Good News In History, October 5

Good News In History, October 5

Good News In History, October 5 Happy 67th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up at, Tyson nevertheless became a face for astronomy and astrophysics as Director of the Hayden Planetarium and host of the television special Cosmos: a Spacetime Odyssey. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the “Universe” column for  Natural History  magazine, some of which were later published in his books  Death by Black Hole  (2007) and  Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)—the latter a New York Times #1 Best Seller. READ more about Tyson…  (1958) Tyson (right), Bill Nye, and U.S. President Barack Obama take a selfie at the White House, 2014 – pub domain Tyson’s academic upbringing at Columbia and Harvard and his obsession with the study of the stars brought him into contact with the most famous American science communicator up until Tyson’s time, Carl Sagan, who taught at Cornell. Sagan deeply influenced Tyson, …