Category: Personal Musings
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“I Have This Duty…”
When Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a high school student applying to colleges, he got a personal invitation from Carl Sagan to tour the lab at Cornell. Here’s Tyson telling the story of the encounter: I was struck by the strength of his conviction, that he has a duty to younger people, just as Sagan was…
Galileo's Pendulum 