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Science, pop culture, and comedy collide on StarTalk Radio! Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, and his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities, and scientific experts explore astronomy, physics, and everything else there is to know about life in the universe...
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The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
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Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, boxed set
Richard P. Feynman
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Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox
Light
Kimberly Arcand
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Listening to the Universe with Kimberly Arcand
The World in Six Songs
Daniel J. Levitin
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
The Singing Neanderthals
Steven Mithen
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
Successful Aging
Daniel J. Levitin
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
Daniel J. Levitin
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Is Music the Language of the Universe? with Daniel Levitin
Physical Processes in the Interstellar Medium
Jr. Lyman Spitzer
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Dark Comets with Darryl Seligman
The Physical Universe
Frank H. Shu
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Dark Comets with Darryl Seligman
A Mathematician's Apology
G H Hardy
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Our Mathematical Universe with Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
Contact
Carl Sagan
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Revisiting the Drake Equation with David Grinspoon
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Surviving Galeras
It was mentioned as being an inspirational read about the unexpected eruption of a volcano and the dire circumstances it caused, leading to deaths and injuries.
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And I read this amazing book called Surviving Galerus by this volcanologist called Stanley Williams.
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It was mentioned as being an inspirational read about the unexpected eruption of a volcano and the dire circumstances it caused, leading to deaths and injuries.
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And I read this amazing book called Surviving Galerus by this volcanologist called Stanley Williams.
Slap Shot Science
It was discussed in the context of hockey collisions, specifically the physics involved in hits and the forces exerted during collisions.
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Alan is going to help us understand just how much force it's going to take to flatten your opponent against those boards and who's not going to want to know that okay?
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Episode: #ICYMI - Hockey: Physics on Ice (Part 2)
It was discussed in the context of hockey collisions, specifically the physics involved in hits and the forces exerted during collisions.
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Alan is going to help us understand just how much force it's going to take to flatten your opponent against those boards and who's not going to want to know that okay?
You saw that clip. Are you in the yeah that's what happened school or are you with Chuck?
Professor Alan Hache from Moncton University in Canada. Yes. Author of Slap Shot Science and the physics of Isochi.
please listeners go and check out the professor's books Slap Shot Science and the physics of hockey if you've enjoyed listening to him I'm sure you'll be interested in thrilled reading his work
Dirty Electricity
Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
It was mentioned that Ben Franklin wrote this book about electricity, and it was internationally renowned due to his experiments with electricity.
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It's fun to look back at our founding fathers and the scientific literacy expressed by Thomas Jefferson and especially by Ben Franklin. He wrote a book called Scientific Researchers into Electricity a...
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It was mentioned that Ben Franklin wrote this book about electricity, and it was internationally renowned due to his experiments with electricity.
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It's fun to look back at our founding fathers and the scientific literacy expressed by Thomas Jefferson and especially by Ben Franklin. He wrote a book called Scientific Researchers into Electricity and it was known internationally for his experiments learning about this new thing called electricity.
March Madness Basketball Trivia
Men's Edition Book Game
It was described as a geography and a description of the characters who travel to Las Vegas to watch and bet on the March Madness games, including their antics and behaviors.
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The book is really a, you know, it's a geography. It's a description of the characters who travel to Las Vegas. They're all sports fans. They fancy themselves as knowledgeable betters and they go to B...
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It was described as a geography and a description of the characters who travel to Las Vegas to watch and bet on the March Madness games, including their antics and behaviors.
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The book is really a, you know, it's a geography. It's a description of the characters who travel to Las Vegas. They're all sports fans. They fancy themselves as knowledgeable betters and they go to Bollack really at the vacation.
It describes the first four days of the tournament, Thursday, Friday, you know, or an hour in the third day of the first weekend.
It's like you got your favorite series, but you've missed the first three or four episode series. You binge the whole thing because it's a Game of Thrones marathon with betting.
So then I went again. And about three years later, I said, you know, there's a book in this is a book that would describe the characters that run Las Vegas, the watch from March Madness.
And I described the characters and how they go through the stupidities that begin the tournament.
Fire and ice
A history of comets in art
It was a book by Roberta Olson that Neil deGrasse Tyson had on his shelf, and it was mentioned as a precursor to her collaborations with Jay Pasachoff.
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One of them, when I first knew of your collaborations, it was Fire and ice, a history of comets in art. And that's still on my shelf. And I'd love that.
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It was a book by Roberta Olson that Neil deGrasse Tyson had on his shelf, and it was mentioned as a precursor to her collaborations with Jay Pasachoff.
