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Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Why Having a “Cosmic Perspective” Will Help You Do Life Better

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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The Human Genome and the Universe

When you die, the molecules are sitting there doing nothing. You introduce it to heat, the molecules break open and release more heat. The energy of your content ultimately ends up traveling through space at the speed of light. So knowing that I'm alive when the chances are I would have never been born is true for all the other people who will never be born. That's a cosmic perspective that comes to us from biology.

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