Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA #2

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/

by Mithrandir • 15 years ago

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amichail3• 15 years ago

I think it's wrong to encourage students to major in science.

People should think for themselves and pursue whatever career interests them most.

snarkyturtle• 15 years ago

The word 'encourage' is key here. They're still free to go into retail, office or plumbing (and those fields are fine) but if they're not exposed to science and its way of thinking they won't be inclined to take it up.

One of his main points in his two AMAs is that children are born curious but if they don't get taught how to be scientifically literate they won't pursue science and waste their potential. Thus we should encourage students to pursue science from an early age so that we have more and more people who didn't get put off of all the memorization and boring math.

amichail3• 15 years ago

Are students receiving equal encouragement to become game designers?

Game design is a lot more rewarding than scientific research.

fragsworth2• 15 years ago

I found his AMAs to be the two most interesting things I've ever read on reddit, I think. It's as if the whole community collectively attempts to behave just so they don't fuck it up. The memes are kept to a minimum, etc.

kloncks• 15 years ago

For an incredibly candid interview done by out-of-character Stephen Colbert, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXh9RQCvxmg

It's extremely worth it and mentions a lot of the same points he makes in the two AMAs.

theshadow• 15 years ago

Reddit is really a horrible medium to do an AMA. Just trying to read through that thread is incredibly inefficient and annoying. I wish better alternatives like AnyAsq would catch on.

fragsworth2• 15 years ago

Do you have any better ideas? No other popular venue has the same kind of community upvote/downvote system to automatically filter out the "best" questions.

I mean it could be HN, but the system and UI have similar usability, right?

suprgeek• 15 years ago

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degras...

Impact of finding Higgs at LHC NDG: To discover something you expect to be there does almost nothing to advance physics.

This is exactly what I have been saying: finding something that we know is there and likely to fill in the last missing piece does almost nothing to advance physics. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3343661

Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA #2

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