298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
The Michael Shermer Show
Are You a Boy or a Girl?
We have this urge to compartmentalise, ok. Let's hold the boy girl aside just for a moment and look at for me an interesting example of this. Hurricanes, once they cross some threshold of of wind speed and an barometric pressure, we begin to categorize them, category one, category two, three, four, five. Yet wheat can go from a low category three to a high category three. And it, that fact, will not make the news. But if it goes one mile an hour above and lands in category four, that's breaking news. And so the question comes down to, why do we always have to compartmentalize things?
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