Fantastic Colbert-deGrasse Tyson Interview
January 7, 2012 at 1:45 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2012 at 2:00 pm by thesummerqueen.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...Xh9RQCvxmg
I just had to add to this: these are the people we should have 'distributing' science to the world. People so fervently passionate about what they do, and eloquent enough to express WHY you should be amazed by it, even if it's not your particular "bliss." To hear him talk so excitedly about Hubbell discovering other galaxies, or to hear him quote the concept that we are "star stuff"... It's unfortunate that we can't get people like this in schools all over the nation - the world! - and yet so fortunate we live in an age where this video gets posted on a free public platform to be shared everywhere.
Dawkins said in an interview that not wondering where you come from gives you a sad, lonely existence, even if you don't realize it. That was a nice way of looking at it - that by refusing to learn, you box yourself in. But the way Neil describes it, even understanding how tiny and precarious our dot is in the universe, by understanding it as best we can, we seem to dance along with the cosmos. It's glorious. It's a glorious way of explaining why you should learn and care. I wish I could force the entire population of TX to watch this interview.
I just had to add to this: these are the people we should have 'distributing' science to the world. People so fervently passionate about what they do, and eloquent enough to express WHY you should be amazed by it, even if it's not your particular "bliss." To hear him talk so excitedly about Hubbell discovering other galaxies, or to hear him quote the concept that we are "star stuff"... It's unfortunate that we can't get people like this in schools all over the nation - the world! - and yet so fortunate we live in an age where this video gets posted on a free public platform to be shared everywhere.
Dawkins said in an interview that not wondering where you come from gives you a sad, lonely existence, even if you don't realize it. That was a nice way of looking at it - that by refusing to learn, you box yourself in. But the way Neil describes it, even understanding how tiny and precarious our dot is in the universe, by understanding it as best we can, we seem to dance along with the cosmos. It's glorious. It's a glorious way of explaining why you should learn and care. I wish I could force the entire population of TX to watch this interview.
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