Confession: I didn’t watch COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey on Sunday night when millions of people around the world did. That’s because I promised my 9-year-old daughter that we would watch it together as a family, and we didn’t get that opportunity until Tuesday night. You see, my daughter is a big fan of Neil’s,… View Article
Join guest host Bill Nye the Science Guy, Eugene Mirman and NASA astronaut Mike Massimino as they have a blast answering your questions while Neil’s off working on COSMOS.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “When the cat’s away, the mice will play?” Well, our host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, is certainly one cool cat. I’m not sure Bill Nye the Science Guy, Eugene Mirman and NASA astronaut Mike Massimino qualify as mice, but while Neil’s was working on the new COSMOS series on FOX,… View Article
Lots of news this week, so let’s get right to it. StarTalk Live at SXSW, part of “Quirky + GE Present A Night of Invention” First of all, we’re happy to announce that StarTalk Live will be on the road in Austin, TX at SXSW (South by Southwest). It’s #NightofInvention… well, technically the extravaganza is… View Article
In this Cosmic Queries episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson gets all wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey as he answers fan questions about time travel with Colin Jost.
Some of our shows take longer to make it online than others. Back in August of 2012, we sat down in the studio with a young man named Colin Jost, a stand-up comedian who was a writer for Saturday Night Live. We recorded two shows, Cosmic Queries: Telescopes and Cosmic Queries: Time Travel. Tonight is… View Article
It’s time for another installment of StarTalk Radio Cosmic Quips and Clips from our comedy contributor, Dan Perlman. For those of you who don’t know, the videos in our Cosmic Quips and Clips playlist are our favorite videos where comedy collides with science and pop culture which Dan has found for us on YouTube. (As… View Article
Since they didn’t blow up Neil’s office in Part 1, the MythBusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are back to finish the job. Up for discussion: busted urban legends, Archimedes, Bigfoot and more.
If you liked Part 1 of Neil’s interview with the MythBusters, then you are in for a treat, because I think Part 2 is even better. I got to find out some things I didn’t know, like the fact that Adam Savage has only a high school diploma, and that neither he nor Jamie Hyneman… View Article
Why would a podcast and radio show have a YouTube Channel, you may ask? Well, I started out shooting “Behind the Scenes” videos during the first recording sessions I sat in on when I joined the StarTalk Team, using what we fondly refer to as “ShakyCam” (a handheld compact digital camera). But over time, we’ve… View Article
