#37 — Thinking in Public

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the public understanding of science, his career as an educator, political atheism, racism, artificial intelligence, alien life, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
0:12.1	hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing
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0:46.7	Today I'm speaking with Neil deGrasse Tyson, who probably needs no introduction to most of you. He's
0:52.4	an astrophysicist and cosmologist and author and a very prominent communicator of science to the
0:59.1	public. He recently hosted the Cosmos series, the reboot of Carl Sagan's very famous series.
1:06.4	I think I originally met Neil at those Saul Institute Beyond Belief conferences about 10 years
1:12.8	ago. Some of you have seen the videos of those online, but we haven't seen much of each other
1:18.6	since then. He occasionally sends me an email, which he did prior to this podcast, but in good
1:24.9	podcast form, we barely cover the topic that occasioned his coming on the podcast. There was so
1:30.6	much more to talk about. And we barely scratched the surface of our mutual interests, and I think
1:36.7	this podcast may leave you wanting more. It left me wanting more, and hopefully they'll be more to
1:41.9	come. But here's the first two hours of me talking to Neil deGrasse Tyson. Enjoy.
1:53.2	Okay, well, I have Neil deGrasse Tyson on the line. Neil, thanks for coming on the podcast.
1:57.9	Sam, it's great, great to be on. You don't call, you don't write. Well, I occasionally write.
2:04.5	To me, well, listen, this happened quite organically. This was great because I was obviously,
2:10.6	I may be not obvious to you, but obvious to me, and I think obvious to all of my listeners who
2:15.3	requested it, I was obviously planning to invite you on the podcast. But then you just emailed me
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