Things You Thought You Knew – Dinosaurs & Batteries

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What if the dinosaurs had a space program? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore what Earth Day meant for the dinosaurs, how batteries work, and changing our infrastructure, with creator of Atlas Obscura, Dylan Thuras.

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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.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:17.0	Things you thought you knew, edition. I got with me Chuck.
0:21.0	Yes.
0:22.0	Do you remember back a few years ago there was the science march on Washington?
0:26.0	I was there.
0:27.0	What deeply concerns me is that we needed a science march.
0:31.0	That should not be necessary.
0:35.0	So the fact that we have a day committed to earth that should not be necessary.
0:43.0	You're right.
0:44.0	Every day.
0:45.0	Sad.
0:46.0	Every day should be earth day.
0:48.0	It's just everyone every day should be appreciating earth and that there's not how that's been going.
0:53.0	But the fact that we have to be reminded of these things, I guess that this is how you got to do it.
0:58.0	Right.
0:59.0	Right.
1:00.0	Once a year.
1:01.0	And so earth day.
1:05.0	People keep talking about save earth.
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