Full Episode | Science Literacy and Alternative Facts, with Bill Nye
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- In a world clouded by alternative facts, science is here to make things clear. Bill Nye is back on StarTalk All-Stars with comic co-host Chuck Nice and special guest Ross Andersen, the Senior Editor of The Atlantic, where he oversees all things science, technology and health. Listen and learn as we delve into a discussion on science literacy and the search for truth. Hear why Ross believes people are still optimistic about science despite the politicizing of hot-button issues. Explore how infusing science with patriotic pride might solve cognitive dissonance and political disagreement. You’ll also hear our panel contemplate methods on how to have civil discussions with people who have opposing ideas and who argue based on false knowledge. Find out some of the sources available that offer quality science literature online and in print. Discover how some scientific causes can become mixed up in the battle of political identity. Learn why the denial of climate change science may lead to the United States surrendering its leading global position in scientific study and research. All that, plus, fan-submitted Cosmic Queries that range from, “Is social media making us dumber?” to, “What are the odds of Bill and Neil reaching out to the administration to propose goals for space exploration?”
This episode originally aired on 3/21/17
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Bill Nye and Chuck Nice are awesome.
Bill is a brilliant man
Bill Nye has a bachelor of science degree he studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University (where he took an astronomy class taught by Carl Sagan) and graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering in 1977. Mechanical Engineering, is the discipline that applies engineering, physics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the design, production, and operation of machinery. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering disciplines. Including the study of mechanics, thermodynamics, applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and electricity. The mechanical engineering field requires an understanding of core areas including mechanics, kinematics, thermodynamics, materials science and structural analysis. In addition to these core principles, mechanical engineers use tools such as computer-aided design (CAD), and product life cycle management to design and analyze manufacturing plants, industrial equipment and machinery, heating and cooling systems, transport systems, aircraft, watercraft, robotics, medical devices, weapons, and others.
Nye occasionally returns to Cornell as a guest-lecturer of introductory-level astronomy and human ecology classes.
After graduating from Cornell, Nye worked as an engineer for the Boeing Corporation and Sundstrand Data Control near Seattle. While at Boeing, he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used on 747 airplanes, worked on business jet navigation systems and laser gyroscope systems.
Bill went on to become the CEO of The Planetary Society and helped develop sundials for the Mars Exploration Rover missions. Nye has written two best-selling books on science, including Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation in 2014 and Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World in 2015.
Paul Adams Thank you. The morons here are abundant. They all seem far too bothered about the gender non-issue.
Bill Nye was my childhood! Also, let Chuck talk about his show!
Yes shows his true character
Bill Nye has been around forever in the Sciences Community I love how he teaches.
wow the Gender thing has got a lot of people freaking over Bill. I wonder if he will address this soon. But Guys, you have to remember that Bill is a guy who tries to follow the facts. Gender is a part of the psychology spectrum of science and that is very philosophical atm. So, its not very easy to have a lot of facts on it. I prefer if he just avoided that category. But he didn't. Don't let one thing you disagree with change how a person is seen. He is still a man who is very much a big science advocate and has accomplished a lot in his life.
Pretty sad that people can turn on him like they have. It really makes me sad for Bill.
Son Goku "TRIES to follow facts" well he derailed pretty far from the reality.
I think people dont have anything against someone wanting to be attack helicopter. Its just that this same group that like to hype and push for 1000x gender narrative want to force gender pronounces.
The population of the US at large is indoctrinated into a very fixed and static binary. Challenging that binary challenges some of the most fundamental aspects of life that most laypeople have been taught and it terrifies the shit out of them. It doesn't matter that what Bill said doesn't affect these people, they are going to react emotionally, dig themselves in deep, and lash out at anyone who doesn't validate what they believe.
No, he is an agenda-pushing bigot that gets funded to spill out that agenda.
Thank you for those 48 minutes of decent discussion. I feel like I'm drowning in wilful ignorance and superficial actuality lately from all sides of the media.
