are extraterrestrial in nature. Yes so first of all. That book is a collection of questions. We have all had about our place in the universe and top. Two or three questions. I'm ever asked are. Are we alone in the universe. So this is right at the center of people's core of curiosity. That's i second the universe brims with mysteries and we so want many of those mysteries to be some favored. Answer that we might carry you. See a light in the sky. You don't understand. Gee i want that to be aliens visiting us and so in science however you want to look at you rank possibilities by likelihood okay these navy videos you have to ask if they are aliens visiting why are. They only visiting navy pilots. How about the rest of earth surface there are three billion smartphones on this planet. Each one is a high resolution. Color camera and video recorder so basically aliens invasions have been crowd sourced to the population of the planet. If anybody's any aliens landing anywhere it's gonna look what else we have already streamed. That used to be rare but we knew was happening all right like police violence and all of this. If aliens landed you know we would have it. It would be viral overnight but instead they're cat videos that go viral well. At neil new nasa chief bill nelson has said that they're launching their own investigation into the ufo's as well and acknowledges they don't know what they are. Either one theory is that the ufo's could be a foreign military aircraft according to the new york times. China and russia. Have both invested heavily in supersonic technology. From what you've seen. How likely is that. And does that theory trouble you so first of all the of the six hundred seven hundred billion dollar budget of the pentagon. I would want some fraction of that to to check out the sky and make sure that there aren't threats so i'm happy to have learned that they were government programs investigating these no problem there but by the way they could beat foreign foreign craft that have achieved some level of aerodynamic sophistication that we have not. I'm glad they're looking into that. Totally i have no problem with that now. Some of it. I think is not explained simply by hypersonic technology this behavior of these doctors. I don't know what that is and you know my first thought is. It's it's some kind of bug or malfunction of the electronics. Okay that's that would be my first thought not. We're being observed intelligent aliens from another planet. Now there seems to be growing. Bipartisan support for more government funding for research indie. Ufo's but as republican senator marco rubio has pointed out a stigma still exists around the issue which can prompt giggles and i rolls on capitol hill. How do we convince lawmakers to think less in terms of et and more like contact or interstellar. I think the way to de stigmatize it. Is there these things showing up in military radar and we don't know what they are. Anyone who is curious. Say let's go. Try to figure it out if you lead with the idea that we being visited by aliens. That's some people have that as their first explanation for what they don't understand but for a skeptical scientists. That would probably be the last explanation as carl sagan famously. Said extraordinary claims require extraordinary. Evidence not monochromatic fuzzy navy video of something. That looks like a tic tac. Well nia let me tell you i. Hope jeff bezos space travel succeeds. Because there's a hell of a lot of people in congress on tv and in mar-a-lago. I'd like to send to mars. Listen you recently wrote an op. Ed for the wall street journal about the anti-science attitude that's gaining ground and our culture from the anti massacres to the anti vaxxers. What do you think that's coming from. And what's the one thing you would say to people who are still refusing to get the damn shot. Yeah so i tweeted. Once i said dear dear science deniers including the anti vaccine anti massacred platter. Thor's and i said you realize you all found each other using technology that is stupefyingly advanced exploiting space technology physics and engineering. Just thought. i remind you of that sincerely your smartphone so here. These people are totally engaged in the science. But they're not reminded of it so maybe science needs just better marketing every day. You wake up. Hey hey i might even be alive at birth because science because science go look at any old cemetery and look at how many women in babies died in childbirth. You know how soon we forget how how how accustomed we get so quickly to the progress in advance of science so maybe it just needs better marketing. I hope not. But that might be what it requires. Well it might be and you know if they put you in charge. I know people will get the mess. We always love when you come see us and hopefully you know one of these next times. We'll all be together in the studio and we can float together. I want to say. Thank neil degrasse tyson. Yes as book is cosmic queries. It's available now and we'll.
The View
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The View
"The biggest challenge for us. You have to say what you going to say. Then shut up. We're not. I've seen that. We have the same view. I love all you ladies love. You guys tax. How rome every day on. Abc welcome back. we're talking about vice president harrison. Guatemala saying she wants to deal with the cause root causes that refugees have been fleeing to the us border. Because what do you think of everything. She had to say. Sunny guy big. It's really important to address the root causes. There's no question about that and she's not only going to be visiting guatemala. she's also going to be visiting honduras el salvador mexico. So that's extremely important. It's not just these grand gestures that you're seeing from some of the republicans like ted cruz. And i think eighteen other senators who were in some sort of border patrol boats along the rio grande with machine guns claiming that they were heckled by cartel members in that is just an empty gesture leading to nothing. This i think could have real change. But i was a little surprised at the com- the clumsiness of her language. Because she said don't come don't come and she was. I think referring to be legal passage into the united states as opposed to seeking legal asylum. Which is what alexandrio cossio. Cortez is talking about and of course. This country was founded on immigration founded on people coming here legally and seeking asylum but using those terms. So those words don't come. Don't come i think is pretty inflammatory. And i think that's why she's getting so much pushback because because of those words i mean the supreme court just just ruled this week that people that come here illegally and stay here for twenty years still can't apply for a green car because of the circumstances by which they came to this country and so of course. You shouldn't come here illegally but our vice president could have done. I think a better job in terms of her language. Sarah's is she taking the right approach in your opinion on all this. It's the only approach you could take if you're being intellectually honest about the issues. We're having right now at the borders and as as everyone said this is so complicated in its decades-old my issue with what alexandria across cortes said was when she talks about how disappointed she has if she was disappointed. On the language choices sunny just pointed out. That's different. But i also remember very recently when the new administration took over that she was one of the first critical people about the problems at the border. We need more lawyers. We need more social workers to process people faster so we're not holding them because we don't have the infrastructure to safely take care of people that are coming illegally right now especially during a pandemic when we needed distance between them We need better databases and tracking system. We have so many things that are wrong in abundance of things but with what anna said. I recognize that. This is not an easy decision for someone to make. It's often life or death and these are people that are choosing to send their children without them. I can't think of a worse decision. I that what circumstances. I'd have to be in to make that decision so i want the humanity of this country i want to be the most powerful nation that can accept people. But we can't do that until we put our own oxygen mask on first and that's what we need to do. We have things to fix before we can welcome all well. I kind of feel like it's important. It's important and it's a harsh reality but we are. I think just barely managing to get the border together just and we still have so many people who are here trying to to get asylum and so i think it's in order to catch your breath and figure out what your moves are going to be. I think hard hard language needed to be needed to be sad because you know we are in such a a place where we are trying to reunite kids with their parents. Were trying to get all the folks who have come and find a way to make them part of our society. And i personally think it's ridiculous to say to someone who's paid tax. You know 'cause it's not like no one's paying taxes when they come over and find work here everyone ends up having to pay you know so i feel like this should be handled on a case by case basis instead of the supreme court. Saying no even if you were here for twenty years i think that's. That's not a good idea. I think that's not a good idea. But you know smarter people than me have been trying to tackle this for quite some time so either everybody has to go on. Nobody has to go but somebody has to make a decision and it sounds like the biden administration has made one. Everybody just needs to take a break..
The View
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The View
"Obama just sat down for a wide ranging interview about some of the biggest issues dividing america right now and. He gave his perspective about getting about putting so-called cancel culture in its proper context. Take a look. I think that a lot of the dangers of cancel culture. And we're just going to be condemning people all the time at least a my daughter's that bill acknowledged that sometimes among their peer group or in college campuses know you'll see folks going overboard but they have a pretty good sense of of look we don't want. We don't expect everybody to be perfect. We don't expect everybody to be politically correct all the time. But we are going to call out institutions or individuals if they are being cruel if they're you know discriminating against people we do want to raise awareness. And where do you stand on the whole concept of what they are calling cancelled culture. I don't like the term. Let's be good and with that. Because i think that people cherry pick that term. If you are coming after something that i agree with then i call it castle culture. If you're coming for something that i disagree with then. I call it accountability right. And so i think people use that term a little loosely and president obama's right barack obama is right. There is a balance. Some people can go overboard but there's also such a thing as responsibility consequences and accountability. And we have the right to condemn us our pocketbooks protest protest. Anyway we want against people who we think are being cruel. If there is a woman. Selling a stars of david minimizing the holocaust in nashville tennessee in her hat store like she was there was a woman. Doing that's made mocked the star of david and put not vaccinated. It is my right to say lady. This is wrong and we should be boycotting you and so i think there is a balance and he strikes balance and he recognizes that. Yes you can go overboard. But there's also such a thing as accountability sunday. Do you think cancer cultures become a catchall term. That people have weaponized in some cases. I think there's no question about it. council culture that term has been used repeatedly on the right to sort of absolve people of bad behavior. You know used to be political correctness on now that term has been morphed and weaponized into cancel culture so when people now are doing things that are wholly inappropriate. They are saying. Oh my goodness. I'm the victim i'm being cancelled. And that's just not accurate. And i agree with anna. This term cancel culture because it's being weaponized. It shouldn't be cancelled culture. I've often said it should be consequence. Culture there are consequences to discriminatory behavior. There are consequences to behavior that is just unacceptable and people have to have take responsibility for that type of behavior. But i will say the other thing is with this sort of social media. Activism people are picking and choosing things to be fo- outraged by and then playing the victim. And it's really sad that people are taking things out of context many times and using this to somehow be activists that is not what real activism is about and president obama addressed that as well and i think that's a word to the wise no question about it right. Megan is this a big problem as some people are making it out to be or do you think people have to sort of figure out what they actually mean when they say cancelled culture but i echo what everyone has said so far that i think that you have to take everything case by case and we said this during the me too movement and i think we can say about cancel culture. Now there's obviously a difference between a harvey weinstein and i. I don't know an example of someone who was accused of something that didn't have merit. I think that president obama became president because he understood many factions of the american public. He understood you know his his progressive part of the party. he understood his more moderates. He was president for his entire democratic party and he is not a hard left person in the vein of you know the squad and ao see. And i think he sees that are sort of repression of free speech which is where the cancel culture. At least on the right comes into play. is something that can have real ramifications. I can only speak for myself. I do believe in cancel culture. I believe in accountability culture I agree with anna that there are certain products that i wouldn't support at this point which i used to be against boycotting i'm for it If there's like you said a woman who is wearing a star of david a in a gross and disgusting way that's mocking getting a vaccine But i do think there's a concern with the way college. Campuses are run and you hear comedians. All over the place. Like jerry seinfeld and bill maher saying they won't speak on college campuses. I used to do college tours all the time. There's not enough money on planet earth to get me to go in front of a college campus and be screamed at for being a conservative pro-life woman and i think we're in a space where conversations feel stifled and feel repressed and feel like we aren't open to hearing disagreements and opinions from other side no matter how extreme they are and i think all of us who i assume are fans of the first amendment because we make our job as opinion hosts should be concerned at the repression of free speech. And i think that's probably more what he was talking about. Agree sarah do. You agree with obama's take on council culture absolutely because it includes nuance which is often hard to ascertain when you handed over to the the greater public because people tend to understand things when it's a little easier black and white and i think that the part i have issues with sometimes is when there's a kneejerk reaction when they're maybe hasn't been a crime committed like the professor who was teaching mandarin.
