geneticist: After the Pluto’s demotion from planet-status, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson received hate mail from thousands of elementary school children. Images via PBS Well kids, I guess you can add me to the Pluto-hatin’ club. I’ve got your back Dr. Tyson! If Pluto landed on Earth, it would only stretch from California to Kansas. It’s smaller than our own Moon and half ice. It orbits more like a comet than a planet. It has more in common with the members of the icy and distant Kuiper belt than the larger planets. In fact, it could take the cake as Kuiper king, Emperor of dwarf planets. Don’t hate me, folks. Science is an ever-evolving tapestry, and that tapestry has 8 planets :)
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geneticist: After the Pluto’s demotion from planet-status, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson received hate mail from thousands of elementary school children. Images via PBS Well kids, I guess you can add me to the Pluto-hatin’ club. I’ve got your back Dr. Tyson! If Pluto landed on Earth, it would only stretch from California to Kansas. It’s smaller than our own Moon and half ice. It orbits more like a comet than a planet. It has more in common with the members of the icy and distant Kuiper belt than the larger planets. In fact, it could take the cake as Kuiper king, Emperor of dwarf planets. Don’t hate me, folks. Science is an ever-evolving tapestry, and that tapestry has 8 planets :)
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geneticist: After the Pluto’s demotion from planet-status, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson received hate mail from thousands of elementary school children. Images via PBS Well kids, I guess you can add me to the Pluto-hatin’ club. I’ve got your back Dr. Tyson! If Pluto landed on Earth, it would only stretch from California to Kansas. It’s smaller than our own Moon and half ice. It orbits more like a comet than a planet. It has more in common with the members of the icy and distant Kuiper belt than the larger planets. In fact, it could take the cake as Kuiper king, Emperor of dwarf planets. Don’t hate me, folks. Science is an ever-evolving tapestry, and that tapestry has 8 planets :)
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geneticist: After the Pluto’s demotion from planet-status, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson received hate mail from thousands of elementary school children. Images via PBS Well kids, I guess you can add me to the Pluto-hatin’ club. I’ve got your back Dr. Tyson! If Pluto landed on Earth, it would only stretch from California to Kansas. It’s smaller than our own Moon and half ice. It orbits more like a comet than a planet. It has more in common with the members of the icy and distant Kuiper belt than the larger planets. In fact, it could take the cake as Kuiper king, Emperor of dwarf planets. Don’t hate me, folks. Science is an ever-evolving tapestry, and that tapestry has 8 planets :)
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geneticist: After the Pluto’s demotion from planet-status, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson received hate mail from thousands of elementary school children. Images via PBS Well kids, I guess you can add me to the Pluto-hatin’ club. I’ve got your back Dr. Tyson! If Pluto landed on Earth, it would only stretch from California to Kansas. It’s smaller than our own Moon and half ice. It orbits more like a comet than a planet. It has more in common with the members of the icy and distant Kuiper belt than the larger planets. In fact, it could take the cake as Kuiper king, Emperor of dwarf planets. Don’t hate me, folks. Science is an ever-evolving tapestry, and that tapestry has 8 planets :)
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geneticist:

After the Pluto’s demotion from planet-status, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson received hate mail from thousands of elementary school children. Images via PBS

Well kids, I guess you can add me to the Pluto-hatin’ club. I’ve got your back Dr. Tyson!

If Pluto landed on Earth, it would only stretch from California to Kansas. It’s smaller than our own Moon and half ice. It orbits more like a comet than a planet. It has more in common with the members of the icy and distant Kuiper belt than the larger planets. In fact, it could take the cake as Kuiper king, Emperor of dwarf planets. Don’t hate me, folks. Science is an ever-evolving tapestry, and that tapestry has 8 planets :)

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Source: geneticist

The Best Videos of 2012, From People Who Have the Best Taste in Videos

2012 was a big year for internet video. But with more than 70 hours of video uploaded every minute to sites like YouTube and Vimeo, finding the cool stuff can be hard. I mean, maybe you missed that video up above, Neil deGrasse Tyson and “The Most Astounding Fact”? Now you can make sure you watch it, because it’s amazing.

Thankfully, the folks at The Atlantic have you covered when it comes to some of 2012’s best (check the link for the full list). I mean, there’s no such thing as a definitive best list, but this is certainly chock full of awesome.

Oh, and did I mention that I got to pick one? :) It shouldn’t surprise which was mine … enjoy!

Source: The Atlantic

jtotheizzoe: goestoeleven: Full shot of my latest project. So much work, and until it was almost done, I was convinced it was going to look terrible. Pretty damn happy with it though. You guys remember this awesome Neil Tyson cross-stitch from a few months ago? The creator sent me a message and said that they are for sale in time for the holidays! Check it out on Etsy. The price is a little steep for the NdT pieces, but the proceeds from this store go to charity (this one to promote women and girls in science). A fine addition to my rather out-of-control Etsy-rich holiday 2012 gift list.
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jtotheizzoe:

goestoeleven:

Full shot of my latest project. So much work, and until it was almost done, I was convinced it was going to look terrible.