From the oil companies perspective a low carbon tax helps them
1. It puts further strain on their coal competitors which produce more CO2.
2. It gives the appearance that progress is being made without hurting them as much as a later, much higher carbon tax would hurt them.
3. It makes them look better to the public (look, we support emission reduction too!)
Finally a full episode. My brain is very pleased. Very.
+Koozy we've started posting every week! There are new ones for the past 2 weeks and a few from a while back.
Keep doing that StarTalk Radio. And I don't think any of us will mind if you block the misinformed gender trolls :)
please no more bill nye the moment he backed bullshit that is not founded in science is the moment you should of ostracized him
Seanders look what we found! A man with fascist tendencies.. I shoulda tell your friends about that. I'm sure they will be happy to hear it
LeksServices You just asked some really incoherently stupid questions that I'm not even sure relates to anything I just said. So I'll just give you a blanket answer. Transsexuals or whatever wackos are out there can identify with whatever gender they want. Why? Because gender isn't sex. Sex is biological, gender isn't. The sex of a person is objectively true, where as the gender of the person has become extremely subjective. You following me here? It's not a hard concept to grasp.
Weird that the comments are filled with people clutching their pearls and freaking out about gender issues. I don't recall this being mentioned at all in this video.
You have to wonder why these people are so fixated about that one issue.
boggisthecat people don't trust bill nye anymore. He's lost credibility.
because he is on a SCIENCE podcast, and he lied about science and made shit up for money and approval. That normally doesn't go down well in a science loving audience
Because it's the only piece they have left to hang onto.
Timmy, no he really did not.
The political bias IS needed. Science needs to thrive for our species to survive. We should try to oppose any administration who opposes science and promotes falsehoods and religious nonsense.
Good luck with that. I am with you...
This was great! I got myself stuck at TED during the rain this weekend and came across an alternative approach to talking about climate change. Basically, shift the focus to the economic side. 2C of warming just doesn't pack the same punch (particularly in the US) as the potential for much higher costs for food or home owners insurance or utilities.
We've got some work to do on translating the flood of information we are exposed to daily into knowledge, but we should be able to tackle two problems at once. In the meantime, hit them in the wallet with the "what if the science is correct?" approach, preferably on a super hot day.
Not doing will cost billions, doing so costs more billions.... How is that an aeguement?
"This is wrong because I don't agree"
"This people are wrong because they are/think/talk/look different than me"
Obviously the mindset of a true GENIUS.
Please carry on, explaining why you are right
Lol so many people criticizing Bill when they don't even know what "gender" is. This is exactly what this video is talking about. People are too focused on defending their opinions that they refuse to actually learn.
People would rather live in their description of reality all alone, rather than objective reality where we all live regardless of our choice.
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Nothing worse than people not blindly following an idea . Maybe the theory presented by Bill was not based on science but rather based on a social ideology . Ergo not couched in science . Ergo a steaming pile of propaganda .
LEARN THIS:
Why, in MOST mammalian species, the males compete for sexual congress with females? Why are males more aggressive, bigger, stronger, and protect the heard/pack/flock? Is it a PURE construct in mammals that males are territorial and challenge other males for dominance? What about the fact that females of almost every avian and mammalian species nurture and raise the young, are more docile, and more reproductively selective. If it is a PURE construct then why does NEARLY every human culture, (also the more primitive the more pronounced this is GENERALLY) men are the hunters the protectors the leaders of females and other subordinate males? Yeah there's not basis to think that gender has ANY natural predominant roles...
Jordan B Peterson is an extremely tuned in individual in this field . People need to realise that sociology is not a hard science and the exclusion of science from the discussion only serves to discredit it's arguments .
There's no such thing as "alternative facts" in science. JUST FUCKING FACTS!
there's no such thing as ''green grapes'' in the forest.JUST FUCKING GRAPES!
Love you Bill and Chuck!
If popular science videos are being downvoted like this, then America is really in intellectual decline.
I wish we had Bill Nye in the UK when I was a kid.
GUYS! It's so simple! Teach kids and teenagers about logical fallacies and the scientific method.
