What’s The Deal With These Heat Waves?

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What is a heat wave? On this explainer, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the massive heat waves that have been sweeping the world with Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt.

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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	Chuck, I think it's a bad time we talked about heat waves.
0:20.0	Well, yeah, I mean...
0:23.0	Actually, wasn't that a disco group in the 70s?
0:26.0	Yeah, it was. Heat wave was the name of a group.
0:31.0	They did the soundtrack to what's that movie?
0:34.0	To Car Wash.
0:37.0	I think they're song, I want to get next to you.
0:39.0	No, that's Rose Royce.
0:41.0	Oh, Rose Royce.
0:44.0	Oh, damn.
0:45.0	Yes.
0:46.0	Thank you.
0:47.0	Don't out 1970s me.
0:49.0	How you do that?
0:50.0	I believe it or not, my daughter listens to that music.
0:54.0	Anyhow.
0:56.0	Just thought we'd talk about heat waves.
0:58.0	And I have other than being familiar with the group that I didn't properly identify
1:02.0	from the 70s.
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