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"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The Jordan Harbinger Show
"You so long for more from jack barsky including how jack was finally caught by the fbi and what happened after that. Check out episode to eighty five. The jordan harbinger show always loved. Neil degrasse tyson. Fun fact he met his wife in relativity class and they later became relatives. I guess that's how that works in one of his earlier books. He was answering a lot of questions from fans and also from haters. And i thought that was hilarious concept for a book. We actually do that a lot here on the show as well as you know. And he's really good about giving people full attention and respect. Which i can appreciate. I think it would be very tempting. If i were a scientist to look at and regard anti science people or people who believe absolutely ridiculous things as morons or people who should know better but he doesn't seem to do that and i want to take a page out of that book for myself a little bit of intellectual humility but also humility in the face of things that you know are incorrect. Like when people write in and tell me that bigfoot exists and bill gates's microchipping us with vaccines. I just wanna scream in their face that they're not worth microchipping in the first place and that they're already essentially microchip because they carry a fricken phone everywhere and post photos of all their meals on instagram and facebook but It seems like now look. There could be an alien civilization right. We're obsessed with this lately because of the ufo stuff in the news cycle that we can't seem to escape from there obviously other plausible explanations for all of those things. It is fascinating though that even if there are aliens and they don't have to be visiting us here on earth but if they're looking at us they're actually looking at us through the genesis of humanity or even the genesis of our entire planet because they are so far away so there could be aliens looking at what's going on in the roman empire right now with their super crazy optical technology and that's a fascinating thought and what i think is worth thinking about even if we don't believe in all of the ufo stuff that we have seen lately in the news and elsewhere. Now neil his major goal along with mine frankly but his major goal is a more enlightened country. I think we do share this especially never telling people what to think but instead training them how to think he does it with science. I like do it by presenting. Brilliant people like him to the audience. That's you listening. And i appreciate you doing that. So thank you for listening and for being self motivated coming here empowering yourselves scientific knowledge and better thinking we had a brilliant guests today. I think he's made us all smarter. But don't get too cocky. Because his neil says as our knowledge grows so too does the perimeter of our ignorance of course when he says it. It's all basic kind of mysterious. I can't really follow that big. Thanks to neil degrasse tyson. The book the newest one anyway is called cosmic queries star talks guide to who we are how we got here and where we're going always fascinating with him links to his stuff including the book will be in the show notes. Please use our website links if you buy the book because it does help support the show. Yes the audible links work. Yes they work. In other countries worksheets for the episode or in the show notes as well transcripts are in the show notes. There's a video of this interview going up on our youtube channel by the way at jordan. Harbinger dot com slash youtube and we have a clip channel full of stuff. You can't see anywhere else stuff. That didn't make it to the show highlights from the interviews. That aren't anywhere else. Jordan harbinger dot com slash. Clips is where you can find that in. It's a new channel so please do subscribe because the first thousand subs are really hard..
The Jordan Harbinger Show
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The Jordan Harbinger Show
"Me your weaken your your help you whatever the poem there and people started saying no. These immigrants are diluting the stock of the the white european stock. We must protect it. And there's an entire eugenics movement feeding that and it is pervasive in the culture among those in power. And so there's which wilson a man of his time who sure that eugenics is onto the right thing. And then there's someone with power who makes very unfortunate non-progressive regressive decisions in this world so for me to even have any fluency at all. I had to have some open door to say. Oh that's an interesting thing. let me ask that. Let me find this out now. What else was going on. So i have in my books. Have a shelf. Probably four feet across that has books unjust eugenics and then you learn that. The american eugenics movement fed outliers thinking about how he was gonna take care business in germany we've quote whitewashed that. Yeah from our role in his thinking. He's not a scientist. He's getting his ideas from anthropologists. Who are totally bought into this eugenics movement. So that's been sort of ongoing with me for many months now after years. But since george floyd and this summer i've been doing it into race relations in the history of the country going farther back than just the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Is it frustrating for you to look at how science was used as a cudgel with eugenics and all this other bullshit and then having people go see sciences political. So how do. I know that what you're telling me right now is interest eugenics two point. Oh and that. It's real science. And it's not just politically motivated gobbledygook. That's an honestly post question. And i think. I have a good reply to that and i wrote this. You can google it. I wrote a perspective piece. I originally posted it to facebook as a note but facebook got rid of their notes for some reason that was my main means of communicating with people his long forum entries rather than punchy things that you put in several times a day but anyhow it's not there so it's on my own website if you just the title of it is what science is and how and why it works will link to that in the show notes. Yeah so here's the point. The physical sciences are less susceptible then sciences that involve human beings as subject. But one of the most important things you have to carry with you is the capacity to judge whether what you end up sinking is true. What you think it's true but it's actually not something you think is not true that actually is and when human beings are the subjects it is some of the most susceptible science to the influence of bias that some of the most it is the most susceptible science with regard to bias. And so if you have a study that is going there. You need extra attention given to it and almost always when you have those kinds of studies. The people doing the study whoever they are end up at the top of the list. If they're man than men are better than women if they're white than white is better than other callers. If european and the european cultures are better and the anthropologist are ground zero for that level of bias in their scientific thinking man the are carrying the titles if scientists so. I'm happy to report my fields collectively the physical scientists which susceptible to other kinds of biases. Like you really want this to be true. 'cause you invested ten years of your life and so you don't even see that it's false and so you keep cherry picking the data to support your own views. But i'm not you and i don't have your biases and look it's not pulling up. So many scientific career have ended or faded. Because people wouldn't relinquish some long earlier held thought that was not yet verified. So yeah it's unfortunate. That science has been used in that way and i suspect will continue to be used in the fields that involve human beings as subjects in makes sense. And i think it's hard for us to shake our concept. I mean it takes generations if not longer for people to i mean even when you look at things that are physical sciences i mean. Didn't we string up. We didn't they string up. Galileo like you see these scientists getting killed or was it aristotle. I forget now. Like hey. You can't say that this is wrong. Is galileo right. Who got executed for saying. Hey maybe the earth is in the center of our He was imprisoned in prison. Okay judo bruno got executed brand upside down at the stake and italy for system many things but suggesting that the might be other worlds out there. Not just earth and earth might not be the only object of god's creation One of his famous quotes is. Your god is too small. That might have been. What got him hung upside down. Just yeah yeah so if you look at that article by the way takes four minutes to read too fast read but you will see that the methods and tools of science as we now practice them only been in widespread use since about the year sixteen hundred so since auto onward so it's about only four hundred years miss nothing in the history of civilization. Yeah so to go back before. Galileo you have the whole world thinking or many people thinking earth is flat or that the all manner of thinking and by the way on the frontier of research. Most results will be wrong. What matters is not what any scientist tells you or anyone. Research project suggests what matters is. Has that been verified. Has it been duplicated. Not by just york friends in your own lab has it duplicated by one of your competitors all right only then if you have some interesting result will we then say yup you have arrived at a new objective truth about this world. Then you put it in the books. Those objectives shoes are not later shown to be false hence my comment scientists true whether or not you believe in people want to sort of caricatured and say listen to any scientists no matter what no no. It's the methods and tools of science when invoked to their fullest will establish what is objectively true and that is not later shown to be false so when people say well scientists wants to earth is flat was before sixteen hundred. Okay well how about this. Scientists used to have leeches and bleed. You go back to that time and look at the research literature. It was not yet settled. That was a contestant idea. Will this work will do. We need the blood. Blood is in essence. We got this so in that case. You're taking something that is on the no pun intended bleeding edge of medical research and something sort of catch onto people's fancies that doesn't make it the objective truth so it's only when it's established and how do we know to when multiple studies demonstrated. That's all it's that simple at on the bleeding edge. Most will turn out to be wrong interesting. I can now see people twisting going then. Don't use anything new vaccine who don't use it could be new but if it's tested go for it yeah okay. I'm just saying. I don't want people to twist it while they will no matter what we say the twisters out there. We'll do it no matter what we say. What i'm saying has just gone to for someone to say. I'm not gonna take the vaccine because it's not tested yes. It hasn't been tested. The yes you can read the test results. These are people who have already made up their mind and are inventing reasons to justify the mind that they've already made up and the reasons they're invoking are false because there are the studies you can read them and you can find out what the side effects are if any how severe they are who was most susceptible to those side effects. You can then ask yourself. Do i have those conditions that would make me susceptible you can do this rather than say. I'm gonna wait until it's tested that's huge. You've been misinformed by whatever or your sources. Your news sources have sometimes. Don't have your own enlightenment in their interest. This is jordan harbinger. Show with our guest. neil degrasse tyson. We'll be right back. Microsoft teams is helping priority. bicycles transform. The way.