Yes, we ABSOLUTELY should change the way we vote, from only allowing votes FOR A CANDIDATE to allowing votes FOR OR AGAINST A CANDIDATE! That's not about changing HOW GETS TO VOTE except that those who want to vote against someone would no longer have to choose between being silenced and being misrepresented. In other words, a voter who wants to prevent a corrupt or scary candidate from winning could vote directly against that candidate rather than having to decide between voting for someone they don't want to elect and not voting at all.
GMOs are not inherently bad. However, the corporate attachment to them (e.g., Monsanto) is the problem. When patented seeds cannot be grown and replanted, and when the courts uphold the corporate claim that a farmer stole their patent when Monsanto and their customers can't control pollen from their plants and contaminate a neighboring farm. Or GMO plants that are resistant to Roundup, so farmers literally drown their fields in Roundup. The people applying the herbicide must where protective gear, but it's OK for us to eat. Add to that fact that Monsanto employees don't eat GMO food in their cafeterias.
Yeah, but saying GMOs aree bad is like saying electricity (or nuclear electricity) is bad. It is just silly, we genetically modified food for at least 10 000 years by selective breeding, looking for favourable mutations, causing mutations with strong mutagens, UV, radioactivity, but somehow when we finally understand which gene we put in the genome it is bad. The risks of GMOs are real, but they are hardly specific to GMOs, the risks of irradiated seeds full of unknown mutations are far greater yet no one freaks out (and hardly anyone knows that randomly mnutated seeds can be organic, but GMOs with known changes cannot). I wish people stopped freaking out after seeing the three letters and started discussing the real issues in agriculture.
ACC Bill, ACC. We knew what you meant though. Continuing to enjoy these full episodes!
I love Bill Nye.. I love Chuck Nice.. I dont like them together as much as Neil & Chuck.
Guys hating on Bill and saying he shouldn't have come here. You really sound like the SJW's you hate so much, the conversation about gender and his views on it are not relevant to the video, bringing it here is simply dishonest.
I don't agree with what he said in his show about genders, but that doens't mean everything else he says is wrong or should be outright censored.
Thank you for being a reasonable person... you're a good person!
However, we'd benefit from considering the following:
Gender is an idea and sex is biological. No one *who is informed* disagrees that there are more than 2 BIOLOGICAL SEXES.
However, gender is a product of culture. The ideas associated with gender come from culture -- they are not intrinsic. Humans have invented every single idea. Therefore, ideas can change, because they are not part of nature. It is an idea that girls have a natural tendency to the color pink rather than blue. That is something that is associated with gender, not biological sexes. There are differences between sex and gender. We would all know these things if we were educated, but unfortunately, many of us are not.
+Human Animal
So it's not that we know or don't know if there is 2 genders, it's that we have no idea how to objectively define gender and it therefore could be anything on a spectrum between either extreme.
There are only 2 sexes, but I can kind of understand what their reasonning for multiple genders, It's not really a "multiple" that you could count, but more something similar to how Metis people can be any shade of black between caucasians and dark africans.
gwanael34 well... a broken watch is right twice a day but I'd rather throw it out and get a new one than to keep a broken watch because nostalgia.
I don't know or care how many genders/sexes there are, but I am curious as to why people seem to have an emotional attachment to the concept of more than 2?
+Jaden Oldfield
People don't like when science and facts are denied in favor of feelings. Biologically speaking, there is only 2 sexes, gender is way too subjective to be black and white like in the case of biology. As a human, you are either a male or a female with the exceptions being anomalies. The way you express that sex however can be completly different from an individual to another and is based both on nurture and nature.
I don't know if i wanna listen to bill anymore :'(
then fuking do not ... shit head . go fellow trump already becaus u aint that diffrent from his voters
msms47 why are you so offended by him stating his opinion? Jesus, no wonder they call you guys snowflakes. By the way did you intentionally try to use the worst grammar possible in your comment?
Listen to him like any other human being. Take his points for what they are and call him out on the ones that are false.
Why?
S Reed if you only listen to people that only agree with your point of view, you may as well just talk to your self.
