Jan 29 2014
In a multi-part series, the host of Moyers and Company, Bill Moyers and the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed the universe, higher beings and science literacy.
Transcript can be read here
Transcript can be read here
Jan 14 2014
Transcript can be read here
n a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference between “dark energy” and “dark matter,” the concept of God in cosmology and why science matters. [..]
Starting in March, Tyson will host a new, updated version of the hit PBS television series Cosmos, which made the late Carl Sagan a household name. This time the new series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, comes courtesy of the National Geographic Channel and Fox TV.
Dec 27 2008
Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.– Serbian proverb
Angel Nebula by NASA
Otherworlds
Come, my friends,
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world…
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.– Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Conquest of Paradise
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
– Stephen Hawking
The Best of Hubble
We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.
– Carl Sagan
Aug 22 2007
(This is a revisit to a diary I wrote last year. We’ve passed the peak of the Perseids for this year, but if you have a clear night, you will see random meteor showers. If you are patient. I watched at least three fall by tonight, between the clouds, as they chased the dark aside. Make a wish now.)
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From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things |
Unchained stars, released from the bonds of eternity, flailing and burning their way through the universe, past our eyes, but visible if we but keep eyes wide open, staring outward, staring upward. Sometimes staring slightly off-center of what we want to see. Looking at stars is like that – sometimes you cannot look directly at a star to really see it.