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

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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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Thanks to our Patrons Andrew Herron, Bhargava Kandada, and Mark Roop for supporting us this week.

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

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