Comments on: Gawker reveals reality ignorance. Film at 11.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:37:29 +0000

Elwood: paparazzo, you beat me to it.

By: gossip girl

gossip girl — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:07:03 +0000

So, let me get this straight: The fact that I didn’t know who Neil DeGrasse Tyson was before reading this post is worse than another commenter not knowing about Lindsay Lohan? I think that’s a little…biased. I’d venture to say it’s different sides of the same coin.

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:37:28 +0000

Shouldn't that be paparazzum? Or possibly paparazzo as it's Italian I think.

By: Winter Solstice Man

Winter Solstice Man — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:48:03 +0000

C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures continues.

I am praying this quote from that Paris Hilton brain of a blog is an ironic one:

“This sudden popular interest in both science and books, simultaneously, is disturbing and we’re determined to get to the bottom of it.”

I see that one of the commenters had NDGT as a teacher and then begged the blog readers not to think of him (the writer) as a total douchebag.

Now you know why Bush was elected twice and why another Village Idiot may become our President again. Obama must have been a fluke.

By: Cate

Cate — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:07:59 +0000

Just FYI, Neil deGrasse Tyson will be on The Daily Show, Wednesday the 28th!

By: Scientist makes the D-list, almost « Peculiar Velocity

Scientist makes the D-list, almost « Peculiar Velocity — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:34:35 +0000

[...] 27, 2009 by Ben Lillie Via The Bad Astronomer, my picture was on gawker.com! Well, kinda. It’s of the crowd at a recent reading by Neil [...]

By: Naked Bunny with a Whip

Naked Bunny with a Whip — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:06:12 +0000

they’d still be able to recite Lindsay Lohan’s daily measurements.

Whose?

“This sudden popular interest in both science and books, simultaneously, is disturbing and we’re determined to get to the bottom of it.”

That’s the sort of humor you get a Gawker. They were kidding. Some of the people in the comments, however, appear to be serious.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:18:11 +0000

drksky:

I was kinda hoping that was said tongue in cheek.

Gary 7

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:09:05 +0000

Phil, shame on you. That site (that article in particular) vilifies intelligence. I don’t know what dung heap the author of the article evolved from, but that article is a classic study of how modern tv and gossip mags can rot your brain. The author also seems to subscribe to the myth of “wikipedia research” which features in modern movies. I would never pay to see the “X-Files” movie, but it featured on a recent plane trip. I fell out of my seat laughing when I learned that Dr. Scully does her research via Google. I wonder if I could present a google-researched paper on atmospheric chemistry at the next American Geophysical Union conference … I don’t think I’d dare try.

By: drksky

drksky — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:32:20 +0000

There’s a lot of morons on that site, and this line proves it:

This sudden popular interest in both science and books, simultaneously, is disturbing and we’re determined to get to the bottom of it.

Sigh…

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:24:18 +0000

Oops. It was Leno. Fixed.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:22:58 +0000

Just a quick correction Phil. But wasn’t Neil on Leno not Conan recently?

By: jrpowell

jrpowell — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:11:53 +0000

Save the Planetarium. Save the world.

By: MZ

MZ — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:02:26 +0000

If it helps you out, we’d be more than happy to start a celebrity rumour about you. Any preference?

I heard Phil Plait is dating Kaley Cuoco.

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:00:26 +0000

Dr. Tyson is one of the coolest cats out there! This guy needs to crawl out from under his rock and take notice of Dr. Tyson’s greatness!

By: Tom Woolf

Tom Woolf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:53:44 +0000

Hayden Planetarium? Oh, I love her character in “Heroes”!

By: PsyberDave

PsyberDave — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:43:12 +0000

[pedant]a paparazzo is the singular of paparazzi[/pedant]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:34:04 +0000

This is /almost/ as bad as asking “Who is Carl Sagan?” back in the 80s/90s. Literati my ass.. illiterati is more like it. The article even starts with “WTF” and at one point I counted four consecutive question marks.

The stupid, it burns!

By: JackC

JackC — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:30:10 +0000

OK – you made me read that dreck. Now I have to go shower again. Uggh. And to think I live just upstream from those clueless.. .Oh wait – we are talking NYC here. I suppose that was redundant.

By: Yoeman

Yoeman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:15:43 +0000

LOL! Read the comments, one of them says “He’s the Barack Obama of the Physics world.”
That’s great.

By: Janiece

Janiece — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:11:08 +0000

Plus Jon Stewart appears to be a fan-boy. Which just proves that Jon has good taste.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:07 +0000

It was painful to even visit that site.

By: Glen Davidson

Glen Davidson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:53:49 +0000

I always thought science needs to have much more to do with sex and other possibilities for scandal.

This just confirms it.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/6mb592

By: molzim

molzim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:40:05 +0000

That’s hilarious. If I lived there, I would have been there in the front row!

He is one sexy scientist!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:38:23 +0000

I had the honor of attending a lecture Dr. Tyson gave at Michigan State University last week. He was excellent, and his talk – fortunately – went way over time.

And, like a true science geek, I got him to autograph swag for me. And I took a bunch of photos.