Combating Disease with Jimmy Carter

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🗓️ 31 May 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Former President Jimmy Carter gives Neil deGrasse Tyson a progress report on eradicating Guinea Worm and other diseases. In studio, Chuck Nice and Mark Siddall, “The Leech Guy,” talk about parasites, and Bill Nye warns about our microscopic enemies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:26.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:29.0	I'm director of the Hayden Planetarium right here.
0:32.0	And I've got with me one of my favorite co-hosts, Chuck Nice, Jeff comedian.
0:36.0	How are you, man?
0:37.0	Good, good.
0:38.0	Look at that. I'm almost a smattering of applause for me.
0:41.0	A sitting ovation. Yes, Chuck.
0:43.0	So you native for Philly, right?
0:45.0	I'm a Philly native. Philly, Dolphie.
0:47.0	I was just there and I saw that big place where Rocky ran up to steps.
0:50.0	The Art Museum.
0:51.0	That's what that is?
0:52.0	That's what that would be.
0:53.0	No, it's where Rocky ran up to steps.
0:54.0	And you know, and that's how you'd be surprised how many people refer to it just as that.
0:58.0	Even though they went through all the problem of recreating the Parthenon,
1:03.0	people were like, yes, the Rocky place.
1:05.0	Isn't there like a statue of the man at the top?
1:08.0	No longer.
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