Social Networks and Ending the Pandemic with Nicholas Christakis

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk.
0:16.0	Neil, the grass Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:19.0	I got my co-ho, Jack. Nice, Jack.
0:21.0	Hey, Neil.
0:22.0	All right, all right. You know, it's time we do yet another installment.
0:26.0	We've done some very interesting installments on COVID.
0:29.0	Yes. And it's progress.
0:31.0	And it's how it's reactions to it.
0:33.0	Exactly. Like the fact that, you know, it doesn't exist.
0:36.0	We did the show about how it was a hoax.
0:41.0	And then I think we did that show about how vaccines kill people.
0:46.0	No, no, we did the one that with the mic, the mic, the, the,
0:50.0	Oh, the microchips. Yeah.
0:52.0	We're getting to post a mic on chips. Yeah.
0:54.0	That's my favorite.
0:55.0	So I love the 5G show that we did.
0:59.0	How?
1:01.0	It could be first time listeners, Chuck.
1:04.0	We don't want to mess with that.
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