Communicating the Science, with Alan Alda

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🗓️ 21 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the craft of getting people excited about science with legendary actor and award-winning science communicator Alan Alda, comic co-host Matt Kirshen, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, primatologist Natalia Reagan, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/communicating-the-science-with-alan-alda/ Photo Credit: © 2018 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association.

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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.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:16.0	I am Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	And tonight, we're featuring my interview with actor and American treasure, Alan Alda.
0:26.0	And he's probably best known for starring in the TV hit series, Mash, from the 1970s.
0:31.0	It went for 10 years.
0:32.0	And he's appeared in more than three dozen movies since then.
0:36.0	And what you might not know about him is that he's also a vocal advocate for science communication
0:41.0	and it's sharing the wonder of science with the world.
0:45.0	So let's do this.
0:50.0	So my co-host tonight is comedian Matt Kershin.
0:55.0	Matt, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:57.0	Hey, Neil.
0:58.0	You host a podcast called The Most Likely Science.
1:01.0	It's probably science, it's the name, Neil, and you always do this.
1:04.0	And I also have an old-time friend of Star Talk Heather Berlin.
1:08.0	Hello!
1:11.0	Heather Berlin.
1:12.0	She's a neuroscientist at Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital here in New York.
1:18.0	And you also hosted several educational programs over the years.
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