StarTalk Live! Let’s Make America Smart Again (Part 1)

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🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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StarTalk was at the Count Basie Theatre 4/17/17 on a mission to Make America Smart Again. Ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Eugene Mirman, Senator Cory Booker, former science policy advisors John Holdren and Jo Handelsman, Ophira Eisenberg and Baratunde Thurston. #LMASA NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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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	We are live at the Count Basie Theatre.
0:24.0	We are talking about the marriage of science and policy.
0:29.0	And I've got a great panel up here.
0:32.0	What we're trying to do is make America smart again.
0:36.0	Trying to find out how science and policy come together to affect change for the greater good of us all.
0:44.0	And Eugene, we're here for you.
0:47.0	Yes, thank you.
0:49.0	It's the part of the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival.
0:52.0	Can we set the stage here?
0:55.0	We're here on a different day.
0:58.0	Everybody.
1:01.0	And I've got John Hulfern, who worked in Obama's office of science and technology policy.
1:11.0	Also from the Obama administration, we have a biologist.
1:17.0	Joe Handelsman, Joe, come on out.
1:23.0	Associate Director for Science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Obama.
1:29.0	And now she's a microbiologist at the University of Wisconsin.
1:33.0	She's Hans.
1:36.0	Yes.
1:38.0	So this event will be in three parts.
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