The Value of Science, with Brian Cox

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🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson compares notes with British physicist and TV host Brian Cox about wormholes, lightsabers, science literacy and more. Also featuring futurist Jason Silva, Dr. Janna Levin, and co-host Maeve Higgins. Plus, Bill Nye extols the value of “Looking Up.”

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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	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:25.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:30.0	And tonight we are featuring my interview with Professor Brian Cox.
0:35.0	Brian Cox is like famous all throughout the UK.
0:40.0	He's perhaps as famous if not more famous in the UK than Carl Sagan ever was here in America.
0:48.0	And if you've never heard of him, you gotta know about this guy.
0:51.0	We talked about everything under the sun and in the universe.
0:55.0	Because most things in the universe are in fact not under the sun, not our sun at least.
1:00.0	We talked about light sabers from Star Wars.
1:05.0	Are they real? We talked about time travel, wormholes.
1:08.0	We talked about everything.
1:10.0	So let's do this.
1:15.0	Right.
1:21.0	As usual I have cohosts.
1:23.0	We have a comedic cohost, Maeve Higgins.
1:27.0	Hi.
1:28.0	Maeve, welcome to Star Talk.
1:29.0	Thank you for having me.
1:30.0	And the one and the only Jason Silva.
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