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Neil deGrasse Tyson on John Glenn, and where we stand today.
If you missed it early this morning, John Glenn meets JFK in front of his capsule, Friendship 7.
I saw NGT have a near four-hour conversation with two neuroscientists and two comedians this past Friday at a recording of Star Talk, at the Bellhouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
It was fascinating, funny, and an amazing point in my life (despite still recovering from a bad cold - folks who were there, I was very careful to not spread it far and wide).
The last question during the final segment (don’t think it was recorded) of Q&A, Neil was asked about science education.
What followed was one of the most insightful and inspiring rants I’ve ever heard from someone three (or four) drinks in.
He posited that we have fundamentally lost the ability to dream. That every child begins a scientist: curious about the world, testing informal hypotheses. But our current state of education beats this curiosity out of them. If we focus on dreaming big - as JFK did - education and even economic improvement would follow. We put a man on the moon inside of eight years - and if it hadn’t have been for the Apollo 1 disaster, we would have gotten there 22 months earlier. During JFK’s presidency.
We have no dream big ideas fomenting national cooperation. We are floundering amongst straw men arguments with no concrete direction for our country bother than vague political platitudes.
so true. this gave me chills. the days of JFK and dreaming bigger seem so very far behind (ahead of?) us now. the world today just seems so petty and stifling.
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Well isn’t that depressing
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