Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2019-10-25
Books mentioned on StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – The Deep with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker is a comprehensive historical study arguing that violence has steadily declined throughout human history.
Discussed“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.”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“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."”
“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."”
Plugged Letters from an Astrophysicist
“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.”
Plugged Just Visiting This Planet
“Okay, this is the second. No, the third book I ever published. It's called Just Visiting This Planet. And it's a collection of Q and A. I had a column with the penname Merlin. People asked fun, really playful questions. I collected. This was decades old. But there's some timeless content here. Somebody asked about the vacuum.”
Plugged Death By Black Hole
“So, in Death by Black Hole. I don't remember what number of book this is. So, in the chapter on being dense.”