Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The news is out. It has been officially announced that COSMOS has a second season … Neil deGrasse Tyson is officially returning to the Cosmos. Seth MacFarlane, who co-produced 2014’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, teased over Reddit in September to “stay tuned” for a potential second season of the documentary series. “I can’t give a … Read more
The re-boot of Cosmos is done and all 13 episodes have been broadcast in the US, so it is wholly appropriate for the LA time to have an article in which Ann Druyan, (Carl Sagan’s wife and co-creator of this new reboot of his immensely popular original series) should look back and ponder over it all. … Read more
If you have been watching Cosmos as I have and enjoying it, then you will be delighted to know that the topic next Sunday will be Climate Change. This is perhaps to be anticipated because it has already tackled some of the really big topics such as evolution and industry-funded science denial. Is Climate Change factually scientific and appropriate for Cosmos? … Read more
I have two stories for you today that relate to Cosmos, the fabulous science based TV show hosted by Neil DeGrasse Tyson – one is fake and is simply satire, but the other is quite real. So here there are … Story 1 – Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmos Causes 27 Local School Children Demonic Possession Story 2 … Read more
I’m sure you are familiar with “Cosmos”, but just in case you don’t know, it’s a fantastic TV show that covers over the weeks a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe. The original series was done back in the 1980’s by Carl Sagan, and now … Read more
As one might expect, the anti-science brigade in the US, commonly referred to as the religious right, is out in force and has a stake setup in some courtyard ready to burn the rebooted Cosmos. In fact, one can’t help but get the feeling that regardless of the actual content, they were ready to be … Read more