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In every issue of our magazine we publish a feature we call Life's Work.

It's an interview with someone who's been wildly

successful outside the traditional corporate world. For a January February

edition I spoke with the astrophysicist Neil degrass Tyson. He's the

director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium and host of the National Geographic

Channel's television series Star Talk. Here are some excerpts from our conversation.

So you've described yourself as a servant to the public's appetite for science,

but being a public servant means moving away

from a dedicated academic career as well as one in industry.

Why did you choose the role that you did?

So I wouldn't say that I've moved away

because I'm still a member of the Astrophysics department

here at the American Museum of Natural History.

It's just become a dimension of what I do professionally.

And when a professor goes to a university to do research, let's say, and they also teach a class you don't say that they

moved away from their research to teach the class they've blended together these

two these two noble activities teaching a next generation of students and trying to

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