Heat Stroke with Bud Cooper and Radley Horton

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

How do you prevent a heat stroke? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about stopping heat illness deaths and the challenges of increasing heat waves with kinesiologist, Bud Cooper, and climate scientist, Radley Horton.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is StarTalk Sports Edition.
0:17.0	Today we're going to talk about heatstroke,
0:20.0	why that's bad and sometimes lethal.
0:23.0	What causes it and how to avoid it.
0:26.0	Of course I've got with me my two co-host Gary O'Reilly.
0:30.0	Hey Neil.
0:31.0	The former soccer pro and active sports commentator
0:34.0	and we borrow him from the rest of his life to participate on StarTalk Sports Edition.
0:40.0	And of course Chuck Knies, Chuck.
0:41.0	Hey Neil, that's right.
0:43.0	All right, my longtime co-hosts professional comedian and actor.
0:47.0	Yes, acting like a comedian.
0:49.0	They were acting like a comedian.
0:51.0	So Gary, what have you cooked up today about heatstroke?
0:55.0	Well, the whole world has basically been sweltering and suffering through heat waves recently.
1:00.0	But what if you were an athlete and you had to do your thing outside in the summer months?
1:06.0	Now this fact is going to leave you a little bit cold.
1:09.0	Between 1980 and 2009 there was sadly tragically 58 football players dying of hyperthermia in America.
1:20.0	So not hyper?
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