Real Time with Bill Maher
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on Real Time with Bill Maher
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Real Time with Bill Maher
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on Real Time with Bill Maher
"Included. As i was thinking about this as they are to the second amendment absolutist commitment. But it's not anymore. That's the problem is that the aclu now is woke David goldberger who's one of their icons. He's the guy who defended the nazis marching in skokie. He said i get the sense. It was important by. I get the sense it was important for. Aclu staff to identify with progressive causes more than to stand on liberal principles liberals are leaving the first amendment behind and i think this is a generational thing i think. The younger generations are fragile. And they think Being insulted or having your feelings hurt by words is more important than free speech. Well you you have to find that that neat line between free speech and speech that leads to violence and if you can will you defend free speech. Well diverse inches. Long as it doesn't lead does well. You could say lead to i. Mean about duchess is very slippery. Slope back has not been the definition before hate speech. I mean the hate speech. We all hate it. But that was the whole point of the first amendment. Yeah the zona. Should be allowed. You should be allowed to other hate speech right like you can't go to a you know. Assemble and have free speech and also carried weapons with no not weapons is defending me where there's no throwaway march march. But they're so far away from that rob. I mean this younger generation literally will say that speech is a form of violence physical violence. And it's like what no it's the opposite of violence. It's not violence speech. It can lead to via us but it is not they've they've changed the definition of words by lynch's when it hurts right you just have to define when is what is a fire in the crowded theater right. What is fire in the crowded theatre. Which is you know. You're free to say that but that directly leads to something that could be very violent. Let me ask you something. I'm seriously interested right. Second amendment do you would you in a perfect world. Maybe like change the wording around the in that a little absolutely so the first amendment is the exact same thing right we. I am a huge stand fan of yours. I grew up cutting my teeth on eddie. Murphy's stand up. Which is why. I'm so weird and profane right. But you know you can find a way if we could if we could which we can't Amend the constitution just like what the second amendment you can have a robust society with robust free speech and still disallow turn first amendment. I'm saying what i'm saying is defined the way it is second amendment need on the raft ideologically research already as they are making amendment if you look at the second amended carefully. It's pretty good the way it is because it says it says militia related militia. Right the people right well regulated militia. I gotta go to new rules guys. Joe biden visits the queen. This weekend he asked to be a friend tell. Her spending is out of control. Letty like the royal family. Or you hate to have to admit the queen's lifestyle is rather lavish and before you say you don't think so. This is her using the bathroom with quick. Two guys in there that is that's lava nurul. Don't have sex in front of your dog. It's cruel and confusing. The dog is thinking the ball go. Oh there it is where the ball.
The View
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The View
"We'll be right back. You can get it at any fine bookstore. You might even be able to find it at audible. Look it up. It will be. Be the whoopi whoopi. But yet let me real quick real quick if the aliens land. Tell me if ilise land. Let's hope they don't elaine. Barrie car then. They were just blend in and no one noticed. Oh she has a sister does meghan. And harry celebrate the birth of their daughter. Never before a royal baby born in america. Growing up no inside public schools but in sunny southern california. What will life be like here. How she fits into the royal family. When will she meets her. Uncle will on kate cousins a royal granddad and great grandmother the american royal baby the new. Abc news original event streaming only. Who live welcome back. It's morris get vaccinated. Life starts to get back to normal. People are beginning to reopen their doors to house cats. I don't know why but they are. And in a recent survey some folk shared their biggest pet peeves. Guests are guilty of just showing up unannounced. Not taking off their shoes. One may enter even using furniture to wipe their hands. What what's the biggest one you have when it comes to houseguests sarah. People who don't take off their shoes upon entry after living in new york city for way too long. I've seen what we step on. Every day it's disgusting. So now i will always enter home and have people enter minds. He please please. Please take off your shoes. I used to wash my wa-was little pause each time. They came back wipes. Because i didn't want anything from the ground outside in my house. Take off your shoes. And what have you even opened up your doors to houseguests yet girl. I haven't had a choice. Remember my parents were with me for three months. I've had relatives with me. They're always asking what's for breakfast. What's for lunch. What's for dinner. They want three squares a day. And you know. Sarah like i can take my dog anywhere. 'cause she's five pounds and her feet never touched the ground you know. She's like a baby into a ferret. But i i actually. I like human interaction. I like having guests right. So you ever guilty of violating houseguests etiquette. Well i used to definitely bring a lot of people with me. I've done that too joy. I've done it. You don lemon. I stopped doing that. I stopped doing that right. Anna i was a guest at your house recently. I told you everybody that was coming. I didn't bring any extra people. So i think i'm curious so but i told me. Have a line in the sand with houseguests. No i want as many houseguests as possible all the time. I really missed all my friends and family. During the pandemic had a ton of house guys like anna. And i always call my apartment and my home. I'm alec hotel megan because they just want friends around like i'm you know i talk for a living. I love to continue to talk. I want to talk about current events and politics. And like i don't know i just really like having people around me all the time so i have time cole will be right. You're all invited. You didn't it. We view this is a moment in history. Hold these truths. I just like seeing americans being able to speak truth to power. That's the damn truth to be self evident. We the people for the people by the people that all women all men all people are created equal. We can expect empathy if we don't give it as well and free to openly voice their view true justice and the american way so there you have it would ever your view thoughtful topping the issues help americans understand what was going on so i want to thank all of you. You are welcomed here. Y'all's politics are different than mine. And and i think it's actually good. We're having a conversation now with so much at stake. I have full confidence in the american people about where we need to go as a country. Thank you for making us. America's number one daytime talk. Show no show like yours near the emmy award. Winning yale on abc. That's what we want you to tomorrow. Michael strahan has a sneak preview of gm as summer plans and which view co host is getting in the hot seat on this season of the one hundred thousand dollar pyramid. Hey before we go. I wanted to mark the passing of an amazing guy. His name was clarence williams. Third and you may remember him if you're a person of a certain age as link on the mod squad. We lost him quite recently yesterday. I think he was age. Eighty one and he will be missed. I mean there was nothing as amazing as watching that show so. I just wanted tip dread.
The View
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The View
"While back we're talking about vice president harrison. Guatemala saying she wants to do with the causes root causes that refugees have been fleeing to the us border. Because what are you think of everything. She had to save sunny like. I think it's really important to address the root causes. There's no question about that. And she's not only going to be visiting guatemala. She's also going to be visiting honduras el salvador mexico. So that's extremely important. It's not just these grand gestures that you're seeing from some of the republicans like ted cruz and eighteen others. Senators who were in some sort of border patrol boats along the rio grande with machine-guns claiming that they were heckled by cartel members in that is just an empty gesture leading to nothing. This i think could have real change. But i was a little surprised at the come. The clumsiness of her language. Because she said don't come don't come and she was. I think referring to legal passage into the united states as opposed to seeking legal asylum. Which is what alexandria ocasio. Cortez is talking about and of course. This country was founded on immigration founded on people coming here legally and seeking asylum but using those terms. Those words don't come. Don't come. I think is pretty inflammatory. And i think that's why she's getting so much pushback because because of those words i mean the supreme court just just ruled this week that people that come here illegally and stay here for twenty years still can't apply for green car because of the circumstances by which they came to this country and so of course you shouldn't come here illegally but our vice president could have done. I think a better job in terms of language. Sarah's is she taking the right approach in your opinion on all this. It's the only approach you could take if you're being intellectually honest about the issues. We're having right now at the borders and as as everyone said this is so complicated and its decades-old my issue with what alexandria ocasio cortez said was when she talks about how disappointed she has which if she was disappointed on the language choices. Sunny just pointed out. That's different but i also remember very recently when the new administration took over that she was one of the first critical people about the problems at the border. We need more lawyers. We need more social workers to process people faster so we're not holding them because we don't have the infrastructure to safely take care of people that are coming illegally right now especially during a pandemic when we needed distance between them We need better databases and tracking system. We have so many things that are wrong in abundance of things but with what anna said. I recognize that. This is not an easy decision for someone to make. It's often life or death and these are people that are choosing to send their children without them. I can't think of a worse decision. I that what circumstances. I'd have to be in to make that decision so i want the humanity of this country i want to be the most powerful nation that can accept people. But we can't do that until we put our own oxygen mask on first and that's what we need to do. We have things to fix before we can welcome all well. I kind of feel like it's important. It's important and it's an a harsh reality but we are. I think just barely managing to get the border together just and we still have so many people who are here trying to to get asylum and so i think it's in order to catch your breath and figure out what you're moves are going to be. I think hard hard language needed to be needed to be sad because you know we are in such a a place where we are trying to reunite kids with their parents. Were trying to get all the folks who have come and find a way to make them part of our society. And i personally think it's ridiculous to say to someone who has paid tax. You know 'cause it's not like no one's paying taxes when they come over and find work year everyone ends up having to pay you know so i feel like this should be handled on a case by case basis instead of the supreme court. Saying no even if you were here for twenty years i think that's. That's not a good idea. I think that's not a good idea. But you know smarter people than me have been trying to tackle this for quite some time so either everybody has to go on. Nobody has to go but somebody has to make a decision and it sounds like the biden administration has made one. Everybody just needs to take a break. We'll be right.
