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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Book Review: “Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier” by Neil de Grasse Tyson

May 21, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter For those fans of Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, there’s finally a successor volume to that. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Space Chronicles: Facing The Ultimate Frontier, at times, reads like an updated version of Sagan’s classic book about the history of astronomy and our [...]

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We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery

March 13, 2013

In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he’s almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the advice they’ve been receiving from astronomers about getting serious about asteroid detection and deflection; that it’s a matter of when not if Earth [...]

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The Secret of the Stars

February 27, 2013

“Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you. The concept: relativity.” Well look at that, it’s a new video from John D. Boswell — aka melodysheep — which goes into autotuned detail about one of the standard principles of astrophysics, Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Featuring clips from Michio Kaku, Brian [...]

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Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

November 28, 2012

An intersection of two of my favorite entities (Minute Physics and Neil deGrasse Tyson) now covers a topic that has been on my mind lately: does the Universe — and therefore humanity — have a purpose? deGrasse Tyson was asked by the Templeton Foundation to answer this question and poses here that if there is [...]

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Independent Filmmaker Wants to Kickstart America’s Space Program

July 20, 2012

“If Kennedy said ‘we will go to the Moon…some time before the century ends,’ what is… what is that? That’s not ambition. That’s pandering.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, Fight for Space Here we are on the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, with no more shuttles flying, slashed space program budgets and no real [...]

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