Here’s a recipe for a bit of tasty cosmic cuisine this weekend: 1. Take a bit of stellar dust and debris from comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. 2. Sprinkle into Earth’s atmosphere. 3. Lie back and watch the show. And if the weather cooperates and you’ve got clear skies – it’s looking good for the NY metro area,… View Article
Dark matter is the longest unsolved problem in astrophysics. Find out what we know – and what we don’t – from your own personal astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
If you’re the kind of person who regrets, just a little, the solving of a long-standing scientific mystery, then 2013’s confirmation of the Higgs boson may have left you a little down. But never fear, because there’s a longer-standing, universally significant mystery that’s still plaguing scientists: dark matter and dark energy, which was first theorized… View Article
The role of science in hip hop culture is the theme that runs through the conclusion of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with rapper GZA, with hip hop expert Prof. Chris Emdin.
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably seen kids walking around with their pants hanging so low they look like they’re about to fall off. If you ask kids why they do it, they say because it’s the style, and it’s cool, but it’s likely they can’t tell you anything more than that. Maybe… View Article
Today’s guest blog is by StarTalk Radio’s Social Media Coordinator, Stacey David Severn, who recently interviewed Jim Clash of The Explorers Club about his upcoming space flight aboard SpaceShipTwo. Most everyone has dreamed of going to space at least once, wondering what it would be like to blast through Earth’s atmosphere, weightlessly peering at… View Article
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Your ideas about rap music may change when Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice “spit verses” with rapper GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan and hip hop expert Dr. Christopher Emdin.
This Sunday’s episode is Part 1 of The Science of Hip Hop with GZA. Whether or not you’re a fan of the rapper GZA, from the Wu-Tang Clan, I recommend listening to this episode for two reasons. And the first has nothing to do with GZA. For this show, Neil deGrasse Tyson not only had… View Article
