Hey, it's no, I'm unexplainable is off this week, but we wanted to give you a bonus episode to tide you over till we're back on Wednesday

It's a new podcast from Vox called the gray area and it's a philosophical take on culture, politics, science, and more

And it dives right into all those tricky and big-yous spaces that are anything, but certain

So if you're like us and you're into questions without perfect answers, I think you're gonna love it

The first episode of the gray area just dropped this week, so go subscribe or follow in their feed

It's a conversation between host Sean Elling and Neil the grass Tyson

They talk about scientific literacy democracy and whether facts are ultimately the answer

Okay, here's the gray area

As a kid, I loved Carl Sagan

The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be

He helped me appreciate the big-ness of the universe

Everything we had come to know about it all the questions that remained unanswered and

He was able to find poetry in science

That's what his PBS series Cosmos was all about

Our contemplations of the cosmos stirs

Sagan really wanted you to feel that sense of awe and wonder

But he always wanted to emphasize science as a way of thinking about the world

As we moved into an age of increased technology in computing

genetics

medicine and media

He saw the ways in which there might be a problem brewing

Science was also this engine of immense technological production and without any guardrails

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