Nick christochus is a sociologist and professor at Yale University. His new book, apollo's arrow, details the impact of corona virus on our lives. He says we're just like every previous pandemic that we read about in the history books. We didn't do any better than other plagues over thousands of years.
How do diseases and information spread? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discover the history of pandemics, how social networks impact spread, and the hidden math behind it with sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
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