Why does everyone hate Bill all of sudden? What was so bad about this episode?
I respect knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom. I genuinely want to respect members of the media, and members of our political system regardless of how they identify.
The only thing i learned watching this is that dems dont like republicans. I admit climate change is undeniable, but unless you plan to do something about it all of your words are inconsequential. All this is is an advertisement for other things to subscribe to.
Except climate change and the fact that it's undeniable needs to be talked about. It needs to be discussed openly. There are too many denialists to not talk about it, and those very denialists often blockade the US Government from starting initiatives to combat climate change on the flimsy excuse of "ain't real, muh -lobbyists- people need it that way".
Look at all the haters commenting 6 minutes after the 48 minute long video was uploaded. Isn't Trump tweeting something to you guys?
Dr Nathan House someone's triggered ❄️
A lot of triggered people, I agree. Looks like you're one of them though unfortunately. :((( lol
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Yeah, he's tweeting that there are only two genders.
Raise your hand if you have a degree from Trump University 😂
I love and adore you Bill... and I'm a science nut in that I consider myself to be a critical thinker.. I'm for climate science when ALL data is considered (with scientists not cherry picking data as well) I want our nation to reach out to the stars, I want our nations to invest in science and technology, however don't be so naive as to think there aren't capitalist systems out there taking advantage of science to the detriment of mankind. There HAVE been issues with vaccines that are ignored.. There ARE issues with genetically modified food.. And it's called rich companies, investors, politicians protecting and making billions from their products without any reins whatsoever.
Why is vaccine so controversial? It has saved countless lives in my country. Where have they been detrimental?
@@ambeshpratik8032 Some vaccines are purported to have ingredients that are unsavory to human life, particularly younger. There ARE cases of autism related to some vaccines in early childhood. I myself had an extreme reaction in which doctors though I would prove to be of lower intelligence range, and should be brought up in a rural environment so that I wouldn't have to try so hard.
Even a few years ago, I unwittingly took a tetanus shot (not knowing my past medical history) at the urging of staff at the Red Cross plasma giving station. I puked for three solid days orange liquid, and had huge nodules the size of eggs under my armpits.
While most vaccines ARE safe, there can be "rare" reactions, or so the pharmaceuticals term them as rare.
When I reported it to the Red Cross center, I was told that they wished they did not have to give out those pamphlets which I had read. It was a rare side effect. I retorted, "Well, now you've seen one of those 2%".
@@ursaltydog I have taken Tetanus shots too and nothing like that ever happened to me. Show me a peer-reviewed published study. There could be 100 different reason for someone to get sick and puke. Where are these cases related to Autism due to vaccines?
No one denies climate change but they do argue global warming. And that's because science proves that regions are getting colder as well
The way I got my grandfather to believe in climate change was to remind him that God gave us free will or at least in his version of beliefs this is the case.
Then I asked him about weather patterns that happened whenever he was a kid and then I asked him why are they different now why doesn't it snow as often in the winter why doesn't it snow as much whenever it snows in the winter why does the summer seem hotter why does the winter seem warmer or sometimes extremely cold but only for very short burst...
Well Bill Nye is certainly an authority on alternative facts.
Man I'm INCREDIBLY disappointed with this episode....the guy's name is "Mr. Anderson" and not a single Matrix joke was made...
This comment section gunna be good.
37:08 Crikey Nye, it took less than a second for that calculation
Nice to have Nice back! =D
When I got this notification I never clicked so fast
I love you bill!!
bill nye the "i am a con artist whore who lies and pretends he is a scientist to appease my heavy left audience and pretends there is a gender spectrum" guy.
Cognitive dissonance is literally the only reason we eat animals in developed animals
"In a world clouded by alternative facts, science is here to make things clear." - How ironic, no, Bill Nye?
Bill Nye is slightly wrong because if you pay too much for the movie then you don't think it's worth what you paid but if you pay a price that's slightly lower than that you might think it's the best movie of all time.
I know everyone dislikes Bill Nye, now but I still don't quite know why? can anyone explain plz?
