Podcasts that mention 📚 Cosmic Queries by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jame Trefil

No, no, no, the lazy answer is our second StarTalk book published with National Geographic called Cosmic Queries, which has an entire section on how astronomers find distances to things in the universe, and it was called the distance ladder.

Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions the book 'Cosmic Queries', published by National Geographic, as a valuable resource for understanding how astronomers measure distances in the universe. This book features a section that focuses specifically on the distance ladder method.

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also by the way uh we should mention that our guest today isn't the only one with a new book out and you've got a book based on cosmic queries that has a chapter that talks about the search for life oh yes indeed so thanks for mentioning that because i almost forgot i probably wouldn't have forgotten by the end but there's a book called cosmic queries that takes all the biggest questions including this one and much of sarah's research that informs this field is contained in that chapter

Matt mentions Neil's new book based on the podcast format, and Neil confirms the title and describes its content.

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the point is it's the title of the book is cosmic queries the book was inspired by this spin-off of the star talk flagship

Neil deGrasse Tyson announces the release of the new StarTalk book and states its title.

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oh by the way i i have to i'm compelled that this format inspired a book a star talk book called cosmic queries it's it's uh march 2021 so actual queries from people no so what happens is there's some queries that are just so deep and and they spill out over this format someone says what is the meaning of our existence or why is the universe here those are real questions that real people have right they don't lend themselves to our repartee right so we collected the deepest questions ever asked and we put them in the cosmic query's book so it's like um how did life get here what is the universe made of what's like why can't i wear brown shoes with a black tuxedo or can i wear white after labor day those are the questions the burning questions

Neil deGrasse Tyson announces a new StarTalk book titled 'Cosmic Queries', inspired by the podcast format and containing answers to deep questions from listeners. He mentions its release date is March 2021.

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and in fact star talk has another book coming out do you know this in the spring yeah okay spring 2021 it's you know what that book is called it's called cosmic queries nice and in there is the whole discussion about the expansion of the universe and how it could in one scenario could end up in the big rip in which case all of the nesting doll scenarios described by um what's the person's name again uh nissan uh will will be realized and that'll be the end of the universe as we know it

Neil deGrasse Tyson announces an upcoming StarTalk book titled 'Cosmic Queries' and mentions that it discusses the expansion of the universe and the 'big rip' scenario.

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that's my segue my awkward segue to the book i just published Okay called cosmic queries

Neil deGrasse Tyson announces his newly published book and describes its theme.

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