Do We Have to Die? with Venki Ramakrishnan

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Why do we die? Do we have to? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly explore the paradox of death, the science of aging, and the search for immortality with Nobel Prize-winning structural biologist Venki Ramakrishnan.

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0:00.0	Why are you bombing us out with the topic on why we die?
0:02.5	Because we have a Nobel Prize winner as our guest.
0:05.7	Dude, we have a comedian, it's a happy show.
0:07.8	It is a happy show because we're not talking about me dying on stage for once.
0:13.6	Coming up on StarTalk, how and why we die.
0:19.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:21.9	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:28.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:32.4	This is StarTalk.
0:34.7	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:41.2	This is special edition, which means we've got Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:42.1	Hi, Neil.
0:42.7	Hey.
0:44.7	And we got Chuck Nice.
0:45.5	Hey, hey, hey.
0:45.9	Okay.
0:46.6	What's happening?
0:51.7	And special edition specializes in all science that matters to the human condition.
0:52.2	Yes.
0:55.7	And today's topic is no exception.
0:56.3	No.
0:59.8	And may I give the title of it?
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