Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author and science communicator, born in New York City in 1958. He has been director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History since 1996, hosts the StarTalk podcast and presented the 2014 television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
Brian Rose has interviewed Tyson twice on London Real, in 2014 and 2023. They have talked about scientific literacy, why science matters to everyone, the universe, and how a cosmic perspective can change the way we see politics and society.
Both interviews are listed below with a short summary.
Cosmic Communicator And Advocate For Engaging Science (March 2014). A lively, combative conversation that shows his love of science and includes one of the longest answers in London Real history. Follow it with Starry Messenger (2023).
Tyson argues that science is not just for scientists. In his 2014 interview he spoke about science’s wider importance to society and the need for the public to understand how science works.
In Starry Messenger and his 2023 interview, Tyson argues that seeing Earth and humanity from the scale of the universe can make people more rational and less divided. He has said that we are part of the universe and in it, but more importantly the universe is in us.
Brian Rose noted that in 2014 Tyson challenged the assumptions behind several of his questions. Tyson’s habit of testing the premise before answering reflects the method he wants people to apply in everyday life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and science communicator, born in New York City in 1958. He has directed the Hayden Planetarium since 1996, hosts StarTalk and presented Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
In 2014 he talked with Brian Rose about scientific literacy, science in society and advice to his younger self. In 2023 he returned to discuss his book Starry Messenger and how a cosmic perspective can help civilisation.
Start with the 2014 interview, Cosmic Communicator And Advocate For Engaging Science, for his outlook on science and life. Then watch Starry Messenger from 2023 for his more recent thinking.
Twice, almost ten years apart: in March 2014 and February 2023.
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization is Tyson’s book about applying the scientific outlook to everyday life and human conflict. He discussed it with Brian Rose in February 2023.
Tyson has said his love of the universe began on a visit to the Hayden Planetarium in New York when he was nine. He later became director of the same planetarium.
Official site: neildegrassetyson.com
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