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The Jordan Harbinger Show

727: Neil deGrasse Tyson | Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Education, Science, Business

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of StarTalk Radio, and author. He is kind enough to rejoin us and discuss his latest book, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization.

What We Discuss with Neil deGrasse Tyson:
  • The problems society faces when average citizens lose their ability to distinguish between facts and opinions — and how this can be remedied.
  • What some of our dearest opinions look like under the scrutiny of scientific literacy — and why we should feel relief at being proven categorically wrong about some of them.
  • As an educator, what Neil's first urge is when he hears people spreading patently false "information" that can be easily dispelled by basic scientific awareness. (Surprisingly enough, it's not to bop them on the head!)
  • What the history of mathematics might hint about the average human brain's tendency to avoid thinking statistically and probabilistically.
  • Things pondered: Are you a GMO? Eating how many pints of ice cream will kill you? For the benefit of all humanity, who would Neil send into space first? If technology common to us in the 2020s would be unrecognizable to someone from 1990, what will the world look like in 2050?
  • And much more...

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0:03.5

You get another notch higher and view Earth from the moon,

0:09.0

and then you see all of Earth in one frame as this isolated orb alone

0:16.0

in the dark vastness of space with no hint that help is going to come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

0:23.5

When you see Earth that way, that's a cosmic perspective.

0:26.5

It is not enough of that in the world today.

0:32.5

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0:34.5

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0:50.5

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1:23.5

Neil deGrasse Tyson is back on the show today.

1:26.5

This guy's always a hit.

1:27.5

This episode is hopefully no exception.

1:29.5

We'll explore scientific thinking, astronomy, and space.

1:32.5

I've actually got a lot of questions on this that Google simply did not have answers to.

1:36.5

And of course, how much Ben and Jerry's ice cream is actually enough to kill you.

1:40.5

Now, here we go with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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