I don't really get why anyone wants to be both sexes, or none, whatever, something must seriously be wrong with them, religion isn't something I want to even talk about, but it's hard for me to understand that either
I don't care, do as you wish, but I just don't get it, no ones life could become better from doing that
Ever since he became outspoken about climate change conservatives have started a smear campaign against him.
Science can improve our lives, or destroy us. We all understand the need for more caution now.
You used to be a childhood hero in my eyes until I saw your new show "bill nye saves the world". You invite well respected guests and when you don't agree you talk over them or change the subject completely.
I barely made it through the second episode and honestly it feels like you are spreading propaganda. Show some respect for other people and don't make fools out of them because they aren't on board with what you believe to be true.
Hey Bill, the reason for alt facts is that we have sold the real facts to the third world. The current economy is based on influence and greed, science is just a non-sell-able commodity that is best done by the marginalized by third world.
I applaud your work to help make science influential again, but the folks with the money are happiest when getting the science for the lowest price and that is not from the people of the first world.
The part where you guys said "they dont believe in climate change but dont have money invested in it", those people may not have money invested in it but they dont want all the prices of the goods to go up. Which is what happens when gas gets more expensive
On the flip side the oil companies keep new technologies that can do the same thing from happening.
Fantastic.
Genetically modified food is okay as long as you test its safety and consistency with the original.
Politicians have always wanted to tax people for being alive .... we now have carbon tax as the cover for taxing human life for being a live.
Bill Nye the social engineering guy
In the early 2000s, Nye assisted in the development of a small sundial included in the Mars Exploration Rover missions.[7] Known as MarsDial, in addition to tracking time, it had small colored panels to provide a basis for color calibration.[72] From 2005 to 2010, Nye was the vice president of the Planetary Society, an organization that advocates space science research and the exploration of other planets, particularly Mars.[73] He became the organization's second Executive Director in September 2010 when Louis Friedman stepped down.[74][75]
Here's an alternative fact: There are two genders.
Ask them questions that let them lead themselves to the answer instead of telling them the answer...
If it comes from them then they're not wrong or they're the ones who corrected their own ignorance which is better than being wrong and having someone else correct you
Yes, all problems come down to money in politics.
Please have some of these deniers on your show and show them tangible evidence. I would love to see what they say when they are presented by sat. images, stats and numbers and other evidence.
Woooooo I was the 1000th like
I have a question. Should we trust the CDC?
The problem is the concept of alternative facts is politicized itself. Both the left and the right have alternative facts, and if you deny that you are part of the problem. It causes affirmation of the rejection of facts presented merely because of political beliefs. The lack of reflection is also a problem, not addressing criticism. It causes distrust, such as with the gender stuff from Bill Nye.
Bill Nye resembles Spok alot :0
Damn sorry bill . . .
VT no I agree with you he fucked up and caved to the sjws I just hate that this is how bill nye the science guy goes out
@Happy Joy Bravo Who turned back on logic? What did he actually say that was wrong?
Here come the trolls with no life to say Bill Nye isn't a scientist.
He isn't.
• he's an engineer not a scientist. I'm going into Aerospace engineering which is the same field he worked in for many years and we are not scientists. We're Engineers.
Engineers actually do stuff xD
Scientists discover and solve.
Engineers design and create.
Bill Nye inspired millions. The world is better with him in it!
We need another Gene Roddenberry.
never heard of it, please tell me 'alternative facts' aren't a thing
BILL NYE IF I STOP DOING SCIENCE I WILL DIE GUY!!
Moon Base One and Deep Space Expo: coming soon to mankind. Yay mankind
31:16 That kind of "filter" can be abused and is actually censorship. That's not the way to go. What you need is to build up reputation for some reliable fact checking engines.
And reputation is a difficult thing to hold on to on the internet...
Even with a good rep it can be denied or ignored. Its all fake no matter how accurate it is.
I may give my right arm for Facebook or even TH-cam to have a fact/fallacy filter.
Then StarTalk would have no competition.😊
It's because they've been reading "The Concept of the Political" (or "Partisan") by Carl Schmitt. Everything is political, especially the things which claim to be non-political.
