There are some very interesting scientific ties to the origin of a lot of these folk loric figures. I would love a world where ghosts and magic and these other folklore things exist. Science can't explain most of that yet. Maybe one day there will be a textbook that says definitively whether or not ghosts exist because of physics. But until I read that book, science is real and also ghosts could happen.
Is it time to update the constellations? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen dive into astrophysics, folklore, and our ancient connection to the stars with astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Ph.D.
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