Cosmic Queries – Medieval Science and History

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When you think of Middle Ages, does scientific advancement come to mind? Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Matt Kirshen, and Seb Faulk, Cambridge Historian of Science and author of The Light Ages, explore the science and history of medieval times.

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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.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk.
0:17.0	You'll be the grass-ticing your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And today, we're going to do Star Talk cosmic queries
0:25.0	which continues to be a fan favorite in a format.
0:30.0	On the topic today is science history, specializing in the part of human history
0:37.0	that nobody thinks any science happens at all.
0:40.0	Me included, and that would be medieval history.
0:45.0	That is the benchmark for anyone's concept of where no science touched anybody's life.
0:53.0	I got Matt Kirshen here to help me out as my co-host, Matt.
0:56.0	Hey, Neil.
0:57.0	All right, dude.
0:58.0	Thanks. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:00.0	Co-host of probably science, and tell me when will that show ever graduate to be actually science?
1:06.0	It's never going to get there, Neil.
1:08.0	We got the closest when you're on the show.
1:11.0	So if I come back on the show a couple more times, then it can be turned into a likely science.
1:15.0	It's turning towards science, but it's definitely science.
1:19.0	It will never actually reach it.
1:21.0	Okay, well that gives you freedoms through your conversational latitude there.
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