Are Scientists The New Rock Stars? This Is Superb!
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If you watch this convention you’ll think they are...
http://io9.com/must-watch-dawkins-nye-tyson-and-st...
Amazing line-up all on one stage. These guys now have the personality to carry the audience as well...and are very funny as a bonus.
To quote: It's not every day you get astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicists Brian Greene, executive director of the World Science Festival Tracy Day, Science Friday's Ira Flatow, acclaimed science fiction author Neal Stephenson, and Bill "The Bowtie" Nye under one roof chinwagging about "the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science" – but when you do, you do it in a massive auditorium, and you sure as hell record it for posterity.
Long and in 2 parts but well worth the watch – its just amazing to get all these guys together. And deGrasse (the black guy) is clearly a media superstar in the making.
Part 2 is further down that linked page and is a Q&A...Excellent stuff and we certainly need this kinda thing in the UK to get people fired up about Science.
The Nerds really are inheriting the Earth.
http://io9.com/must-watch-dawkins-nye-tyson-and-st...
Amazing line-up all on one stage. These guys now have the personality to carry the audience as well...and are very funny as a bonus.
To quote: It's not every day you get astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicists Brian Greene, executive director of the World Science Festival Tracy Day, Science Friday's Ira Flatow, acclaimed science fiction author Neal Stephenson, and Bill "The Bowtie" Nye under one roof chinwagging about "the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science" – but when you do, you do it in a massive auditorium, and you sure as hell record it for posterity.
Long and in 2 parts but well worth the watch – its just amazing to get all these guys together. And deGrasse (the black guy) is clearly a media superstar in the making.
Part 2 is further down that linked page and is a Q&A...Excellent stuff and we certainly need this kinda thing in the UK to get people fired up about Science.
The Nerds really are inheriting the Earth.
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