The Stars That Guide Us, with Nainoa Thompson

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🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Discover how the stars have guided some of our greatest adventures as Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-host Maeve Higgins, Native Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson, navigation expert Frank Reed, author Dava Sobel, and Natalia Reagan explore the science of celestial navigation. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/the-stars-that-guide-us-with-nainoa-thompson/ Photo Credit: By Newportm [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons.)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe
0:06.0	where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
0:27.0	your personal astrophysicist,
0:29.0	and tonight we explore the science of celestial navigation
0:33.0	through the legacy of the great Polynesian wayfinders
0:36.0	and they're the ones who use the stars above
0:39.0	to explore the vast Pacific Ocean over a thousand years ago.
0:43.0	So let's do this.
0:46.0	So who do I have with my co-host,
0:51.0	Maeve Higgins, Maeve!
0:53.0	Maeve your host of a podcast, Maeve in America.
0:56.0	Yep.
0:57.0	And I was honored to be a guest on your podcast.
0:59.0	Yeah, you were a wonderful guest.
1:00.0	How did that episode go? Is it okay?
1:01.0	It was one of the lower racing ones,
1:03.0	but I appreciate the efforts.
1:06.0	On this topic of celestial navigation,
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