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I did. I did. So it's called My Search for Ramanujan.

Oh, wait, wait, wait. Oh, oh. Whoa! It just appeared on my table.

Yes, how I learned to count.

I did. I did. So it's called My Search for Ramanujan.

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Wait, My Search for Ramanujan.

Yes, how I learned to count.

Yeah, I mean this is a labor of love for me. I mean I'm I am in I'm in heaven with this because this has been a book I've been working on for I guess about 10 years 10 years

I've been working on this thing two years of you know hard labor watching Star Trek episode. Oh hard labor Yeah, yeah movies You know scene by scene and And you know what I've done here is cherry-picked episodes and movie scenes that really reflect I think the the science of the real science so well particularly astronomical science

My my kind of my shtick is really showing people the night sky That's what I've been doing for I don't know about 30 years now And since I was a little kid I've been taking out a telescope and trying to get people excited about the night sky

This Stargazing and Star Trek coming together in one one volume here

Yeah, I mean this is a labor of love for me. I mean I'm I am in I'm in heaven with this because this has been a book I've been working on for I guess about 10 years 10 years

I've been working on this thing two years of you know hard labor watching Star Trek episode.

And you know what I've done here is cherry-picked episodes and movie scenes that really reflect I think the the science of the real science so well particularly astronomical science

My my kind of my shtick is really showing people the night sky That's what I've been doing for I don't know about 30 years now And since I was a little kid

Stargazing and Star Trek coming together in one one volume here

Well as you can see behind me There is an illustration at Jim beautiful Jim Burns cover of one of my novels called Sundiver

Well as you can see behind me There is an illustration at Jim beautiful Jim Burns cover of one of my novels called Sundiver

I set a novel out in the orc cloud called Heart of the Comet that i did with greggory benford

I set a novel out in the orc cloud called Heart of the Comet that i did with greggory benford

And I talk about this in my novel Earth. I've no existence where the Possibility is that we would then actually bump into um a very ancient civilization of robotic emissaries

And I talk about this in my novel Earth. I've no existence where the Possibility is that we would then actually bump into um a very ancient civilization of robotic emissaries

Wait, Gary say that with some drama please The Next 500 Years give me some emotion in that my gosh A spectacular read coming to you very shortly The Next 500 Years

The Next 500 Years hmm interesting

Actually you wrote a whole book on thinking about humans and the future The Next 500 Years.

Scott's got a book out, A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, but your book, Professor, next 500 years. Interesting.

Yeah, I have. It's a treatise of hope, I guess, if you will. I put it together as what I think humanity can do and also should do and that we have a duty to do.

One of my favorites is Our Mathematical Universe, where you argue that everything is math and if everything is math, someone could have programmed it that way.

The first title was The Mathematical Universe. And then I thought, that's so arrogant.

If we really believe that there are other universes, we shouldn't just say, the universe are ours. We should talk about, be more humble and acknowledge that it might just be our universe might not be the only one.

One of my favorites is Our Mathematical Universe, where you argue that everything is math and if everything is math, someone could have programmed it that way. And so a brilliant exercise there.

The first title was The Mathematical Universe. And then I thought, that's so arrogant. If we really believe that there are other universes, we shouldn't just say, the universe are ours. We should talk about, be more humble and acknowledge that it might just be our universe might not be the only one.

And of course, Life 3.0, where you're exploring the future of what we even think of as life.

And of course, Life 3.0, where you're exploring the future of what we even think of as life.

Marvin Minsky who died recently was my mentor and he wrote a book called The Society of Mind and basically describing our neocortex as a society of different factions that fight each other.

He also read Guardians of the Galaxy before it became a movie.

He also read Guardians of the Galaxy before it became a movie.

Somebody's got to do it. I think the world of astrophysicists. And you authored the book Am I My Genes? I like that. Am I My Genes? Or not. Are you something else?

So for the book when I did these interviews for the book, Am I My Genes, the first woman I interviewed with breast cancer said you know I always knew I shouldn't have stayed in that awful relationship all those years.

...and probably get it all the time. We're featuring my interview with Anne Wojcicki and I asked her just to benchmark this segment. I asked her what are some of the most common fears and concerns that people have? And she said, I'm going to go with genetic testing.

...your book am I my genes should be on everybody's shelf Chuck always a pleasure always good to have so not you should be every so it should be everyone's lap as they read it that's how where they should be Chuck always good to have you here I've been your host your personal astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson bidding you as always to keep looking out

Somebody's got to do it. I think the world of astrophysicists. And you authored the book Am I My Genes? I like that.

