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Unravelling Reddit with Alexis Ohanian

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4.614.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the “front page of the internet” with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Learn about how Reddit got started, net neutrality, trolls and more. With BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis and co-host Eugene Mirman.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk.

0:05.0

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:10.6

Star Talk begins right now.

0:21.8

This is Star Talk and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

0:27.2

I also serve as the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum

0:32.0

of Natural History.

0:33.5

My co-host today, Eugene Maiman Eugene!

0:36.0

Wow, always good to have you, man.

0:38.2

Right to be here.

0:39.2

You know, I hear you so much in your voice work.

0:42.0

Now when I see you in person, I just imagine the little characters you're playing.

0:45.6

So I wonder if it's really you or some animatronic version of you.

0:49.4

Yeah, no, it's I'm the cartoon.

0:53.6

So today we're featuring my interview with Alexis O'Hanian, co-founder of Reddit, the co-founder

1:00.8

of Reddit.

1:02.4

And many people consider it the front page of the internet because it gives you access

1:09.0

to all the most influential websites of the day because it kind of people are picking

1:13.2

what matters because they are become the, I was going to say, the thousand eyes, the

1:17.7

million eyes for you that you don't have to then do yourself.

1:22.5

And I have very little expertise in this.

1:24.7

So anytime that happens, we reach out into the academic world and find people who do.

1:31.7

And today we've got journalism professor and author Jeff Jarvis.

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