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#ICYMI - Slam Dunk Science (Part 1)

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🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Playing with Science hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly are talking roundball from the TuneIn stage at SXSW with former NBA All-Star Caron Butler, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and actor Michael Rapaport, the co-host of Two-Man-Weave on TuneIn. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe to our channels on: TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Playing-with-Science-p952100/ iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0

I'm Gary A'Reilly.

0:02.0

And I'm Chuck Nice.

0:03.0

This is playing with science.

0:06.0

I'm Gary A'Reilly.

0:10.0

Yes, thank you.

0:13.0

And I'm Chuck Nice.

0:14.0

And this is playing with science.

0:18.0

And listen, for those of you who are not with us,

0:21.0

the reason why you hear a live audience is because we are coming to you

0:26.0

from Tune-In at South by Southwest,

0:29.0

better known as South by hungover.

0:32.0

And we are here live to bring you the show.

0:36.0

And those of you who are listening for the first time to play with science on Tune-In,

0:40.0

we should probably tell you what this show is.

0:43.0

This show is under the Star Talk umbrella.

0:46.0

And Neil deGrasse Tyson says, this is where science and geeks collide.

0:51.0

And you know, somebody always loses in that collision.

0:54.0

And I don't know if you're gonna have to tell you who it is.

0:57.0

But what we do is we take a sports player that's iconic.

1:02.0

We break it down.

1:03.0

And then we let the science spread out from there.

1:06.0

And so today, we are talking about the science of the slam dunk.

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