Blog Post 13: In this final episode of the Blog series, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses how far humanity has been set back in the past due to events such as the destruction of the library of Alexandria and the crusades, which lead to a mass genocide of intellectual scholars. Tyson also discusses the interstellar journey …
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Blog Post 12: The World Set Free
Blog Post 12: In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses how life has developed on earth and the potential of other life in the Cosmos. Tyson emphasizes DNA as a structure that can help us explain the evolution of life on earth. After describing the origin of life on earth and how material can “transfer” …
Blog Post 11: The Electric boy
Blog Post 11: In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses Electromagnetism. Tyson discusses some of the famous scientists that evolved their work around electricity including Isaac Newton. After many unsuccessful attempts to harness electricity, scientist Michael Faraday would create the first electric motor by controlling electricity using magnets. Faraday would go on to emphasize that …
Blog 10: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses Pangea and how the structure of the old world has affected our world today. Tyson discusses the mass extinction of the ocean around 252 million years ago that killed off 90% of the world. Tyson then describes details of Plate tectonics and how they affect continental drift. Tyson …
Blog Post 9: Sisters of the Sun
Blog Post 9: In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses stars in more detail, he goes over the composition of the stars and what will eventually happen to them. Tyson emphasizes how stars were used by our ancestors and when we mapped out the consolations. Tyson then discusses the lifecycle of stars and discusses what …
Blog Post 8: The Clean Room
In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson examines how science is used to determine the age of the earth. Tyson first describes how the earth was formed and then discusses how we can use asteroids to help date the earth and examine how the earth was several million years ago. Tyson then discusses the work of …
Blog Post 7: Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
Blog Post 7: “Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still” In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses the subatomic worlds that we have. He utilizes the ship of the imagination to view microscopic organisms and he discusses how atoms use processes such as photosynthesis to help evolution. Tyson also goes into detail about the structure of atoms and …
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Blog 6: Hiding in the light
Blog Post 6: “Hiding in the light” In this episode, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses light. Neil DeGrasse Tyson empathizes how many important astronomical discoveries were made using light. He talks about specific experiments which would eventually lead to the invention of the telescope. Tyson introduces the nature of light and how, through prisms, light is …
Blog Post 5: A Sky Full of Ghosts
Blog Post 5: “A Sky full of Ghosts” In this episode of the Cosmos: A spacetime Odyssey, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses the nature of light in the Universe. In the episode NDT makes the point about how the stars we see in the sky are from galaxies millions of light years away and how since …
COSMOS BLOG #4: “When knowledge conquered fear”
In this episode of the Cosmos: A spacetime Odyssey, Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses the stars and how planets moved around the solar system. At the beginning of the episode, he discusses how people used the stars to predict the future. He often said that people viewed comets as an angry god’s message to people and …
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