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CRITICAL THINKING: “Prayers and Bullets” / Neil deGrasse Tyson ☮
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Category Archives: Astrophysics
CRITICAL THINKING: “Teaching Creationism is Child Abuse, and it Validates Ignorance” / Laurence M. Krauss ☮
THEORETICAL PHYSICS: “Dr. Michio Kaku:What Physics Has to Say about Free Will” ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “Why Should You NOT Have any Role Model” / Neil deGrasse Tyson ☮
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains why it is a bad idea to have a Role model.
WISDOM: “Carl Sagan’s Words are Still Relevant Today” / Carl Sagan ☮
The irreplaceable Carl Sagan left us on December 20, 1996 yet his legacy lives on, and his words are astonishingly relevant some 30 years later.
SCIENCE – EXOPLANETOLOGY: “WOW: Closest Star to Our Sun Has a Habitable Planet” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
In a discovery that has been years in the making, researchers have confirmed the existence of a rocky planet named Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, according to a new study. It is the closest exoplanet to us in the universe.
CRITICAL THINKING: “When Biology Meets Cosmology” / Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Richard Dawkins ☮
Neil deGrasse Tyson welcomes ethologist, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins at Hayden Planetarium – Sep 2015.
MUSIC VIDEO FROM SPACE: “Space Oddity / PBS / NOVA” and “Revised Version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity” / Recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield / On-board the International Space Station
BOOK READING AND DISCUSSION: “Thinking in Public with Neil deGrasse Tyson” / Waking Up with Sam Harris Podcast #37 / 06.07.2016 ☮
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the public understanding of science, his career as an educator, political atheism, racism, artificial intelligence, alien life, and other topics.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is the head of Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose Directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. His research interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen. He holds a degree in physics from Harvard and a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia.
Tyson has served on several Presidential commissions and government advisory councils. He has written ten books, including The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist and Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, and Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.
Recently, Tyson served as executive editor, host, and narrator for Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, the 21st century continuation of Carl Sagan’s landmark television series. The show began in March 2014 and ran thirteen episodes in Primetime on the FOX network, and appeared in 181 countries in 45 languages around the world on the National Geographic Channels. Cosmos won four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Critics Choice awards, as well as a dozen other industry recognitions.
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