Podcast Episodes featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson

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World Series Slugfest, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Playing with Science - November 15, 2017 21:21 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 164 ratings
The 2017 World Series is the greatest slugfest in the Fall Classic’s history. After 8 different batters hit home runs in a record-setting Game 2, Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice searched for scientific explanations with Neil Tyson and weather expert William Patzert. Don’t miss an episode of Playing...

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Human Augmentation with Adam Savage and Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio - November 03, 2017 22:40 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Exoskeleton suits, brain implants, tiny people, AI, and more! Adam Savage and Neil deGrasse Tyson investigate human augmentation from the main stage at NYCC 2017 with comic co-host Chuck Nice and NYU bioethics professor and philosopher Matthew Liao. Special thanks to Adam Savage and Tested. Che...

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#ICYMI - Golf Science, with Geoff Ogilvy and Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio - October 12, 2017 22:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Aerodynamics, Doppler radar, laser tracking, and big data! Gary and Chuck find out how science has guided the evolution of golf, from why balls have dimples to how clubs are designed, with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and, from the PGA Tour, 3x world golf champion Geoff Ogilvy. Don’t miss ...

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Golf Science, with Geoff Ogilvy and Neil deGrasse Tyson

Playing with Science - October 11, 2017 22:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 164 ratings
Aerodynamics, Doppler radar, laser tracking, and big data! Gary and Chuck find out how science has guided the evolution of golf, from why balls have dimples to how clubs are designed, with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and, from the PGA Tour, 3x world golf champion Geoff Ogilvy. Don’t miss ...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth

Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu - September 21, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu to discuss the politics of space exploration, people's fear of artificial intelligence, and even tell some jokes. Tyson is Director of the Hayden Planetarium. In his latest book, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,” he b...

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Episode #7: Neil deGrasse Tyson Part 2

What I've Learned, with Arianna Huffington - September 11, 2017 04:02 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 219 ratings
Celebrated astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is back for another “out of this world” conversation with Arianna. Listen in as Neil and Arianna continue a powerful conversation on the influence of technology in our lives. The two discuss smartphone addiction, social media and what makes news “rea...

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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Rerun)

Kickass News - Afar - September 01, 2017 00:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Today's episode is a rerun of my interview acclaimed astrophysicist, author, and a highly popular science communicator Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson.  Today Dr. Tyson talks about his new #1 New York Times Bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and why he wants to make science accessible and unde...

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Episode #6: Neil deGrasse Tyson Part 1

What I've Learned, with Arianna Huffington - August 28, 2017 03:53 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 219 ratings
Arianna sits down with one of the most celebrated and powerful voices of science in the world (maybe even the universe), Neil deGrasse Tyson. The American astrophysicist is the director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium in New York and was once named the Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive by Peop...

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#ICYMI: Baseball TweetTalk, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio - August 17, 2017 22:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
In the latest installment of our popular episodes where hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly invite Neil deGrasse Tyson into the studio to explain the thinking behind his popular, and sometimes controversial, sport tweets, we turn our attention to baseball. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Sc...

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Baseball TweetTalk, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Playing with Science - August 16, 2017 22:40 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 164 ratings
In the latest installment of our fan-fave episodes where hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly invite Neil deGrasse Tyson into the studio to explain the thinking behind his popular, and sometimes controversial, sport tweets, we turn our attention to baseball. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with S...

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#ICYMI: Planet NASCAR, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio - August 10, 2017 22:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Is Planet NASCAR governed by the same laws of physics as the rest of Planet Earth? You wouldn’t know it from some of the responses to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweets about the sport. Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice bring Neil into the studio to unpack the physics in his NASCAR tweets. Don’t miss an ep...

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Planet NASCAR, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Playing with Science - August 09, 2017 22:40 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 164 ratings
Is Planet NASCAR governed by the same laws of physics as the rest of Planet Earth? You wouldn’t know it from some of the responses to Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweets about the sport. Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice bring Neil into the studio to unpack the physics in his NASCAR tweets. Don’t miss an ep...

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#ICYMI: Out of This World Sports, with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Repeat)

StarTalk Radio - July 06, 2017 22:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
This week, Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore what it would be like if we held the Olympics on Mars, or went ice skating on Europa, or played baseball on the Moon, using Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular tweets that look at sports through the lens of science. Their only guest: astrophysicist and m...

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Out of This World Sports, with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Repeat)

Playing with Science - July 05, 2017 22:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 164 ratings
This week, Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore what it would be like if we held the Olympics on Mars, or went ice skating on Europa, or played baseball on the Moon, using Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular tweets that look at sports through the lens of science. Their only guest: astrophysicist and m...

