Neil de Grasse Tyson on Pluto

The Life Scientific

BBC

Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The US science superstar, Neil de Grasse Tyson grew up in the Bronx, and studied astrophysics at Harvard, Columbia and Princeton Universities before becoming director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. But he's best known for his TV and movie appearances, his books, podcasts and his tweets or 'scientific droppings' as he likes to call them. He has over 6 million followers on Twitter and is often credited with turning millennials around the world on to science. Neil tells Jim al-Khalili why he's so committed to making science feel exciting, why we are all stardust and why Pluto isn't a planet. Producer: Anna Buckley.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific.
0:06.0	First broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
0:07.0	I'm Jumal Kiele and my mission is to interview
0:10.0	the most fascinating and important scientists alive today and to find out what makes
0:15.2	them tick. My guest today is fond of saying I'm Neil degrass Tyson ask me
0:22.0	anything. Neil grew up in the Bronx and studied Neil de Gras Tyson, Ask Me Anything.
0:23.2	Neil grew up in the Bronx and studied astrophysics at Columbia and Princeton
0:27.2	universities before becoming director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum
0:31.6	of Natural History in New York City.
0:34.0	But that's just his day job.
0:36.0	He's sat on several US government committees on science
0:39.0	and has advised NASA on its space exploration policy.
0:42.0	But most people, particularly people younger than me, know
0:45.7	Neil from his best-selling popular science books, his TV and movie appearances, his stage show,
0:51.2	his radio show, Star Talk, and his tweets or scientific droppings as he likes to call
0:56.8	them. Oh and he's the only astrophysicist I know to have lost a planet rather than
1:01.8	found one.
1:02.6	More on that later.
1:03.6	Neil degrass Tyson, welcome to the life scientific.
1:06.0	Thank you, Jim.
1:07.0	Neil, I like to think that we Brits do quite a good job at making science exciting,
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