Cosmic Queries – The Hidden Chemistry of Everything with Kate the Chemist

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Is chemistry truly everywhere? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan questions about chemistry with Kate Biberdorf, aka Kate the Chemist. Discover the chemical reactions that make our world work!

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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	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Query's edition.
0:19.0	And today we're going to dip into chemistry.
0:23.0	Chuck, you with me here Chuck?
0:25.0	I am.
0:26.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:27.0	How you feel about chemistry Chuck?
0:29.0	I am waiting for you to dip into it.
0:32.0	That's about it.
0:33.0	Okay.
0:34.0	I have to say that I had a terrible chemistry teacher and ruined the entire experience for me.
0:44.0	You're the walking wounded chemistry teacher.
0:46.0	I am the walking wounded of chemistry.
0:49.0	And I won't say his name, but I remember him vividly.
0:55.0	And he would explain something and then immediately expect us to know what the next thing is.
1:07.0	And you know, he would do this and everyone would sit in the classroom kind of like in this terrified state.
1:15.0	Because it's terrible to feel like completely ignorant and it's worse to feel stupid.
1:21.0	Because you ignorant is one thing, but you feel stupid when somebody has an expectation of you that you're not meeting.
1:28.0	Chuck, are you still in therapy for this?
1:30.0	I have.
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