The View
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on The View
"Illegal migration now there are critics like congresswoman alexandria. Ocasio cortez or calling calling her. Just disappointing and pointed out that it's one hundred percent legal to seek asylum at the border. So how do you think the vice president is handling this crisis anna were. I'm very happy to see her down there. Trying to address the root causes i This strikes me very personally. I am an immigrant. I'm a central american immigrant. And i can tell you. People don't leave their home countries just because it's a very hard decision. Most people leave it because of desperation because of abject poverty because they're fleeing for their lives there's many many causes to what's happening in central america and the immigration influx. There's corruption there's wars there's gangs there's violence there is poverty and i applaud. Kamala harris for going to these countries plod the biden administration for wanting to formulate a comprehensive plan. I would tell joe. Cortez that if carmela harris went down there and said yes. Come apply for asylum at the border. There would be a deluge of millions of central americans. Making a very dangerous trek often having to pay cody's the traffickers fourteen thousand fifteen thousand ten thousand dollars many of them losing their lives and that journey. Look i think people should be able to apply for asylum. I hope that they have a way of doing it. In country that the united states sets up a way of applying for asylum in country. And i also think we need comprehensive immigration reform here in the united states. And that's not going to happen. If people if americans feel that their border is porous and is not being upheld so it is very important that we show that our borders are safe that there is security that we do provide some ways for these refugees to seek asylum in-country if possible that we do invest in hope in jobs in a future in central america. So people choose to stay there. There is a brain drain happening in those countries. Because we're getting some of their best people so this is a lot more complicated than a tweet. Megan what do you think of her stance on this. Not anna's but come. Lahar harris other zeta alexandria ocasio. Cortez is what do you think the second most powerful person vice president. Harrison's going to do. He thinks he's going to go to guatemala. I mean again. I think the politics of this. I couldn't i think what anna said is pitch perfect. I agree with mostly everything. she said. i agree. That's lot more complicated than a tweet. In this is a problem. That's been going on for literally generations and generations. But i think the idea that our vice president is going to go to watermelon. Say come to our country open borders. Everyone come as you said there would be a crisis like none other and also it would be an absolute gift to president trump and to republicans. It would be the talking point of all talking points. So when i talk about on this show that i think the squad is tone deaf with the rest of the party. This is what i'm talking about. Because of what she thinks was actually right and what. The majority of the party agreed. With then vice president harris would be echoing that and she's not because vice. President harris has paved the way for women like alexandria. Ocasio cortez and so many others being a woman of color and being in political office believe for like thirty years and she knows what she's doing so it's smart messaging on on the part of biden administration. And i think it's smart politics and i think it's smart just policy wise right some. Oh you know what we're gonna take a break and what we come back. We'll talk to the rest of the ladies.
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The death of the universe -- and what it means for life | Katie Mack [TEST]
"Hi neil degrasse. Tyson here guest hosting today on ted talks daily. Here's a talk from a ted fellow and fellow. Astrophysicist katie mac. She's a thought leader. Who's trying to make sense out of the complicated and theoretical issues related to the future of the universe. Wait wait actually. Her specialty is the end of the universe. That's where she's coming from or at least that's where she's going or that's where she's going to take us. Check it out. hello then. i'm chris hansen. The guy lucky enough to run ted now host a podcast called the ted interview and this on the show. I talked to someone really special name. The woman i'm married to jacqueline nova grads. She's been thirty years. Learning how to use the tools of business to tackle global poverty. We got drawn into capitalism raised to the rank of religion. And now we have an opportunity to have a very different conversation. Find the tudent. Few wherever you listen to costs. I showed people all around dc antiquites. My guests engaged. I liked his sprinkle in a fun. Factor to next off dupont circle. Also here's a lifestyle tip for you. Try apple pay. You can now just tap with your phone or watch to get on the bus or train all over the dc area at your smart trip to the apple wallet than just tap to ride apple. Pay on iphone now. Arriving on metro. Support for ted talks. Daily comes from odu dues suite of business. Apps has everything you need to run a company. Think of your smartphone with all your apps right at your fingertips odu is just like that for business but instead of an app to order takeout or tell you the weather you have sales inventory accounting and more union the department we've got it covered and they're all connected joined the six million users who stopped wasting time and started getting stuff done go to odu dot com slash ted to start a free trial that's od show dot com slash ted. I the universe. The vastness the mystery the astonishing beauty of the stars. I love everything about it. And i devoted my life to studying it from adam's two galaxies from beginning to end but lately i've gotten stuck on that last bit the fact that the universe is dying. I know this may come as a shock. I mean it's the universe it's everything it's supposed to be eternal right but it isn't. We know the universe had a beginning and everything that begins and the start of the story is familiar one. In the beginning there was light. We know that because we can see it. Directly the cosmos today is filled with low energy background radiation leftover from a time when the whole universe was an all encompassing inferno in its first three hundred and eighty thousand years space or dark. it was thick. With a churning humming plasma it was hot and dense it was loud but it was also expanding over time the fire dissipated and space cooled clouds of gas pulled together by their own gravity form stars and galaxies and planets and us and one day astronomers using a microwave receiver detected a bit of static coming from every direction the sky the leftover radiation from that promote. He'll fire we can know map out the cosmos to the farthest reaches of the observable universe. We can see distant galaxies whose light has taken billions of years to reach us so by looking at them. We're looking deep into the past. We can watch how the expansion of the universe has slowed down since that hot early phase. Thirteen point eight billion years ago we can see collisions of entire galaxies. And watch the star formation the result from the sudden conflagration of all that cosmic hydrogen and we can see that these collisions are happening. Less and less. The expansion of the universe isn't slowing down anymore. A few billion years ago. It started speeding up. Distant galaxies are getting farther apart faster and faster star formation has slowed in fact we can calculate exactly how much and when we do we find something shocking of all the stars that have ever been born or that ever will be around ninety percent have already come into being from now until the end of time the universes were he'll just that last ten percent the end of the universe is coming. There are few ways that could happen but the most likely is called the heat death and in agonizing slow languishing of the cosmos stars. Burn out leaves smoldering ash. Galaxies become increasingly isolated in their own dimples of light particles decay even black holes evaporate into the void. Of course we still have some time. The heat is so far in the future. We hardly have words to describe it long. Past a billion years when the sun expands and boils off the oceans of the earth long past one hundred billion years we lose the ability to see distant galaxies and that faint trace of big bang light long after we are left alone in the darkness watching the milky way. Fade it's okay to be sad about it even if it is trillions of years in the future. No one wants to think about something. They love coming to an end as disconnected as it may be us here now. It is somehow more profound than personal death. We have strategies for accepting the ability of that. After all we tell ourselves something of us will live on. Maybe it will be our great works. Maybe it will be our children carrying on our genetic material or perhaps our basic outlook on life. Maybe it will be some idea worth spreading humanity might venture out into the stars and evolve and change but something of us will survive but the universe ends at some point. We have no legacy. There will come a time when in a very real sense our existence will not have mattered. The slate will be wiped clean completely. Why should we spend our lives seeking answers to the ultimate question of reality. If eventually there will be no one left to tell. Why build a sandcastle when you can see that the tide is coming in. I've asked a dozen other cosmologists. And they all had different answers to some. The death of the cosmos seems right. It's freeing to know that we are temporary. I very much like our glibness one told me to others. The question itself motivates the search for some alternative theory. There must be some way to carry on the slow fade to black. Just cannot be our story ends. One found comfort in the possibility of the multi vers. It's not all about us. He said personally. I feel lucky our cosmos existed for billions of years before us and it will carry on long after. We are gone
KCRW
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on KCRW
"Went to the moon. It's okay. Let's make sure the moon is there. Maybe that's why we can't travel faster than the speed of light. Because if we could, we'd be able to get to another galaxy before they could program. The program. Oh, Yeah, thank you. I love science. Thank you. Thank you. One of the voices is Neil DeGrasse Tyson's can't place the other one but loving the sample on this skyscraper cut called Galaxy. Nick's with Leticia Savvier of Stereolab on the mic. Until now, all is well. Is the track little dragon teaming up with Moses? Suddenly we heard the other lover. Potato head people, definitely one of my favorite tunes of.
