Neil deGrasse Tyson

YouTube video by StarTalk How I Think About Climate Change

Fires & Floods & Heat Waves?

How I think about Climate Change.

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July 4, 1776: Wondering whether the USA is the only country to celebrate its independence on the anniversary of simply declaring it, rather than on the anniversary of winning it. In our case, the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia: October 19, 1781.

If so, that’s badass.

Nothing wrong with expecting people to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, until you realize that some people have no boots.

YouTube video by StarTalk A Day in the Life of Neil deGrasse Tyson [VLOG]

June 20, 2025 — Summer Solstice, Northern Hemisphere

A few years ago, I took my StarTalk production crew to visit London, and Stonehenge -- a monument to the Summer Solstice.

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Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

What we value in CIVILIZATION: Agriculture, Architecture, the Arts, Transportation, Communication, Health, Wealth, Security.

All pivot on enlightened investments in Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, & Mathematics. "STEAM".

Without them, we descend into the Dark Ages.

** Evidence You Might Be In A Cult **

You follow one charismatic Leader.

In your Leader’s mind, your Leader can do no wrong.

In your mind, your Leader can do no wrong.

Your Leader demonizes dissidents & outsiders.

Loyalty's the ultimate measure of your devotion.

You don't know you're in a Cult

My life’s wisdom. Inspired by & dedicated to the memory of my father, Cyril DeGrasse Tyson - Civil Rights era sociologist.

It's what conflicts & disagreements among us look like when you’re scientifically literate — sprinkled with a dose of Cosmic Perspective.

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Memorial Day 2025

Freedom isn’t free.

Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years A major landmark study reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast m...

Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%.

That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany.

#ScienceMatters

When a Government is scientifically illiterate, but doesn’t know it, then its actions (or inactions) can be a recipe for the dismantling of an informed and enlightened Democracy.
#ScienceMatters

Unfamiliar with the role of science in America’s national defense, or the history of science innovation in the defense of sovereign nations? I invite you to start with, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics & the Military.
neildegrassetyson.com/books/2018-09-accessory-to-war/

Not that anyone asked, but during my tenure on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board, under part of Obama-2 and all of Trump-1, we visited Military Bases domestically & abroad.

At no time did any member of the Armed Forces I met say to me: “America needs less science funding.”

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Dear Republicans,

Cutting science budgets has not historically been a Republican thing. For example, Lincoln created the National Academy of Sciences. Eisenhower's term increased the science budget 366%. Gerald Ford, +15%; George H. W. Bush, +30%; George W. Bush, +54%.

Just sayin’.

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity:

1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas…
2) enabled by Engineering Innovations…
3) based on Science Research in Universities…
4) funded by Grants from the US Government.

It’s time more people understood this.

If Rational Arguments no longer work in US governance, it’s evidence of a deeper problem in our educational system, which favors what to know over how to think — how to critically analyze, process, & verify information.

Seems like a bad time to reduce funding for Public Education.

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke

John Mulaney on @Netflix
“There’s a Horse in the Hospital”

My sister, who owns horses, peed her pants when she saw this.

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When Students cheat on Exams — using AI or by any other means — they do so because School Systems value Grades more than Students value Learning.

YouTube video by StarTalk Neil deGrasse Tyson Celebrates Mother’s Day with His Mom

If curious — from the StarTalk Archives.

A 2020 Mother’s day conversation with — my Mother (1928 - 2023)
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Happy Mother’s Day to all Moms out there.

And Happy Mother‘s Day to all those who care for others as though you are their Mother.

Don’t actually own a NASA Mars prototype ATV, but if I did, that's where I would park it on Broadway. And that’s how I would lean on it.

Been thinking a lot lately about the morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Wondering what his rifle of choice would be if he moved to America. An AR-15 or an AK-47?

Not that anybody asked, but my wife, growing up in Alaska, was on her school’s rifle team, and a student member of the NRA. Though she hadn’t fired a gun in 47 years, she didn’t lose her touch recently at a Las Vegas shooting range.

[ CZ Shadow 2 “Black & Blue” at 21 ft ]

At NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Manhattan, they specialize in planetary climates — especially Earth's.

The White House decided not to renew their building lease — where they’ve been for 64 years.

NASA’s total funding is 0.3% of the Federal Budget. Just saying.

Climate Change archives…

In 2005, I served on Pres. Bush's NSF panel to recommend who he'd award the National Medal of Science. One winner was Lonnie Thompson. Studied ice cores from tropical mountain glaciers, revealing forces of climate variability on Earth, past & present.

Weather and climate research funds are being “chainsawed” from NOAA's budget. Last I checked, Louisiana & Florida, which are maximally susceptible to Hurricanes, voted Red in the last General Election.

Wondering if residents there knew in advance this would happen.

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

The plots of disaster movies that portray the end of civilization often begin with high-level Government Officials ignoring the warnings of Scientists.

One of several lesson learned from the 2.5 hour @Netflix Documentary — Don’t Look Up (2021).