I'd say populism is the culprit
Reality, what a concept.
I thought this was a science show, not a political science lecture. This is getting too pervasive. Unsubbed.
Another way to change skeptics minds about science is simply wait until we can have cheap visits to space so cheap in fact where elementary schools take class trips to space and back.
At that point science denial is going to be extremely difficult
"Elon Musk embracing science." That didn't age well.
how did it not age well, elon musk still all about science
@@areyouseriousholmes Only the one that makes him richer. If it's something that prevents his workers from working, like... say, a virus outbreak - then it's all a conspiracy.
@@nevarran he wants his workers to work that's why he wants to move to texas
Cleaner, Cheaper Way to Make Steel Uses Electricity
Making steel in a similar way to aluminum is cheaper and reduces greenhouse gas emission
The fires that smelt iron also heat up the planet, but researchers are working on ways to produce higher-quality metals with fewer greenhouse gas emissions, potentially giving U.S. steelmakers an edge in a competitive global market.
A report released yesterday in the journal Nature highlights a step in this direction that uses electricity instead of heat to extract iron.
With thousands of years of development and two centuries of industrialization, making iron and steel is a mature process around the world. In 2011, manufacturers produced around 100 billion metric tons of iron globally.
From mining ores to smelting to tempering alloys, the process is energy intensive, and engineers have chased improvements about as long as steel has topped axes, formed armor and driven machinery.
"What that means is that the majority of low-hanging fruit have been picked and the processes we have to make [metals] are nearing the limits of what is physically possible," explained Lawrence Kavanagh, president of the Steel Market Development Institute.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cleaner-cheaper-way-to-make-steel-uses-electricity/
Dislikes for no reason. The rationality mafia at it again.
Science is on a spectrum. It is so uh oh oh.
Snopes over there fact checking, Atlantic, we don't have the staff.
Stop hating on him, gender and sex are two different things. IT IS possible to have more than two genders. Nobody is against biology here.
Yea, it is possible in the case of mental illness.
This kind of shit is seriously harmful to people with these actual gender disorders. Assholes like Bill who claim it's ok to be whatever you want to be are downplaying anyone who has this illness and telling society it is normal to have, when any doctor will affirm it is not.
Guilherme M.S. Also intersex people exist. Honestly as a bio major biology is one of the few science fields which basically has no binaries. It's p cool :1
+Misha Z have you heared any intersex person talk about more than 2 genders?
yep? haha..
Misha Z intersex isnt a sex though is it? its a chromosomal abnormality
Just like everything else, politics gets brought into what was a great podcast and completely ruins it. It seems for the past several seasons this show has moved away from science and more to politics every friggin show. I miss the good ole days of tuning in and learning something new about space or physics or anything else cool that was actually science related. Im sick of all this political bullshit always being thrown in to every show now. Enough. Just go back to explaining complex scientific ideas in ways that make them enjoyable and easier to understand.
And here is the 1 and only fact that matters about fake news and alternative facts: The news became fake and alternative the second that large corporations bought the news agency and brought them under their umbrella. From that point on, everything has had a bias attached to it. FACT.
We should have to verify that we know certain facts about the election before we are allowed to vote everyone should be allowed to vote however those who do vote should be able to determine certain facts and you can take the test over and over again it tells you which answers you got wrong and what was the correct answer and it needs to be easily provable things such as so and so said this on the campaign trail so and so voted this way on this bill
question everything, except scientists, and doctors, you should take them at their word on everything. Cause they are perfect human beings who are infallible
Gary McDermott no one ever said do not question scientists. We welcome cross examination and thoughtful questions. That’s how we came across many of the scientific discoveries we know today. Without questions, we may accidentally accept something is true when it is not in fact so, and we readily welcome the fact that we could be wrong.
You can question scientists. But the results of the larger scientific community after cross examination is undeniable and as close to objective truth as we can get.
yay bill nye
People picking and choosing which science they believe in the same manner they pick and choose their bible verses.
