My annual posting of, perhaps, the most important things I've ever said about science. [Video: 4 min]. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqT...
We offer this 4min video on “Science in America”, containing what may be the most important words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken.-------------Redglass P...
October 1, 2023 Happy 99th Birthday Jimmy Carter - a US President with authentic geek credentials. From the StarTalk archives - 2015. [Video: 90 secs] www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-5P...
September 23, 2023 Happy Equinox to all residents of Planet Earth. Equi-Nox, from the Latin Equal-Night, proclaims equal daylight and nighttime. But refraction of sunlight in our atmosphere at sunrise & sunset gives us all a few minutes more than 12 hours of daytime.
My urge to complain about Manhattan traffic during UN week is tempered by the reminder that most of the assembled Delegates and World Leaders are trying to do good in the world. I can be stuck in traffic for that.
August 28, 1963 Sixty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. had a Dream -- shared from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC. Today, I too have a dream. [Video: 4m 40s] www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9oB...
Neil deGrasse Tyson reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech on its 60th anniversary. What would a space alien think of our racial divide...
We occasionally reflect on whether a field of typing monkeys will ever reproduce a few lines from Shakespeare, which leaves me to wonder whether the world’s 8-billion yapping humans will ever recreate sounds understandable to chimps.
Exploring space is easier than exploring the ocean bottom… Pressure difference between a space capsule and the vacuum of space: Less than 1 atmosphere. Pressure difference between a submersible at the Titanic and the surrounding water pressure: Nearly 400 atmospheres (5,600 pounds per square inch)
June 21, 2023 Happy Solstice to all residents of planet Earth. One of six cardinal dates during Earth's annual orbit around the Sun: January Perihelion March Equinox June Solstice July Aphelion September Equinox December Solstice
