I’m lousy at remembering to wish people happy birthday. Even in the days of Facebook-assisted memory, I still forget birthdays. And now it seems that I’m not just lousy at remembering friends’ birthdays… I’m lousy at remembering the birthdays of guests on our show. November 13th was Whoopi Goldberg’s birthday, and I missed it. I… View Article
Is anyone else having a sense of déjà vu when watching StarTalk on The Nerdist Channel? Of course, it’s not déjà vu. As I watch the episodes, I’m not getting a phantom feeling that I’ve experienced it before, because I actually did experience it before. And if you’ve heard the podcast prior to seeing the… View Article
The StarTalk Live “Particle Party” celebrating the discovery of the Higgs boson continues with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye the Science Guy, CERN physicist Kyle Cranmer, comic co-host Eugene Mirman, Sarah Vowell and Scott Adsit.
“Bosons like to party!” –Kyle Cranmer “I am so old I remember when there was no such thing as coherent light.” –Bill Nye “Answer me truthfully. Are you making mini black holes at CERN?” –Neil deGrasse Tyson “Are you moving so quick now that it seems like time has stopped?” –Eugene Mirman Some of our… View Article
Did you catch the premier of StarTalk on the Nerdist Channel on YouTube last week? What did you think of it? (Tell us in the comments below.) In case you didn’t catch it (and if you, like me, were suffering from the impact of Superstorm Sandy, you might not have caught the show), it was… View Article
How does Neil deGrasse Tyson celebrate the discovery of the Higgs boson? By throwing a StarTalk Live “Particle Party” with Bill Nye the Science Guy and Kyle Cranmer, one of the CERN physicists who discovered the Higgs.
This week, two things finally happened that we’ve all been waiting for for a long time. First, we have an official launch date for StarTalk on The Nerdist Channel on YouTube: Nov. 1. (You can subscribe to the Nerdist Channel to get updates on when new StarTalk video episodes will be available.) And second, we’re… View Article
In honor of National Chemistry Week, I went back and listened to The Cosmic Chemistry of Cosmetics from last year. And while I normally trust astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to educate me while he entertains me, I did not have high hopes for a show on cosmetics. But from the first moments of the… View Article
In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan questions about exploring the solar system, the possibility of life on Europa and black holes.
As much fun as we have with the interviews of guest scientists and celebrities, one of my personal favorite segments we do are the Cosmic Queries. That’s because watching Neil deGrasse Tyson answer fan questions submitted by you, on the fly, off the cuff, is just a lot of fun. Throw in the interplay with… View Article