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July 27, 2009

Time's 10 Questions, June 26, 2008

Time Magazine




Time Magazine's 10 Questions from Time Magazine's readers.



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Happy Birthday NASA, NASA's 50th Magazine

NASA's 50th Anniversary Magazine


October 2008


Dear NASA,

Happy birthday! Perhaps you didn't know, but we're the same age. In the first week of October 1958, you were born of the National Aeronautics and Space Act as a civilian space agency, while I was born of my mother in the East Bronx. So the yearlong celebration of our golden anniversaries, which begins the day after we both turn forty-nine, provides me a unique occasion to reflect on our past, present and future.

I was three years old

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July 11, 2009

The Day the Earth Stood Still

USA Weekend: Where Were You?


July 20, 1969: What a day for America —and the world. With one step on a powdery chunk of lunar surface, we achieved the unachievable: Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Few events have had the same impact on our times, according to these five distinguished Americans.

Neil deGrasse TysonAfterward, anything seemed possible.

I watched the moon landing when I was 10 years old with a friend, on a 12-inch black-and-white TV—with a coat hanger for an antenna ear. Then, the next year, that same friend ...

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June 23, 2009

May 20, 2009

Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger, Converge, May 21, 2009

Converge Magazine




Q & A interview on science literacy, science and creativity, and global investment in education.



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May 18, 2009

Astrophysicists Killed the Dinosaurs, Scientific Blogging, May 19, 2009

We have the habit, as humans, of only thinking that what we see is real, began Neil Tyson. Our job as astronomers is to "turn something invisible and make it real." His premise: space weather is important to study, but scientists also have to step up their game in communicating why this is important.



Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke at the 3rd Space Weather Enterprise Forum today...



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April 5, 2009

Earth in danger!

The Free Lance-Star


April 5, 2009


In the face of disaster, optimists tend to be grateful because they easily imagine how much worse things could have been. Count astrophysicists among them. When we hear about earthly problems, many of us think to ourselves, "You have no idea." Worried about something falling on your head as you walk down the street? We've got something better. Thousands of asteroids the size of baseball stadiums—and larger—orbit the sun with trajectories that intersect Ear

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March 15, 2009

Science, Evolution, and Creationism

Co-author of the National Academy of Sciences' Science, Evolution, and Creationism.

From the National Academy Press:


Science, Evolution, and Creationism


How did life evolve on Earth? The answer to this question can help us understand our past and prepare for our future. Although evolution provides credible and reliable answers, polls show that many people turn away from science, seeking other explanations with which they are more comfortable.

In the book Science, Evolution, and Creationism, a group of experts assembled by the Nat

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An Educator Shines At the Planetarium, February 13, 2000

IF any students from the Astrophysics 203 class at Princeton University had sneaked into last week's preview of New York's renovated Hayden Planeterium, they would have seen their professor, Neil de Grasse Tyson, fielding questions from a clutch of people.



Standing by the Willamette meteorite—the only stone left unturned in the total revamping—Dr. Tyson, the planetarium director, conducted an impromptu class about. . .




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Stars In His Eyes Over A Pen, March 9, 2003

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, an astrophysicist and the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, is a big guy. He stands 6-foot-2 and has hands that can palm a basketball. He speaks in a booming baritone. In his TriBeCa loft, he ambles around a space with 14-foot ceilings. When he studies the stars, he goes to the tops of mountains like Palomar and Cerro Tololo to look through their powerful telescopes. He thinks big.

He even writes big, with scrolls and flourishes. A calligrapher, he is

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