Tag: science communication

• We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year carbon

  Along with many others, I watched the new Cosmos premiere last night, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson. In fact, many of my friends and colleagues discussed the show on Twitter as it was on, a kind of virtual watching party. Given the outsize importance Carl Sagan’s original series had on many of my generation and…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 10, 2014

  Astronomy, Cosmology, Evolution, Movies/TV, Personal Musings, Pop culture

  Carl Sagan, history of science, Neil Tyson, science communication, scientific beauty