#ICYMI - Playing with Science at BAM, with Sasha Cohen & Neil deGrasse Tyson

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🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… We’re taking to the ice as we explore the physics of figure skating with host Chuck Nice, Olympic medalist Sasha Cohen, neuroscientist Dr. Heather Berlin, and resident astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Record live at “StarTalk at BAM: Science is Everywhere.” (Adult Language).

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:07.0	Thank you.
0:12.0	For those of you who are uninitiated, playing with science is a sports science mashup,
0:20.0	where Neil likes to say, where jocks and geeks collide.
0:24.0	And I like to say without any concussions, by geeks, because you know, when jocks and geeks collide,
0:33.0	only one person suffers in that collision.
0:36.0	Yeah, one person walks away.
0:37.0	One person walks away, the other one does not.
0:39.0	And normally, by the way, in high school, I was a geek jock.
0:44.0	A geek jock.
0:45.0	Yes.
0:46.0	Yeah.
0:47.0	So you were a wrestler.
0:48.0	Yeah.
0:49.0	So, but I intellectually associated with the geek of earth.
0:54.0	But any time I saw a geek sort of get beaten up or bullied, that was my sort of superhero,
1:02.0	like the geeks need me.
1:04.0	That would go, and I would just, you know, so I felt this urge to protect the geek of sphere as a high school kid.
1:15.0	What's the super year name for that?
1:17.0	I don't know.
1:18.0	I don't know.
1:19.0	But it needs one.
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