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By Jesus Diaz
Jan 22, 2012 12:30 PM
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Evolution Is the Greatest Show On Earth—And This Video Is Pretty Cool Too
If you liked Carl Sagan's autotuned music videos celebrating the wonders of the cosmos, you will like this one celebrating the wonders of evolution too, featuring David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye.
It's the latest part of the Symphony of Science, created by musician John D. Boswell.
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Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.
As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.
But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.
Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption.
But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars."
The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury. One woman yelled "We believe in God!" and left with three children, thus ensuring that people across America would read about the incident and conclude that Waco is as nutty as they'd always suspected.
This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarrassment.Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science... more
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Science Guy Bill Nye Explains Why Evolution Belongs in Science Education
A recent poll found that a majority of teachers in the U.S. are avoiding teaching evolution as a fundamental tenant of biology in the science classroom. We talked to science proponent and television star Bill Nye (the science guy) about what this means for U.S. education.
In a recent survey of 926 public high school biology teachers across the nation, only 28 percent of teachers taught evolution as a well-supported fundamental idea of science. Meanwhile, 13 percent openly supported "intelligent design" in the classroom, and 60 percent fell somewhere in-between. This majority presented evolution cautiously—by including non-scientific viewpoints, by limiting discussion to genetics, or by saying that students only needed to learn the material to pass exams.
Q - What do you think about this?
A - Bill Nye, Executive Director of the Planetary Society: It's horrible. Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back. And it's fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don't believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don't believe in science, that's a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
Q - Why is there resistance to teaching evolution in schools?
A - It's reluctance to change. It's wanting the world to be different than it is. And if you don't want the world to be different you are an unusual human being. We all want the world to be different. But to deny evolution is in no one's best interest.
Q - Do you think there's anything that can be done about it?
A - Well the longest journey starts with just a single step. Science education: We should support it. Especially elementary school science. Nearly every rocket scientist got interested in it before they were 10. Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10. So we want to excite a new generation of kids—every generation—about the passion, beauty and joy—the PB&J—of science. These anti-evolution people are frustrating in two ways. The first way is, almost certainly they know better. Those people really do believe in flu shots. They really do understand that when you find fossil bones of ancient dinosaurs, you are looking at deep time, not just 5000 years. And secondly, and much more importantly, having raised a generation of kids who don't understand science is bad for everyone. And with the United States having a leadership role in science and technology, having a generation of kids not believing in science is bad for the world.
Q - Is there a funding issue? Is that why the teachers aren't teaching it correctly?
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/evolution-classroom-bill-nye-science-educationScience Guy Bill Nye Explains Why Evolution Belongs in Science Education
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Bill Nye the Science Guy collapses on stage and seemingly no one comes to his aide. Though they found time to Tweet, facebook, photo and video what occured. The article here finds that suspicious, because Nye was down for only 10 seconds. Is this too long to attempt to rush to someones age? People did tend to Nye by offering a chair, water, and emergency assistance. Bill Nye himself was cracking a joke about Lady Gaga after getting up.
Are we loosing touch with one another the more we embrace technology? Maybe we are!
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/68656Bill Nye the Science Guy collapses on stage and seemingly no one comes to his aide.... more
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CNN enlists the help of Bill Nye to sort through the public's ideas on how to clean up after BP's mess.
For those of you reading all of these terrible articles about the spill with "What if...?" in your heads. Send your "What if?" to CNN.com/iReport and let's figure it out together.CNN enlists the help of Bill Nye to sort through the public's ideas on how to... more
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Host Conor Knighton looks at the end of "Lost" in his ridiculous skewering of the most hilarious and horrific moments from television this week. Also includes "24," "Law & Order," "American Idol," "Dancing with the Stars," "The Bachelorette," Kevin Jonas, and Brett Michaels.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.Host Conor Knighton looks at the end of "Lost" in his ridiculous skewering... more
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Host Conor Knighton and comedic crew wickedly skewer the week in media. Includes ladies getting ready for bikini season, the worst cooking videos on the web, Maxim's Hot 100, the "Lost" finale, teen wolves of Texas, the premiere of "Sex and the City 2," and animals who are fighting back.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.Host Conor Knighton and comedic crew wickedly skewer the week in media. Includes... more
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'The Science Guy' says: 'Save the Earth'
By Bill Nye, Special to CNN
April 22, 2010 2:35 p.m. EDT
Editor's note: Bill Nye is an Emmy-winning TV host as well as a scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor. He is best known to television audiences as "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- There were several speeches at the first Earth Day -- back in 1970, before the disco era -- on the National Mall. Back then, it was about pollution -- fighting pollution. Now, it's about not just trash and crazy unnatural chemicals, it's about climate change. It's not just that there's more trouble; it's more of a desperate situation.
I rode to the Washington Monument that day on my bicycle wearing a sign that read "Pedals Don't Pollute." I rendered the "o" in Pollute as the original Earth symbol from that early era. It has an equator and is reminiscent of the Greek letter theta. Even if I wasn't as cool and thoughtful as I hoped to appear, the first Earth Day's message was good then, and it's better today: We have to take care of the Earth. Or the Earth, in hit-man style, will see to it that a great many of us are "taken care of."
When we think of Earth Day, many of us think of good ol' hippies bent on living off the electrical grid, drinking spring water from somewhere and recycling everything -- bottles, shoes and lint maybe. Their battle cry: "Save the Earth."
