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    Mar 25, 2021 4 minutes

    Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    National Geographic £20 • HB

    Cosmic Queries is a book that covers just about everything. How do we know what we know? How did the Universe get to be this way? Are we alone?

    These are just some of the questions explored over 10 chapters, each focusing on a different big question, in this aptly-named tome.

    StarTalk is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular podcast where science meets pop culture, which became a late-night talk show on US TV. Cosmic Queries (not the book) is a segment of the podcast where listeners’ questions about the Universe are answered and this latest

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