Today’s guest blogger is Katya Raffensperger, who was our summer intern this past summer and is now our social media intern. Katya is a Junior at Smith College, where she is studying government. She also curates a Celtic mythology blog, which you can see here. You’ll be seeing more posts from her here on the… View Article
If I told you that the always incendiary, never shy Bill Maher was going to be the guest on this Sunday’s StarTalk Radio Podcast, what kind of show would you anticipate? Well, put away your expectations and get ready for a thoughtful discussion between two of today’s leading voices for rationality and scientific literacy. (Oh,… View Article
Our guest blogger today is Stacey Severn, a fan who was in the audience at last Friday’s StarTalk Live at the Bell House. Stacey sent us this wonderful review of the show, along with some excellent pictures. (It must run in the family – we’ve used pictures taken by her son, Elliot, from previous StarTalk… View Article
Are you going to StarTalk Live at The Bell House Friday night, 9/14/12? Then we want to hear from you. Write up a short review of the show, or take some pictures, and we’ll post your work here on the blog. If you include a link (to your Flickr page, your Pinterest board, your Tumblr,… View Article
Last year, on the tenth anniversary of the events of 9/11, StarTalk Radio produced a special episode about that fateful day. Here’s how Neil deGrasse Tyson starts the episode: “…I lived three and a half blocks from what would later be known as Ground Zero. I was home that morning, and the entire series of… View Article
I just finished listening to what you’ll be able to hear this Sunday night: “A Tribute to Neil Armstrong.” The episode is an interesting blend of fan questions and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s personal recollections celebrating the life of the NASA astronaut who was the first man to walk on the moon. Among other… View Article
StarTalk Radio is proud to be part of a community that loves science and cares about the future. We all share a mission: to popularize science, to show how important it is to our lives and that our best hope for the future lies in learning, questioning and exploring. In always looking up. We’re about… View Article
When I worked at Marvel Comics (yes, feel free to turn green with envy: I worked at both the Mighty House of Ideas and now, StarTalk Radio!), we did in fact spend plenty of time sitting around talking about who was stronger, The Hulk or Thor, or why Magneto, the Master of Magnetism, couldn’t just… View Article
The Rumors have been confirmed! Tickets just went on sale within the last hour for the next StarTalk Live. It’s the kick off event for the 5th Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival at The Bell House ion 149 th Street in Brooklyn NY. In addition to Eugene Mirman and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the only… View Article
During the Curiosity Rover landing, some of our fans on Facebook commented about the apparent lack of people of color in the control room. One fan, Mike, brought up the fact that Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura, had been part of a NASA effort to recruit women and minorities. You can hear the story… View Article
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Wednesday night blog post for breaking news: We have heard unconfirmed reports that the next StarTalk Live will be at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, September 14th. Details are sketchy at the moment, but here’s what we can tell you: it is likely that the event will… View Article
Last night, under clear skies in the northern New Jersey suburbs, my 7-year old-daughter, my wife and I lay on our backs looking up at the night sky, waiting for the Perseids. We’d been clouded out the night before, and my daughter spent all day hoping that Sunday night would be clear. It never got… View Article