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One of them, when I first knew of your collaborations, it was Fire and ice, a history of comets in art. And that's still on my shelf. And I'd love that.
Oh, that was only you. Oh my gosh.
But it was before that. And it was actually that that was the reason why Jay and I met.
Medieval Woodcut Illustrations
City Views and Decorations from the Nuremberg Chronicle (Dover Pictorial Archive)
It was a book from 1492, which contained numerous comet depictions, though later analysis revealed they were stylized woodcuts rather than independent drawings. It was a significant historical source.
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So one of the first things that I did with Roberta was when we noticed that in a book called the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1492, there were a number of pictures of comets, one of them kept getting cite...
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It was a book from 1492, which contained numerous comet depictions, though later analysis revealed they were stylized woodcuts rather than independent drawings. It was a significant historical source.
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So one of the first things that I did with Roberta was when we noticed that in a book called the Nuremberg Chronicle from 1492, there were a number of pictures of comets, one of them kept getting cited as the first drawing of a comet.
Just remind me, the Nuremberg Chronicles is a complete compilation of all knowledge up to that day, isn't that correct?
That's right. And it's an early incunabula. It's very important. And it's a huge volume.
But they tried to give the entire history of the world in terms of rulers and war. Everything, everything. It was just...
I have one page on my wall from the Nuremberg Chronicle that happens to have a comet in it, of course.
Fire in the Sky
Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science
It was a book that Roberta Olson and Jay Pasachoff worked on and received a Getty Grant for. It involved archival research and exploration of British art and science.
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And we got Getty grants to do our book, Fire in the Sky, Comets and Meteors, A Decisive Century in British Art and Science.
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It was a book that Roberta Olson and Jay Pasachoff worked on and received a Getty Grant for. It involved archival research and exploration of British art and science.
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And we got Getty grants to do our book, Fire in the Sky, Comets and Meteors, A Decisive Century in British Art and Science.
The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica (History of Analytic Philosophy)
It was suggested as a companion book to Newton's 'Principia', offering an analysis of that book for readers to explore Newton's genius.
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And there's another one written by an astrophysicist, a Nobel laureate himself, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who wrote a book on Isaac Newton and it's like the Principia Companion.
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It was suggested as a companion book to Newton's 'Principia', offering an analysis of that book for readers to explore Newton's genius.
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And there's another one written by an astrophysicist, a Nobel laureate himself, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who wrote a book on Isaac Newton and it's like the Principia Companion.
The Last Alchemist
It was mentioned as a potential book about Newton, highlighting his involvement in alchemy and the transition between older and modern science.
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There's an interesting one, Newton, The Last Alchemist or the last sorcerer, because he was really big into alchemy.
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It was mentioned as a potential book about Newton, highlighting his involvement in alchemy and the transition between older and modern science.
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There's an interesting one, Newton, The Last Alchemist or the last sorcerer, because he was really big into alchemy.
Isaac Newton
The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books)
It was mentioned as a potential book about Newton, highlighting his involvement in alchemy and the transition between older and modern science.
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There's an interesting one, Newton, the last alchemist or the last sorcerer, because he was really big into alchemy.
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It was mentioned as a potential book about Newton, highlighting his involvement in alchemy and the transition between older and modern science.
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There's an interesting one, Newton, the last alchemist or the last sorcerer, because he was really big into alchemy.
Wood Shop
Handy Skills and Creative Building Projects for Kids
It was mentioned as a book from 1927 with complicated projects, possibly DIY projects, that even adults might find hard to do today.
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I've got a book at home that's called Projects for Boys, Popular Mechanics.
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It was mentioned as a book from 1927 with complicated projects, possibly DIY projects, that even adults might find hard to do today.
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I've got a book at home that's called Projects for Boys, Popular Mechanics.
Back when you can get away with a title like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1927.
The Physics of Krav Maga
It was mentioned as the speaker's second book, and it was stated that he had gotten into it recently, with the same focus on the science and physics of the martial art.
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My second book is The Physics of Krav Maga which I've really gotten into recently.
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It was mentioned as the speaker's second book, and it was stated that he had gotten into it recently, with the same focus on the science and physics of the martial art.
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My second book is The Physics of Krav Maga which I've really gotten into recently.
A Brief History of Time
It was discussed as a bestseller, but with a humorous note about whether people actually read it due to its complex content. It was also compared to the 'pocket fisherman', suggesting it was a gift rather than a book meant for everyone to read and understand.
