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Fri. 12/10 - The Science (& Ethics) of Netflix’s ‘Don’t Look Up’

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Insights from the real-life NASA scientist behind Netflix’s new killer-comet movie, Don’t Look Up. Plus, reindeers are the only mammals whose eyes change color with the seasons. And their noses kind of do too––the science behind that, and the history of the most famous red-nosed reindeer of all. Sponsors: GiveWell, Have your donation matched up to $250 by entering Kottke Ride Home at check out at GiveWell.org Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Meet the real NASA scientist behind Netflix’s Don’t Look Up (The Verge) Asteroid scientist Amy Mainzer talks space rock impacts and Netflix's new movie 'Don't Look Up' (Space.com) Netflix's Most Realistic Apocalypse Movie Reveals A Controversial Scientific Debate (Inverse) What a Times Journalist Learned From His 'Don't Look Up' Moment (NY Times) Why Are Reindeer Eyes Golden In Summer But Blue In Winter? (National Geographic) The Scientific Reason Why Reindeer Have Red Noses (Smithsonian Magazine) Christmas: A Candid History by Bruce David Forbes Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, December 10th, 2021.

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I'm Jackson Bird today. Insights from the real-life NASA scientist behind Netflix's new killer comet movie don't look up. Plus, reindeer are the only

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mammals whose eyes change color with the seasons. And their noses kind of do too. The science behind that and the history

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of the most famous red-nosed reindeer of all. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

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So Netflix's latest original movie Don't Look Up premiered in theaters today, and it'll start streaming on the 24th.

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The Doomsday Comedy stars Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as astronomers who discover a comet twice the size of the one that destroyed the dinosaurs that is on a direct and fast approach towards Earth.

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But when they try to warn people, namely the government, no one believes them.

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