Science and Psyche in Film, with Darren Aronofsky

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🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the scientific, metaphysical, and psychological aspects of filmmaking with auteur filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, co-host Paula Poundstone, astrophysicist Charles Liu, PhD, neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD, and Bill Nye. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/science-and-psyche-in-film-with-darren-aronofsky/ Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Sebastian Seilund, Ian Schulze, Heidi Lynne Makela, Calvin Mitchell, Sinai Coons. Photo Credit: Brandon Royal.

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,
0:05.0	and beaming out across all of space and time,
0:09.0	this is Star Trek,
0:11.0	we're science and pop culture, Kala.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe!
0:17.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:21.0	And tonight, we explore the extreme,
0:24.0	from the depths of the human psyche to the cold vacuum of space.
0:28.0	So let's do this!
0:30.0	So, my co-host tonight, Paula Poundstone, welcome to Star Trek!
0:38.0	I've been a big fan of yours for a long time,
0:41.0	and you also had a recent book,
0:43.0	the totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness,
0:48.0	where you actually do experiments,
0:50.0	even though you say it's unscientific.
0:51.0	I do experiments. Every chapter is written as an experiment.
0:54.0	I do experiments with things that either I or other people thought
0:57.0	would make me happy.
0:58.0	All right, also joining us is StarTalk's resident geek in chief, Charles Lou!
1:03.0	Yeah!
1:04.0	Yeah!
1:06.0	Professor of astrophysics at the City University of New York in Staten Island.
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