Unreserved
'We come from the stars': Indigenous astronomy, astronauts, and star stories
"When you think about the night sky what constellations come to mind. Chances are they're rooted in western astronomy but indigenous. Astronomy and scientific knowledge have been here for millennia. It's just not taught in schools or considered important within universities. My next guest is working to change. That nielsen is mick ma. And he's a professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics at the university of toronto. Helping welcome thank you for having me. So how would you describe the way. Astronomy is typically taught in university course university of toronto's famous having a an astronomy course fifteen hundred students in it in that course generally starts from the early greek and roman astronomy aristotle type of plato pythagoras and they will channel through european astronomy with newton and cabrera hey and yohannes kepler and galileo of course the modern enshrinement is just one linear path from the romans to essentially neil degrasse tyson and today scientists. It's very very centered in the european model. And how have you been incorporating indigenous knowledge in your courses. I've been trying to do that little bit here. And there are courses tend to be quite full of material so adding new materials always a challenge. But i always want to make sure students come in and the first thing they see is not there. Expect a constellation. I don't him see a bear with the tail lakers major. I want them to see the constellation view. I nor a constellation of the bear or a punish shining relation that please and to recognize that these constellations reflect landover on i for in toronto or in new magi or anywhere and what is indigenous astronomy. And how do you define it. How is it or how old. I define indigenous astronomy. As being the the knowledge of the peoples of the land so and since burnett Nation state of canada would find it as the astronomers of the people that were here before settlers in colonizers so strongly of the astronomy of first nations big cree on astronaut and so on across across rhode island and every nation has their own perspective of the night skydrone interpretation in knowledge of it and so these indigenous astronomers speak to connection to the land and and to the people and that knowledge has been here as long as the people have been here and so is there a star story that comes to mind for you that gives an understanding of indigenous astronomy. Great story was the story of noon on the seven bird hunters which is a story so close your eyes and you're looking morni- guy and you see what we call the less the big dipper. And if you're looking at the big dipper couple of hours before dawn in spring you're gonna see the big dipper pointing downwards so the four stars make up the bear kind of facing downwards detail is climbing higher in the sky the four stars of the big dipper in the bull our immune the bear and then pours. What would be the handle. The big dipper are at the bird hunters and you go on those three stars to another four to get the seven hunters and the story starts by while you have to get up early in the morning a couple of hours before dawn to this constellation when we observe it at that time in the morning and we observed every day we can see the constellation circle around the sky. The constellation circles around sky every night as well. So we see the two different timescales in play but if we start in the spring at that to ask for dumb the bowl. The big dipper the bears pointing downwards. And that's when the bears waking up from tiber nation and decides hungry needs to go gather food as the bear leaves. The cave i robin spies upon the bear grabs it's bone arrow and size to chase it from hunt and the story continues through the summer when muniz running across the land so the constellations kinda flat across the sky and the birger chasing it as we get towards fall newness getting tired and stands likes to fight back so the constellations on one side again. Some of the birds have fallen below the horizon and must track the hunt but immune you and stands back robin fires. It's era a striking the immune in the heart killing it. Blood gets everywhere. All of robinhood flies into the tree shakes off the blood separate one stain on his chest. The leaves are now allred as a result. Chickeny joins robin. And they begin a celebration to cook the cook. The bear and to celebrate the feast harvest as we approach winter the constellation as the bears on his back again and reflecting the spirit of the baron sky and waiting for spring to come as part of the next cycle. So we see lots of different kinds. We have knowledge of the year as a calendar have knowledge of ritual and ceremony and we have connection with nature. So it's not just a shawny story. It's it's part of. It's a story that people in story of how to be.
WIBC 93.1FM
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"Welcome back to the Fox News Rundown. Ah, year in review, All 2020 proved challenging for all Americans. We also saw some triumphs back in May, Space X became the first private company to launch NASA astronauts into orbit beginning a new era for American space travel. The rundown caught up with famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson to discuss a possible trip to Mars, space, tourism and many other exciting adventures. The humans will soon be capable of achieving well. The private sector's venture into the cosmos is nothing new. Neil DeGrasse Tyson told the Fox News rundowns Lisa Brady, it is the future tourism is probably the first door you would open to commercialize space. Okay, space is already commercialized in the sense that we have, like direct TV right there Satellites giving you images, and there's a privately owned and privately launched, so it's not as though commercial enterprise hasn't entered. Space and look at uber uber would not exist. We're not for space assets, specifically the GPS satellites. But if you want humans in space and thinking, tourism, right, and if you want to turn the space program into a space industry, you gotta find ways that people are gonna want to spend their disposable money on space assets. And so tourism would be a very potent way to begin that. And then maybe you'd open up. Asteroids for asteroid mining right. All kinds of resource is air on asteroids stuff that we dig hard on Earth to find, and we're running out of this plant ease plenty of that on asteroids. So there's definitely a future there that I've said many times, I think the world's first trillionaire Will be the first person who exploits the natural resource is on asteroids. And when it comes to space tourism, it's not like right now. You know, a lot of us have a spare $20 million or so to go take a ride in space ticket if I remember correctly, I think, yeah, I'm working on that one. I think the first space tourist. I mean, I didn't realize it had been so long. I think it was Dennis. Tito if I hadn't have his name right in $2000. Yeah. I mean, that's 19 years ago. Yes, Yes, yes. Well, we needed the Also the space station as a place to visit. So the space station wasn't really completed until 20 years ago. So but yes. So here's the thing right? Not everyone has 20 million have a billion 20 million his lunch money. But every dollar less than 20 million There's somebody who can afford that, right? So if one person doesn't for 20 million might there be five people who do it for 10 million and then 10 people who do it for five million, right? And you keep coming down the ladder, And then maybe 100. People would do it for a million, but now they keep dropping it. Maybe it's $100,000. Okay. Or $50,000 or $10,000. What do you spend to fly The family on a week long vacation Right. There's hotel is airfare. There's car. There's it adds up. You're in the multiple thousands of dollars. At that point, Would you forgo two years of saved money for vacations for one trip into space?.
WMAL 630AM
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"To the Fox News run down. Ah, year in REVIEW, All 2020 proved challenging for all Americans. We also saw some triumphs back in May, Space X became the first private company to launch NASA astronauts into orbit. Beginning a new era for American space travel. The rundown caught up with famed astrophysicist You know the Grasse Tyson to discuss a possible trip to Mars, space, tourism and many other exciting adventures that humans will soon be capable of achieving well. The private sector's venture into the cosmos is nothing new, Neil DeGrasse Tyson told the Fox News rundowns Lisa Brady, it is the future tourism is probably the first door you would open to commercialize space. Okay, space is already commercialized in the sense that we have, like direct TV right there, Satellites giving you images and there's a privately owned in privately launched So it's not as though commercial enterprise hasn't entered space and look at uber uber would not exist. We're not for space assets, specifically the GPS satellites, but if you want humans in space Thinking tourism, right? And if you want to turn the space program into a space industry, you gotta find ways that people are gonna want to spend their disposable money on space assets. And so tourism would be a very potent way to begin that. And then maybe you'd open up asteroids for asteroid mining. Alright, all kinds of resource is air on asteroids. Stuff that we dig hard on Earth to find, and we're running out of this plant ease plenty of that on asteroids. So there's there's definitely a future there that I've said many times, I think the world's first trillionaire will be the first person who exploits the natural resource is on asteroids. And when it comes to space tourism, it's not like right now. You know a lot of us have a spare $20 million or so, Isa, go take a ride and face that ticket. If I remember correctly, I think, yeah, I'll work on that one. I think the first space tourist I mean, I didn't realize it had been so long. I think it was Dennis Tito if I hadn't have his name right in 2001. Yeah. I mean, that's 19 years ago. Yes, Yes. Well, we needed the also the space station as a place to visit. So the space station wasn't really completed until 20 years ago. So but yes, So here's the thing. Right? Not everyone has 20 million have a billion 20 million his lunch money, But every dollar less than 20 million. There's somebody who could afford that right? So if one person does it for 20 million might there be five people who do it for 10 million and then 10 people who do it for five million Right, and you keep coming down the ladder, And then maybe 100. People would do it for a million. But now they keep dropping. Maybe it's $100,000. Okay. Or $50,000 or $10,000. What do you spend to fly The family on a week long vacation, Right? There's hotel airfare. This car. There's it adds up. You're in the multiple thousands of dollars at that point, Would you forgo two years? Have saved money for vacations for one trip into space. I bet you will, for example, so so that I think economically, economist would say it's a highly elastic demand. There's a company called Space Adventures that has worked with Russia on, you know, sending people into space, and they have a new deal for a trip to the space station. Would include a spacewalk and a Russian cosmonaut would be with the space walking tourist, but astronauts trained for years to do what they do. I mean, is this just getting into territory? That's a little too risky? Yes, on some level, but let's let's rethink what you just said in the nothing of fresh light. All right. We all saw the movie or read the book, the right stuff, All right, And you know, one of those astronauts go through. There's a centrifuge and they're left out in the wilderness and their survival training and all of this Well, that's in case the The capsule doesn't enter orbit and it lands in the desert. Okay, That's why they go through that training. Just in case stuff goes wrong in a bad way, And that was an entirely new frontier. So now? No, that's not gonna happen. And even if it does land somewhere uncomfortable. We're we'll pick you up within an hour. Okay, so no, You don't need a week of survival training. I mean, to be able to survive. We can eat bugs, right? No necessary. So so the right stuff could just be sort of the adequate stuff today, Right? If you want to think about it in those terms and the safer the mission is and the more flexible the spacesuits are and the more efficiently that's all constructed. I don't see why physically fit ordinary person couldn't then do what the astronauts today are doing. Do you think that this horrible pandemic we're really still in the middle of will give people some new perspective about our place in the universe, and I ask this partly because there's an actual view from space being offered by three space agencies, including NASA. Showing changes environmental agricultural that you can see from space as this tragedy has a hold on the planet with covert. My my hope is that this will be an excuse for people to you know, maybe we should listen to scientists going forward. Not only that you can think of Cove it Isn't alien invader? No, it's Earth Base. Yes, But what would an alien invader do? It would come to earth and they won't care what your skin color is or what God you worship on what day of the week or where you live on Earth. They're innovator. They're attacking everybody. So if you haven't alien invader attacking everybody You have to come together as a species to protect yourself. It requires cooperation. It requires a level of communication and cooperation that is not common in geopolitics. So for me, it's an excuse to to sort of oil, the hinges of order or the moving parts of international cooperation. Because what does it mean for you? We way wanting to kill one another when there's something else that wants to kill us Both. Okay, what an occasion to, like, Hold hands and defend Earth and ourselves. So, Kobe. If enough people thought about Cove it in that way, I think that could transform international politics Possibly permanently for the better. You know, I find it really hard to wrap my head around our place in the universe. Like just how tiny even our entire solar system is in the grand scheme of things. Um, there's nothing wrong do for not being able to do that. I'm not the only one. Do you think just fine. You think there's life on other other planets? Another solar systems and Galaxies. I'm given no reason to doubt that likelihood, because when you study the problem or all parameters of that problem, 0.2 The affirmative. In the chances of there being life, for example, you know what we made of hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen and Calcium, these air some of the most common ingredients in the universe, so we're not made of anything special. And how How long did it take life to arise after it had his first chance to do so, Maybe 100 million years. We see this from the fossil records. Um, I don't really It sounds like a long time. But there has been around for 4.5 billion. That's a very small fraction of the total time we've been around and so earth almost as early as it possibly could have figured out a way to make life. We still don't know how to do it in the laboratory, but her figured it out, So we have the time on our favor. We have the The fact that nature did it quickly. We have the ingredients in our favor for answering. Yes to that question. So that's why any astrophysicist will not deny that likelihood. We'll Neil DeGrasse Tyson. What a wonderful pleasure to get to talk to you, astrophysicist director of New York's Hayden Planetarium. And let's not forget host of star talk. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. I'm sure Yanks.
