Comments on: Neil Tyson Interview

By: Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:56:33 +0000

GO MY DAD!!! I’m happy everybody loves hiz work. And for the person who thinks pluto should be a planet.

It shouldn’t. That’s like calling a comet a planet. Pluto is a comet.

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By: rvr

rvr — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:34:07 +0000

I also “discovered” Neil Tyson in Beyond Belief 2006 videos, last year. He was charismatic, but his views on science communication (and the question he did to Dawkins) really got me.

I was dissapointed when checked that he wasn’t panelist at Beyond Belief 2007, so I spent this weeken surfing on his personal web site. There are tons of videos and audio. He was recently interviewed by Point of Inquiry (podcast). Tyson was also the host of PBS’s Origins series, and a full chapter of it is available online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/program-3114.html (is it me the only one who thinks this is a great homeage to Cosmos?)

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:18:25 +0000

D’oh *&*(&^%@@@@!!!#@! typos.

Isaac Asimov is who I meant of course!

By: StevoR

StevoR — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:17:12 +0000

Hmm … The bloke who helped kill off Pluto’s full status as a planet.

He sure got that _WRONG_.

Can’t say I’m a fan.

… Or that I’ve read any of his work or seen much of him except knocking Pluto on a doco of that.

I’d put Phil Plait, James B. Kaler and others wa-aay ahead of him. For my money Isaac Asiomov was the best Science populariser with Carl Sagan a close second.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:58:52 +0000

To Grand Lunar: Wouldn’t it be really cool though if the BA was on the Colbert Report?

By: John Kemeny

John Kemeny — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:48:05 +0000

He went to my High School.

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:29:42 +0000

I only read part of his book “Death by Black Hole” from a library.
I sorely wish to own it now!
Along with his appearences on science TV programs, he strikes me as one of the coolest science guys I know.
Don’t worry Phil, you’re included too!