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You Can Microdose With Your Heroes, Living or Dead (Really)
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You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so why not up that average?Check out Einstein’s speech “The Common Language of Science”I have a 2-minute lifehack for you — spend quality time with your biggest heroes. How — you incredulously demand? It truly is possible if they have recorded speeches, a podcast or audiobooks they themselves have narrated. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Alan Watts, Terence McKenna, Julia Galef, Stewart Brand, Brené Brown … I have a long list of favorites. Who inspires you? Who do you want to be your new BFF? Why limit yourself to the people you can schedule time with?I’ve downloaded great insights through tripping while listening to the voices of world-class thinkers and lovers. I find the words of my heroes penetrate more deeply when I’m in an altered state (...)

#relationships #life-lessons #lifehacks #love #intuition

The World According to Scientists - Facts So Romantic
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“A scientist is a kid who formalized his curiosity about the world.” – Neil deGrasse TysonPhotograph by NASAIn Victorian England, one pastime among friends and family was to jot down your “Confessions”—answers to semi-serious questions of taste and principle. One day, in the spring of 1865, Karl Marx had a go. Several of his answers spotlight habits of the scientific mind. The quality you like best? Simplicity. The vice you hate most? Servility. Your motto? De omnibus dubitandum (“Doubt everything”).These don’t exhaust the necessary ingredients of scientific thought, however; one would also have to include experimentation—that willingness to try things out for yourself. That quality is what unifies every sincere participant in the scientific enterprise. Each scientist has his or her own way of (...)

Increasingly eclectic Pentagon innovation board adds Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jeff Bezos
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(mise à jour de ce gros fil de Seenthis sur la #silicon_army)

Annotations on a Tweet-Storm Directed More-or-Less Towards Neil deGrasse Tyson - Facts So Romantic
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On Saturday afternoon, while I really should have been working on other things, this happened: What’s going on here? It might be obvious if you have a background in biology, but there’s a lot of context, and science, behind that tweet. It all started last Friday, when astrophysicist and popular science personality Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted: This is actually false on its face, since there are lots of species for whom sex is painful, or at least it looks like it must be. Tyson’s responses and @-mentions filled up with biologists and science communicators pointing out spiny penises, traumatic insemination, and other ways that animal mating systems get kinky. A spoof hashtag, #BiologistSpaceFacts, encouraged biologists to turn the tables on Tyson by tweeting (deliberately, hilariously) (...)

How to Avoid the Desperate Future of “Interstellar” - Facts So Romantic
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In 2011 America’s astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, was on Real Time with Bill Maher discussing the proposed termination of NASA’s James Webb Telescope, which the House Appropriations Committee had decried as “billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management.” Tyson went on to deliver what is now one of his most famous quotes: When someone says, “We don’t have enough money for this space probe,” I’m asking, No, it’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that the distribution of money that you’re spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow. You remember the 60s and 70s. You didn’t have to go more than a week before there’s an article in Life magazine, “The Home of Tomorrow,” “The City of Tomorrow,” (...)

Art of Jin: Champions of Reason. From left to right: John Cleese, Penn Jillette, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, (above) Frederick Nietzsche, (below) George Carlin, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Adam Savage, Michio Kaku.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Most Human Activity
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Facebook - ►https://www.facebook.com/theinspirationjourney "We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Nails A Major Problem With Elected Officials
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During a 2011 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Neil deGrasse Tyson points out what is one of the major problems with who is chosen to represent the people of America.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Republicans Doomed to Poverty Because They’re ’Born Into’ Ignorance
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Astrophysicist and celebrity science advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson recently, and at great length, discussed the importance of scientific literacy with Bill Moyers.

Moyers began by reminding...

Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in Subjective Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers | Brain Pickings

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“Maps are the places where memories go not to die but to live forever.”

“New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation … so that every event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul,” E. B. White memorably wrote in his 1949 masterpiece Here Is New York. And indeed what a canvas of glorious shared eclecticism Gotham is — city of cats and city of dogs, city of beloved public spaces and beloved secret places, of meticulous order and sparkling chaos, but above all a city of private memories woven together into one shared tapestry of belonging.

#cartographie #new-york #art

Mapping Manhattan: A Love Letter in #Subjective_Cartography by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Malcolm Gladwell, Yoko Ono & 72 Other New Yorkers | Brain Pickings
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And so the idea was born — to assemble a collaborative portrait of the city based on numerous individual experiences, memories, and subjective impressions. She painstakingly hand-printed a few hundred schematic maps of Manhattan on the letterpress in the basement of her college dorm, then walked all over the island, handing them to strangers and asking them to draw “their Manhattan,” then mail the maps back to her — which, in a heartening antidote to Gotham’s rumored curmudgeonly cynicism, they readily did.

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Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Universe

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Le Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson est l’un des astrophysiciens les plus connus de la planète.
Récemment interviewé par Time Magazine qui lui a demandé : "Quel est le fait le plus étonnant que vous pouvez partager avec nous à propos de l’Univers ?", voici ce qu’il a répondu...

« Quand je regarde le ciel la nuit, je sais que, oui, nous faisons partie de cet Univers, nous sommes dans cet Univers, mais surtout l’Univers est en nous. Quand je réfléchis là-dessus, je lève les yeux — beaucoup de gens se sentent tout petits parce qu’ils sont petits et l’Univers est grand, mais moi je me sens grand parce que mes atomes proviennent de ces étoiles ».

#astronomie, #astrophysique, #cosmos, #Neil_DeGrasse