Well, saving the Earth might be a reasonable pursuit. But the Earth is going to be fine. It's been here 4.5 billion years. What we want to do, and Earth Day reminds us of this, is save the Earth for us ... for you and me. We want to keep the Earth in about the same shape we found it, so that most of us can keep living here.
I'm talking about billions and billions of us. My father and I were disappointed to arrive at the 1965 New York World's Fair after the scoreboard-style lighted display on the Earth's population changed from 2,999,999,999 people to a bit over 3 billion. To watch all those numbers change would have been wondrous, like the joy one gets when the car odometer flips over to 100,000 miles or kilometers.
Well, now my friends, 40-plus years later, we have more than doubled that population number to 6.8 billion. People. On Earth.
There is no question that if each of us on the planet tries to live the way people do in the parts that are considered the developed world, we won't make it. The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
In response to this clear but astonishing state of affairs, we could try just doing less. Drive less; use less clean water and wear dirty clothes. In fact, how about if humans, like you, just don't eat?! For me, this self-denial approach would be more in keeping with your old, or early, Earth Day.
But no. Instead, what we have to come up with are ways to do more with less. This is what Earth Day has become.
We need to be conservationists to be sure, preserving wetlands, forests, open spaces and coastlines. We need to reduce our waste -- plastic trash and the like. But what we really need is big, new ideas: new ways to distribute and store energy for electric power, new ways to conserve and distribute clean water for farming and gulping, and new ways get ourselves and our cargo around, so that we don't change the Earth's climates too much as we burn our fossil fuels.
I used to believe that all we had to do was become efficient, or less inefficient. I used to think that if we just stopped squandering water, forests and electrical power, we'd improve the environment and preserve our environments around the world.
Nowadays though, I'm thinking that we are going to need extraordinary measures soon. For one thing, we're going to need to cool the planet somehow, probably by reflecting some sunlight back into space. How about if we turned that giant island of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre into a mirror or shade, or something?
Climate change is going to challenge us like nothing else in human history. It's going to take big ideas that work, and big ideas that allow regulations to be enforced in harmony.
Look at a picture of our world from space. The atmosphere is often not even visible. If you could drive straight up into outer space, you'd be there in less than an hour. Our atmosphere is so very thin, and we're changing its mixture of gases with our activities. We're trapping heat and warming our world.
This Earth Day, keep in mind that each of us affects everyone else on Earth, because we all share the land, the ocean and especially the air on what is proving to be a pretty small planet. Let's take care of it.
Happy Earth Day.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bill Nye.'The Science Guy' says: 'Save the Earth'
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These are your Current Virals for 10/20. Check out the latest virals at Current.com/virals.
Symphony of Science - 'We Are All Connected'
This Cat Betrayed His Girlfriend
I'm In A Box - BALLOON BOY PARODY
There goes the TV...
#1 Video:
Travis Barker Remix Slaughterhouse "The One"
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With the ‘Snowpocalypse’ hitting hard in the northeast, especially in D.C., global warming deniers (namely Fox News) are having a heyday. To them, this abundance of snow and cold weather couldn’t possibly mean that our planet is getting warmer and that climate change is real. I’d like to see them explain why there’s currently no snow in Vancouver for the Olympics.
Watch as Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ explains to Rachel Maddow why this inclement weather actually “is the result of climate change”, and leave it to Stephen Colbert to poke fun at these deniers (because it’s just too easy) in the videos below.
(Click on link to see full post and videos)With the ‘Snowpocalypse’ hitting hard in the northeast, especially in... more
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Glenn Beck is one of the many climate change deniers who has jumped to the false conclusion that the current monster snowstorms are proof that climate change, or global warming, is not happening.
He took MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan to task yesterday for correctly pointing out that extreme weather patterns are one effect of climate change, using his infamous chalkboard as a prop.
Ratigan hit back at Beck today with his own chalkboard analysis... and science.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/11/dylan-ratigan-responds-to_n_459206.htmlGlenn Beck is one of the many climate change deniers who has jumped to the false... more
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Today we're serving up another science music remix with Symphony of Science's "We Are All Connected" featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, Bill Nye and Richard Feynman. We also have a cat who has betrayed his girlfriend, a Balloon Boy parody with "I'm in a Box," a guy breaks his TV with his Wii accessory and a video of Travis Barker remixing Slaughterhouse's "The One." Enjoy!
To watch other Top 5 Virals, check out http://current.com/current-virals/ for more fun!Today we're serving up another science music remix with Symphony of... more
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Back when we were tooting our own collective Discovery Communications horn about the launch of the first TV channel dedicated to green living, Planet Green, we gave you a brief glimpse of the new series Stuff Happens. Now that the start of the 13-part series is drawing closer, here’s a bit more about what you’ll be seeing.Back when we were tooting our own collective Discovery Communications horn about the... more
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This NY Times.com page has tons of awesome articles about living a greener lifestyle. Be sure to check out the article Why Bother? by Michael Pollan. Most people dont go green because they dont believe that just them doing it will make a different, this article will tell you otherwise. Enjoy! There is also a fun article about Bill Nye.This NY Times.com page has tons of awesome articles about living a greener lifestyle.... more
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Bill Nye explores the ramifications of nuclear energy and its waste.
You might remember Bill Nye from his show Bill Nye the Science Guy on PBS. This is a show somewhat like that but geared for adults (kind of).Bill Nye explores the ramifications of nuclear energy and its waste.
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