So it's confronting fate and family secrets in the age of genetic testing.

For the book when I did these interviews for the book, Am I My Genes, the first woman I interviewed with breast cancer said you know I always knew I shouldn't have stayed in that awful relationship all those years.

My most recent book actually is called the ethics police.

thank you Robert Klitzman your your book am I my genes should be on everybody's shelf

Well Alexis wrote a book, when was this? Back in 2014 called Without Their Permission.

And this idea that someone with a great idea and a laptop and some code can create something that is essentially or arrange something in a way that's never existed before and just do it. You don't need to open a factory, like you just open your laptop.

I mean, when the internet has had its best as a tool, it really enables people to do the amazing stuff that they want to do. Whether you want to learn knowledge or put it out into the world, I mean, I've seen it and I use the book, not only talk about some of the stuff I've been lucky to be a part of, but the people I've gotten to meet and know in philanthropy and activism in the arts who have been able to use technology to spread really, really amazing ideas and do stuff that they simply wouldn't have even 20 years ago.

Well Alexis wrote a book, when was this? Back in 2014 called Without Their Permission.

And this idea that someone with a great idea and a laptop and some code can create something that is essentially or arrange something in a way that's never existed before and just do it.

I mean, when the internet has had its best as a tool, it really enables people to do the amazing stuff that they want to do.

In fact not wishing to promote my own books but the book I wrote I wrote a book called Why Does Equals MC Square

In fact not wishing to promote my own books but the book I wrote I wrote a book called Why Does Equals MC Square Years ago which is really I love Equals MC Square.

Yeah, can I plug my book? I wrote a book I bet it's called The Nerdist It's called The Nerdist Way We don't have to linger on it, it's a productivity book for nerds I'm fanged in the last page so please

I wrote a book I bet it's called The Nerdist It's called The Nerdist Way We don't have to linger on it, it's a productivity book for nerds I'm fanged in the last page so please

Well, we've got a couple of ones. The most recent one came out for the year of astronomy. It was called The Heavens Proclaim.

And it's the history of all the different astronomy that the Vatican supported over the years.

Well, we've got a couple of ones. The most recent one came out for the year of astronomy. It was called The Heavens Proclaim.

And it's the history of all the different astronomy that the Vatican supported over the years.

We did a show not that long ago with the authors of The MVP Machine, which is a baseball book, and they're using the ultra high-speed cameras. I think it's Rapsodo.

Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchuk, co-authors of The MVP Machine, a superb book that sheds light on how player development techniques are taking baseball into the future and leaving moneyball way, way behind.

The MVP Machine, How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

I think The MVP Machine might be our Bible.

If you've listened to the first part of this show, you'll know that it is fascinating to see what is now happening. If you're doing Moneyball, then you're so way back at the beginning of this century. Things have changed.

Ben Limburg, Thank you. Travis Sorchick, the co-authors of The MVP Machine. If you haven't, get a copy. Go buy it. Find it, read it, think about it because what's happening in this book is out there and it's evolving.

In fact, we have here a book. It's a whole book called The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets written by Simon Singh.

Well, the first book I'd ever written was a book called Fermat's Last Theorem. In America it was called Fermat's Enigma and it's all about the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics.

In fact, we have here a book. It's a whole book called The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets written by Simon Singh.

Well, the first book I'd ever written was a book called Fermat's Last Theorem.

Well, the first book I'd ever written was a book called Fermat's Last Theorem. In America it was called Fermat's Enigma and it's all about the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics.

Well, the first book I'd ever written was a book called Fermat's Last Theorem. In America it was called Fermat's Enigma and it's all about the most notorious problem in the history of mathematics.

He is the author of a book called HA! Did I pronounce it right? Yes, you did. Subtitled The Science of When We Laugh and Why.

Was it Professor Mueller wrote that, Physics for President?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Physics for Future Presidents.

He was... he did something that politicians are terrified to do. He said, you know, I was one of the global climate change skeptics and I've looked at the data and the other guys were right. This is real.

Now we can argue about what the best way to deal with it is, but it is real. There's no point in denying it anymore.

Physics for Future Presidents, I think was the title.

Was it Professor Mueller wrote that, Physics for President?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Physics for Future Presidents.

He's the guy who wrote the book that President Clinton mentioned, Physics for Future Presidents, I think was the title.