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wilwheaton:

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notentirely:

burtondurand: Quick sketch of Neil deGrasse Tyson receiving orders from Pluto.

*snortle*

heh

notentirely:

needtherapy:osmium:mdt:

Back off man, I’m a scientist. (via Star Power)

A young Neil deGrasse Tyson. From the article:

Frank Bash, professor emeritus of astronomy and former director of UT’s McDonald Observatory, supervised Tyson as a teaching assistant for Intro to Astronomy. “Neil had a natural gift for teaching,” Bash says. “After he taught, the students would beg for him back. He did crazy stuff—moonwalking in class.”

Doing the moonwalk for his students wasn’t a gag, Tyson says—it was a strategy. “If you’re only using words to communicate as a teacher, why show up?” he says. “Why not just type your notes? Teaching is a full-body performance. The moonwalk was all the rage in 1983, and the students loved it. It made the material work for them.”

According to Tyson, one of the biggest reasons scientists so often struggle to communicate research to the public is not jargon or lack of interest. It’s a culture gap.

“The average person watches 30 hours of television per week,” he says. “But the average professor doesn’t own a TV, let alone watch the Kardashians or cute kitten videos on YouTube or whatever. And people live for that stuff. We have to speak their language.”

Everyone should hire Neil to explain difficult concepts. It’s his super power.

honestly, i adore this man. and that adoration just continues to grow and grow.

Engineering Flowchart

via @neiltyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson answering questions on reddit

street physicist

notentirely:

love this man. we’re lucky to have him.

We Stopped Dreaming

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s rant about how Congress is mortgaging the future of America. (via brooklynmutt)

giantrobotlasers:

i like turtles!

The world will not end in 2012 : SciencePunk

think of it as a public service announcement.