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A Key & A Kite: StarTalk Live! With Benjamin Franklin
Season 13 · Episode 20

A Key & A Kite: StarTalk Live! With Benjamin Franklin

How does lightning work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck break down the legendary science and inventions of Benjamin Franklin, live with chief editor of The Benjamin Franklin Papers, Ellen Cohn and Benjamin Franklin himself!

StarTalk Radio · Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, Ellen Cohn, Mitchell Kramer

June 28, 20221h 4m

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How does lightning work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck break down the legendary science and inventions of Benjamin Franklin, live with chief editor of The Benjamin Franklin Papers, Ellen Cohn and Benjamin Franklin himself!

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Photo Credit: Hansueli Krapf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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