World Cup Starts Today!

To whet your appetite for the start of the 2018 World Cup, you can listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson and me yap about soccer science on last night's episode of StarTalk's Playing with Science.  Click on the link below to learn about soccer science in the World Cup.

• Season 3, Episode 20 (June 13, 2018):  Extended Classic:  Planet Soccer, with Neil deGrasse Tyson

My only complaint is that the graphics people at Playing with Science didn't use a Telstar 18 ball in the photo!  The last time the traditional 32-panel ball was used in the World Cup was in 2002 when the Fevernova ball was the official ball in South Korea and Japan.  Forget the photo and listen to the podcast!