Neil deGrasse Tyson & Stephen Colbert

Science has no greater spokesman today than astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who can explain even the most difficult concepts in a way laymen like you and me and understand. In addition to his role as executive director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and the many bestsellers he's written, Tyson speaks all over the world to promote science literacy, raise money for science education, and generally increase the public's knowledge of our world and universe. Here he is in a conversation with Stephen Colbert at Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey, last January (this runs about 85 minutes, but is fascinating throughout, particularly at the end, when Tyson makes an impassioned plea for parents to allow their children to discover more through experimentation)...

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