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I am Neil deGrasse Tyson — Ask Me Anything

david:

If you could impress one thing on young people today, what would it be?

That adults are not all they’re cracked up to be. And most of them are wrong most of the time. This can be quite revelatory for a kid - often launching them on a personal quest of exploration, rather than of Q&A sessions with their parents.

If you could change one thing about how the sciences are taught to American children, what would it be?

Create a goal state for educational pipeline to see in broad daylight - some ambitious mission - like a voyage to mars - that is so compelling that the quality of your science teacher is irrelevant. Your consequent ambitions trump all other forces.

Maybe my favorite:

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver. How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, “I wasn’t trained for this!” That’s an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, “Cool. A problem I’ve never seen before. Let’s see how I can figure out how to solve it!”. Oh, and, have fun along the way.

11/15/11 at 8:25pm
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  2. miss-pamela reblogged this from leupagus and added:
    That last answer actually made me choke up a little, ngl.
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    Give that bitch some planets Bitches love planets
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    Someone who can knit should make a sweater with that on it and then send it to him. Maybe put some planets on it too.
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    oh lookit it is basically the most awesome man in the universe.
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    What is your favorite short science fact you like to tell people to really make them think? That our bodies atoms are...
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    Neil deGrasse Tyson, I love you. My question is do you know how much? Come to my house and talk science to me, I shall...
  14. wwnorton reblogged this from braiker and added:
    amazing.” We’re now adding that to Neil’s official author bio on his next book.
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I'm Alec. I'm go to high school in Seattle, which is a great city. I apologize if some of the stuff on this blog is immature; I was a different person when I started posting here than I am now. I tried to clean up some of the more distasteful things.

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