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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson just published perspectives on your first alien encounterNeil deGrasse Tyson's Take Me to Your Leader, published by Simon Six on May 12, became a New York Times bestseller — yet no SETI researcher or xenolinguist publicly engaged with it. The book blends physics-based first-contact arguments, like using pi and the Pythagorean theorem, with cultural celebration of how people feel about aliens.
Neil deGrasse Tyson just warned permanent DST would delay NYC sunrise to 8:20amAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warned on NewsNation's The Hill that permanent Daylight Saving Time would push New York City's January sunrise to 8:20 a.m. — after the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act 308–117. A 2026 systematic review in the European Journal of Epidemiology found permanent DST causes disrupted sleep and more traffic accidents.
Why teaching people to think cosmically also teaches them to think criticallyCarl Sagan argued in 1977 that scientists have a civic duty to explain science — not a favor, a duty. Neil deGrasse Tyson built his entire public framework on that premise, yet popular formats like Twitter structurally strip out the friction — correlation checks, mechanism, nuance — that the scientific method actually requires.
The cosmic perspective: why scale changes how we understand ourselvesThe same cosmic facts — 13.8 billion years of expansion, hundreds of billions of galaxies, stellar nucleosynthesis — are used by Neil deGrasse Tyson to argue humans matter more and by philosopher Guy Kahane to argue human life may be objectively unimportant. The data is neutral; the ethical conclusion is chosen in advance.