Jack Black’s Cosmic Curiosity

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🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and virtuoso comedian, musician, and actor Jack Black explore black holes, a simulation universe, quantum weirdness, Powers of Ten, Ant Man’s shrinking powers, and much more. With Chuck Nice, astrophysicist Charles Liu, climate scientist Kate Marvel, and Bill Nye. Photo Credit: Brandon Royal. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/jack-blacks-cosmic-curiosity/

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,
0:05.0	and beaming out the front, all of space and time,
0:09.0	this is Star Wars, we're science and pop culture, Kalash.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
0:26.0	you're a personal astrophysicist, and tonight we're going to explore the cosmic curiosity
0:31.0	of actor and musician Jack Black. He's had questions for me on everything,
0:37.0	from black holes to the size of the universe itself. So let's do this.
0:43.0	Yeah!
0:46.0	Oh, wow.
0:49.0	So my co-host tonight, Chuck Knife. Hey!
0:52.0	Hey! What's up? Welcome back.
0:54.0	Always a pleasure, buddy.
0:55.0	Welcome back.
0:56.0	Also joining us is my friend and astrophysicist, Charles Liu. Charles, welcome.
1:02.0	Excellent.
1:03.0	I'm Professor at the City University of New York at Staten Island,
1:06.0	and you are our star talk, Resident Deacon Chief.
1:10.0	I am truly honored. Thank you so much.
1:12.0	So we got our dream team here to discuss my recent interview
1:15.0	with multi-dimensional actor and musician, Jack Black,
1:19.0	best known for his lead roles in comedy films, like School of Rock,
1:24.0	like Nacho Libre, like Kung Fu Panda.
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