Showing posts with label Neil deGrasse Tyson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neil deGrasse Tyson. Show all posts

Makes You Believe We're Actually Going To Mars (We Aren't)

I liked me some Cosmos: A Space/Time Odyssey . And I'm looking forward to The Martian . And in a brilliant bit of sympathetic promoti...
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Back In My Day, Pluto Was Never A Planet

Late night television is not a great place for innovation. The formula that the majority of the American TV late night shows work from is...
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It Isn't 42 After All

It Isn't 42 After All

What is the meaning of life? A great deal of human history has been defined by that question. People have died, and killed over it. Peopl...
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Finally, An Insider's Look At Today's Stars That I Could Stomach

Finally, An Insider's Look At Today's Stars That I Could Stomach

It is no piece of news that Neil deGrasse Tyson has a lot to say about science in the modern world (and how it got there), and enjoys say...
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Home Is Where You Don't Die Of Oxygen Deprivation

Home Is Where You Don't Die Of Oxygen Deprivation

Evolution is fantastic at Research and Development. It's all it does, really Constantly testing little tweaks to an existing model, u...
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Science Can Be Sexy

Science Can Be Sexy

Instead of a culture obsessed with vapid, empty, peer-approval desperate, self-confidence hollowing schlock like pretty much every magazi...
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[Review] - Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey

[Review] - Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey

Courtesy of Cosmos Studios The original Cosmos : A Personal Voyage had a simultaneously simple and complex intent: educate the public ...
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Milk The Tragedy, All The Cool Kids Are Doing It

Milk The Tragedy, All The Cool Kids Are Doing It

In my review of Gravity , I made the bold statement (OK, not that bold) that any science fiction movie made afterwards would live in its ...
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Return To Cosmos

Return To Cosmos

I'm taking next week off, so you can expect double reviews of any of the usual shows I cover the following week. As I head off, I fe...
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If Neil deGrasse Tyson Asks You To Travel To The Cosmos With Him, You Say Yes

If Neil deGrasse Tyson Asks You To Travel To The Cosmos With Him, You Say Yes

Children, pay attention: this is what epic looks like. Cosmos returns March 9th, on FOX.
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This Is The Adventure Of Life

Carl Sagan was a great man, on that there is no debate. Perhaps the first person to really bring science into the public domain. In the w...
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The Face Of Space Vs The Man Of Steel

The Face Of Space Vs The Man Of Steel

Courtesy of DC Comics While the question of where exactly Metropolis is meant to be on the eastern seaboard of the US may never be answ...
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