Cosmic Queries – Cicada Invasion! With Jessica Ware

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready for the cicada invasion? In this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Negin Farsad sit down with entomologist Jessica Ware to answer your questions about the millions of cicadas emerging this summer after 17 years underground.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk.
0:18.0	Meal to grass Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And for this edition, it's cosmic queries,
0:24.0	which we are titling,
0:26.0	the cicadas are coming!
0:28.0	Attack of the cicada, I don't know what we're going to title it,
0:30.0	but it's about cicadas.
0:32.0	Nogin is at you laughing.
0:34.0	My co-host, Nogin Farsad, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:37.0	Nogin.
0:38.0	Hi, Neal, so great to be here.
0:40.0	Excellent. You're a host of the podcast, Fake the Nation,
0:43.0	which I was a guest on that one time.
0:45.0	I so enjoyed that, and you haven't invited me back ever since.
0:49.0	I enjoyed it.
0:51.0	Apparently, you didn't.
0:53.0	You wrote a book that has my favorite title of any book ever.
0:57.0	How to make white people laugh.
0:59.0	That's just...
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