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Episode 19: Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Spider-Man Is Real

Your Kickstarter Sucks - June 16, 2017 04:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
In the thrilling Season 2 premiere of Your Kickstarter Sucks, the boys are Talkin' Tyson on all things Neil deGrasse, considering harassing celebrities over Bluetooth, and discovering the absolute worst that Etsy has to offer all our wonderful fathers on their big day. Worth the wait? Well oh hel...

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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Gives a Lesson in Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Kickass News - Afar - May 31, 2017 00:17 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
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100. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist) – The Only "-ist" I Am

Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - May 27, 2017 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratings
Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. 100 episode...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Absence of Curiosity, Sounding Black, and Why Astrophysics Is His Calling (Ep. 3)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air - May 25, 2017 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Larry answers tweets and catches up on some of Trump’s latest antics, from giving the Pope a set of books by Martin Luther King Jr. to the Melania hand-holding gaf (0:30). Then Larry is joined by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to discuss the concept of "sounding black" (18:00), why a...

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UF97: Neil deGrasse Tyson

UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra - May 23, 2017 07:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson joins Jim and Matt in studio to discuss his wrestling and rowing days at Harvard, being the only kid he knew who never had a fight, the Big Bang, flat Earth theories, knowledge of the universe being liberating, and much more. Plus, the guys talk about...

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Ep. #426: Boris Epshteyn, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Real Time with Bill Maher - May 20, 2017 04:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 14.5K ratings
Bill’s guests are Boris Epshteyn, Neil deGrasse Tyson, David Frum, and Dr. Cornel West. (Originally aired 5/19/17) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 249 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Probably Science - May 17, 2017 16:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 609 ratings
Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson), astrophysicist, science communicator and author of the fantastic new book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, joins Matt and Andy for a Definitely Science episode, discussing, well, the entire universe: Its origins, the forces that govern it, general relativity,...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson And Jim Lovell On Failure, iPhones and Mars

Nerdette - April 28, 2017 05:01 - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell talk about the importance of failure, the future of innovation, and when we’ll get to Mars.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - 'StarTalk'

Awards Chatter - April 24, 2017 15:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
America's favorite astrophysicist, who splits his time between running a planetarium and hosting the first-ever TV talk show about science, shares how he learned to be media-savvy, what he makes of the anti-science Trump Administration and why he remains optimistic about the future. Learn more a...

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Lifechangers: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Discovery - April 17, 2017 19:32 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 894 ratings
In Lifechangers, Kevin Fong talks to people about their lives in science. Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, Neil deGrasse Tyson is well known in the US since he presented the TV series Cosmos: a spacetime odyssey. He talks to Kevin Fong about growing up in...

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24. Neil deGrasse Tyson: America's Astrophysicist

Next Question with Katie Couric - April 06, 2017 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 4.2K ratings
Neil deGrasse Tyson (the host of StarTalk) fell in love with the cosmos at age 9, on a visit to the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Not only did he fulfill his childhood ambition of becoming an astrophysicist, today he’s the director of the Hayden Planetarium and one of America's most belove...

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#ICYMI - Out of This World Sports, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio - March 16, 2017 22:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
This week, Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore what it would be like if we held the Olympics on Mars, or went ice skating on Europa, or played baseball on the Moon, using Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular tweets that look at sports through the lens of science. Their only guest: astrophysicist and m...

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Out of This World Sports, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Playing with Science - March 12, 2017 00:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 164 ratings
This week, Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice explore what it would be like if we held the Olympics on Mars, or went ice skating on Europa, or played baseball on the Moon, using Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular tweets that look at sports through the lens of science. Their only guest: astrophysicist and m...

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StarTalk Playing with Science – The Big Game Special Edition feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

StarTalk Radio - February 02, 2017 23:50 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
SERIES PREMIERE SPECIAL EDITION: This special edition of the series premier of our new podcast, Playing with Science, features additional content by Neil deGrasse Tyson before and after the show. In between, hosts Gary O’Reilly & Chuck Nice huddle up for Sunday’s big game with Super Bowl champs ...

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#47 Neil deGrasse Tyson

How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black - December 21, 2016 12:26 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
In this wide ranging conversation, the world famous astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, television host, author and all around badass talks to Michael about how his early years opened his mind to the universe and laid the path to his future success. In this candid interv...

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Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler - November 01, 2016 01:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
join aisha and astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson as they talk about rejecting stereotype, destroying constraint, overcoming expectation, sprinting towards destiny and defying gravity. plus neil explains everything and aisha struggles to keep up. girl on guy is taking copious notes.

Books written by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson

384 pages - ★★★★ - 9.82K ratings

Merlin's Tour of the Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson

318 pages - ★★★★ - 293 ratings

Just Visiting This Planet
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Tyson

352 pages - ★★★★ - 82 ratings