"There's no end of fear. And fear factors in on the scientific frontier, especially in your field of study," heather says. "If anybody offered me to go to space, like gos stay at the international space station, i would say, hell no", she adds. 'I thought it was like a, you know, i didn't realize that the zombes themselves are races'
Why do we like being scared? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore the haunting effects of horror and recreational fear with horror scholar and author, Mathias Clasen, and neuroscientist, Heather Berlin, PhD.
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