Zombie Apocalypse (Part 2)

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🗓️ 9 June 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Zombie Apocalypse rages on as Neil deGrasse Tyson hunts for the truth with World War Z author Max Brooks and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and virus expert Laurie Garrett.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:22.0	Welcome to StarTalk Radio.
0:23.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.9	An astrophysicist is what I am, and I direct the Hayden Planetarium right here in New
0:30.1	York City.
0:31.1	My co-host this week, Eugene Merman, Eugene.
0:35.5	This is part two of our show on zombies.
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.7	And...
0:40.7	And viruses.
0:41.7	Yeah, zombies as a metaphor for the spread of viruses and other infectious diseases.
0:46.9	And there was so much to talk about in that last segment.
0:49.6	It's spilling over into this hour.
0:53.3	And we'd swapped out our guests.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.8	Previously, we had an expert virologist because he told us even what a virus was.
1:01.8	Yeah.
1:02.8	He told us there are viruses that love gold.
1:04.8	That's right.
1:05.8	That's amazing.
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