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Neil deGrasse Tyson and guests discuss the nature of fear and how to overcome it with insights from neuroscience and rock climbing.

Is the fear of heights innate or learned? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O'Reilly explore taking risks, the neuroscience of fear, and how to overcome it with freestyle rock climber and subject of the film Free Solo, Alex Honnold, and neuroscientist Heather Berlin.

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