Contentious debates about science funding. Ideological political posturing. Partisan bickering. It may sound like Sunday morning news shows, or any time on Fox News or MSNBC, but in fact, it’s an episode of StarTalk Radio about how science gets made in Congress. In all honesty, I didn’t know what to expect when I listened to… View Article
Behind every website, every company’s computer network, every server farm, in fact, behind every “cloud” on the Internet, is a system administrator. They are the unsung heroes of today’s wired world, at least, unsung every other day of the year. Today, the final Friday in July, is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Today we sing their… View Article
Have you ever seen the “Mac vs PC” commercials? Then you know John Hodgman, who plays PC. But he has a dirty little secret, and Neil deGrasse Tyson gets him to spill the beans in this episode, “A Conversation with John Hodgman.” You see, Neil has been a “Mac guy” since 1985, and he couldn’t… View Article
Did you know that the first video game was Space War, a crowd-sourced game created at MIT in 1961? Video games have come a long way since then, and this 2-part episode of StarTalk Radio takes us on a journey through the history and science of video games, from Pong to Skyrim and beyond. In… View Article
When I found out that StarTalk was going to be one of the shows on Chris Hardwick’s new Nerdist Channel on YouTube, I was pretty stoked. You see, I’m a fan of The Walking Dead on AMC. After every episode, Chris Hardwick hosts a show called Talking Dead, where he and his celebrity guests discuss… View Article
I was a fan of the Robin Williams movie, “Awakenings,” so when I found out that Neil deGrasse Tyson had interviewed Oliver Sacks, the neurologist Williams played, I had to give it a listen. In typical StarTalk Radio fashion, I learned some facts I wasn’t expecting to learn from the show, in which Neil and… View Article
Last Wednesday, July 11th, I went to my first StarTalk Live. It was Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Particle Party at The Bell House, with guests Bill Nye the Science Guy, CERN Physicist and NYU Assistant Professor of Physics Kyle Cranmer, author Sarah Vowell, 30 Rock comedian Scott Adsit, and comic co-host Eugene Mirman. Like many of… View Article
Sunday night I was privileged to attend a Google+ Hangout on Air for the Virtual Star Party hosted by Fraser Cain, who started the website UniverseToday.com and hosts Astronomy Cast along with Dr. Pamela L. Gay. In spite of technical glitches, cloud cover and rainouts, I stil l got to see M51, the Ring Nebula,… View Article
If you weren’t already planning on going to Comic-Con in San Diego, here is one more reason to go: StarTalk Radio host and director of the Hayden Planetarium astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson will make his Comic-Con debut in the Indigo Ballroom on July 14th at 12:00 PM. That’s when Nerdist Chris Hardwick hosts a panel… View Article
One of the pleasures of working with StarTalk is catching up on all of the StarTalk Radio podcasts. With well over 50 of them, the question was, where to start? As you’ll discover in a short time, I’m a sci-fi geek. (I’m discovering that many of you are, too.) Not that we don’t all love… View Article
I love being part of an organization that is devoted to inspiring people to become more interested in science, especially children. After I first met Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, at the recording session where Neil interviewed Adam Savage, I was walking down the street with this big, goofy grin on my face. I was thrilled… View Article
During my first week on the job, I had the opportunity to visit the YouTube studios in Manhattan to meet Neil deGrasse Tyson in person. I knew he was filming a segment for an upcoming show that would run on StarTalk Radio and The Nerdist Channel on YouTube, but I had no idea who the… View Article
