Making Science Cool, with Jeff Goldblum

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice chat with Jeff Goldblum about Jurassic Park, science, and more—joined by Bill Nye, a paleomammalogist and other experts.

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0:00.0	Hey, StarTalkians, Neil here.
0:03.1	You're about to listen to an episode specially drawn from our archives to serve your cosmic curiosities.
0:10.7	Check it out.
0:13.3	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:15.9	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:35.3	My co-s tonight's comedian Chuck Nice. Hey, hey. Chuck in, wow. Tweeting a Chuck Nice comic.
0:39.3	Thank you, sir, yes.
0:40.3	And also joining us tonight is a colleague of mine at the museum, paleontologist, Ross McPhee, Ross.
0:46.3	Ross!
0:47.3	Oh!
0:48.3	Boom!
0:49.3	Boom!
0:50.3	Thank you.
0:51.3	You're curator of mammals right here at the American Museum of Natural History,
0:55.4	and you travel the world digging up fossils to learn about extinct animals.
0:59.8	Is that like what your business card says?
1:02.1	It should.
1:03.1	It should.
1:04.1	That'd be good lines.
1:05.0	Yeah, very good.
1:06.1	So thanks for joining us on StarTalk.
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