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Friday Nite Videos | February 23, 2024

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Supreme Court Ethics | John Oliver. Alabama’s New Reproductive Law Considers Embryos Children. American Fiction | Movie. How 2023 Broke Our Climate Models with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Gavin Schmidt. Gaza.

Friday Nite Videos -- November 25, 2016

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Bernie Sanders' Future With the Democratic Party. Our Two Biggest Misconceptions About the Universe. Flashmob | Tchaikovsky's 1812. Trump's Foreign Business Ties: A Closer Look. Arctic Sea Ice Is Disappearing.

Friday Nite Videos -- August 21, 2015

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Meet the Undocumented Immigrant Who Works in a Trump Hotel. Damsel in Distress: Tropes vs Women in Video Games. John Oliver: Sex Education. Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Brief History of Everything. Bad Lip Reading of the Republican Debate.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Brief History of Everything

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote and narrates this video, covering an amazing range of topics in straightforward language. The accompanying music is The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky.

Ninth Rock From the Sun

Stephen Colbert and Neil deGrasse Tyson riff, with scientific rigor and lots of humor, about the New Horizons findings, Pluto weirdness, and the demotion (or elevation?) of Pluto from planet to king of the Kuiper Belt.

Friday Nite Videos -- January 2, 2015

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Michael Franti - Same As It Ever Was. Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar.' Top 10 Surprising People Who Advocated Socialism. Movie: The Imitation Game. What's Really Weird About Placebos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on 'Interstellar'

How realistic is the space epic flick Interstellar? Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to (cognitive dissonance alert!) Fox News about the realism (and the "stretchers") of "Interstellar."

Friday Nite Videos -- July 11, 2014

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Inequality is real, and it was created. Charlie Haden: El Quinto Regimiento. Eat kelp. NYC Women Talk Cat Calling. Epic Rap Battle: Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye.
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