Tuning in to Science on TV, with Mayim Bialik

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🗓️ 30 September 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Is science trending on TV and in pop culture? Could that encourage women to get into STEM? Find out from Neil Tyson and his guests Mayim Bialik, Summer Ash, Taryn O’Neill and co-host Chris Hardwick. Also with Mona Chalabi, Chuck Nice and Bill Nye.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe of the American Museum of Natural History.
0:06.3	Right here in New York City, I'm your host of tonight's Star Call.
0:09.8	A field of grass-tice and begin personal astral face-and-ast.
0:12.8	And tonight, we're featuring my interview with actress Lyon Biala.
0:17.0	She plays a neuroscientist on the hit TV show The Big Bang TV.
0:21.6	She not only plays a neuroscientist, she is a neuroscientist.
0:25.2	She got a PhD in the subject.
0:27.6	So that will be the basis of our conversation on the portrayal of science on TV.
0:35.0	So let's do this.
0:39.9	And I never do this alone. I can't do this alone.
0:42.8	I got to bring in help.
0:44.0	My co-host comedian tonight is Chris Hardwick.
0:46.8	Hello.
0:47.2	The only...
0:48.3	Sir.
0:49.6	And you don't only go by Chris Hardwick, you go by the Nerdist.
0:52.6	Nerdist, yeah. That was the website that I started and the podcast and everything.
0:56.5	Well, thanks. You turn being a nerd into a community.
1:00.8	You were early out of the box doing this.
1:02.6	I mean, I don't know if I think a lot of proto-nerds would disagree with that.
1:07.1	I did...
1:09.6	That's a thing.
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