Whenever this was made Japan had trains that could go 400 miles an hour while we were still stuck with sub 100 mph trains...
We're only starting to work on the hyperloop now and guess what testing is being done in other countries.
Bill Nye bring a horrible like to dislike ratio on any vid he is in lol
People love to jump on the newest parrot bandwagon of anti-science hate.
Scientists are more concerned with objective reality than meaningless likes on a youtube video.
Seanders actually people jumped on hate bandwagon to protect science.
Human Animal like the "obiective reality" that sex isn't binary, but apparently fluid? If I call my penis lincoln it doesn't mean it's one of the forefathers of America.
drill baby drill came out when gas prices jumped from $2/gal to $4/gal.
You want to make me pay more for gasoline and power - of course i'm going to deny climate change
Bill really screwed the pooch with the whole gender thing. RIP. I for one, dont give a shit and still like him.
JulianJanganoo there are more than two genders in the animal kingdom, use a F*n search engine
Andrew Engram I said I didn't give a shit about the whole gender thing
Gender is an idea and sex is biological. No one *who is informed* disagrees that there are more than 2 BIOLOGICAL SEXES.
However, gender is a product of culture. The ideas associated with gender come from culture -- they are not intrinsic. Humans have invented every single idea. Therefore, ideas can change, because they are not part of nature. It is an idea that girls have a natural tendency to the color pink rather than blue. That is something that is associated with gender, not biological sexes. There are differences between sex and gender. We would all know these things if we were educated, but unfortunately, many of us are not.
Yes, totally. The whole 76 genders thing with 'nanoboy' and whatnot is too much though. That's people trying to over-classify themselves.
Human Animal If gender is a social construct and, pretty much subjective and depending on peoples mind, then it is not really scientific or can be measured, defined or creat an accurate model of reality out of gender theory, so why does it belong in a science channel?
Is bill related to science?
nodws I suppose it's like " that one " relative everyone has
At least Vader had redemption.
If we all get behind clubbing Harp seals. Not a good look for the world.
How does the populatuon keep increasing? The Earth is not a closed system.
Javierm0n0 it is not but Earth looses more matter than it gains.
Living standard all over the world is rising, people bang more and grow older.
Don't know what Earth in general has to do with that tbh.
It's cause Mr wizard isn't on TV anymore. Love bill but mr w in it's creepiness felt more approachable. Science guy was dark claustrophobic and the lab coat made you look like a teacher. Mr w looked more like a creepy uncle but you don't notice it till later in life. Bill do a show on a set similar to Mr Rogers and aim it at young kids and the magic of science will inspire more productivity than the magic of super heroes
You need to ask yourself something very important if you are talking to someone about science. Are you demonstrating the science or expositing things you've heard someone else tell you.
Because if you don't have the ability to elaborate head to toe on a topic, then you are just playing a game of 'my source said, your source said'. (He said she said)
All scientific discussion is *based* in sources. Sources that have been cross examined and have come to a consensus are the most important ones.
Is saying the sky is blue an alternative fact?
FN LN lol! I hope this is /s. it's refraction not reflection.
No thanks, not looking to get liberal talking points with no basis in reality preached at me, unsubscribed.
how long did you subscribe for that you havent seen bill nye here before?
For about a year, and I did see him before. Every time he comes on it is political, and I am tired of everything being political. LEAVE SPACE ALONE!
Japan also supposedly has its own rising, strident nationalism according to the reporting coming out of Vox.
I like how bill shrugged off the idea of sending a probe to Europa, to see if there is life underground where water is located.
John Smith scientists are scared that sending such probe could disrupt the ecosystem, one stranded bacteria and it might wipe out all life that might be on Europa.
mathiasrryba That is a stupid argument. That is such a terrible reason not to go.
ross dood go no here
Even though it sounds nice to cause the deserts to bloom you got to be careful considering that the massive desert in Africa loses sand to storms all the time which feed the monsoon which give vital rain to certain areas also they are habitats for species and of themselves I mean yeah population density is a lot lower there but it's still a vital area for other things to happen on the planet
The science of feelings...