This is your host, Michael Sherman, and you're listening to Science A Lot, a series of conversations

with leading scientists, scholars, and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

The real impetus was this was of course your upcoming Netflix show.

So I thought before we bore down into specific topics,

we'd start there.

Just tell us what this show is about, how this came about.

So the show is called Bill Nye saves the world so and that's

your that's the goal that's well for years I said change the world right oh now

it saved the well you got to take it up a notch. The implication

being change it for the better. Hopefully. So yeah. So now it saves the world

which we thought was catchy and cool.

And here's the thing.

With science, with the process of science, reason,

you think you have a better idea than unscientific reasoning and bad reasoning

and not thinking and not paying attention and not using your head. So that's why it's haughty, nevertheless heartfelt, to say we're trying to save the world.

And we want to have a sign, by we, I mean the staff and I, want to have a a science we want everybody to get a scientific

perspective of the world around us there's all these problems in our society

that are susceptible to analysis as we say in engineering.

And we want people to analyze the world around them from a scientific standpoint,

from a well-reasoned standpoint, and make the world better.

These are soluble problems, presumably.

It is to be hoped.

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