📚 4 Books mentioned in "StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – The Deep with Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio
Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – The Deep with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Published on October 25, 2019
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
So, what he started quoting me. Where I said I open my book, the Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, with the quote, "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions his own book and quotes from it.
Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries
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So, in Death by Black Hole. I don't remember what number of book this is. So, in the chapter on being dense.
Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions another of his books and quotes from a chapter within it about density.
Letters from an Astrophysicist
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My next book's called Letters From an Astrophysicist. It's the correspondence I've had with people who've had similar angst about their existence.
Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions his upcoming book and its subject matter.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
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So, if we follow the reasoning by Steven Pinker in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, he studied the likelihood of you dying before maturity, or dying before adulthood, which is dying, at the hands of another human from early days of tribal warfare to modern days of state-sanctioned global warfare.
Neil deGrasse Tyson references Steven Pinker and his book about the decline of violence.