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Oct 2022
46m 57s

Cosmic Queries – Back to School Edition

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What do you wish you’d learned in school? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice go back to school to answer questions about simulation theory, time dilation, white holes, the sound of space, and more! 
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