Tyson asks the question a non-specialist would actually ask, then declines to let the specialist retreat into their own vocabulary. Astrophysics is most of the catalogue; what this collection takes is the turn inward — Donald Hoffman on whether evolution ever selected perception for accuracy, David Eagleman on why time slows in an emergency, Geoffrey Hinton on whether AI is hiding what it can do. Chuck Nice and Gary O'Reilly are there to keep it honest: an explanation that cannot survive a comedian's follow-up was not an explanation.
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