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Coming Soon of the Day: Neil Degrasse Tyson Will Host the Sequel of Carl Sagan’s CosmosThough it’s been quietly in the works since 2011, Fox has officially confirmed that Carl Sagan’s monumental 1970 sci-ed miniseries Cosmos: A Personal Voyage will be getting an updated sequel next year, which will consist of 13 episodes produced by Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane and hosted by one of the Internet’s most celebrated astrophysicists, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Fox is hoping the show will have as much as of cultural impact as Carl Sagan’s original series, which still remains one of the most watched PBS series in the world to this day.
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SUMMER IS HERE AND THIS IS BEAUTIFUL NEWS
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A telling excerpt:
“Unforunately, though, I’ve learned to redefine what constitutes an American tragedy. American tragedies occur where middle America frequents every day: airplanes, business offices, marathons. Where there persists a tangible fear that this could happen to any of us. And rightfully so. Deaths and mayhem anywhere are tragic. That should always be the case. The story here is where American tragedies don’t occur.
American tragedies don’t occur on the southside of Chicago or the New Orleans 9th Ward. They don’t occur where inner city high school kids shoot into school buses or someone shoots at a 10-year old’s birthday party in New Orleans. Or Gary, Indiana. Or Compton. Or Newport News. These are where the forgotten tragedies happen and the cities are left to persevere on their own.
So, once again, New Orleans will survive. And move on. Because, really, we’ve been here before.”
-David Dennis
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SPACE! STARS! SCIENCE! I went to the Hayden Planetarium today, and got rather excited/amazed about it all.
My favorite part was when they talked about how all the elements are created first within stars, making everything in the universe including ourselves the products of stars, of light and energy.
And then, because I’m a nerd, I kept thinking of Yoda explaining to Luke,”…Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
And I thought, science is kind of beautiful.
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