The Sun Is Losing 5 to 6 Million Tons of Mass Every Second — And That’s Fine The sun loses roughly 5 to 6 million metric tons of mass every second. That sounds alarming until you remember how…
Neil deGrasse Tyson — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson has appeared on 17 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including StarTalk Radio, The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Mayim Bialik's Breakdown. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Neil said
“They may sometimes get it wrong, but your dumb ass always gets it wrong.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, on why our intuitions about the cosmos are often wrong.
“I think we should be able to measure our state of our civilization by the extent to which we are in the position to discover another Einstein rising up from the midst.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, on the importance of global access to education.
Episode appearances
17 The Case Against Pluto’s Planethood—and What’s Hiding Beyond It In this grab-bag edition of StarTalk Cosmic Queries, Neil deGrasse Tyson fields questions ranging from the possibility of a ninth…
Astrophysicist and astrobiologist Aomawa Shields spends her workdays asking a deceptively simple question: of the nearly six thousand exoplanets discovered so far, which ones might actually be…
People often say we live in a “post-truth” world, but as Michael Shermer points out, the moment someone makes that claim they are implicitly arguing for something true. Shermer, founder of the…
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Aliens, Black Holes, and Whether We're Living in a Simulation In a wide-ranging conversation, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson told Steven Bartlett that the most pressing…
“If you had a telescope and looked down at them near the surface of the black hole, everything would be going in slow motion,” Neil deGrasse Tyson explains, unpacking a fan’s question about the…
In 1996, the Fox network aired a documentary called Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction? that purported to show grainy black-and-white footage of a government autopsy on an extraterrestrial recovered…
In 2023, Neil deGrasse Tyson watched a parade of ex-military and intelligence insiders testify under oath that alien bodies and crash saucers were being stored in government facilities and…
In 1929, Edwin Hubble showed that distant galaxies are moving away from us, and the farther they are, the faster they recede. This single observation, combined with Einstein's general relativity,…
Steven Spielberg’s new film Disclosure Day arrives at a moment when the public conversation around UFOs has shifted from fringe speculation to congressional testimony. In a wide-ranging…
Fixing the Internet with Jaron Lanier Jaron Lanier, the computer scientist who coined the term "virtual reality" and now holds the title of Prime Unifying Scientist at Microsoft, has spent decades…
Starquakes Are Always Playing, and They Reveal What’s Hidden Inside Stars When Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces Conny Aerts as a professor of asteroseismology, he pauses to marvel that such a title…
In 2019, gardener Kevin Espiritu gave himself a brutal assignment: survive for 30 days eating only what he could grow, fish, or forage from a 15-by-30-foot plot. He calculated he needed 78,000…
Many-Worlds vs. Multiverse: Why Reality is Weirder Than You Think Theoretical physicist Brian Greene once put a book back on the library shelf as a child if it didn't contain equations. That…
The Godfather of AI's Warning: When Machines Learn to Play Dumb Imagine you're testing a machine's intelligence, feeding it complex puzzles and ethical dilemmas. It stumbles on some problems,…
In a 2024 interview on StarTalk, Nobel laureate and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton—often called the godfather of AI—laid out a deeply unsettling case: the artificial neural networks we are…
The episode features a wide-ranging Cosmic Queries discussion led by Neil deGrasse Tyson with co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O'Reilly and guest Charles Liu, a professor of physics and astronomy.…
Also appeared with
Try PodSized free
5 free AI summaries per month. Premium unlocks unlimited summaries, audio versions, chat, and full transcripts.
Start Free →