Pretty damn happy with it though.

You guys remember this awesome Neil Tyson cross-stitch from a few months ago? The creator sent me a message and said that they are for sale in time for the holidays! Check it out on Etsy. The price is a little steep for the NdT pieces, but the proceeds from this store go to charity (this one to promote women and girls in science).

A fine addition to my rather out-of-control Etsy-rich holiday 2012 gift list.

Source: goestoeleven

Neil deGrasse Tyson Answers the Big Enchilada Question, “Does the Universe Have a Purpose?”

To say that the universe has a purpose implies that there is a destination or a goal. If that purpose exists, it certainly doesn’t have anything to do with us, the Johnny-come-latelys of the human race. Does the universe have a purpose? There’s a heck of a case to be made that it doesn’t. 

But don’t despair in that view. Purpose or not, we are here, and we can discover our place in the larger extent of the cosmos even if we can’t fully describe why it’s all here.

Narrated by the great Neil deGrasse Tyson for the Templeton Foundation, and animated by Henry from MinutePhysics, this is one of the greatest things you’ll watch all week.

(via Open Culture)

Source: openculture.com

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk is now on YouTube!

I know you’re all fans of the great Neil Tyson in general, and many of you may be listeners of the StarTalk podcast. Now that podcast is being put out in video form as well, so that you can feed your Tyson addiction in a new and exciting way, because I know you can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet astrophysics, baby.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-check ‘em out here. Here’s a recent episode about the science of video games.

DC Comics and Neil deGrasse Tyson Have Found Krypton Making a special guest appearance in Action Comics #14 this week, Neil deGrasse Tyson has found the location of the star around which Superman’s home planet Krypton orbited. I say orbited, because Krypton was destroyed just after Superman left home.  The star is called LHS 2520, a dim red dwarf that’s invisible without a telescope. Dr. Tyson was given some background info by DC Comics and chose that as Superman’s sun, about 27 light-years away. Wait a second … Superman’s about 27 years old, he travels pretty fast, and the planet’s around 27 light years away … I wonder what they’ll see when he and Dr. Tyson look through the telescope? The book comes out tomorrow, Nov. 7! Looks like we’ve got two badasses over here. Phil Plait has more Krypton science at Bad Astronomy.
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DC Comics and Neil deGrasse Tyson Have Found Krypton

Making a special guest appearance in Action Comics #14 this week, Neil deGrasse Tyson has found the location of the star around which Superman’s home planet Krypton orbited. I say orbited, because Krypton was destroyed just after Superman left home. 

The star is called LHS 2520, a dim red dwarf that’s invisible without a telescope. Dr. Tyson was given some background info by DC Comics and chose that as Superman’s sun, about 27 light-years away.

Wait a second … Superman’s about 27 years old, he travels pretty fast, and the planet’s around 27 light years away … I wonder what they’ll see when he and Dr. Tyson look through the telescope?

The book comes out tomorrow, Nov. 7! Looks like we’ve got two badasses over here.

Phil Plait has more Krypton science at Bad Astronomy.

Source: blogs.discovermagazine.com

grazgul: Just your daily reminder that this exists. Being a former and current Longhorn, I really enjoyed this issue of The Alcalde (our alumni magazine). Because this guy is my guy. But when you dig a little deeper into Dr. Tyson’s time in Austin, a frustratingly sad story emerges. Not only was Neil looked down upon by many “in charge” (but not all) for his desire to popularize science early on and live a full life (I feel him on that one), but he was stopped by campus police fairly often on his way to the physics building, across the street from where I work. How many times was he stopped going to the gym? Zero. You can probably guess why. This may be in liberal, hippy Austin, but it was still Texas in the early 80’s. I mean, on the first day, they told him they needed to play on the faculty basketball team. I know it’s not indicative of my university as a whole, but as much as we’d like to think that’s history, it still happens today, for reasons more than color. Perhaps less than years past, but until it’s never, it’s too often. I don’t want to miss the next Dr. Tyson because we judge them at the door and don’t let them be the full person they are. Science is an open club, no membership rules, no dress code, and no limits!
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grazgul:

Just your daily reminder that this exists.

Being a former and current Longhorn, I really enjoyed this issue of The Alcalde (our alumni magazine). Because this guy is my guy. But when you dig a little deeper into Dr. Tyson’s time in Austin, a frustratingly sad story emerges.

Not only was Neil looked down upon by many “in charge” (but not all) for his desire to popularize science early on and live a full life (I feel him on that one), but he was stopped by campus police fairly often on his way to the physics building, across the street from where I work. How many times was he stopped going to the gym? Zero. You can probably guess why. This may be in liberal, hippy Austin, but it was still Texas in the early 80’s. I mean, on the first day, they told him they needed to play on the faculty basketball team.

I know it’s not indicative of my university as a whole, but as much as we’d like to think that’s history, it still happens today, for reasons more than color. Perhaps less than years past, but until it’s never, it’s too often.

I don’t want to miss the next Dr. Tyson because we judge them at the door and don’t let them be the full person they are. Science is an open club, no membership rules, no dress code, and no limits!

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