Fixing the Internet with Harleen Kaur (Bonus Minisode)

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Can we fix the news? On this minisode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Gary O’Reilly sit down with Harleen Kaur, former space engineer and founder of Ground News, to explore our current media landscape, navigating bias, and fixing the internet.

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0:00.0	At least somebody's trying to fix the news.
0:02.6	About time.
0:03.6	And we got them on this show.
0:05.8	Yes.
0:06.6	Where else are you going to hear about it?
0:08.0	Where else are you going to see this?
0:09.2	I don't know, because we just try to deal in objective truth.
0:12.1	I know.
0:12.5	We'll look at the biases and why, where, how?
0:15.4	Who's doing it?
0:16.1	Who's not?
0:16.6	We are all in here on StarTalk.
0:18.4	Special edition coming up.
0:24.2	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:29.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:33.1	StarTalk begins right now.
0:38.8	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:39.7	Mm-hmm.
0:40.8	How about that? Neil deGrasse Tyson here right next to Gary O'Reilly.
0:43.8	When you see Gary, it is special.
0:46.5	Today, we're talking about a very important subject.
0:49.8	Yeah.
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