Things You Thought You Knew – Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Is anything at the end of the rainbow? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice break down how rainbows work, the history behind zero, and what Zoom calls and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity have in common.

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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	This is Star Talk, a thing you thought you knew in addition.
0:19.0	Chuck, is that your favorite format?
0:21.0	No, explainers are my favorite, but things that things you thought you knew
0:24.0	is my second favorite because I am aware thanks to working with you for almost 12 years
0:31.0	that I don't know Jack Crab.
0:35.0	That is what I have learned.
0:38.0	So all this time we have spent together is that I don't, I used to think I thought at one point I knew something.
0:46.0	I thought I knew something.
0:48.0	And then the universe sent a man named Neil de Graz Tyson into my life.
0:54.0	And then the universe said, boy, you don't know.
0:59.0	You don't know.
1:02.0	Okay, so things you thought you knew is like a super set of explainers.
1:06.0	Yes.
1:07.0	Okay, you ready?
1:08.0	Go ahead.
1:09.0	First one is going to be rainbow.
1:11.0	That sounds delightful.
1:12.0	Nobody doesn't love rainbow.
1:13.0	That's right.
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