Hurricane Irma is now category four. It's one mile an hour faster than it was yesterday. So my point is, even with hurricanes to be strengths, we force them into categories when it's actually a container. I would claim that the template was always people forcing a natural variation into categories. Do you know Joan of Art? You remember she was burned at the stake. Yeah. 1400. Was she doing witchery? Okay. Well, okay. She was very religious. She led soldiers into battle. But they couldn't burn her at the stake for not being religious. There's a there's a passage in the Bible in Deuteronomy. Damn.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is the host of the weekly show “Star Talk” on National Geographic and the head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has a new book “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” out now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the show to chat with Theo about cosmic musings, the new space race, facts vs. feelings, flat-earthers, climate change and much more.