If you look someone in the eye and they tell you something that just happened, that is more true to you than a statistical table with charts. Bar charts than a pie graph. Testimonials have huge value to our emotions because another human being is communicating it. And so you, so, so I give another example: You could be, it's a little more obscure, but you read in like consumer reports or whatever that this one car is like a vacuum. But no, watch, they could just show a bar chart and say, this detergent is better than all of the others. They could show that. It's understandable evolutionarily. If you're not an engineer yourself,
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.