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Awards Chatter

Neil deGrasse Tyson - 'StarTalk'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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America's favorite astrophysicist, who splits his time between running a planetarium and hosting the first-ever TV talk show about science, shares how he learned to be media-savvy, what he makes of the anti-science Trump Administration and why he remains optimistic about the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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presented by the iconic Empire Hotel

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on New York's Upper West Side.

0:49.5

I'm the host Scott Feinberg,

0:50.7

and my guest today is a man who the Los Angeles Times is

0:53.9

described as quote the American face of science close quote an astrophysicist

0:59.2

who splits his time between serving as the director of the Hayden Planetarium, a staple of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and serving is the host of the hugely popular podcast and TV series Star Talk, the first ever talk show based on science, Dr. Neil degrass Tyson.

1:16.8

Maybe more than anyone else in history, Dr. Tyson has figured out how to make science exciting

1:21.6

to people who are not scientists. This has been a major focus of

1:25.6

his life over the two-plus decades since he went to work at the American Museum of

1:29.2

Natural History during which he has not only been a highly respected academic but has also become a

1:34.8

charismatic and revered fixture on television most prominently as a talking head on

1:39.8

variety shows and as a host of PBS's Nova Origins and Nova Science Now Educational Programs,

1:47.0

Fox's reboot of the Landmark Cosmos series that Carl Sagan had hosted 34 years earlier, of Star Talk which has existed in various forms since

1:56.2

2009 including as a National Geographic TV series since 2015.

2:02.3

For his TV efforts the 58-year-old husband and father of two has received four Emmy nominations thus far.

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