Art and Science for Change, with Anna Deavere Smith

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Explore how the intersectionality of art and science can spark cultural change with Neil deGrasse Tyson, actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, comic co-host Eugene Mirman, contemporary scholar Dorothy Roberts, primatologist Natalia Reagan, linguist Renée Blake, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Thanks to this week's Patrons for supporting us: Erica Thoits, Edward Mann. Dan Cowden, John Yonosh, Peter Kronenberg, and Jane Tanner. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/art-and-science-for-change-with-anna-deavere-smith/ Photo Credit: Brandon Royal

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
0:05.0	and beaming out across all of space and time,
0:09.0	this is Star Trek,
0:11.0	we're Science and Publicity Colleagues.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:18.0	I'm your host, Neil the Grass Tyson,
0:20.0	your personal astrophysicist,
0:22.0	and tonight we're going to explore the power of art and science
0:26.0	to inspire change.
0:28.0	Featuring my interview with actress and playwright,
0:30.0	Anna DeVier Smith.
0:32.0	So, let's do this!
0:34.0	APPLAUSE
0:40.0	To my co-host tonight,
0:41.0	comedian Eugene Merman, Eugene.
0:43.0	You're up.
0:46.0	And joining us is social scientist, Dorothy Roberts.
0:49.0	Dorothy, welcome.
0:50.0	Thank you.
0:52.0	You are Professor of Law, Sociology,
0:55.0	and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:58.0	Yeah.
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