WMAL 630AM
"neil degrasse tyson" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Run down a year in review, All 2020 proved challenging for all Americans. We also saw some triumphs back in May, Space X became the first private company to launch NASA astronauts in tow. Orbit beginning a new era for American space travel. The rundown caught up with famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson to discuss a possible trip to Mars, space, tourism and many other exciting adventures that humans will soon be capable of achieving well. The private sector's venture into the cosmos is nothing new. Neil DeGrasse Tyson told the Fox News rundowns Lisa Brady, it is the future tourism. Is probably the first door you would open to commercialize space. Okay, Space is already commercialized in the sense that we have direct TV right there. Satellites giving you images, and there's a privately owned and privately launched, so it's not as though commercial enterprise hasn't entered space and look at uber uber would not exist were it not for space assets, specifically the GPS Satellites. But if you want humans in space and thinking tourism, right, and if you want to turn the space program into a space industry, you gotta find ways that people are gonna want to spend their disposable money on space assets. And so tourism would be a very potent way to begin that. And then maybe you'd open up asteroids for asteroid mining. Alright, all kinds of Resource is air on asteroids. Stuff that we dig hard on Earth to find, and we're running out of this planet is plenty of that on asteroids. So there's definitely a future there, and I've said many times, I think the world's first trillionaire will be the first person who exploits the natural resource is on asteroids. And when it comes to space tourism, it's not like right now. You know a lot of us have a spare $20 million or so, Isa, go take a ride and baseball tickets. If I remember correctly, I think, yeah. Work on that one. I think the first space tourist I mean, I didn't realize it had been so long. I think it was Dennis. Tito if I hadn't have his name right in $2000. Yeah. I mean, that's 19 years ago. Yes, Yes. Well, we needed the also the space station as a place to visit. So the space station wasn't really completed until 20 years ago. So but yes, So here's the thing. Right? Not everyone has 20 million have a billion 20 million his lunch money, But every dollar less than 20 million. There's somebody who could afford that right. So if one person doesn't for 20 million, might there be five people who do it for 10 million and then 10 people who do it for five million Right, and you keep coming down the ladder, And then maybe 100. People would do it for a million. But now they keep dropping. Maybe it's $100,000. Okay. Or $50,000 or $10,000. What do you spend to fly The family on a week long vacation, Right? There's hotel airfare. This car. There's it adds up. You're in the multiple thousands of dollars at that point, Would you forgo two years? Have saved money for vacations for one trip into space. I bet you will, for example, so so that I think economic economists would say it's a highly elastic demand. There's a company called Space Adventures that has worked with Russia on spending people into space that they have a new deal for a trip to the space station. That would include a spacewalk and a Russian cosmonaut would be with the space walking tourist, but astronauts trained for years to do what they do. I mean, is this just getting into territory? That's a little too risky? Yes, on some level, but let's let's rethink what you just said in the nothing of fresh light. All right. We all saw the movie or read the book, the right stuff, All right, And you know, one of those astronauts go through. There's a centrifuge and they're left out in the wilderness and their survival training and all of this. Well, that's in case the capsule. Doesn't enter orbit and it lands in the desert. Okay, That's why they go through that training. Just in case stuff goes wrong in a bad way. And that was an entirely new frontier. So now no, that's not gonna happen. And even if it does land somewhere Uncomfortable. We're we're we'll pick you up within an hour. Okay, so no, You don't need a week of survival training. I mean to be able to survive, or we can eat bugs, right? No, that's just not necessary. So so the right stuff could just be sort of the adequate stuff today, right if you want to think about it in those terms And the safer the mission is and the more flexible the spacesuits are and the more efficiently that's all constructed. I don't see why physically fit ordinary person couldn't then do what the astronauts today are doing. Do you think that this horrible pandemic we're really still in the middle of will give people some new perspective about our place in the universe? I asked this partly because there's an actual view from space being offered by three space agencies, including NASA, showing changes environmental agricultural that you can see from space as this tragedy has unfolded on the planet. With covert. My My hope is that this will be an excuse for people to maybe we should listen to scientists going forward. Not only that you can think of covert Isn't alien invader? No, it's first base. Yes, But what would an alien invader do? It would come to earth and they won't care what your skin color is or what God you worship on what day of the week or where you live on Earth. They're innovator. They're attacking everybody. So if you haven't alien Vader attacking everybody, you have to come together as a species to protect yourself. It requires cooperation. It requires a level of communication of cooperation that is not common. In geopolitics. So for me, it's an excuse to to sort of oil, the hinges of order or the moving parts of international cooperation. Because what does it mean? For you were way wanting to kill one another when there's something else that wants to kill us both. Okay, what an occasion to, like, Hold hands and defend Earth and ourselves. So, Kobe. If enough people thought about Cove it in that way, I think that could transform international politics Possibly permanently for for the better. You know, I find it really hard to wrap my head around our place in the universe. Like just how tiny even our entire solar system is in the grand scheme of things. Um, there's nothing wrong you for not being able to do that. I'm not the only one Do you drink just fine. You think there's life on other other planets in other solar systems and Galaxies? I'm given no reason to doubt that likelihood, because when you study the problem Yeah. All parameters of that problem point to the affirmative. In the in the chances of there being life, for example, you know what we made of hydrogen and nitrogen and oxygen and Calcium, these air some of the most common ingredients in the universe, so we're not made of anything special. And how How long did it take life to arise after it had his first chance to do so, Maybe 100 million years. We see this from the fossil records. Um, I don't really It sounds like a long time. But there has been around for 4.5 billion. That's a very small fraction of the total time we've been around and so earth almost as early as it possibly could have figured out a way to make life. We still don't know how to do it in the laboratory, but her figured it out. So we have the time on our favor. We have the the fact that nature did it quickly. We have the ingredients in our favor for answering. Yes, to that question. So that's why any astrophysicist will not deny that likelihood. We'll Neil DeGrasse Tyson. What a wonderful pleasure to get to talk to you, astrophysicist director of New York's Hayden Planetarium. And let's not forget host of Startalk. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. I'm sure Yanks.
Kottke Ride Home
Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50 ...
"A new study from astronomer David KIP ING published this summer, and the Journal Universe argues that the odds we live in a simulation are just about fifty fifty. As you can imagine this has caused a bit of a stir scientific American broke down kipling's arguments as well as some responses to it, and some of the previous where he was building off of an a lot of it frankly goes a bit over my head, but I wanted to share some highlights at first for the less matrix inclined listeners. What exactly do I mean by the idea of living in a simulation basically that all of us are mere virtual beings existing if you WANNA call it that unknowingly in a massive computer simulation? Over the years many scientists have tried to uncover ways. We could prove whether this is true or not. But some of the work has also revolved around calculating the odds of US living in a simulation or whether we are simply in base reality that is to say that we actually exist and this isn't all simulated. Is. Worth noting there's a lot of debate over what the simulation actually means and how one even defines consciousness for that matter. I kinda like this interpretation from Neil degrasse Tyson that he shared on a recent episode of Star Talk Quoting Scientific American, the simulation would most likely create perceptions of reality on demand rather than simulate all of reality all the time much video game optimized. To, render only the parts of the scene visible to a player maybe that's why we can't travel faster than the speed of light because if we could, we'd be able to get to another galaxy said Chuck Nice the show's Co host before prompting Tyson to gleefully interrupt before they can program it. The astrophysicists said delighting at the thought. So the programmer put in that limit end quote. Someone Pretty. Wild to think about and apart from the Matrix movies bringing this concept to the mainstream most scientists refer back to a two thousand three paper by Nick. Bostrom in Oxford philosopher which quote the Magic, a technologically adept virtualization that possesses immense commuting power and needs a fraction of that power to simulate new realities with conscious beans in them. Given this scenario, his simulation argument showed that at least one proposition in the following trauma must be true. I humans almost always go. Before reaching the simulation savvy stage second, even if humans make it to that stage, they are unlikely to be interested in simulating their own in central, passed and third. The probability that we are living in a simulation is close to one and quotes. But more recently keeping whose paper I mentioned was published earlier. This summer collapsed those first two propositions into one because in both cases, there are no simulations and he used busy and reasoning to calculate the probability busy and reasoning quote allows one to calculate the odds of something happening called the posterior probability but I making assumptions about the thing being analyzed, assigning a prior probability and quotes. Using the reasoning with regards to the simulation kipling's calculation comes out to about fifty fifty. It leans slightly in favor of based reality in part because he says that even in a world where we can simulate reality as more and more of them are spawned the computing resources of each generation dwindles and eventually simulations aren't able to be hosted bought. The odds could change if we do actually invent the technology to simulate conscious beans at which point, it becomes almost certain that we are living in a simulation. And could we ever figure out if we're not real whom on Awadhi and expert on computational? Mathematics. At the California Institute of Technology says only if there's a finite amount of computational power because if it's infinite, it could create whatever degree of reality necessary to continue tricking. US. Essentially, there's a lot of complex hypothesizing going on in several different fields and you can read a little bit more about. The link in the show notes. But at the end of the day keeping goes back to Adams Razor, which says that simplest explanation is usually correct and in this case, the simplest explanation is that we're at based reality there is no simulation just the boring hard truths of our real existence. So take that as your red pill.
