Neil deGrasse Tyson
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that we can handle heat with our black skins better?
Because normally, what do they tell you?
If it's hot outside, you put on light-colored clothing.
How is it that we became so adaptable to dark?
Where he says, all of math is wrong.
Because I don't really like the heat, but I know we handle it better than our white counterparts.
He has a new math that we should use.
And I thought to myself, he thought that I wanted to give him platform for this new idea that he had.
Okay, not everything is a perfect solution.
Some is just a better solution than what otherwise would have happened.
Dark skin absorbs sunlight.
And rather than just talk about his geeky underbelly as a science enthusiast.
Black people in the same situation will absorb more sunlight than white people.
So a little bit it's my fault for not knowing that that's what he was going to send my way.