Category: Bill Nye
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It sounds like Bill Nye has come around on genetically modified (GM) crops
I like Bill Nye, but it has bothered me for some time that he was anti-GMO. Nye has been a tireless defender of science when it comes to things like climate change and evolution. So it bothered me that he chose to cherry pick the science when it came to genetics. About 95 percent of…
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John Oliver and Bill Nye on an accurate climate change “debate”
Neil deGrasse Tyson recently gave television news media a slap on the wrist for giving climate change deniers equal time and hosting debates on whether or not climate change is real. At this point it is an absurd thing to do. Giving those who do not believe in global warming equal time is roughly the equivalent…
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Bill Nye talks about his start in science and becoming ‘the Science Guy’
By now you’ve probably seen the video of Bill Nye talking about taking astronomy classes from Carl Sagan. This is part of the same interview from NOVA’s Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers. Nye talks about the things that inspired him to get into science, his brief career as a Steve Martin impersonator in Seattle and…
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Bill Nye talks about taking Carl Sagan’s astronomy classes at Cornell
Before Sagan was on Cosmos and Bill Nye was “the Science Guy”, Nye was a student of Sagan’s at Cornell University. As you’ll know if you watched Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos reboot, Sagan tried to recruit him for Cornell also. Tyson chose Harvard instead but other students of Sagan include David Morrison of the SETI…
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Video: Bill Nye vs. Climate Change Denier Marsha Blackburn
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Bill Nye debated Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn an anti-science climate change denier. Sane people can only hope that the Republican party will continue to implode. At a time when science and technology are essential to our survival (economic and otherwise) their attacks on science and even logic are moving past stupid and…
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The Video of the Bill Nye #creationdebate for anyone who missed it.
Bill Nye the Science Guy gave it his all tonight. He laid out a passionate, fact filled and educational overview of the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Unfortunately he might as well have been arguing with a wall. When you try to argue with people for whom the Bible is the indisputable source of…
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Video: The PBS Avengers are Coming to Save the World From Bad TV
Carl Sagan, Mr. Rogers, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bob Ross team up once again to save the world from bad television and help people to learn: [via io9]
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Video: The PBS Avengers are Coming to Save the World From Bad TV
Carl Sagan, Mr. Rogers, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Bob Ross team up once again to save the world from bad television and help people to learn: [via io9]