Toure Show
Terry McMillan: I Love My Characters
"Terry. Mcmillan has been a friend of mine for years and talk is just like you'd expect she's fun and vibrant and a reverend and just keeps it real and says whatever she wants. She brought all that energy to this conversation about writing where she gets really deep about her process where she surrenders to her characters and really lets them come alive on the page until her who they are and what they WANNA do. This really inspired me as a writer. Maybe think about really wanting to focus on character on a deeper level Terry writes these deep indepth character profiles before she even starting let those inform the characters. She talks all about that stuff here. Look whether or not you love. Terry's work a lot of people do and she's got a lot that she can teach you about writing. Check out her new novel. It's all downhill from here. It's in stores everywhere already. And of course this is the Patriots era of Toray. Show so if you want to hear the whole episode with knee and Terry could a patron dot com slash. Toray show and support are growing team. There you get the full Wednesday episodes and Friday patriotic exclusives already. There's episodes there with people like Malcolm. Glad well Zizi Packer Morris. Day Little Yadi Neil degrasse Tyson and more for now. It's Terry McMillan on Toray. Show how are you? I'm trying to keep hope alive for lack of a better cliche. How is corona affecting you? Are you stuck in the house? What's going on no? I'm not stuck in the house I live in a sort of a condo on the sixth floor and in Pasadena. That'S A HIGH-RISE MOM. But fortunately one side of where I live. I can see the parking lot to my really high end garage grocery store so I know when all of the stuff is being delivered and I'm friends with the guy in there so I get to get it. I get paper towels and toilet paper and all that stuff put aside but I'm just I look out the window what I see trees. I'm fortunate that I feel like I can exterior at least walk. I'm glad I'm not in New York. I feel sorry for people in New York will sorry for your in California and there's a lot going on in California. Are you scared. I'm scared not just I'm not scared for me But I did just you know. Do my hands again. I live and breathe for anti bacterial products gloves. I do my door handle if somebody wants to deliver something. Don't touch my door handle It's you know people are being very very nice to each other That's what I really really appreciate and am grateful for but am I scared hell. Yeah I'm scared we're scared of. I'm scared I don't I don't trust strangers. I know the most insidious thing we can't trust our friends. My neighbor came up as she wants to know if she can have some coffee and I said Wash your hands but she was already starting to turn the water on. And I've got antibacterial everything everything all over this house and I've gotten to the point. I wash my hands by accident thinking. It was my antibacterial stuff they were lens cleaning white sperm eyeglasses. I'm I'm concerned about the bug right. Because in New York we're looking at potentially fifty to sixty to seventy percent of the city getting it some concerned about the bug getting into you know me or one of the members of my family. My Kids my wife who you all know but yeah I am more. I am perhaps even more concerned with the mass economic impact of the iceberg. That is happening. That is coming that is going to affect a gigantic portion of us and thus have an impact on almost all of us. Do you think about that part of it all. Of course you know. I'm I'm on a list all the places you can donate to during this time. I mean I just keep thank God for pay pal. I'm just I worry about people. No I worry about people who can't feed their kids who can't pay their rent. Who aren't going to get too stupid check from Donald and senators In time I just I mean I can't even imagine what it must be like and I I can't even I can't fathom it and you know I'm just I'm really scared and I'm also very pissed off. I'm very pissed off because this really shouldn't even have been necessary if Donald Trump and done what he was supposed to do and not using his instincts which obviously is Has none not to mention brains and thing that we have called Empathy if he had something remotely close to that where he could think about something other than himself and his properties in Wall Street. Maybe we wouldn't be disposition. No we wouldn't be in this position. Will I mean yes? I think there was a constant thought. Of what do I need to do to get reelected? And if I downplay the situation and make everybody think it's no big deal nothing to see here while the House is burning down It'll go away and they believe that Shit. They still do that stuff they do. His base believed it. Wait till they get sick. I'm one waiting so you got a new book coming out trying to skip the subject. No but I mean like I'm talking to me worked up I mean no but I was WanNa talk to you about your book. I mean okay. It's kind of exciting. It's it's it's kind of an event for a lot of people knew Terry McMillan book. It's a big deal Holland say all that I mean. Don't you see that in the world that there is? There is a large class of people who are Terry McMillan fans and they get very excited when new Terry McMillan novel comes out. Well I'm grateful. I'll put it that way. I'm quite grateful. I mean there's a lot of excitement more than I imagined. I just got something today from publishers. Weekly the top six books to read. I'm like what I didn't even think they liked me. When you're writing and you're alone. Writing conceiving the book do you hear the masses? Do you feel a pressure because you know. A large class of people. Critics editors readers are going to read the book. Just because your name is on the cover of like I don't know what it would be like to the be writing knowing all these people are going to be watching. Imagine that might be sort of paralyzing. Now I'm not thinking about my audience when I'm writing a book you can Chinese know first of all they are Emma House. They aren't in. My Life Depict characters that I'm writing about. That's who I care about. That's who I mean. I surrender to these people and I'm I'm more worried about what my character is feeling and thinking how he or she is going to act as a result of something that I basically created For them to have to deal with and I don't know the answers to it I put myself in their shoes and I just I'm hypnotized. I'd I do what they would do. Not what I would want them to do but I do. I do character profile. So I sorta no my characters personalities but I don't know everything that they will do at any given moment but I'm not let me just say this but first of all if I'm on page twenty six or three hundred twenty six I am not thinking. Gee What are the folks going to think when a read this?
Toure Show
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: I Am More Than Science
"Neil degrasse Tyson. It's one of the most brilliant people alive but when we finally got together for an interview I WanNa talk to him about science. I WanNa talk about almost anything else. So we get into who he is a deep about. How race has impacted his life. The book concludes with Attribute Kim say to your father your sorry Eulogy Yes yes and You Know I lost my dad last year Owen did. Your Dad passed three years ago. Three years ago and You honor him beautifully. Can you tell us about him? And how he leads into you sort of the way you sort of take from him to become who you are. Yeah So my parents were married. Sixty sixty four years until his death to the end right now and We had a stable household. My mother was a housewife homemaker. Today I guess we call that Until were empty nest and she went back to school. That was by agreement by the way so the agreement was my father would continue working and then my mother would raise the children at home. There were three of you. Yes and the middle earth and raise the children and then when we were mostly empty nest enough she will go back to school and pick up her career which is exactly what happened. And she went back to College. She got a degree in Gerontology. Became a German got her masters Gerontology. The study of the needs that afflict old people. Okay Okay and how to resolve Geriatric Okay. Yes correct to gerontology geriatrics the same route And she ended up working for the FEDS. Allocating moneys to retirement communities Old Age centers nursing homes this sort of thing so my father was studied sociology and got his Masters at Teachers College Columbia and was always his entire life. Maximally concerned with the plight of the under served and in New York City in the nineteen sixties. It was then known as the ghetto. He got noticed by the city. He got pointed to be a commissioner of human resources by Mayor Lindsay in the nineteen sixties during the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement in the big cities he. He worked long hours. We'd see me come at eight something like that. But he was home on the weekends and we would Cook Breakfast and dinner on the weekend so he participated household when he could but during the week it was mostly my mother who was raising us. And what reference in my eulogy are things that he said and did that contain called deep levels of wisdom. You know what is wisdom? It's it's ideas. It's wisdom our thoughts that you have that are the distilled essence of your life experience after you've discarded or forgotten the details that's actually a necessary part of wisdom that allows wisdom to come out in the form of sentences. No one's GonNa hand you a five hundred page book and say here's my wisdom. That's that's that's not wisdom wisdom almost fi construct has to be so simple and so deep that you just pause and reflect on it without getting mired details so one of them was. It's not good enough to be right. You also have to be effective. You can say I'm right therefore it should be this way. You know we don't have time for you. Have you navigated a pass to make this happen? Have you bought for example? The you know the water hoses and the in the south during the during the protests. Okay why do we have perfect video and photographs of it? Beacause the organizers made sure the press was there knowing they'd be able to capture those conflicts. This was even done even go back as far as Gandhi This was portrayed in the film Gandhi where he's ready to have a protest. It is not useful if no one knows about it if you get your head whipped by the local police and there isn't a photograph of it. You are in the right but you're not effective so you invite the press. The sympathetic press so that for me was very important in getting things done in navigating the terrain on which you're trying to implement social justice and the press doesn't write about events that don't happen why would they well in the late nineteen sixties watts burned. Detroit burned Washington burned. You're newark burned. New York City did not burn. The most populous ghetto in the country was basically quiet in the wake of the Martin Luther King assassination. Yes there was some minor skirmishes compared to what was going on elsewhere. No does anyone write a story no riots in New York The story is written. My father was active in the human resources administer. He's the commissioner a city commissioner. Making sure that there were opportunities available to people who needed opportunities for jobs to feed their family. What is a riot if it's not the very last act of desperation of the mouthpiece of the voiceless it is the it it not only voiceless people who are also hopeless Once you've run out of hope you have no options. You can have no voice but still hope you're not gonNA rock it. You gotta be voiceless and hopeless in it. Yeah so people in New York. The inner city of New York didn't was not without hope without some confidence that maybe there are opportunities just on the other side of the hill. I'm just saying these are things that my father was engaged in that I will not ever forget. I'm their son the astrophysicist but I stayed grounded in what matters for any kind of progressive change in this world and for me progressive. Change IS THE INEVITABLE. Consequence of rational thought applied to challenges. So no I'm not hitting people over the head saying you should be more progressive. Because then we've learned that some people dig their heels and more strongly to impose you especially in modern times where conflict has fomented on social media. But you just get people to think a little differently about things in the face of evidence. I've found that can have potency of its own and as an educator and as a scientist this is what I've done an in the book. Essentially every reply to people have written to me is an attempt to layer onto them some degree of measured rational thinking still some emotion there. You can't just be cold about it. But you want to empower people to be able to sink in new ways so that they can say. I now know how to analyze this information in ways I did not previously. Thank you for this bit of scientific insight. That allows me to do that. And that's what this book is about
