Cosmic Queries: Art and Science

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🗓️ 12 January 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Explore the intersection of art and science when astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice discuss van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Escher, da Vinci, Giotto, computer generated art and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:21.8	This is StarTalk Radio, I'm your host, Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:29.0	We are here in studio in New York City, I got a co-host here, Chuck, sorry, you're not
0:35.9	just A co-host.
0:36.9	Yeah, I appreciate that, Neil.
0:39.2	I kind of think of myself as your favorite co-host, keep telling yourself that.
0:46.4	What do we do at StarTalk?
0:47.4	I always have a comedic co-host and we talk about the universe in all the ways that it impacts
0:52.7	your life and with folks like Chuck in the room you're probably going to smile, at least
0:57.9	smile.
0:58.9	And if you're not ripsplipped by the end, we're switching them out next time.
1:02.2	Yes, exactly.
1:03.2	If you haven't peed your pants, I get fired, basically, and I will commit Harry Carey.
1:09.2	So today we have one of our StarTalk after hours sessions.
1:13.2	Yeah.
1:14.2	It's cosmic queries.
1:15.8	And we're going to spend this whole session just with you calling questions drawn from
1:20.7	the internet.
1:21.7	That's correct.
1:22.7	But all of our internet presence, which is wide and varied, we got Twitter and Facebook
1:26.2	and Google Plus.
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