StarTalk Live! at Kings Theatre: Science and Morality (Part 1)

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🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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How do we know if we’re right or wrong? Investigate the intersection of science and morality with Neil Tyson, Eugene Mirman, author Michael Shermer, Rev. James Martin, SJ, and comedians Michael Ian Black, and Whoopi Goldberg. Recorded live at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. (Warning: Adult Language). NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/startalk-live-at-kings-theatre-science-and-morality-part-1/ Photo Credit: Elliot Severn.

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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	Brooklyn in the house.
0:23.0	Yes.
0:29.0	Tonight's subject is on the topic of morality and all the ways that science might or might not inform our future judgments regarding it.
0:41.0	And we have a panel specifically tuned for that purpose.
0:45.0	People of high and low moral stature just.
0:50.0	Let me first introduce a comedian Michael E. and Black.
0:53.0	Michael, come on out.
0:59.0	Not only a comedian and actor, director.
1:02.0	You've been seeing the Jim Gafferkin show.
1:05.0	Comedy Central is another period.
1:08.0	And Netflix, we had a wet summer.
1:10.0	Wet hot American summer.
1:11.0	Wet summer.
1:12.0	Close enough.
1:14.0	I'd also like to introduce the founding editor and publisher of skeptics magazine.
1:21.0	Michael Schumer.
1:22.0	Michael Schumer.
1:23.0	Come on out.
1:24.0	Again, Michael Schumer is author of The Moral Arc.
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