StarTalk Live: Big Brains at BAM (Part 3)

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🗓️ 2 August 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Our exploration of the human mind concludes with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Eugene Mirman, neuroscientists Mayim Bialik and Dr. Heather Berlin, and guests Michael Ian Black, Paul Rudd and Bill Nye. Read more and listen to the full show: http://www.startalkradio.net/show/startalk-live-big-brains-at-bam-part-3

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.8	Welcome to Star Talk Radio.
0:22.8	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.6	I'm an astrophysicist and director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American
0:30.8	Museum of Natural History.
0:32.3	The following show is the third part of a live show we recorded on February 24, 2014.
0:39.5	Because that show went on for a long time, and all of it was great, we had to create a
0:43.5	third part.
0:44.6	This is without precedent in the archives of Star Talk.
0:48.6	Our show was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, known as Bam to the Locals.
0:53.3	In addition to my co-host, comedian Eugene Merman, we would join on stage that night by
0:58.0	neuroscientist Heather Berlin, Bill Nye, the science guy, comedian Michael E. and Black,
1:03.9	the actor Paul Rudd, and star of the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, Mayam Bialek.
1:11.1	Some great science fiction storytelling involves power of the mind.
1:15.9	Telekinesis, you know, mind control, mind reading.
1:21.0	Is anyone working on this?
1:22.0	Is it in the future?
1:23.0	Or is it just a pipe dream?
1:25.0	Well, there's studies, let's say, something like mind reading.
1:27.5	There's studies now where you put someone in a scanner and you show them different pictures
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