Look to the Sky: Astrophysicist and “rock star scientist” Neil DeGrasse Tyson gets profiled in Playboy. (Carl Zimmer) Forget Iowa: Which GOP candidate gets Twitter’s vote? Check out our Campaign Buzz Meter. (Swampland) Play Time: If your kids decorated your white walls with stickers, you might ground them. But here, it’s art. (Flavorwire) High Style: [...]
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Astrophysicists rarely (if ever) get new-wave punk songs dedicated to them. But then again, very few astrophysicists are as cool as Neil deGrasse Tyson. Which is why "I'm With Neil" is such a treat. Chock full of the scientist's bes... Read Post
Carl Zimmer wrote a wonderful profile of Neil deGrasse Tyson for the January edition of Playboy… but in case you don’t get that, there’s a perfectly SFW version of the piece here A short excerpt: For most of the people … Continue re... Read Post