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"For Your Reconsideration" Week
"This week's theme is for your reconsideration. The curator is Donde from luminary. Here are the podcasts and episodes chosen by Yolanda. Monday's episode comes from metaphysical milkshake and is called. Can you honor indigenous faiths without being a jerk. It's thirty four minutes long in this episode. rainn Wilson Resin Ostlund have one question. How do we honor and embrace embrace indigenous faiths without becoming like Kevin Costner? How can we become more than dilettantes? With dream catchers Kevin Locke is an artist Hoop dancer musician musician. Educator and cultural ambassador for his Lakota an Amish on Beirut's he joined the pod to share what we can do to better understand our indigenous faith traditions and how out to see our spiritual heritage in all the land around us. Join the conversation using Hashtag. Metaphysical an email your thoughts to metaphysical milkshake at soul pancake. GEICO DOT COM. Tuesday's episode comes from on second thought with Trevor Noah and is called prison break. It's forty four minutes long in this episode. Trevor and David David discussed their ideas for improving. Prison then talk about alternatives to incarceration Danielle Sarid founder of common justice. Wednesday's episode comes from from under the skin with Russell brand and his called science capitalism. And God with Neil degrasse Tyson. It's one hundred twenty one minutes long. Here's the description. This week's guest on under the skin is the infamous astrophysicist Neil degrasse Tyson. He's pretty amazing. He was promoting his book letters from an astrophysicist but he was much more than and being a focused and dedicated educator I enjoyed talking to him. Thursday's episode comes from here to slay with Roxane gay and Tracy McMillan Cottam him and his called all. Your faves are problematic. It's fifty three minutes long this week on the show Tracy and Roxanne take on the Popeye's chicken sandwich and all of its glory as well as the problematic takes that have come along with it. Friday's episode comes from the seaward with Lena Dunham and Alison Bennett and is called Lady Rosemary. Aber door it's fifty three minutes long in this episode Rosemary. Obrador seemed to most like a shy awkward wallflower but underneath drab exterior lurked an appetite for Jules parties parties and larceny born into an unassuming middle-class English home rosemary secretly stole thousands of pounds to fund her glamorous identity as titled Aristocracy. That's Lady Lady Aberdeen to you. Lena analyst Cover Rosemary's wild parties outrageous schemes her ultimate downfall and discuss what it's like to feel unseen and unappreciated those are the podcast recommendations chosen by Yolanda for this week's theme for your reconsideration
Charlie Parker
Neil deGrasse Tyson faces backlash for tweet about shootings
"Celebrity scientist Neil degrasse Tyson is catching heat after a tweet over the weekend the renowned astrophysicist in all their compared what he called the horrific deaths in the mass shootings in el Paso and Dayton to other ways Americans die is Sunday morning tweet noted that on average across any forty eight hours hundreds die because of medical errors flew suicide in car accidents Tyson then wrote often our emotions respond more to spectacle then the
The WOR Sports Zone with Pete McCarthy
Clinton, Bruce Willis And Washington discussed on The WOR Sports Zone with Pete McCarthy
"So this is not one story Washington post right now it just snuck up on a site to stunned by city killer asteroid that just missed earth this thing came within and in terms when you when you think of astronomy yeah forty five thousand miles with an earth it's the closest an astronaut as come in a very very long time its only that's less than one fifth of the distance to the moon was Neil degrasse Tyson during all this yeah where is that guy bill Nye the science guy we were day ability grass Tyson is probably too worried about the frozen poster I didn't have an accurate snow flake on it we're gonna talk about that during conscious Clinton even know what you just said I'm afraid to hear it okay anyway the point is that scientists said they were stunned it was a true shock it came out of no where they usually track these things that again what they gonna do about it in case it is heading right you're right a a you know you know put on Bruce Willis put him into a into the space
The Frankie Boyer Show
Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to TV after misconduct probe
"A well known scientists returning to host a pair of TV shows. USA radio's Chris Barnes reports. Neil degrasse Tyson is going to be returning to TV soon after National Geographic and FOX concluded an investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct made against him by two women Cosmo's possible worlds and star talk have been in limbo for months now GIO launched the investigation after the website pays he owes reported. The two women had accused of inappropriate behavior. But now in a statement National Geographic says the investigation is complete. We are moving forward with both star talk and Cosmo's NAT GO and FOX declining to make any of the findings of their investing. Gatien public. It's unclear if Tyson will remain with the programs either one of them beyond their scheduled
America in the Morning
Latest season of Neil deGrasse Tyson's show put on hold
"MAC piper. Neil degrasse Tyson series on the National Geographic channel is not airing amid sexual misconduct allegations made against him. This is star talk network has for now pulled star talk from the air just three episodes into season. Five new episodes of the science based talk show won't air until an investigation is complete American Museum of Nazi history. He has denied an accusation that he groped a woman and denied making sexual advances toward a production
Investor's Edge
Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'StarTalk' pulled amid misconduct probe
"Geographic channel is suspending celebrity astrophysicist. Neil degrasse Tyson's star talk series while an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him moves forward. Several women have accused of inappropriate sexual advances. He's been defending himself in Facebook posts,
Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis
Latest season of Neil deGrasse Tyson's show put on hold
"The National Geographic. Channel says it's holding new episodes of star talk until the investigation into astrophysicist. Neil degrasse Tyson is completed last year two women publicly accused of inappropriate behavior accusations Tyson denies and he also says he welcomes an investigation which is being done by FOX in NAT GO, both of which produce shows with Tyson. The new season of star talk started airing in November. And we'll stay off the air until the results of the investigation
Bucket Strategy Investing
Neil deGrasse Tyson under investigation after accusations of sexual misconduct
"A well known celebrity. Scientists is the latest high profile person to face sexual misconduct allegations in the metoo movement. USA's Chris Barnes has the story. Neil. I gotta say, you're totally blowing my mind right now. That's what I do. I'm Neil degrasse Tyson well-known astrophysicist and TV host Neal degrassi is now being investigated after several women have accused him of sexual harassment assault and in one case rape, FOX entertainment group, and the producers of the TV series cosmos, say they're looking into the allegations Tyson's denied any. Wrongdoing. Saying that he welcomes the investigation
24 Hour News
Fox, Nat Geo to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Tyson's not comment. Publicly on it and cosmos, producer said in a statement, the programs credo is to follow the evidence wherever it leads and they'll be conducting a thorough investigation. Feared Chrysler automobile says it's plant in
WBZ Midday News
Neil deGrasse Tyson investigated by Fox, NatGeo Networks
"Reknown astrophysicist. Neil degrasse Tyson will be investigated by FOX and National Geographic networks after allegations of sexual misconduct. Have been made against him to women have come forward to say that Tyson behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner. With them Tyson was host of cosmos on FOX in two thousand fourteen and the new edition of the series was to air on National Geographic next year Tyson has not commented publicly on the allegations. The producers of Cosmo's say they will conduct a thorough investigation. Meanwhile, FOX and National Geographic are saying that they were reviewing those
It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
Apple doesn’t think you deserve a $9 headphone dongle with your $1000 iPhone
"This quote is all about the new iphone rollout which began to happen this week. There was an apple event in which they introduced the next generation of iphone and you know how with the last of iphone they took out the headphone Jack, right, right. They wanted to push folks bluetooth headphones. So if you wanted to use school headphones, you had to get a little dog'll to make the headphones work. Now, apple has said with these new iphones, some of which cost up to more than fourteen hundred dollars, they're not going to include Odongo for you. They're gonna make you pay extra for the Dunkel nine dollars extra for the dangle. After you have paid fourteen hundred dollars for a phone, that's nine dollars too far. I'm I'm already upset at apple because like I still have my older generations, small iphone. I just I just want apple to make phones that are made for the smaller handed among us and the smaller pocketed. Yes. Most women when they do have pockets, they're smaller. You might as well just buy a MAC book. Just walk around with them. We have an ipad in front of me why I don't understand what did you guys get this new iphone situation? Because you know what? I'm still very anti. No traditional headphone out. Exactly. Like I like that I'm team
This Morning with Gordon Deal
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Elon Musk: 'Let the man be an individual'
"Thirty. Neil degrassi. Tyson is defending Elon Musk the celebrity scientists spoke on CNBC yesterday and gave his thoughts on the Tesla's. CEO musk has come under fire recently for a controversial tweet about taking tesla. Private and for smoking pot. During a podcast Tyson said musk needs to comply with the securities and Exchange Commission since tesla is a publicly traded company, but beyond that he said let the man be an individual Tyson who's a Harvard. Graduate said he went to a highly selective college where people were really smart and really weird and the weirdness became an element of their behavior that he just came to
The Drive Home with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips
OJ, Orange County Register and California discussed on The Drive Home with Jillian Barberie and John Phillips
"And with six games left in the MLS season and the team fighting for a playoff berth LA galaxy head coach Sigi Schmid announced today, he's stepping down effective immediately and assistant coach Dominic Kinnear was named interim head