StarTalk Live! Let’s Make America Smart Again (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Our mission to Make America Smart Again continues with the conclusion of our show from the Count Basie Theatre. Ft. Neil Tyson, Eugene Mirman, Sen. Cory Booker, science policy advisors John Holdren and Jo Handelsman, Ophira Eisenberg, 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.
0:23.0	We come from AC Theater.
0:27.0	Red Becky Jersey.
0:30.0	Star Talk.
0:33.0	Let's make America smart again.
0:37.0	All right.
0:42.0	So, Joe, what more advances are coming down the fight?
0:47.0	Well, I think one of the big areas that I'm excited about is microbiology.
0:52.0	Because we're starting to understand that not only human body, but all ecosystems on Earth are driven in part by their microbiomes, which means their collection of microorganisms.
1:02.0	The microorganisms that live on you and in you.
1:04.0	Yeah, exactly.
1:05.0	Like, mostly probably in your intestines.
1:07.0	Right? That's where a lot of them are, but also the skin, the ears, every arufus of the body.
1:12.0	And it's nasty.
1:13.0	No.
1:14.0	And I'm thinking, you know, you tell anyone under 30 that everyone over 50 at one time would walk into something called a phone booth,
1:23.0	and take the receiver and put this side to their ear, and this side to their mouth, where a hundred other people had done it that day.
1:33.0	So, you have shared earwax and mouth spill.
1:37.0	But that is all the same thing.
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