Mriana - 14 April 2009 04:58 PM

OH!  You lucky woman!

I saw this picture on the secret science club website that josh_karpf posted about upthread. Humina, humina, humina!
It’s also is on the jacket (back) of “The Pluto Files.” I’m reading the book now, learning a lot and laughing. 

T. Ruth - 15 April 2009 11:24 AM

I saw this picture on the secret science club website that josh_karpf posted about upthread. Humina, humina, humina!
It’s also is on the jacket (back) of “The Pluto Files.” I’m reading the book now, learning a lot and laughing. 

I loved that book!!! (I have a signed copy !)

Mriana - 12 April 2009 05:08 PM

Yes, he is and I enjoyed listening to the podcast.  That “pizza” thing for the planets, I never heard of it before. Either I missed something or was never taught to remember the planets that way.

I thought he handled D.J.‘s segue about “teaching the controversy” very smoothly, distinguishing between what this means when one is talking evolution/creationism and when one is talking about naming planets——in exactly the logical even-handed way he should.

Yes, Tyson does very well with such things.

I don’t think he did that well explaining why people in the U.S. objected to Pluto not being a planet, though. Because of Disney’s Pluto? He even said he knew for sure that’s what the reason was. I thought that was disappointing.

Tyson is so much like Sagan, and that makes me happy because I can still have a chance to meet Tyson. I love it every time he is on the show, and I feel he is one of the most reasoned people out there today advocating for science. This episode, was no exception.