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Science Rules! with Bill Nye

How to Do Anything — With xkcd!

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Stitcher

Science

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Randall Munroe, creator of the sciency webcomic, offers ridiculously complex ways to do simple things and indulges all our scientific “what-ifs.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're all science people.

0:10.0

Science!

0:11.0

Exactly.

0:12.0

Evolution does some pretty funky things.

0:14.0

We can teach kids and they get it.

0:17.0

There's chemistry in here, there's biology in here.

0:19.0

It's in whiskey, it's in ice cream, it's in who you've all loved with.

0:24.0

That's the recipe for success.

0:26.0

We can make the world better for everybody.

0:31.0

Starting now.

0:33.0

Welcome, welcome to Science Rules.

0:36.0

I'm your host, Bill Nye and this is the show where science rules.

0:40.0

And if you want to be on the show and I hope you do, please leave us a voicemail at 201-4720-785.

0:48.0

That's 201-4720-785 or go to askbill9.com on your electric internet machine.

0:58.0

I am joined once again by science writer, editor and dear friend, Cori S. Powell, greetings, Cori.

1:05.0

Greetings and salutations, Bill.

1:07.0

Bill, you know, there are a lot of fun ways that people try to communicate science.

1:10.0

I hope the show is one of them.

1:12.0

But one of my personal favorites is the comic XKCD.

1:16.0

You used to be, actually you still see old yellowed far side cartoons all over scientists, office doors.

1:22.0

And these days you see XKCD strips all over their Twitter feeds.

1:26.0

It's cool.

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