The director of the Hayden Planetarium goes from the Big Bang to the search for alien intelligence in just over two hundred pages. Neil deGrasse Tyson talks with us about “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.”
Nearly all of us have a favorite teacher from our youth—someone who worked relentlessly to help you reach your potential, someone who opened your eyes to new possibilities, someone who shrink-rayed you and sent you careening into your classmate’s lower intestine. That last one will sound familiar to anyone who’s ever hopped aboard Ms. Frizzle’s Wild Ride, […]