The Science Guy on Science and Uncertainty

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the five years it was on the air, his television show, "Bill Nye the Science Guy," won 18 Emmys and entertained and educated millions of young people, many of whom later went on to become scientists themselves. All his life, Bill’s been passionate about communicating science, so naturally, he was the perfect guest to pair with Alan Alda, who has shared the same, lifelong drive. In this episode, Alan and Bill have a lively conversation about scientific fact, fiction, literacy, and the beauty of uncertainty. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0	I'm Alan Alder and this is Clear In Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.
0:16.3	People my age who have kids are going to have grandkids and the grandkids are going to
0:21.7	say you mean you let humans drive cars? You let people drive cars? Were you crazy? Were
0:28.3	there wrecked? Yes, there were wrecks every day. Wasn't it inefficient? Oh, it was so inefficient.
0:33.0	How many people were in most cars? One? You had that huge growth, one person in it? Yeah. Wow,
0:39.0	that's weird. I saw it in the movie. I thought it wasn't real. No, that was how we used to know
0:43.8	everything will change. That's Bill Nye. In the five years it was on the air, his television
0:49.9	show Bill Nye, the science guy, won 18 Emmys and entertained and educated millions of people.
0:56.3	A lot of them young people but really people of all ages. All his life Bill's been passionate
1:02.8	about communicating science so he's a natural for this show and when I asked him to be on it he
1:08.9	asked me to be on his. Our studios are right next door to each other in New York so I just went to
1:14.4	my next door neighbor for a cup of science. Bill I love it that you can be on the show today because
1:20.1	you've been doing this for so long and have been so successful you have generations of people
1:26.3	who have been inspired to go into science by your shows. That's what they tell me. Isn't that great?
1:32.2	It's amazing. What got you into that? What made you go because you were an engineer, you were
1:37.8	a working engineer, right? Yeah. So how did you go from that into being a television superstar? Superstar,
1:44.0	yeah, sure. Here's what happened. Two things converged. First of all, I, well, as a kid I really like
1:54.8	bicycles and airplanes. I thought that was great. I got a job at a bike shop and there was a guy,
2:00.4	an older guy older than I was, a guy who worked there who was going to engineering school at Lehigh
2:05.6	University and then he talked about how everything is engineered and there was a radio ad for pianos
2:12.4	where he talked about pianos are engineered and I thought that was cool. So I went to engineering
2:19.4	school and where when I was there, the guy who had been my freshman roommate, Dave Lacks,
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