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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

An African American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Since 2006, he has hosted PBS's educational tv show NOVA Science Now.

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Carl Sagan's Influence on Neil Tyson.

Carl Sagan's Influence on Neil Tyson. Link for full interview - Ted Simons interviews a shining star in the universe of astrophysics, Neil deGrasse Tyson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlHOAUIIuq0 "If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself." ~Romain Rolland Oct 25, 2009 5:19 PM

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Symphony of Science: We Are All Connected

Symphony of Science: We Are All Connected Music video from samples of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, The History Channel's Universe series, Richard Feynman's 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson's cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye's Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from NOVA's The Elegant Universe, Stephen Hawking's Universe, Cosmos, the Powers of 10, and more. It is a tribute to great minds of science, intended to spread scientific knowledge and philosophy through the medium of music. User: quaidbrown Oct 20, 2009 6:41 PM

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Ask the Astrophysicist: Questions & Answers

Ask the Astrophysicist: Questions & Answers Q. What is universe itself? A. It's like asking an unborn infant, 'What is your mother?' We don't have an exterior view just yet," he says with his characteristic half-jovial, half-serious chuckle. "A more tractable way to approach that question is, 'What is in the universe?' And there are planets and galaxies and stars and black holes and that sort of thing. User: Pantufas Sep 25, 2009 2:29 PM

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Neil Degrasse Tyson: Scientifically Literate

Neil Degrasse Tyson: Scientifically Literate Originally aired: July 3, 2009. Sep 22, 2009 2:16 PM

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NOVA ScienceNOW: Capturing Carbon

NOVA ScienceNOW: Capturing Carbon From July 2, 2008. RT 12:06. An eighth-grader's science fair project prompts her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. User: spam_vigilante Sep 20, 2009 3:33 AM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Cosmic Quandaries An out of this world event, Cosmic Quandaries, held at The Palladium in St. Petersburg at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26th drew in an audience of nearly 800! With a one in a million chance of meeting one of only 6,000 astrophysicists in the world, audience members were lined up in order to have the opportunity to ask Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson a question on any and all galactic wonders they may have. User: Pantufas Sep 14, 2009 10:58 AM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: UFOs and The Argument From Ignorance

Neil deGrasse Tyson: UFOs and The Argument From Ignorance The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam ("appeal to ignorance" , argument by lack of imagination, or negative evidence), is a logical fallacy in which it is claimed that a premise is true only because it has not been proven false, or is false only because it has not been proven true. The argument from personal incredulity, also known as argument from personal belief or argument from personal conviction, refers to an assertion that because one personally finds a premise unlikely or unbelievable, the premise can be assumed to be false, or alternatively that another preferred but unproven premise is true instead. Both arguments commonly share this structure: a person regards the lack of evidence for one view as constituting proof that another view is true. The types of fallacies discussed in this article should not be confused with the reductio ad absurdum method of argument, in which a valid logical contradiction of the form "A and not A" is used to disprove a premise. User: Pantufas Sep 10, 2009 2:18 PM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Children Do Not Read Horoscopes!

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Children Do Not Read Horoscopes! Neil Tyson: "At nearly every public lecture that I give on the universe, I try to reserve adequate time at the end for questions. The succession of subjects is predictable. First, the questions relate directly to the lecture. They next migrate to sexy astrophysical subjects such as black holes, quasars, and the Big Bang. If I have enough time left over to answer all questions, and if the talk is in America, the subject eventually reaches God. Typical questions include "Do scientists believe in God?" "Do you believe in God?" and "Do your studies in astrophysics make you more or less religious?" Publishers have come to learn that there is a lot of money in God, especially when the author is a scientist and when the book title includes a direct juxtaposition of scientific and religious themes...Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion...The argument is simple. I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religious document. Indeed, I can make an even stronger statement. Whenever people have used religious documents to make detailed predictions about the physical world they have been famously wrong. There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery. - Neil Tyson User: Pantufas Sep 6, 2009 4:38 AM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Favorite NOVA Bits

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Favorite NOVA Bits Panel discussion held at the Rueben H Fleet Science Center Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Dome Theater in San Diego with Paula Apsell, Senior Executive Prodicer of NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW and Neil deGrasse Tyson. User: spam_vigilante Aug 10, 2009 12:52 PM

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Panel Discussion: Dawkins, Tyson, Druyan, Stenger, Grothe

Panel Discussion: Dawkins, Tyson, Druyan, Stenger, Grothe This panel discussion took place at a Center for Inquiry - New York City conference titled "Secular Society and its Enemies." The panel discusses a wide variety of topics, including, science, science education, the nature of science, the correct political methodology and much more. RT 1:06:47 Richard Dawkins, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Ann Druyan and Victor Stenger. Moderated by D.J. Grothe. http://www.centerforinquiry.net/nyc Jul 23, 2009 8:36 PM

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NOVA scienceNOW: Kingdom of the Leeches

NOVA scienceNOW: Kingdom of the Leeches Meet the terrifying, bloodsucking, decorated leech! Neil deGrasse Tyson embarks on a quest with leech expert Mark Siddall in the swamps of Connecticut to seek out the infamous decorated leech. User: spam_vigilante May 28, 2009 10:49 AM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bible in Classroom

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bible in Classroom A short excerpt from his Keynote presentation at the Amazing Meeting 6 in Las Vegas, NV. Tyson talks about UFO's and Inept Aliens. Mar 1, 2009 12:43 PM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrology

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrology A short exceprt from his Keynote presentation at the Amazing Meeting 6 in Las Vegas, NV. For more information about The Amazing Meeting go to www.amazingmeeting.com Feb 28, 2009 4:43 PM

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science and Religion

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science and Religion Neil deGrasse Tyson lectured at the University of Texas at Arlington, as part of their Maverick Speakers series. In this clip, he talks about the differences between science and religion. RT 3:06. User: spam_vigilante Feb 23, 2009 4:13 PM

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Who's More Pro-Science, Republicans or Democrats?

Who's More Pro-Science, Republicans or Democrats? Neil deGrasse Tyson defends government support for U.S. science research under President George W. Bush, and says that, contrary to popular belief, "funding for science under Republican administrations has been historically higher than under Democrats." Feb 18, 2009 9:18 PM

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Astrology A group of systems, traditions, and beliefs in which knowledge of the relative positions of celestial bodies and related details is held to be useful in understanding personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters.

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking A British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson An African American astrophysicist and, since 1996, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Since 2006, he has hosted PBS's educational tv show NOVA Science Now.

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan An American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences.

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Richard Dawkins A British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

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