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Remember when Stephen Hawking's A Short History of Time was a bestseller? And there was a kind of an open joke about whether anyone who was buying it was reading it because like, that is not a, you kn...
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It was discussed as a bestseller, but with a humorous note about whether people actually read it due to its complex content. It was also compared to the 'pocket fisherman', suggesting it was a gift rather than a book meant for everyone to read and understand.
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Remember when Stephen Hawking's A Short History of Time was a bestseller? And there was a kind of an open joke about whether anyone who was buying it was reading it because like, that is not a, you know, the idea that, you know, some, a standard normally educated human being could read that book and make sense of it is a little bit of a stretch.
I feel like the Stephen Hawking book was for giving, not for reading.
A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults)
My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
It was described as a unique and epic story of Hakeem Oluseyi's journey from poverty and crime to becoming a leading astrophysicist, and was enjoyed by the host so much that he read 275 pages in one sitting.
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You came out with a book. A book. Let me get the title straight here. A Quantum Life.
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It was described as a unique and epic story of Hakeem Oluseyi's journey from poverty and crime to becoming a leading astrophysicist, and was enjoyed by the host so much that he read 275 pages in one sitting.
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You came out with a book. A book. Let me get the title straight here. A Quantum Life.
A Quantum Life. My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars.
Lindsay sent me a copy of the book...a couple nights ago and I only had time for that night to read it because I knew what my schedule was. And I got through about 250, 275 pages of the book.
I was reading it as homework because I just wanted to be prepared, but I ended up reading it for enjoyment, which is why I read 275 pages in one sitting.
It's out this year. It's on the Valentine imprint on Penguin Random House.
Watchmen (2019 Edition)
It was mentioned as a graphic novel with a character named Dr. Manhattan who experiences time in a unique, non-linear way and is able to view his own worldline.
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Dr. Manhattan, I forgot also, is a character who lives in his world line and also sees his world line simultaneously.
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It was mentioned as a graphic novel with a character named Dr. Manhattan who experiences time in a unique, non-linear way and is able to view his own worldline.
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Dr. Manhattan, I forgot also, is a character who lives in his world line and also sees his world line simultaneously.
Okay, this is of the Dr. Manhattan from The Watchmen.
Watchmen, correct.
Yes, yes, yes, excellent.
Yeah, that's a pretty powerful guy.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
It was mentioned as the source material for the movie of the same name, which was discussed in the context of Andy Dufresne's resilience and AI's potential to take over.
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Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption.
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It was mentioned as the source material for the movie of the same name, which was discussed in the context of Andy Dufresne's resilience and AI's potential to take over.
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Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
It was mentioned in passing as the source material for a movie that was popular, which was about a man in prison who was falsely accused and plotting his escape.
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Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption.
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It was mentioned in passing as the source material for a movie that was popular, which was about a man in prison who was falsely accused and plotting his escape.
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Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
It was mentioned in relation to Andy Dufresne, a character who was mentioned in a discussion about AI and cheating, referencing the book and the movie adaptation.
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Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption.
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It was mentioned in relation to Andy Dufresne, a character who was mentioned in a discussion about AI and cheating, referencing the book and the movie adaptation.
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Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption.
Foundation 3-Book Bundle
Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
It was said that the author, a chemist by training, had explored alternative elements that might support life, with silicon being the best option besides carbon, but none as effective as carbon.
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Isaac Asimov the famous writer, he was a chemist by training, he actually wrote a paper in which he investigated what other elements in the periodic table could form the basis for life and silicon is...
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It was said that the author, a chemist by training, had explored alternative elements that might support life, with silicon being the best option besides carbon, but none as effective as carbon.
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Isaac Asimov the famous writer, he was a chemist by training, he actually wrote a paper in which he investigated what other elements in the periodic table could form the basis for life and silicon is the best but really none of them work as well as carbon.
Red Mars
It was mentioned in relation to a question about the possibility of engineered ecology for terraforming Mars, referencing the author's works on Mars.
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So I was wondering do you think it would be possible to have an engineered ecology? For terraforming that would actually be robust enough to be self-sustaining Terraforming Emily, I think I think you'...
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It was mentioned in relation to a question about the possibility of engineered ecology for terraforming Mars, referencing the author's works on Mars.
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So I was wondering do you think it would be possible to have an engineered ecology? For terraforming that would actually be robust enough to be self-sustaining Terraforming Emily, I think I think you're the one who can think about environments most effectively.
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